Sorry for the delay. My flight was delayed and I didn’t get home until 5am. What a great time it was at CCMI. In the few 3 weeks we spent there, we learned so much. We learned how to ID coral, algae, and reef fish. We got to see the bioillumenessence during our night dive. […]
This week on Little Cayman we finalized our presention for our research project at CCMI. Our research consisted of assessing the health of the coral species Acropora cervicornis. We also got to watch the release of green sea turtle hatchlings under the stars last night.
Coral Reef Intern, Little Cayman
Yesterday we went to Owens Island and surveyed the area for marine life and the benthic habitat. We found octopus, damselfish, crabs, shrimp, snails and lots of other sea critters. We all went on a night dive last night and saw the bioluminescent photoplankton and the bioflourecence on the coral. It was really cool. We […]
Little Cayman CCMI Coral Reef Intern
We got to see a Marine Biologist excavate a sea turtle nest this week a few days after it hatched. We observed her digging the nest to see if there were anymore hatchlings that didn’t make it out. To our surprise there were 8 more loggerhead hatchlings having trouble making it out of the […]
Little Cayman Internship
This week on Little Cayman we worked on our coral, algae and fish identification. We also took benthic surveys to put into a database to obtain the statististics of the health of the coral. We have surveyed many sites this past week in Bloody Bay marine park and other diving sites. We saw lots of […]
First day on the island of Little Cayman
We finally arrived on the island of Little Cayman. It is an island that is only 2 miles. Today we got oriented to the CCMI research facility and had dinner together. It is such a pleasure meeting new people with common goals. I took some photos of the ocean view from CCMI. If you look […]
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