Though the underwater visibility was not great today, Kathleen was able to record lots of footage of Sandy and of Rocky … and both dolphins visited the students trying to entice them to play, as you can see here by Sandy! The morning also provided …
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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 …
Explored a New Key – Maya Key!
Our day was packed! We began with data collection, as you can see Natalie and Adilia doing in the cover image. Each day the note taking gets a bit more routine. While waiting for the water taxi, Amelia, Lauren, Halle, & Ember tested out the ‘big chair’! And after breakfast, we …
First Day of Data Collection
This morning was our first early morning data collection session of surface observations while Kathleen was recording underwater video of the dolphins. It went well and we spent about 45 min asking questions and discussing methods for data collection and research questions before breakfast. We also had an introduction to DCP and to DCP’s research at RIMS, as well as an introduction to …
Delightful Dolphin Day!
A very early travel day brought our CSU team to Roatan in the early afternoon. Everyone got settled in followed by an orientation and then a visit to Bailey’s Key to meet the dolphins. After a yummy supper, we watched some of the video Kathleen recorded this morning and …
Travel to Roatan
As travel days go, ours was quite pleasant! About a 1.5 hour drive to Miami, followed by about a 2 hour flight from Miami to Roatan. The only lengthy portion of our travel day was the 47+ min wait in the TSA line. After a bit of time in Roatan immigration, we met Alexza and Greg for our …
Travel Preparations!
Packing day is always a long day! Manon and I are traveling to Roatan one day before our group. We have 3 big bags between us, which should cover our needs for 24 days! Three bags = three weeks … right? We look forward to a hopefully smooth flight day tomorrow and to welcoming CSU group 1 on Saturday. …
Wrapping Up A Great Week!
Return travel went well for everyone and catching up on emails and regular mail and laundry and the like kept at least me busy for a day or two, if not most of us. You can see the delighted smiles on everyone’s face in our last group photo from Saturday that we had a great week of diving, snorkeling, and dolphin research! Even given the …
Blue Skies, Sunshine, Wind
It seems like I begin each blog report this week with a weather report! But it’s felt like a forecast or recount of the morning weather is in order each night. We woke to a breeze but no rain – hurray! And, on our way over to Bailey’s Key we had blue skies! The sunshine appeared …
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