Blog posts for Bahamas
Touchdown!
My first experience in the Bahamas was being hugged by a member of the airport staff because I was worried about missing my plane. As far as first impressions go, that wasn’t a bad one. I didn’t miss the plane, I met the rest of team Bahamas and we boarded the tiny, propeller-driven plane for…
eo271 January 3rd, 2018 Bahamas
Habitat-Builders: Mangroves and Seagrass
Today is the day I flew out! My journey didn’t start as smoothly as it could have done – I’d misread my travel details and thought the flight was two hours later than it actually was (top travel tip – don’t do that). I’m grateful to everyone who helped rush me through the airport and…
eo271 January 2nd, 2018 Bahamas Bahamas, conservation, FieldBahamas, mangroves, Marine Biology, seagreass
Habitat-Builders: Coral
2017 is drawing to a close, which means our field course is just a flip of the calendar away! Some students are already in the Caribbean, bringing in the New Year with style – wherever you are, I wish you a happy one! If all the celebrations have left you little time for research, I’ve…
eo271 December 31st, 2017 Bahamas Bahamas, conservation, Coral, FieldBahamas, Marine Biology
Team Bahamas 2018!
Welcome! I hope you all are enjoying the holiday season. As of today, there is just ONE WEEK to go until the Bahamas field course, during which a team of University of Exeter students will be getting stuck into research and conservation in the watery world of the Bahamas. Until then, I’m going to cover…
eo271 December 27th, 2017 Bahamas Bahamas, Biology, Coral, Field Course, Marine Biology, research
Getting hands on with wildlife!
We finished our field course with even more fantastic hands-on experiences, here are our final few days in the Bahamas: Reefs We had the pleasure of being led by Brad Weiler and Drew Hitchner on a Coral reef fish survey, which turned out to be the perfect preparation for our fish identification test towards…
lbj203 January 24th, 2017 Bahamas, Bahamas archive Bahamas, conservation, Coral, Field Course Fornight, FieldBahamas, Fish, marine, Reefs, Sea turtles, Shark, univeristyofexeter