by Katie Shoultz | Jun 24, 2024 | Blogs, coral reefs, Diving, Mote, National Park Service, Scientific Diving, St Croix, Summer Trips
Brain corals can grow to over six feet in diameter. I saw this for myself treating diseased coral in St. Croix this summer. The trip started at two in the morning at the airport where we made our way to the U.S. Virgin Islands. We arrived at Camp Howard where we...
by Katie Shoultz | Jun 24, 2024 | Blogs, Fish Surveys, Scientific Diving, St Croix, Summer Trips
During the 2024 St Croix summer trip we did a handful of fish surveys and benthic dives. We did these dives to collect data for our science projects and to input it into the REEF database. To do our fish and benthic dives we all had to wake up between 6-8 in the...
by Katie Shoultz | Jun 11, 2024 | Blogs, Capitol Hill Ocean Week, CHOW
Nauts Run The Show in DC Between Tuesday and Friday of our trip to Washington DC, we talked to 1 congressperson, 1 representative, and 3 staffers while we were in Washington DC for Capitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW). We talked to them about ocean related topics,...
