My Best Pictures and Movies from Marine Ecology: (Page 2 of 2)

Tropical Marine Ecology of the Florida Keys, Everglades & Bahamas Go to the MARINE ECOLOGY COURSE SYLLABUS

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Tropical Marine Ecology serves as an intensive field-based introduction to the ecology of estuarine and marine environments. INTERESTED? Take a look at the MARINE ECOLOGY SYLLABUS for more information. The primary goal of the course is to immerse you in field experiences that link with readings, lectures, discussions, labs, and discovery-oriented investigations of the environments of San Salvador, Bahamas, the Everglades and the Florida Keys. Several topics will be covered in depth. These include ecology and geology of the Bahamas Everglades, and Florida Keys, marine ecology, coral reef ecology, intertidal zonation, grassbed ecology, taxonomy of vertebrates and invertebrates of coral reefs, lagoons, and tidal flats, statistical analyses of data, astronomy, and group projects concerning biological and physical analyses of select marine habitats.

These images should provide a hint, a mere glimpse, into the beauty and complexity of a wide variety of ecosystems. So, enjoy!

For further information about this course, contact Hays Cummins or phone me @ 513-529-1338. Marine Ecology is filled on a first-come, first-served basis!

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Bahamian Field Station	Coral Reefs	Soft Corals	Sea Anenomes	Other Invertebrates	Pigeon Creek	Seagrass Beds
Fish/Sharks	SCUBA	Fossil Reef	People and Places	Intertidal Zone	Manhead Key	Lighthouse Cave
Bird Nesting Sites	Sea Turtles	Thunderstorms	Florida & Everglades-Manatees	Louisiana Swamps	Flower Gardens	Mangroves

Quicktime SLIDE Shows--Select Here! FLORIDA 2003: Molasses Reef Dive and Snorkel --Algae Challenge --Florida Day 1, Mangrove Walk --Everglades National Park Day --Florida Fossil Reef Day --The trip to San Salvador SAN SALVADOR 2003: Miscellaneous People Fun!! --Algae Quiz, wonderful Intertidal Zone, and fish poachers! --Manhead Key and Telephone Pole Reef --Riding Rock Dive Boat Slides --San Salvador Underwater Wall Dive Photos!! --Underwater Slides from Snapshot Reef! --Cockburntown Fossil Reef --Altar Cave and Grotto Beach!! --Dixon Hill Lighthouse and Lighthouse Cave!! --Trash Beach, Blow Holes, and Pigeon Creek --Bird Rookery, Catto Key --Cliff Diving Slideshow! --Shortstop Parties!! Beautiful fish & other fine things Becky's Collection of the Bahamas Trip Roundup (2001)! A Bahamas Ecology Tour Marine Ecology Tour Traveling to the Bahamas Going Home Molasses Reef 2001 Day & Night Dives Catto Key 2001 Bird Potpourri Florida 2001 Mangrove Expedition The Palm Tree Club--Our 2001 Bahamas party The Great San Sal 2001 Volleyball Challenge Grahams Harbor 2001 Potpourri: Many neat places! Cockburntown 2001 Fossil Reef Manatee Madness, Key Largo Florida/Bahamas 2001 Sunset Potpourri The Shortstop--Our 2000 Bahamas party San Salvador Intertidal Zone Study Grahams Harbor Tour (large) Grahams Harbor Tour (small) Everglades in the winter Jean Lafitte Swamp Tour

Quicktime Movie Directory

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Coral Reefs	Mangroves	Fossil Reef	Gopher Tortises
Jellyfish & Other Stuff	Fish & Coral	Birds of SW Florida	Everglades Animals
Night Dives	TME Class Movies	Lighthouse Views	Seabirds

People and Other Organisms

It all started long ago!

