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.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Very Early Good Morning Thursday


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Even windier this AM -40-45 mph wind and huge waves again from TS Ernesto! Yesterday morning we had a cooking class in the resort kitchen and a lab activity where we found all kinds of juvenile organisms in coralline red algae.Yesterday afternoon we were able to get out for a snorkel among the mangroves at Crickozeene. Some of the most healthy mangrove roots any of have ever seen!

Have to wait and see what activities may be possible later this morning....
Mangrove Tunicates on a Red Mangrove root
Wednesday AM Lab activity

Pipefish & crab from algae lab
Rachel greets a small Boa that Abel found in the mangrove
Invasive Lionfish on the reef
Trunkfish in Mangrove with small sharksucker
Jack on a dive

Abel finds a toadfish for the snorkelers!
Rose shows the Snorkelers a Donkeydung Seacucumber

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