Hola from Culebra! 5:30 came bright and early for our group of student as we awoke to a mixture of roosters crowing and gentle knocks on our doors by our two professors. Our first taskContinue reading
Category: marine studies
Day 2 – Adventuring to Culebra Using Nothing but a Compass and the Stars
“Crap,” I thought, “I’m going to be stuck completely alone in a place that’s 100% unknown to me with people of a completely different culture and a completely different language.” Commence phase one: the why-is-the-world-against-me-I’m-all-alone-what-do-I-doContinue reading
Nerine Constant
CEM, Culebra and St. Croix - 2015, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, students, travel
CEM, Culebra and St. Croix - 2015, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, students, travel
¡Bienvenidos a Puerto Rico!
13 April 2015 The first day of the field portion of our Biology and Conservation of Sea Turtles class began early on Monday, with everyone catching flights from New Bern airport or RDU first thingContinue reading
Shannon Fouts
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
Final Day on Ascension Island
Somehow it’s our final day on Ascension Island already. It’s hard to believe how fast this trip flew by. This morning we woke up bright and early to help rescue sea turtles. At 7:00 AMContinue reading
Gaby Benitez
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
Tracks, and Turtle-bycatch, and Tunnels, Oh My!
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
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