Monday morning

We began our official training on Sunday. We learned how to use the tools for measuring and tracking the coral. We snorkeled and started learning how to identify different types of coral while underwater, a fairly difficult thing to do. Last night we had a 2 hour class on coral identification which included hundreds of slides. I don’t know how I will be able to remember all the different types of coral: Mustard-hill, Stubby-finger, Deadman’s finger, etc. Students, look up and identify 10 types of hard corals of the Carribbean. Look up their pictures and list some identifying characteristics and make a poster for our class when I return (1 poster for each class).