Our uneventful flights brought us here in two groups from Houston and Miami. The welcome at Roatan’s airport was wonderful … shortish lines for immigration. Our afternoon at AKR included …
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Start of Travel
The StMU group (moniker to follow) departed San Antonio this afternoon for Houston. They leave tomorrow morning for Roatan. We look forward to a great week …
Preparation for a Week on Roatan at AKR
It’s been a busy week preparing to meet the students from St. Mary’s University (StMU, in San Antonio, TX) for a week at Anthony’s Key Resort (AKR) to study the dolphins at the Roatan Institute for Marine Sciences (RIMS). Our student group is …
Departure
The morning image is the view we (Kathleen and Manon) have each morning at 5:15 AM as we greet the day in prep for the students and data collection! It is breath-taking!
This morning was our last data collection …
Underwater Fun!
Data collection was the early morning highlight with a VERY quiet session – both above and below the water’s surface. All the dolphins were in the main lagoon during the session and …
Dolphins & Mermaids Unite!
Elli and Sandy were hunting a crab during our early morning observations – Kathleen recorded this behavior on video and we watched it twice this afternoon. There was a good amount of social activity today as well. After data collection …
Twilight Adventures
The early morning data collection session was a bit harder to wake for this AM, but we all made it with time to spare (barely)! There was lots of social activity at the surface and we all got much practice with the space use data collection. Our morning was …
New Beginnings
Our morning observations went well – it was a beautiful morning, bright and sunny. After breakfast, we spent time in the classroom for the first part of Shane’s physiology lecture. And, we got a Q&A with …
Dolphin Swim Day!!
Dolphins, Dolphins, Dolphins! We all swam with dolphins today. We started, as is usual, with data collection in the morning. It was a different day with bouts of activity in between bouts of no activity. Each morning is …
No Sunscreen Needed Today!
While the sun was shining this morning and during the day, we spent a good chunk of the day in the classroom learning about physiology, operant conditioning, and sea turtles. It was lovely not to have to …
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