by Katie Shoultz | Aug 15, 2022 | Blogs, coral spawn, Mote, night dive, Scientific Diving, Uncategorized
Hi, my name is Elijah, and I will be talking about my experience with coral spawning at Mote and in the ocean. There will be two different places I will be talking about. The first subject will be about Mote and the other will be in the ocean. On 8/13/2022 there was...
by Katie Shoultz | Jul 23, 2022 | Blogs, California, Fish Surveys, Reef Check, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips
On Wednesday and Thursday our group had a great opportunity to visit the University of Southern California (USC) Wrigley Institute of Environmental Sciences. Leaving the dock north of Long Beach, on the Miss Christi, we made the 90-minute journey through the Pacific...
by Katie Shoultz | Nov 24, 2021 | Blogs, Clean up, coral reefs, Coral Transplant, Diving, Education, Fish Identification, Mote, Navigation, Scientific Diving, Teens
In November, a group of ten nauts traveled from around Florida to Summerland Key for four days of diving– or at least of adventures! For our first day in the Keys, we spent the morning studying organism identifications. We were divided into two groups, one group...
by Katie Shoultz | Mar 22, 2021 | Aruba, Blogs, Coral Restoration Foundation, Diving, Lionfish, Lionfish Removal, Scientific Diving, Teens
Members of the Morehead City, NC Chapter traveled to Aruba over spring break this year to collaborate with ScubbleBubbles, another youth organization based on the island. This trip was the first of its kind for SCUBAnauts, and planning it during a pandemic was not...
by Katie Shoultz | Nov 19, 2020 | Blogs, Diving, Education, Jupiter, Teens
Earlier this week, we did the classroom portion of the PADI Sea Turtle Awareness Specialty Certification. We met Katie from the Loggerhead Marinelife Center who had a presentation for us which depicted a lot of new information about sea turtles that I had never heard...
by Katie Shoultz | Apr 23, 2020 | Blogs, Diving, Education, night dive, Photogrammetry, Science, Scientific Diving, Teens
Over spring break in March, six nauts had the chance to participate in an underwater photogrammetry course taught by Protean Industries and hosted by Devil’s Den Prehistoric Spring in central Florida. The course lasted four days and included diving and topside...