2011

Friday's class was all about the different levels of the ocean. If you know a little about the air above us, you've probably heard that the sky is broken up into several different levels such as the stratosphere. The ocean is the same way, and as you enter different levels of the ocean, the organisms that exist there change...

Todays class was a little different then others. We started out by going over a map charting exercise that helped us learn about nautical miles and to use longitude and latitude. Did you know that a nautical mile is longer than a statute (land) mile? After, we talked about last night's reading, which was about viruses in the...

Through this always challenging and exciting course, we have finally reached the midpoint of this grand journey, completing one week in the two week in-class course with the third and final week in the British Virgin Islands doing an on-field diving trip. This is what Mr.Kirby, Dr.Gruninger, and all of us are looking forward to. As I reflect on...

Once again, I'm the late blogger, but alas, I hear slow and steady wins the race! On to the meat of this post, today we learned about the zonation of the ocean, (yes I realize this is the thrid time you will be thinking to yourself, why on earth, is this in a marine biology course). Well other than...

Today was another great day in marine biology. Today we went over the biological zonation of the ocean, and we went over various classes of plankton. Wegoing over biological zonation, I learned that the ocean ground, the Benthic zone, is in a whole zone of its own. That means that the ocean floor, the gound of the tidelines, and...

Today in class we discussed the different zones of the ocean and different types of plankton. First there are the benthic zones. The benthic zone consists of everything on the ocean floor. It is divided into sub zones: the Superalittoral, the littoral, the sublittoral and the deep ocean. The next zone is the palegic zone. This is composed of...

Today marked the last day of the first week of the Marine Bio course at Jesuit. The previous night's article discussed the influence of viruses in a marine ecosystem. What I never realized was the benfits of having viruses present in the ecosystem because they can promote biodiversity (have stronger, more resistant organisms survive and pass their genes) and...

Today we talked about the various zones of the ocean as well as microorganisms that flow in the currents known as plankton. One of the areas of the ocean is the Benthic Zone, which is the bottom of the water. This includes the deep ocean floor of great depths along with a lot of pressure. Because there is little...

Today we began by talking about our reading about virus's role in the ocean. We then discussed the biological zonation of the ocean and learned about the different zones and layers, most of which are labled according the amount of light present. We also talked about the role of plankton in the ocean. Plankton can be harmful, for example,...