On San Salvador Island in the Bahamas, I will join a group of scientists, educators and volunteers to collect data in an ongoing study of the health of the local coral reefs. We will also conduct experiments on reef conservation techniques.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Arrival and Training

Hi All...
Thanks for the great comments. I'll answer a few now and more later:
J. H., I will try not to get eaten by a shark, but if I do, you should finish the book without me.

J.P., so far I have not seen any hot cheetos in the Bahamas. I think they are illegal here.

Yes, you can show your parents my website from any computer. You can get there from the school district website or through the link in this blog.


ARRIVAL ON SAN SALVADOR ISLAND~

Almost there!

De plane

San Sal International Airport



Connie and Annette enjoy our mode of transportation

TRAINING DAY~

Today, we spent in training for our research work, which starts tomorrow. First, we took a class in snorkeling, to be sure we could do the swimming that we will need to do. Next, we took a class on identifying the different types of coral, and how to tell if coral is stressed, diseased or dead. We have seen some incredible coral reefs and tomorrow, our work will really begin.

More on that later...

1 Comments:

At February 25, 2008 3:03 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Sherrie. It was great to be in Cindy's class and see the class interact with you. I wish you could have seen how excited the kids got once it hit them that they were communicating with you in a live feed. I tried to video the interraction, but the little camera I had ran out of battery juice. I'll try again tomorrow. It seemed to work really well on the LCD overhead. Stay healthy. Peter

 

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