Traveling to San Salvador, Bahamas will fulfill my dream of volunteering to help our planet. My experiences will give me rich, important material to bring back and include in my curriculum for my students. I will be helping John Rollino conduct research on coral reef ecology and coral diseases, most specifically, coral bleaching. I have the opportunity to actually participate in a study that will add to the knowledge of how Earth's climate changes are impacting the inhabitants of our oceans!

Monday, February 25, 2008

Curiosity

Many of you have inquired about the mock coral that we will be creating. We will begin doing this tomorrow, so I may send another post then to follow-up. However, in the meantime I will try to explain a bit better what this is all about! We will be "dropping" the mock coral near other already formed reefs and in turn, sand, sediment, and break-off coral from neighboring reefs, will eventually get to these mock corals, take place and thus a new reef will begin to form. It is sort of like we are creating new housing developments for coral to relocate to and multiply. Hopefully this helps, but after we actually get more into it tomorrow, I will follow-up.

Keep those questions coming!

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