Tropical Marine Ecology--An 8-day workshop at Turneffe Flats (photo above), Turneffe Atoll, Belize, Central America. Join New York Sea Grant, The Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence - Great Lakes (COSEE-GL) and the AQUARIUM of Niagara on their twenty-first annual expedition to the Caribbean and study a tropical reef ecosystem.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Mapping Ancient Civilization


For a quarter of a century, two archaeologists and their team slogged through wild tropical vegetation to investigate and map the remains of one of the largest Maya cities, in Central America. Slow, sweaty hacking with machetes seemed to be the only way to discover the breadth of an ancient urban landscape now hidden beneath a dense forest canopy.
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