2011

Today marked the beginning of the long awaited marine biology summer course! I have been looking forward to this class because of the trip to the British Virgin Islands ( which I will refer to as BVI) and to use this sweet ipad.. I hope to gain a deeper understanding of the internal body systems different organisms hold. I also...

It's the final day in a classroom, and it is buzzing with excitement. This Sunday we leave to study organisms in paradise. Today, we started off class listening to two more presentations on articles. The first was about the Blenny fish. The Blenny fish has adapted and evolved to have the ability to not only swim...

As you can tell by my elaborate title, I have started the puzzle. "What's that you say?", "It's name?", "oh sure, the name of the puzzle is... Marine Biology." In my new class I have found all of the corner pieces, now it's time to make a puzzles brahhs, bring it. When I say that I found the corner...

Today was full of new information. We first discussed two articles we had read, and I learned that the migration patterns of fish in the North Sea are being affected due to the unsual climate patterns in which the northern portions are warmer than the southern ones. Later, we began to talk about the experimental process and the many...

Oh my is it late, but thanks for the read anyway. Unfortunately as the class has gotten more intense...so has my schedule. But alas, I shall begin. Today we learned about, waves, tides and currents, and (suprise! Once again) I was given the task of connecting them to marine biology. Well because I'm exhausted I'll make it short and...

Today we learned a lot about coral conservation and fish identification. We woke up and headed to the same hotel as yesterday to eat. We had eggs, muffins, and fruit and then began our class and discussions. The first lesson was over things like coral environmental concerns and also coral characteristics and reproduction. The next lesson talked about how...

After a slightly chaotic and info-stuffed day, due to all the introductory things we we were told about the coursework and the island itself, today was where the instructors slowed us down a bit and let our minds really sink in to all what we were doing. However my day began hectic since I had forgotten to set...

Today was very exciting because it was the last day in the classroom and that much closer to the trip! We started out the class going over a few things on what to bring and also various expectations. After we finished talking about that, we moved right into two articles. The first article discussed the leaping blenny and how...

I finally made it through the classroom portion of the class! Everyone seems so excited to go to BVI. Today we just talked more about the actual details of the trip. Then we went over two articles from the night before about the lion fish invasion and another about leaping blennies. The article about lion fish is undoubtably the...