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 …
Tag: Science
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 …
Turtles & Tursiops
Data collection today was quiet again and the underwater visibility was not good. So, Kathleen only recorded 20 min of video and in that had about 5 minutes with dolphins in view. We took a mostly-all-of-us group photo at Bailey’s this …
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 …
Fun in the Sun!
Our morning began early with data collection – first for space use and then with Kathleen’s underwater observations. The visibility was good and she got lots of footage of Bailey, Tank, Sandy and Mr. French! There was much socializing going on. Sandy & Mr. French …
Fun … Not in the Sun!
Our first data collection session in the morning began with an introduction to Bailey’s Key and the dolphins. It was a windy day with residual wave action still present. Kathleen said the underwater visibility was awesome, but the current was VERY strong. She got about …
Wind, Clouds, Current!!
Our last early AM data collection session was cancelled – thank Mother Nature! We had rolling breaking waves over the reef and horrible visibility! And, to add to that, a wickedly strong current – even the taxi boat …
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