2003 Videos:

• A Wonderful WALL DIVE VIDEO from San Salvador--a Quicktime MPEG-4 experience. (TME 03)
• A MPEG-4 VIDEO of the amazingly beautiful Snapshot Reef in Fernandez Bay in San Salvador, Bahamas. Beautiful fish, crinoids, corals and colors! (TME 03)
• A MPEG-4 VIDEO of Telephone Pole Reef in Fernandez Bay in San Salvador, Bahamas. A very nice dive! (TME 03)

  2003 Slideshows:

• Photos of the first day in the Florida Keys. Includes the mangrove hike (and challenge) on the elevated boardwalk in Pennekamp State Park. A Quicktime Slideshow! (TME 03)
• Our second "eco-challenge" invloved the classification of marine plants. Students collected as many plants as possible, then designed their own "taxonomies" beforelearning their scientific classifications. It was fun. A Quicktime Slideshow! (TME 03)
• Movie of the spectacular Everglades National Park. Special thanks to Frankie, National Park Ranger, who led one of our guided hikes. Lots of mosquito bitten folks! A Quicktime Slideshow! (TME 03)
• Dinner, Algae sampling and identification, and a visit to a Key Largo Limestone fossil reef. A Quicktime Slideshow! (TME 03)
• The trip from Florida to San Salvador is always an experience. This year was no exception! A Quicktime Slideshow! (TME 03)
• Movie of Algae Quizz preparation, the wonderful intertidal zone along North Point in Grahams Harbor where students characterized the biological and physical characteristics within this ecotone, and some local fish poachers! A Quicktime Slideshow! (TME 03)
• Visit Catto Key Bird Sanctuary, an island located in Grahams Harbor, San Salvador, Bahamas. What a Cool place!
• Students had a blast at Cut Key diving and jumping off an elevated cliff in Grahams Harbor, San Salvador, Bahamas. I can't wait to get back!
• Our first snorkeling and SCUBA experiences were on the barrier reefs off of Key Largo in Florida. It was great despite the fact that 15 people got seasick! A Quicktime Slideshow! (TME 03)
• Cockburtown Fossil Reef is over 100,000 years old. Yet, the corals seem to be in excellent shape. While this reef was alive, what were the conditions on Key Largo? Here, we performed several coral transects. A Quicktime Slideshow! (TME 03)
• Grotto Beach is the most beautiful beach on San Salvador. The shoreline is a modern day analog to the Pleistocene Altar Cave and fossil shoreline region we visited earlier in the day. After a wonderful snorkel to the Grotto barrier reef, students had fun playing in the surf!
• The San Salvador Lighthouse and the Lighthouse cave were the last San Salvador "stops" before leaving for home. The cave is partially flooded with seawater, which makes for interesting explorations.
• Manhead Key is a Pleistocene island located offshore in Rice Bay. The island has a small population of iguanas, fossil Pleistocene seafloor, huge boulder fields generated from the 1992 Perfect Storm,palesols, and archeological artifacts. The morning was followed by a great dive and snorkel to Telephone Pole Reef in Fernandez Bay in the afternoon. A terrifc day! A Quicktime Slideshow! (TME 03)
• Some really nice underwater photos from our two San Salvador Wall dives! Eleven of us went out with the Riding Rock Dive Boat. A beautiful day. Two Quicktime Slideshows! (TREC 03)
• And, last, but not least........The SHORTSTOP Party!

