Today, we had an early start to our day with a 7:30 AM raking of Long Beach. As Rebecca mentioned yesterday, the beaches are raked multiple times a week to get rid of old turtleContinue reading
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Rebecca Kim
Ascension Island - 2014, CEM, coasts, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, oceans, students, travel
Ascension Island - 2014, CEM, coasts, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, oceans, students, travel
Day 7- A Hard Day’s Work in the Sun
Today was a slow, relaxing morning. The activities we have been doing and the places we have been visiting have been phenomenal, but we were all eager for a break and morning to catch upContinue reading
Kimberly Hernandez
Ascension Island - 2014, CEM, coasts, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, oceans, students, travel
Ascension Island - 2014, CEM, coasts, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, oceans, students, travel
Day 7: Heaps of Hatchlings
“Managing Expectations” – that is Dr. Brendan Godley’s mantra during sea turtle research. This morning before beginning a nest excavation on Long Beach, he again warned to manage our expectations because there was a goodContinue reading
Tolga Babur
Ascension Island - 2014, CEM, coasts, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, oceans, students, travel
Ascension Island - 2014, CEM, coasts, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, oceans, students, travel
Day 6: Green Mountain – Christen Nagy & Tolga Babur
Today we hiked Green Mountain, which is given its name due to the vast plant population upon it. In their experiment in 1800s, Darwin and Hooker decided to green the landscape and brought in exoticContinue reading
Cordelia Hao
Ascension Island - 2014, CEM, coasts, conservation, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, oceans, students, travel
Ascension Island - 2014, CEM, coasts, conservation, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, oceans, students, travel
Day 5 – Letterbox Legend and Boatswain Boobies
In the 17th century, letterboxes were placed around the Island so that outward-bound ships could carry out letters written by inhabitants of Ascension Island. Since then, hiking out to letterboxes has become a recreational adventure.Continue reading
Abby Ardis
Ascension Island - 2014, CEM, conservation, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, students, travel
Ascension Island - 2014, CEM, conservation, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, students, travel
Day 4: Ascension Island Past and Present
Ascension Island is a 36 square mile island in the South Atlantic Ocean, stationed approximately 700 miles from the nearest land – St. Helena, site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s exile. Its profound geographic isolation makes oneContinue reading
Krista Shipley
Ascension Island - 2014, CEM, conservation, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, students, travel
Ascension Island - 2014, CEM, conservation, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, students, travel
Day 2: Arrival on Ascension Island and Eggs, Eggs, Eggs!
We have arrived! Our Royal Air Force flight arrived on Ascension Island around 8 this morning and we didn’t waste any time getting started! We were met at the airport by Drs BrendanContinue reading
Journey to Ascension – Christen Nagy & Tolga Babur
Our first day mostly consisted of long plane rides and even longer layovers. It took us a total of 36 hours to get to Ascension Island with two overnight plane rides. By the end ofContinue reading
A Day of Culture
Our first activity of the day was a trip into the rainforest to see one of St. Croix’s biggest tourist attractions: drinking pigs. This attraction has been around for over 40 years on the islandContinue reading
The End… Or the Beginning?
Today was the last day of the trip. The past three nights with groups patrolling the beach at Sandy Point have all been successful. Altogether, we recorded 11 nesting leatherbacks and 2 nesting green turtles,Continue reading