blacktip shark swimming past our tiles Carcharhinus limbatus |
As the librarian for the Miller Library at Hopkins Marine Station, I was offered the opportunity to help with a research project on the Palmyra Atoll. This is a ring of islands surrounding a lagoon located about 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, just north of the equator. There are less than 5 square miles of land, and the highest elevation is 6 feet. It averages about 175 inches of rain a year, and there is no rainy season.
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Another visitor to our tiles
Today we started pulling tiles from FR7, the third and final site for this project. Once again we set up the GoPro to document fish interacting with the tiles. In a previous blog entry I showed you the sea turtle swimming by. This time we caught a black tip shark cruising past the camera.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment