DR is winding down

Hola,

The past few days we have been finishing up DR. We were in the field on Monday and Tuesday, but now we are done with data collection so we've all just been writing our papers. On Tuesday we did more beam trawling which was actually very hard this time because most of what we were trudging through was muck up to our knees. In the afternoon we did sand netting again, but this time I think we got a grand total of 5 fish for the whole time, which was pretty disappointing.

For my paper I have to analyze seagrass patches within Bell Sound. I have to compare the density of the patches and then the health of the seagrass within each of those patches. Unfortunately there was only one major patch that I was able to get seagrass samples from, so this comparison should be pretty interesting.

Our paper is due tomorrow, then we have presentations to the class on Monday and presentations to the public on Tuesday. After that we are pretty much done. I can't believe how quickly this went by, it still seems like I just got here.

Last night we had the Conch Invitational Volleyball Tournament. Last time we had a vball tournament people thought it was unfair that a few teams were full of volleyball players so this time Kate (the student affairs person) picked captains and we drew names out of a hat. I got Devon, Britta, and Margaret. We did pretty well in our first game and won like 21-3 or something ridiculous. In our second match we lost pretty badly so we were out. Colby's team (3 men and a baby) won the whole thing. Unfortunately Kyle, the one that gave me so much garbage about beating my team last time, won again, so he's pretty content with himself right now. I told him next time we'll play with real rules and then he'll go down big time.

Sorry this is a short one, but I didn't have much to write about. I hope all of you are doing well.

Love,
Michelle