2012 Week 1

This past weekend, the class was asked to research ten organisms and then blog about one they researched. The one that I found most interesting was the sponge. The sponge has so many unique attributes that distinguish them from other marine organisms. These invertebrates have no circulatory, nervous, or digestive systems and are made of a jelly-like substance known...

The organism I learned about was the nurse shark. Nurse sharks are located in the Caribbean, they can grow to be over 9 feet in length, and weigh over 300 lbs. They are very docile animals. They have thousands of tiny razor sharp teeth. I would love to see a nurse shark in the BVI.

On the 3rd day, I woke up, got dressed and went down to the place where we waited for the truck to pick us up. The truck came after about 5 minutes. The truck took us to the harbor where we ate breakfast, which consisted of muffins, banana bread, fruit, and eggs. After breakfast, we hopped on the boat...

Another early morning awoken by Docs knocking and delightful and loud voice I shot out of bed and got ready to meet. We met at the entrance to the guava berry resort and got on the taxi driven by Glen our native friend and driver and headed to the marina for breakfast. For breakfast I had an omelette with...

On the last day at the BVI, I woke up from Doc's voice coming from the porch. After taking a hot shower, I walked down to the wait area once again to wait for Glen, who the is the truck driver. When the truck drop us off at Olde Yard, we ate breakfast. The breakfast consisted of muffins, banana...

The parrot fish lives in many tropical oceans and seas and lives in coral reefs they thrive on some different fish and coral. They can grow to be a foot long and they're correlation to parrots is their beak. They use their beak to scrape algae and chew their food.

Today is a pretty good day to be in the marine biology class. We kicked off our second week of class with two student led article discussions. One was about climate change and the other was about whaling. They were both pretty good and pretty informative. I learned that climate change directly affects small organisms such as krill. When...

Ahh the final day... I'm gonna miss the BVI's, a place where even the customs officers are friendly. Our final day began at the Olde yard for breakfast and some class info on turtles from the wildlife officer. After that we headed down to the marina to board the sea lion on our final excursion into the big ol'...

Group C's article was about ecotourism, a subject that I previously knew little about. But after their presentation, it is clear that ecotourism is helpful to native people that make a living off of it, but detrimental to the environment as some species may die off. Group D's article was about the implanting of species that are not naturally...