2011

Today, we began class finishing up our shark dissections. Hector and I studied the shark's brain. We then went back to the classroom to discuss a couple of articles that we read last night. The first presentation was about echolocating porpoises. We learned how these porpoises use supersonic screeches to find their away around...

Ahhh, another day of marine biology. Today we began class by finishing our shark disection. After we finished we went back into the classroom to discuss last nights readings. This first reading was about porpises and their acoustic behavior in relation to hunting. What we learned and concluded is that the porpoises echolocating is similar to the large tooth...

I am a nervous yet excited. So today I will not write my normal blog it will be...."on topic completely", I know it's scary. Today we spiced things up a tad and started or class with the dog fish dissection, had a wonderful time. We finished up that quickly. Then we talked about echolation for Sean Tomlinson's presenation, I was...

Today in class we learned about echolocation in dolphins, the nervous system in a dogfish shark, and effects of temperature on Elkhorn coral. Dolphins use clicks to sense where its prey is and make a more precise assumption on where it may move. They increase their number of clicks per second as they close in on their prey to...

Today's class was structured a little bit differently than before. We started out talking about the trip a little more and getting some more details. I can really see the change in everyone's attitudes and I can tell everyone just wants to get out of the classroom portion and down to the BVI. I have to hand it to...

Today in class we began by finishing up our dog fish shark dissection. This went by fast. While my partner Nick was dissecting the shark I was typing the answers to the lab. Once we were done with the dissection the class went back into our actual classroom and continued our article projects. Today's articles were about how dolphins...

We began today by completing our dissection of the Dogfish Shark. We examined the nervous system of the shark, which was very interesting. The most surprising thing about the shark was the size of it's brain. The shark is about as long as an arm length, yet its brain is about the size of grape. We then discussed two...

Day 9 proved to be a good day for me. To top it off we began in the lab, dissecting the dog sharks. Next we discussed these two very interesting articles, one concerned porpoises and their ability to use echolocation by sending clicks and the other was over temperature change affecting elkhorn coral embryos. As mentioned earlier we finished up...

The looks on the majority of my classmates faces matched mine five minutes into class. Deer in the headlights, as we were asked to singlehandedly answer questions about two articles that (although we were supposed to) we did not read. After I turned in my blank sheet of paper, we were allowed to pull out our iPad and actually...