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Bob Dylan made beautiful words as well as melodies. In his opinion, “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
Treat every day as a space for doing what you love. Eg. Trolling the internet for charts! I know reddit can be a scary place, but I do recommend exploring the depths of r/Charts, r/DataIsBeautiful, r/Infographics, and of course r/QuotesPorn!
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Our semester in a slideshow
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This was my life for the past few weeks.....missing it so so much - you rock carlito!!
I never thought it would get to be May... only one more sunset left on South after tonight
Fin's last day on South - he'll be waiting in Provo to fly with us back to the states to his new home with little kate!
done.
Look what we found! Who wants him.....?
Part two an epic friday. Swim throughs in the AM, diving with a party crew in the PM.
Photo cred to Juli Mayhew April 20th 2012
April 20th 2012 - impromptu trip to Highland house to play in the coral heads with eagle rays and hawksbill turtles. It was hard to get good lighting so apologies for the extra green and bright lights at times. Also I can't upload the high res version when i get home/to better internet cuz it was all filmed in HD. Song is FUSE by Hudson Mowhawke
THIS IS OUR LIVES!!!!! watch the latest installment of Carl's version of life here at SFS via a GoProHero2!
The Subject of my DR
Queen Conch - a large marine mollusc known for it's beautiful shell and sweet meat is the second most economically important fishery of the caribbean. It's value is both in subsistance fishing as well as commercial, not to mention it's large importance as a tourist attraction.
The Problem - due to the increased demand for conch, fishing pressure has also increased, which has led to the decline in conch populations around the region - especially in places like South Caicos - a classic fishing village dependent on the sea for jobs.
The Solution - a marine protected area (MPA) was set up in front of the harbor that includes important habitat for juvenile conch in which taking of conch is illegal. This was done to limit the amount of fishing induced mortality of conch and help protect the adult, reproducing conch to help restore the population.
The Next Problem - the MPA was not designed with the help of those effected by it (the fishermen) so they have no desire to respect the reserve and continue to fish for conch in the MPA despite the regulations. Part 2 of this problem is that the government has fallen apart yet again and the department of environmental and coastal resources (DECR) who police the MPA and enforce regulations, has run out of funding and cannot buy fuel for their boats to even patrol the waters.
Where SFS and my Directed Research(DR) comes in - there have been many past studies of the east harbor conch and lobster reserve (EHCLR) by SFS and others that have shown mild success of the MPA in helping maintain the population of conch. However, in recent years, it's been observed that the MPA's effectiveness has dwindled and the conch population is in serious trouble inside and outside of the MPA. My DR is to assess the conch populations inside and outside of the MPA, compare the changes in population from past studies, and suggest new solutions.
next post.... what i've been doing for the past week and a half to accomplish this hopefully with pictures.
Saturdays are the best days - sunset watching with friends and staff
instagram cred to Emily
Conch Time!
As posted the other day - normal class is over which means now it's directed research time. Everyone is in a specific project and for the next 2 weeks we are going into the field every week day to collect data for at least 4 hours a day. I am in the Conch DR: we are assessing the population of queen conch inside and outside of the conch fishing reserve to compare if it's actually working and also just as a general assessment of the declining population.
Everyday we go out and hit at least 5 sites (determined by GPS)and lay 3 50m transects at each. It alternates who does 2 transects and who does one at every site since there are only 4 of us. We lay the transects and then go up and down them counting sea-biscuits, urchins, and collecting any conch within our 5m belt range. The conch get brought back to the boat to get measured.
We also unofficially tally the number collected of each transect team, a "Conchatition" for the most. So far Aurora and Meg are winning, but Lucas and I are winning on the cool stuff tally - we saw 4 eagle rays today and one swam with us for a good while on a seagrass transect.
It's awesome getting to spend so much time in the field/in/on the water. It's tiring, especially swimming against the currents, but also really fun. Today we got done fast and I'm joining the turtle tagging DR group tonight to go catch some turtles so the weekend will be a nice break. Next monday and Tuesday we have double data collection sets so 4 hours in the morning and 4 hours in the afternoon which will be incredibly long days, but also hopefully full of great data. Hopefully I'll have some time to get pictures and maybe even borrow a dry bag to bring my camera out on our conch'ing boat.
I may not have previously explained a rather large aspect of life here: school. which is now over. The semester is split - the first 2 months are for classes (environmental policy, marine ecology, and resource management) in which we have to specific halves (aka case studies) which ended yesterday with out final ME exam!
To celebrate the end of it we played in the water and sun all day - flipping off of the old broken pier at the Regatta and then taking a trip out to long cay. Long cay is about 2.5 miles long and completely uninhabited by humans - only big old iguanas. Who are super fast and dominate the island. Everywhere you step sets one running under the brush or scurrying across the sand to a burrow. There are trails all over the sand from their tails. We hiked up and over to the west side of the island that's all cliffs to find ones of past student legends. Tess, Emily and I found a spot that appeared deep enough and also had two levels to jump off of with an exit point only a little ways away. It's all on Carl's GoPro so look for it when he puts out his case study two video. The top of the jump is about 25 feet and the littler ledge is about 20 - in other words the top is high enough to have multiple thoughts go through your head before hitting the water. Needless to say it was a perfect discovery and way to cap off all our work.
