2017

Today has been quite exhausting, and my body feels like it's caught on fire, but before I get to that part, let us recap the day together now shall we? This morning my cabin was chosen to make breakfast again, which was honestly pretty great, having to get up 30 minutes earlier to get first choice of food, and...

A cool breeze entered our room as we began to prepare breakfast for our classmates. It had rained overnight, so it was a cool morning as we gathered to eat for a very rigorous day of turtle tagging. Before we could begin our turtle tagging experience, a representative of ARK, Association of Reef Keepers, gave us an informative presentation...

Today we took a break off of diving, but the day was not spent sitting around. We met Dr. Gore, who runs the reef conservation non profit called ARK that Jesuit partners with and she taught us about the Green and Hawksbill turtles we would see today. We travelled out to Little Dix bay and looked for turtles in...

Today was our fourth day here on Virgin Gorda. Our activities scheduled for the day included tagging sea turtles and observing marine invertebrates. After we ate breakfast, we headed down to the main room at which Dr. Gore, a scientist with the government, gave us a presentation on the history and classification of sea turtles in the BVI. She...

Synopsis:The plan for today was that the two groups would be split up by boats. While one group was turtle tagging at sea, the other group was doing hands on learning with invertebrates. Our group, the sea dragon, was assigned to turtle tagging in the morning, and then finding invertebrates in the afternoon. At 8:30 in...

Starting off the day as every other we went up to the Lime cabin to devour some more cereal and honey buns. Instead of heading down to wait for the taxi we went down to the commissary and met with Dr. Gore and listened to her presentation on ARK. In specific we learned about the history of turtles and...

At the beginning of the third day, I enjoyed eggs for the first time in a few days. The first dive of the day was at Great Dogs island. Our habitat that we roped off consisted of one stoplight parrotfish, a few rainbow parrotfish, and one or two rainbow parrotfish that presented me with some of the most vivid...

To continue our research and further prove our hypothesis that parrot fish visit cleaning stations far less than other fish, my group conducted more observations at two different dive sights: George Dog Island and "The Chimney". To cover different types of cleaner fish such as shrimp, we searched for about 15 minutes throughout the coral for a cleaning station...

Synopsis Once again I headed to the same location near Ginger Island. This time, my case study group and I agreed to retreive different information about the less healthy coral because we thought yesterday's data may have been wrong due to the fact that there were traces of healthier coral surrounding the specimen. After we had lunch, all the cabins...