TME Class Pictures 2001

• A class photo along the southern shore of San Salvador near Pigeon Creek. (TME 01)
• This class photo was taken at the "Animal House" on the way to Altar Cave near Grotto beach. What a great bunch of people! Another version!(TME 01)
• Hays fell asleep on a picnic table at Grotto beach. (TME 01)
• Sarah and Malcolm at Cockburntown Fossil Reef (TME 01)
• Dave, Sarah and Malcolm at the Lighthouse (TME 01)
• I never saw Joe so happy as the day he took the ladder out of Lighthouse Cave. (TME 01)
• Yes folks, here it is. Sean making claim to his missing underwear! (TME 01)
• Everyone hard at work. The class did a great job on their research projects. Nice job! (TME 01)
• Exploring North Point at the Cut. (TME 01)
• Here is a little Riding Rock Reality! (TME 01)
• The truck was our home away from home! (TME 01)
• It's quite the view at North Point and the Cut. (TME 01)
• Some of the class poses for a photo outside of our research lab on San Salvador just prior to taking their algae quizz! (TME 01)
• Your instructor selected these DIGITAL images (so far--more will follow later) as ones for the marine ecology image pages. Check them out! (TME 01)
• STOP: Here is a link to ALL (about a 1000 pictures!) of the 2001 Tropical Marine Ecology Digital Images! Have fun! They have not been through the "photoshop darkroom." (TME 01)
• QUICKTIME SLIDE SHOW: Florida 2001 Mangrove Expedition (TME 01)
• QUICKTIME SLIDE SHOW:The Palm Tree Club--Our 2001 Bahamas party (TME 01)
• QUICKTIME SLIDE SHOW:The Great San Sal 2001 Volleyball Challenge (TME 01)
• QUICKTIME SLIDE SHOW:Molasses Reef 2001 Day & Night Dives (TME 01)
• QUICKTIME SLIDE SHOW:Catto Key 2001 Bird Potpourri
• QUICKTIME SLIDE SHOW:Grahams Harbor 2001 Potpourri: Islands, Intertidal Zones, North Point, etc.! (TME 01)
• QUICKTIME SLIDE SHOW:Cockburntown 2001 Fossil Reef (TME 01)
• QUICKTIME SLIDE SHOW:Manatee Madness 2001: Key Largo (TME 01)
• QUICKTIME SLIDE SHOW:Florida/Bahamas 2001 Sunset Potpourri (TME 01)
• QUICKTIME SLIDE SHOW:Becky's Bahamas Trip Roundup (TME 01)

