Tropical Marine Ecology Streaming Videos

Tropical Marine Ecology Streaming Videos

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Tropical Marine Ecology 2003 Streaming Video and Slideshow Collection

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Tropical Marine Ecology Digital Image Roster 2003

2003 Florida Keys and Everglades

2003 San Salvador, Bahamas

Florida Day 1
Molasses Reef
Algae Challenge
Everglades
Key Largo Fossil Reef
To San Salvador

Grahams Harbor UW Photos
Intertidal Zone
Fossil Reef
Manhead Key Plus!!!
Miscellaneous Fun!
Snapshot Reef UW Photos
Lighthouse and Lighthouse Cave!
Catto Key: Bird Nesting Site
Riding Rock Dive Boat
The "Wall" Underwater Slides
Blowhole, Pigeon Creek, Trash Beach
Altar Cave and beautiful Grotto Beach
Cliff Diving
Shortstop Final Day Party
Flight Home

A Complete Roster of Digital Images and Quicktime Slide shows from Tropical Marine Ecology, class of 2003. Thousands of pictures!

Tropical Marine Ecology Quicktime Slideshows and Videos 2003

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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)
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!
**Check out this beautiful Quicktime Movie of a group of Caribbean Reef Squid (Sepioteuthis sepioidea), Curacao, 2002!**

QUICKTIME Movies--Click on Image to Play

Who would have thought? I truly believe that cephalopods are the one of the most "aware" invertebrates in the world! These cuttlefish were as interested in me as I was in them!

Slangenbaai Reef in Curacao. Lots of crinoids and other invertebrates at this fantastic dive site. About 10 minutes long.

Magnificent Birds including pelicans, ospreys and a bald eagle.Quicktime Streaming MPEG-4 Movie. Music by Deep Forest Sweet Lullaby.

A potpourri of day and night dives on Curacao. About 10 minutes long.

The best sea turtle footage I have ever taken!

Snapshot Reef is one of the prettiest reefs I have ever seen. Crinoids, grouper, snapper, etc!

A Night Dive Tour of feeding corals, etc. Fantastic!

A fantastic night dive with octupus, squid, sleeping parrotfish!

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An Amazing Aquarium Menagerie of Fascinating Creatures from the New Orleans Aquarium of the Americas (paddlefish, sand tile fish, moray eels, sea turtles, ctenophores, jellyfish, and shrimp)

A 16 minute video of the 1999 Tropical Marine Ecology Experience as seen through the creative eyes of Glen White.

A Florida Alligator "splits the class" as it crosses a pathway along the Anhinga trail in the Everglades!

These devil rays seemed to be having pure unadulterated fun!

Tropical Marine Ecology 2002 Streaming Video and Slideshow Collection

Visit the Marine Ecology Image Pages and the Marine Ecology Syllabus

QuickTime 6 is required to view these movies

Click here for a free copy

Tropical Marine Ecology Digital Image Roster 2002

2002 Florida Keys and Everglades

2002 San Salvador, Bahamas

Course Beginnings
Dive Boat
Algae Challenge
Everglades
Fixing Dinner
Mangroves
Dwarf Sperm Whale
Florida Outcrop

To San Salvador
Intertidal Zone
Fossil Reef
Manhead Key
Altar Cave
Catto Key
Grotto Beach
Cliff Diving
Pigeon Creek
Trash Beach
Lighthouse Cave
Shortstop Party
Going Home
Jean Lafitte

A Complete Roster of Digital Images and Quicktime Slide shows from Tropical Marine Ecology, class of 2002. Thousands of pictures!

Tropical Marine Ecology Quicktime Slideshows 2002

QuickTime 5 is required to view these movies and slideshows
Click here for a free copy

Visit Altar Cave, a cave located along a former Pleistocene shoreline on San Salvador, Bahamas.
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!
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? Later in the day, we visited a blow hole, a fossil dune field, and we snorkeled the Pigeon Creek Tidal estuary.
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 Grahams Harbor intertidal zone along the shoreline of North Point is a fascinating place. Here, the class characterized the physical and biological characteristics within this fascinating ecotone.
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.
East Beach along the High-Energy side of San Salvador, is loaded with a variety of debris from the open Atlantic. We refered to it as Trash Beach. We even found some baleen from the skeleton of a small whale.
The restoration of the Everglades may be the Key to the overall health of the entire coastal ecosystems in southern Florida. What an interesting place!
We were fortunate to participate in the hospital care of a dwarf sperm whale in Key Largo. Our students helped feed, take blood samples, and swim with this very sick whale. The beached whale died a few days later from a punctured lung and other complications.
And, last, but not least........The SHORTSTOP Party!
Check out this beautiful Quicktime Movie of a group of Reef Cuttlefish, Curacao, 2002!

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