Thursday Rocks
Today we did things a bit differently. Instead of getting up and going snorkeling right after breakfast, we instead had a bit off time off. Most of us spent our free time working on the figure analysis for the day along with various relaxing activities such as reading, games, or hanging out on the beach.
Previous plans to go on the Club Med boat had fallen through due to bad weather so we instead went to two fossilized coral reef sites to practice our identification skills and do some sampling. The first of the sites was the Cockburn site that has extensive amounts of fossilized corals that we sampled in two separate groups. To sample the reef, we used quadrats to check the percentage of various corals on the reef at several intervals along a straight line. We saw many fossilized corals such as Elk, Staghorn, Brain, and Star corals. Along with the corals we saw various shells and shrimp tubes. As we headed back, the heat was taking a toll on a lot of us so on the way to our second site we decided to stop at Wendy's snack shop to get some of their fabled icecream. Luckily the barge had just come in, so we replenished ourselves with some sweety treaties, as Mary likes to call them. We moved on to Sue Point where we saw another fossilized reef that showed the different zones in which different species were coral dominated.
We made our way back to the research station to finish up some field notes, work on our collected data and get ready for dinner. The plan for tonight also consisted of attending a talk being put on by the station that is about Christopher Columbus. Afterwards we will prepare for our trip to the estuary and (probably) get some good sleep.
Previous plans to go on the Club Med boat had fallen through due to bad weather so we instead went to two fossilized coral reef sites to practice our identification skills and do some sampling. The first of the sites was the Cockburn site that has extensive amounts of fossilized corals that we sampled in two separate groups. To sample the reef, we used quadrats to check the percentage of various corals on the reef at several intervals along a straight line. We saw many fossilized corals such as Elk, Staghorn, Brain, and Star corals. Along with the corals we saw various shells and shrimp tubes. As we headed back, the heat was taking a toll on a lot of us so on the way to our second site we decided to stop at Wendy's snack shop to get some of their fabled icecream. Luckily the barge had just come in, so we replenished ourselves with some sweety treaties, as Mary likes to call them. We moved on to Sue Point where we saw another fossilized reef that showed the different zones in which different species were coral dominated.
We made our way back to the research station to finish up some field notes, work on our collected data and get ready for dinner. The plan for tonight also consisted of attending a talk being put on by the station that is about Christopher Columbus. Afterwards we will prepare for our trip to the estuary and (probably) get some good sleep.
Fossilized Brain Coral
Using quadrats to measure fossilized coral
-Drew Creger, Kenzie Davidson
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