Students Share Their Experience With RJD
Thursday, November 10th 2011 “Stand back!” Fiona said. After many let downs, one of our lines finally shared a shark. Our hearts were racing for, what we didn’t know at the time was to be, our only catch of the day. We watched the water, waiting for a glimpse of a fin or tail. Finally, […]
Heavy Hearts and Empty Lines
Friday, November 4th 2011 Today marks another uneventful day out on the water for the program. However, the important thing to remember here is that no data is still data, as we reminded each other after a long day of pulling in empty (very heavy) lines. We set out to UM’s field research station on […]
Chief Executives, Extra Chum, and Newfound Shark Wranglers: Who Could Ask For More?
Thursday, November 3rd 2011 Today was a special day for the RJ Dunlap Program as we ventured out on the waters off of Key Largo with a group from the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), rather than our more traditional group of high school students. YPO is a worldwide group of young chief executives that aims […]
High School Student Shares Her Experience With RJD
About a month ago we heard from Evan Byrnes, RJD shark research intern, in his blog “Sharks, S’mores and Sleepovers.” In his blog he detailed the events of a two-day stay at the University of Miami’s Broad Key field station with students from Our Lady of Lourdes High School. Now, with the help of OLLA’s […]
Back in the Game
Sunday, October 23rd 2011 Today RJ Dunlap teamed up with Palmer Trinity for a day of shark tagging. Everyone aboard the Coral Princess IV already knew it was going to be a good day- and today we were headed out to a new site. This was particularly exciting considering the past few weeks of nasty, […]
Strikeout #3
Saturday, October 22nd It was my first day back on the water this semester and I could not wait to get back out for some serious shark action. We had a group of Pew fellows out with us for a day at Broad Key. Before the fellows arrived, the team set out drumlines and some […]
