2011

Today marked the start of the final week of the in class portion of marine biology! We started off class with two brief discussions on butterfly fishes and marine mollusks. Alec Sims and Kells Koch led the first discussion. I tried to listen to it as much as I could, but I was a little nervous over having to...

Today was the most interesting and fun day of class so far. As always, we began with discussion of the articles we were assigned to read. Today, though, we were taught by our peers, with a little help from Dr. Grunninger and Mr. Kirby, of course. We talked about how Butterfly fish feed on coral polyps and how mullusks...

Today as usual, was started by discussing the articles. The first article was about mimic octopi, which have evolved to be able to mimic other animals, such as a flounder, a lionfish, and a sea snake. It was interesting to see how they could do this, as the group had a youtube video to show as well. It made...

Today in class we learned about how the tectonic plates are related to marine biology. This was interesting to me. In my mind, I had always thought of the continental land masses and the seven oceans being complete opposites. They are clearly separated today. This is where the continental drift theory, the theory that explains how...

Today was probably my favorite day of class so far. We started out class discussing and filling outa worksheet about the two articles we read last night. The first discussion was led by Rob and Nick Dell. This article was about the mimic octopus and a species of oyster that has a very strong adhesion technique. It was very...

What a day it has been. Today was different than all the others in that we had breakfast at the marina before we headed out for our two dives. Our first dive was awesome because we did a wreck dive and I had never done one before. We got to observe the artificial reef and the different areas of...

Today is our last class day and we spent most of it discussing our two articles. The first of which we discussed the importance of the fish that can walk on land, specifically its importance in the evolutionary chain. Which we decided it was not relevant or important because it is similar to saying humans evolved from monkeys. It...

Today was another succesful day of Marine Biology. We began by discucssing two articles, one of them concerning a certain species of fish and how they effect coral. Then we began discussing as groups, a hypothetical situation in which we needed to figure out how to save coral species "x". Our group came up with a pretty detailed plan...

Today began listening to Kells and Alec talk about the coral consumption by butterfly fish. That didn't interest me very much, and, as doc Gruninger pointed out, the article had no purpose. The next presentation, by Paul and nick, concerned mollusks, and in my opinion was much more interesting. They discussed the purpose of mollusks and estimates on the...