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A tough team waits out a squall on the tower to finish
preparing the RAS to go back in the water.
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Enjoying a windy (and wet!) bike ride down
the Dongsha Airport Runway
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Anyone who does much field work will tell you that for any
field expedition it is important to plan some time for bad weather, or some
“weather days”. Well, we’re using some
of our weather days now! The last few
days have brought higher winds, rough seas, and rain. We are all eager to get back out on the water
to download data, check on instruments, and survey the bleaching, but until the
weather turns around we are stuck in the lab – which leaves some time for
preliminary data analysis, catching up on email, and bike rides down the
runway!
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| Fresh mango - a.k.a. "heaven"! |
During this time we were also fortunate to meet some other researchers from
the National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, visiting Dongsha
Atoll. We enjoyed learning
from them about their work on the reef and were very grateful for the fresh mango
and bananas they shared with us. Fresh
fruit is a rare treat on Dongsha!
- Kristen Davis
Coastal Dynamics Lab
University of California, Irvine
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