Science is cool!.... especially when science involves snorkeling around the warm South Pacific water with a hammer in one hand and algae in the other or when it mean an hour of SCUBA diving in and out of the coral bommies gathering bags of sediment. we are doing class projects this week and starting next week we will be doing projects in groups of three that we design and implement ourselves!
our class projects are:
1. How do nitrogen and phosphorous (which often comes in human sediment) affect Turbinaria (algae) growth?
2. Do nutrients and herbivory control the population of Turbinaria?
3. Where do mesograzers live/ eat? (mesograzers are invetrebrates smaller than 2.5 cm)
here I am doing science!
Its been stormy here! We have had tonnnnnnns of rain! its great because the rain blurs the line between air and ocean even more- it feels very similar to stand in the rain and to swim in the ocean- i love it!
THE DEATH SNORKEL!!!
Today we had an island tour (pictures will come soon) and we did the 'death snorkel' it was beautiful! i think it was our most beautiful snorkel yet.
here is why it is called the 'death snorkel' it is full of these diadema urchins and it has very high wave activity. i dodged all of the diadema and didnt even get cut on coral!
here i am! happy!
and here is our group!!
see you soon!
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