We started the day off a little differently. Instead of doing beach patrols of Brava and Resca, we prepared to spend the day in the water at the Luís Peña marine reserve. A few ofContinue reading
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Kaitlin Bonaro
CEM, conservation, Culebra and St. Croix - 2015, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, students, travel
CEM, conservation, Culebra and St. Croix - 2015, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, students, travel
16 April 2015, Day 4 – Rise and… Shine?
Sure, that’s the usual phrase, but when you wake up before the sun rises it’s not necessarily a saying you might use. Instead, at 5:30am we are woken up by a light knock on ourContinue reading
Day 3- Culebra: Turtles Galore
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
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