TME Class Pictures 2000

• Blake hooks into a large shark (looks like a Lemon Shark-Negaprion brevirostris in the Florida Keys. The dorsal fins are approximately the same size.) (TME 00)
  • Rick gets into the water to retrieve it! (TME 00)
  • Blake and Rick cooperate to get the shark closer to shore. (TME 00)
  • Rick captures the shark and gradually moves it towards the shoreline. Finally, after about 20 minutes, Success! (TME 00)
  • How does one remove the hook? Kind of makes you go Hmmmmm! (TME 00)
  • Blake Jumps Back as Rick holds the shark up in the air! (TME 00)
  • Blake and Rick Pose after the capture and release of the shark.(TME 00)
  • Quicktime Movies!! Blake hooks the shark. Rick has huge Cojones!The shark is landed and it's examined (there are some anxious moments!); the line is cut. Rick and Blake pose with the shark, then it's released! (TME 00)
• Our first "cook-out" in the Keys.(TME 00)
• Ann and Susan after the first mangrove snorkel in the Florida Keys! Most of the class thought it was a real experience! (TME 00)
• Rick and Joe discuss the mangrove challenge with their students (TME 00)
• The Finest Roadside Fruitstand in the world is "Robert is Here" just outside of Everglades National Park. (TME 00)
  • You can get "Pure Raw Honey" (TME 00)
  • Jen and Ann show off their Key Lime Pie (TME 00)
  • Delicious Milk/Fruit Shakes (TME 00)
  • Becky shows off their Country Canned Goodies (TME 00)
• Our first field lunch was at the Royal Palm Visitor Center in the Everglades. Renee gave a talk on the Seminole Indians. (TME 00)
• Rick and Mike show off the latest fashion in Canal sampling. We had a happy research van! (TME 00)
  • Hays and Ann pose for a picture as well as Rick and Brook. (TME 00)
• Breakfast at Rock Reef was short but sweet! What's the secret? (TME 00)
• Sunrises were particularly beautiful in the Florida Keys at breakfast (TME 00)
• Hays did A LOT of filming!(TME 00)
• Andrea, Susan and Scott along the Anhinga Trail, Everglades National Park. (TME 00)
• Hays poses with the Course TAs. They did a great job! (TME 00)
• The Ocean Divers Molasses Reef Trip. It was fun, but almost everyone got seasick! (TME 00)
  • Here is a Vomit Simulation. Quicktime Movie!! Folks, it was very rough out on the reef. Even the seafloor was "Rocking." (TME 00)
  • Anticipation mounts!
  • Susan was a Riot! Here she is doing a "Bow Flex" just moments after "feeding the fish." When am I going to feel better? (TME 00)
  • Mike, Jacob and Dan on the Stern of the Ocean Diver Boat. I blame Gary for getting us seasick! The TAs hamming it up with our divemaster.(TME 00)
  • Amy and Andrea BEFORE they got sick. Andrea AFTER the sickness struck! (TME 00)
  • Blake before and after. A classic "Rick Pose."(TME 00)
  • Brooke fell asleep in the weirdest situations!(TME 00)
  • Many people went to the bow of the boat to recover. (TME 00)
  • Bryan in his Natural State!(TME 00)
  • James and Becky on the Stern. Fine Folks trying to stay cheerful.(TME 00)
  • Laura and George on the bow of the boat. George is ex-Navy and was right at home in the rough seas. (TME 00)
  • Mike putting on his snorkeling gear.(TME 00)
  • Rick, George and Jen on the stern. (TME 00)
• A Florida Keys Sunset! (TME 00)
• Flying on Bahamas Air--Wow, what an experience! This photo says it all! (TME 00)
  • Quicktime Slideshow!! A quicktime movie slide show (~4.8mb) of our group traveling to the Bahamas from Miami, Fl
  • Quicktime Slideshow!! A quicktime movie slide show (~4.1mb) of our group traveling back to the states at the end of the course
  • The plan is to get to the airport early, and wait, then wait some more! We were entertained by the Susan and Dawn gymnastic show (TME 00)
  • Scott (unkowingly) smuggles illegal contraband into the Bahamas.(TME 00)
  • Folks kept a good attitude. Jen and Ann worked on their journals as did Steph, Jodi and Leana. Of course, Brook fell asleep (Yeah Baby!!). (TME 00)
  • The flight from Nassau to San Salvador was, well, mass chaos. Tickets were messed up, the airline had no communications with the plane. Many of us were almost left behind! (TME 00)
• The Rice Bay Snorkel (TME 00)
  • Our first Patch Reef Snorkel on San Salvador was in Rice Bay. Everyone was pretty excited. While the reef is Not in good biolical condition, there is still much to see! (TME 00)
  • After the snorkel the class relaxed and watched Susan Model for us. I couldn't tell if people were most excited about the vertical relief of the patch reef or the nice clear water along the beach! (TME 00)
  • Craig, Mike and Rick leave the water (TME 00)
  • Hurricane Floyd completely altered the slope and structure of the beach. Some needed help getting up the berm (Susan!) It was a worst case scenario!(TME 00)
• The class snorkeled to Manhead Key. Here is a Class Photo on Manhead. (TME 00)
• A unique view of the Lighthouse from Manhead Key. Here is a close-up of the lighthouse "Top" with students and professor. (TME 00)
• A beautiful Sundial graces the Lighthouse grounds! Here is another photo with the class in a variety of poses. (TME 00)
• Snapshot reef was spectacular this year. SCUBA divers and snorklers did a beach entry. Entering from the beach is hard work. Your professor was worn out! (TME 00)
  • Everyone seemed pretty impressed with the dive.(TME 00)
  • Blake waited in the Truck for our return.(TME 00)
• Lunch was always an adventure under the Almond Tree in Cockburntown. (TME 00)
  • Three Amigos share a table in the shade away from the sun. (TME 00)
  • Blake ices his ankle while Susan flirts with a wonderful native Bahamian child. Is she poking her tongue out at me? (TME 00)
• Our class was part of a research project examining carbon and nitrogen isotopes in the Draingage Canals north of the Everglades to see what the effects of pollution were on food chains. We divided into research teams and we collected as many plants and animals as we could.While the long drive "sucked," many of the students had a blast and learned a lot. (TME 00)
  • One team poses for a picture at one of the Corps of Engineers Drainage Locks while a fisherman shows us one of his large bass(TME 00)
• Some of the female undergraduates do a "Gang Pose" along the trail to lighthouse cave. (TME 00)
• Hays "makes a point" during a lecture in the lab. (TME 00)
• What does this puzzle say?(TME 00)
• Lighthouse Class Picture. (TME 00) See More Lighthouse Pictures Here!
  • The Titanic was filmed on top of the Lighthouse starring Erin and Ann. (TME 00)
• George and Mike were roomies(TME 00)
• Our Research lab on San Salvador was a busy place! It was our home base so to speak! Craig, Jacob and Dan hard at work on algae identification. (TME 00)
• Dr. Genivecki, Wake Forest, gave our class a presentation at his latest field location near Long Bay Settlement. His students were very informative. (TME 00)
• Becky's Intertidal team poses for a photo at North Point. The class poses for a picture at the Cut on North Point. We walked the road back to the field station! (TME 00)
• A picture of the "MEN" in our class! (TME 00)
• A QUICKTIME Slideshow Movie (~5.7mb) of North Point--people, organisms and the intertidal Zone! (TME 00)

