Our second day exploring the island of Oahu was spent searching for Hawaiian green sea turtles, which are known as “honu” in Hawaiian, but to no avail. Today’s activities existed to contribute to a longContinue reading
Category: Duke Marine Lab
Day One – Linking urban sprawl, monk seal conservation and cat poop
Welcome to the 2016 class blog for Marine Conservation Biology. In this course we explore some of the challenges to conservation in the main Hawaiian Islands. We’ll be spending the first week on OahuContinue reading
Loved to Death
With the (repeat) exception of Bubbie’s Ice Cream, Hanauma Bay is the first location to which we’ve returned on our adventures in Oahu. The nature preserve is closed every Tuesday to allow time for maintenanceContinue reading
“I Like My Fish Like I Like My Women…
…fresh and a little fatty.” This morning we simultaneously started late and early. Having spent the last week mentally preparing for a 5 am excursion to the Honolulu Fish Auction, a call time of 7Continue reading
Talking story with William Aila
It’s easy to recount the events of a day in a blog. We went here, we met with so and so and we talked about blank. We include analogies, photos, quotes, whatever we can toContinue reading
Watching people watching whales
Today, our mission was simple: to understand ecotourism, we became ecotourists. To that end, we joined 75 tourists aboard the luxurious 140′ Navatek I, operated by Atlantis Adventures in Waikiki, for a humpback whale watchContinue reading
Allison Victoria Hensch
2015 Trip, CEM, conservation, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, students, travel
2015 Trip, CEM, conservation, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, students, travel
Street Sweepers and Spinner Dolphins
Why anyone would decide that three o’clock in the morning is a good time to run a loud, obnoxious street sweeper up and down the street of our current residence at the University of HawaiiContinue reading
Managing Monk Seal or People?
Our adventures today take us to the northern end of Oahu to check up on a special new mother, the monk seal R5AY or ‘Honey Girl’ and her 22-day-old calf. Honey Girl is one ofContinue reading
Shoptalk in a Coffee Shop
Today’s class was full of marine conservation shoptalk. We covered a variety of different marine conservations issues with the specialists we met on Day 3 of our Hawaiian adventure. All of my classmates had insightfulContinue reading
Courtney Brooke Edwards
2015 Trip, Duke Marine Lab, environmental health, marine studies, oceans, students, travel, Video Posts, water
2015 Trip, Duke Marine Lab, environmental health, marine studies, oceans, students, travel, Video Posts, water
A Very Green St. Patrick’s Day
No one got pinched in our class today on St.Patrick’s Day, thanks to the fact we spent the day working with green sea turtles! For our second day of class, we observed and assistedContinue reading