On April 25th, after a night of cleaning and packing with full stomachs, we lay fast asleep in our beds when we got a call from Scooby and Rita about a leatherback at Zoni! “She’sContinue reading
Today was our last full day in Culebra, and we certainly made the most of every moment. After a full night of searching for nesting leatherbacks, we headed out on the boats again. But thisContinue reading
Today started out in a similar fashion to the previous two or three. When we got back from our nightly beach patrol the sun was up, the roosters were crowing, and so it was timeContinue reading
Our ‘day’ began at 12:00 midnight in another all night-er at the three beaches. On Zoni, Rita, Wendy, Kristin, Sasha, Natalie, and Angela found the beach to be relatively uneventful, or so they thought.Continue reading
The toss up: to be cold from the wind but have no bugs, or to be warm, windless, and eaten alive!
On Friday morning, April 20th, we and two more technicians all piled into the two boats from Thursday for a cozy ride to Manglar Bay on the eastern tip of the island of Culebra. There,Continue reading
It all began at 9 am on Thursday morning. We all piled into two boats and traveled out to Tortuga Bay at Culebrita Island for some green sea turtle field research. The water was superContinue reading
After all our very early morning flights (nothing like being up before the sun!) the group arrived in sunny San Juan. We quickly gathered our belongings, and scurried off into our awaiting van somehow managingContinue reading
We explore Puerto Rico’s rainforest with Dr. Robert Mayer, Duke Marine Lab alumnus Sleep deprivation reached its peak this morning, when we tumbled out of bed at 4:30 (or thereabouts) and stumbled into the BallenaContinue reading
Today, we experienced the highs and lows of field work—-well, mostly just the lows. After an uneventful night on the beach, we slept in and then headed out to catch some green sea turtlesContinue reading
