Back in the States!
We just landed at LAX. Guy and John still have more airtime ahead, but we are all in Los Angeles now.
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Heading Home
We are on our way home after two fantastic weeks of learning, service, all manner of interdisciplinary coastal monitoring and assessment, cultural exchange, and making tons of new friends. Our internet credits have all expired, so we have been unable to post for the last day and a half, but check in the next few […]
Second to last day…
Everyone is out and about today rushing to get as much done as we can before we head on back to the States tomorrow night. Our Reef and Robotics Teams are on the boat, our Ciguatera Team is meeting with Dr. Helen at the hospital on their never-ending hunt for public health stats, and I […]
Markets in the Morning
Our ciguatera team has been heading out most mornings (when their alarms go off) to census the offerings in the Aitutaki Market down at the main wharf on Sir Albert Henry Drive. It opens at 6:00am and we usually shoot to get there around 6:20. While have had an array of student make the drive […]
Adventure day
Since Amanda was taken out by a wave yesterday so Aspen was added to the team today. Today Sean needed to help the ROV team move stuff. The fish team took us to our first location for the lagoon survey. Today we survey lagoons that were more of the inner of the island. They were […]
Teaching the next Generation
On Tuesday, August 4 we were blessed with a visit by group of students from the local school here on Aitutaki. These young people (who ranged from middle to high school ages) were in the middle of their two-week Independence Day holiday but still managed to muster up the energy to come by our “Base […]
Clam Hatchery
A couple days ago we visited the Marine Research Center and looked at the clam hatchery. Charlie Waters, a specialist regarding clams, gave us a thorough explanation about the reasons for low spawning success and the purpose of his research. Charlie explained that low reproduction was due to the distance between individuals. Each species of […]
Successful lagoon day
Today was a good data day for the lagoon team. We did not just do 1 lagoon today, nor 2 or even 3. We did 4 lagoons!!! The first lagoon we surveyed we were at a beach that was near a popular establishment called the boat shed. This lagoon probably had the greatest biodiversity […]
Tuesday with the Reef Team
Today, the reef team surveyed two sites. At the first site, there were hardly any reefs. We then swam across a channel to a motu where there were two small reefs we were able to survey. This area was on the ocean side and not protected, so there was a heavy surge and was hard […]
Turbo Tuesday!
wow! What a great day! Sandy Beach crew, Dorothy, Tevin and Guy got 4 sites done and found a ton of cool infauna! We found that where there is anoxic sediment an abundance of ‘yellow worms’ are present. It’s our first official correlation in Sandy Beach data! Very cool :-). We found 2 new species […]
