2012 Week 2

Made it safely to guavaberry resort last night at around 11:45. Long day of travel, here's a play by play: DFW: All nineteen of us made it to meet Coach Nevitt on time. Security was actually fairly uneventful, save for something I never foresaw. Out if the countless times that it has made it, this is the one time that...

Today started out the same as yesterday; I woke up at 7:45, got in a taxi, and headed to the marina where we ate a light breakfast of banana bread, muffins, and Capri sun. I bought a hat for myself as well as a shirt at the gift store while we were waiting to get on the boat....

So I apparently have to keep a blog of my Marine Biology class. After this week of 3 hour class work days, I travel to the British Virgin Islands where we will scuba dive and do things a marine biologist would.

Today we learned: -how climate change can affect coral reefs causing things like bleaching -the effects of whaling and the ethical concerns that come with it

Above: Jeff Melsheimer working hard on notes after learning about waves and currents on earth. We have learned about ocean zonation, climate change, and ethical issues involving whaling.

Day 3, Today we got to delve into Marine organisms. I had a lot of trouble because at the start of the day I put my contacts in the wrong solution. My eyes burned up I could barely take them out. Casey was nice enough to go back to my cabin and grab the other solution so I could put...

Today was a very exciting day. We had orientation in the morning which was very hard to wake up to considering that we got to our rooms so late because of the flight. The dive was amazing because I was able to see all sorts of fish. The most interesting part that I experienced was the lion fish. The...

Great second day in the BVI. Woke up this morning at about 7:30 to a great view from my Guavaberry Hotel house. We all gathered at the base of the resort and played frisbee while waiting for out taxi. Our amicable driver Glen came around 8:30 and we headed over to our classroom, an air conditioned room which is...

Today was a great day because we just dove all day. We had an quick breakfast up at the marina again. After the breakfast we went straight to this bay we we immediately snorkeled. We snorkeled here to get an idea of the place that we were going to replant coral at. This place was very interesting because we...