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Lets go to the beach beach
18th January After a long day cooped up in the coach we finally arrived at our last destination of the field course, the blistering hot beaches of Playa Grande. With some free time to explore we had a look around Hotel las tortugas, complete with swimming pool, hot tub and hammocks. Right on the beach…
sf343 January 26th, 2017 Costa Rica, Costa Rica archive beach, boat, Costa Rica, CREMA, Field Course, fins attached, Fish, Hotel las Tortugas, leatherback, leatherback turtles, marine, marine conservation, nesting, pelicans, Playa Grande, poaching, PRETOMA, puffer fish, Randall Arauz, Sea turtles, sharks, snorkeling, sun, sunset, tourism
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
Real Science in The Real World
Prior to venturing across the Atlantic Ocean the #FieldBahamas team was divided into smaller project groups and given a topic that they would research as part of the field course. With bad weather conditions still imminent the research projects were moved forward as they were less weather dependent than the activities you will read about…
jj329 January 22nd, 2017 Bahamas, Bahamas archive anthropogenic, aquatic, Behavioural Ecology 2016, Biodiversity, conch, conservation, Coral, Destruction, development, ecology, Field Course Fornight, FieldBahamas, invertebrates, jellyfish, marine, ocean, oceanacidification, travel, univeristyofexeter, urchins
Invasive fish, Deep Sea mystery and elusive Stingrays
#FieldBahamas made it to Cape Eleuthera! But so too did a major storm system… students were beginning to think they had arrived in the Arctic not the Caribbean! Despite the weather blowing plan A, B, and probably C out the water we managed to start the field course with 3 days of species exploration, dissections…
lbj203 January 21st, 2017 Bahamas, Bahamas archive Biology, conservation, Field Course Fornight, FieldBahamas, marine, universityofexeter
Field Bahamas top tips for protecting Coral Reefs
Coral Reefs are one of the oldest and most biologically diverse ecosystems on the planet. Appearing first as solitary organisms more than 400 million years ago, corals are extremely ancient animals that evolved into modern reef-building forms over the last 25 million years. Teeming with life, coral reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean…
lbj203 December 24th, 2016 Bahamas, Bahamas archive anthropogenic, Bahamas, Biodiversity, conservation, Coral, Destruction, field course fortnight, FieldBahamas, marine, Reefs, univeristyofexeter