Category: Gulf of California – 2013

Luli Martinez, Jessie Ritter, Julia Goss, Liza Hoos, Abby Furnish, Ainsley Smith, Xuan Hong
May 8, 2013March 5, 2014 Luli Martinez, Jessie Ritter, Julia Goss, Liza Hoos, Abby Furnish, Ainsley Smith, Xuan Hongconservation, Duke Marine Lab, environmental policy, Gulf of California - 2013, students, travel

Excerpts from Our Field Journals

“As we were heading back to Isla San Jose we ran into a spectacular sight. We saw thousands of dolphins chasing and forcing sardines Sardinox sagax up to the surface of the sea, and then eatingContinue reading

Nonny Scott
May 2, 2013March 5, 2014 Nonny ScottDuke Marine Lab, Gulf of California - 2013, marine studies, students, travel

Zooming In

It’s been a few days since I’ve been back in North Carolina, and the memories from Mexico are still as vivid as the scenes themselves. Naturally, my memory cannot capture every single little detailContinue reading

Silvia Yee
April 29, 2013March 5, 2014 Silvia YeeDuke Marine Lab, Gulf of California - 2013, marine studies, students, travel

The Valenzuela Brothers and Pen Shell Diving in the Infiernillo Channel, Sonora

Before starting, I must say that since I began to be interested on indigenous languages and groups of Mexico, the Comcaac people (or Seri) have been particularly fascinating to me. And after a long road, lastContinue reading

Luli Martínez
April 29, 2013March 5, 2014 Luli MartínezDuke Marine Lab, Gulf of California - 2013, marine studies, students, travel

Welcome to the Gulf of California!

Few places in the world have the magnificence and diversity found in the Gulf of California. Since we started our trip to the peninsula, nature has not stopped surprising us. Our first part of theContinue reading

Abby Furnish
April 29, 2013March 5, 2014 Abby Furnishconservation, Duke Marine Lab, environmental policy, Gulf of California - 2013, students, travel

Fishing Underwater

Here in Kino Bay, in addition to traditional gillnets and handlines, many fishermen are dive fishermen. Popular species targeted by dive fishermen include: lobster, octopus, some reef fish, and penshells (somewhat similar to scallops). For these fishermen,Continue reading

Ainsley Smith
April 23, 2013March 5, 2014 Ainsley Smithconservation, Duke Marine Lab, environmental policy, Gulf of California - 2013, students, travel

A world away, and still, turtles.

Anyone who knows me knows that I’ve spent the last year and a half participating in the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic. My primary case has been assisting with the representation of the KarenContinue reading

Alex Arias
April 23, 2013March 5, 2014 Alex Ariasconservation, Duke Marine Lab, environmental policy, Gulf of California - 2013, students, travel

Life in a tiny island

Life in a tiny island Imagine living in a island the size of a few acres, with no fresh water and far away from any city or town. Sounds hard, but that’s how the CuevasContinue reading

Liza Hoos
April 22, 2013March 5, 2014 Liza Hoosconservation, Duke Marine Lab, Gulf of California - 2013, students, travel

What attracts you to a place?

On the first day of the trip we set off on a northward course from La Paz into the Sea of Cortez on a sturdy 45ft long motorboat. Over the span of five days weContinue reading

Alice Thomas-Smyth
April 22, 2013March 5, 2014 Alice Thomas-Smythconservation, Duke Marine Lab, Gulf of California - 2013, students, travel

Acclimating to biodiversity

The hype for this field course and all the diverse marine life that we would see while in Mexico was by no means incorrect. The first official day of the course when we traveled byContinue reading

Albert Chen
April 22, 2013March 5, 2014 Albert Chenconservation, Duke Marine Lab, Gulf of California - 2013, students, travel

Pearl Oyster Farm

On the 18th of April we traveled to the first commercial pearl oyster farm in North America, located in Guaymas, and there I got the opportunity to hear Enrique Arizmendi, one of the founding partners,Continue reading