The Shortstop!! Check out a QUICKTIME Movie (~5.7mb) Slideshow of folks at the Shortstop ! Great Stuff!

• The old watering hole was as active as ever this year! Man, do I have some blackmail material this year!(TME 00)
• Jacob and Ann trim the Shortstop sign while Bernie leads his band. Our boat captain, Edbert, plays on. Go Edbert, go! (TME 00)
• Rick and Erin seem to having a good time. Finally, A Choo-Choo Train formed. (TME 00)
• Some of the guys hung around the tables while their professor danced! (TME 00)
• Travis and Mike sandwiches were popular. But, when Amy and Susan got started, the whole place went nuts! Brook was crazy while Susan and Amy mesmerized the crowd. George was caught in a "girl vortex," but he didn't seem to mind. Susan and Amy even had time to make friends before Rick got Amy to dance again.
• Renee and Andrea were having fun even though Erin was crying because the course was over. Travis was an active young lad. Everywhere I looked, Travis was either dancing or talking or both. (TME 00)
• But, where would we be without Susan? She was either with the group or with a series of dancing of partners. Every now and then she took a break.
• Stephanie was there, as was Joe and Stacy. Dan was absolutely amazing on the floor! Stacy was sometimes with Dan, other times....Jen was a dancing machine. She was hopping and a popping! It was a blast! (TME 00)
• Miscellaneous Pics: Ann was everywhere too! Becky and Laura Jamie and Rick Bryan and Brook! (TME 00)
• Quicktime Movie!! Here is a quicktime Slide Show of our time at the Shortstop! (TME 00)

Grotto Beach

• The landscape near the Grotto is dominated by small palms and the folks from Club Med.(TME 00)
• Sea Oats dominate the dunes of this beautiful place. (TME 00)
• Everyone welcomed the Escape from the Bugs.(TME 00)
• Susan lets me know what she thinks!
• Club Med made the scene. In some ways they reminded me of a cattle boat. In other ways, there were some interesting sights. Club Med sure knew where to throw a picnic! I wonder if they would pay me money for this picture?(TME 00)
• We did a Moon Lab as part of the course. I had no idea that the enthusiasm for the Moon Lab would spread to the Grotto. Can you make a positive Identification? (TME 00)
• There were Horse Fights. Even the gals were "horses."Who is that holding "Big Joe?" Pyramid Buiding was less successful! (TME 00)
• We were a happy bunch of folks after the Grotto experience. (TME 00)
• Jamie has more bouyancy than any other human I know! Laura and Mike enjoyed the Clear Waters. Hi teachers! (TME 00)