Hi everyone! Whew, I guess it's a little more tricky to make lots of blog posts while you're knee-deep in a field course than I thought!
We're about half way through the course, now, and we've been focusing on learning about some of the marine environments of Palau, as well as the terrestrial critters that live in the limestone karst.
Students who have taken a classroom-based course with Dr. Rundell know that crinoids (at least the little disarticulated cheerios of their stalks) are a very common fossil in the Devonian rocks in Central New York. Far fewer students from SUNY-ESF have actually gotten to hold a living crinoid, like Maddy is here:
We're about half way through the course, now, and we've been focusing on learning about some of the marine environments of Palau, as well as the terrestrial critters that live in the limestone karst.
Students who have taken a classroom-based course with Dr. Rundell know that crinoids (at least the little disarticulated cheerios of their stalks) are a very common fossil in the Devonian rocks in Central New York. Far fewer students from SUNY-ESF have actually gotten to hold a living crinoid, like Maddy is here:
Jack is taking a vertical photo onto a 0.25m^2 quadrat for later quantification of coral cover, and Audrey is doing some non-quantitative explorations of the coral diversity:
In addition to some of the marine work we've been doing, we've collected some land snails on the limestone karst, and looked at some really cool archaeological sites, including one of the Yapese stone money quarries in Airai:
Just to wrap things up... here's a diplommatinid in the genus Hungerfordia!
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