2015 Week 1

Day three started the same as usual, with a seven a.m. wake alarm and breakfast. Today though, we ate at the jasmine cabin, which is occupied by the marine two students. For breakfast, we ate the same food as yesterday, but today I bought a muffin. After breakfast, we went to the docks and loaded up the...

Today first thing after breakfast, we went to the coral nurseries. Coral nurseries are "nurseries" for stag horn to aid in the amount of staghorn coral around the Caribbean. This is the most productive way in trying to help staghorn life. The nurseries are pbc pipe trees with little pieces of staghorn hanging down each side. They look like...

Today, we ate breakfast at the seniors house. We had cereal and juice again. After breakfast we left for the harbor and prepared to start our experiments. Our experiment was to determine if different colors would affect if fish would come into a designated area with food in it or not. We had a blue, yellow, and red shirt...

Another great day in Virgin Gorda. I started the day with a nice little morning workout with me, and two of my roommates, then had another hearty breakfast of cereal, again no milk, fruits, bagels, and a power bar prepped by the Marine 2 guys. Then, we got a ride from Glen to our boats and we quickly got...

  

Today after getting ready and eating breakfast the Sea Monkey headed out to get to work on Day1 of projects. My group of Jack Lynch, Cooper Marshall, Luke Gomez, and me set out to find how fish react to different colors. We were setting out three different color shirts with food on them and seeing which color shirt they...

  

Miles and I after our project dive Photocreds @ Doc This morning pretty much started off like yesterday morning, until we got to the boats Today Casey taught us the fundamentals and importance of coral conservation, and on our first dive Miles and I cleaned off one of the many BVI coral nursery trees. Afterwards we had a pleasant snack on...