Marine Biology | JONATHAN BIRD'S BLUE WORLD

Jonathan visits the School for Field Studies in the Turks & Caicos Islands to learn how college students conduct field work in their pursuit of degrees in marine studies. He helps tag sharks, study conch and investigate marine protected areas!
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I’m off to the sunny but remote island of South Caicos, in the Turks and Caicos Islands, just southeast of the Bahamas.
Here, the School for Field Studies operates a field research facility where college students from all over the United States come for some hands-on marine biology field work.
Faculty at the School for Field Studies have ongoing research projects investigating fisheries management, reef health, shark populations and even human impact.
My day begins with the shark research team led by Professor Aaron Henderson. Henderson and his students are investigating how the marine protected areas around South Caicos are affecting the shark population.
Their first task for the day is to deploy some baited camera rigs. These rigs will hopefully attract and film several species of sharks. The goal: to learn how many and what species of sharks are here in the marine protected area.
Many different species visit the cameras including Nurse sharks, Caribbean Reef sharks, Tiger sharks, Lemon sharks and even Great Hammerheads!
Next the team deploys what are known as “drum lines.” These are baited hooks attached to a float and a weight. The goal is to catch sharks so they can be tagged and released.
With five drum lines set, the team goes back to the first one and checks for a shark.
Dr. Henderson places a tag on its dorsal fin, while the students take a small tissue sample from is tail for an isotope analysis of the shark’s diet.
Another group is studying the fish population of the island, trying to determine the effectiveness of marine protected areas.
Underwater, the team heads to a nice section of coral reef and begins a transect. Essentially they reel out a very long tape measure over the reef, which defines a specific path of a specific length.
By comparing the transect results inside and outside of the marine protected areas, the students can learn not only how well the marine protected areas are working but on which species.
Of course, fishing pressure is what affects fish populations, so it makes sense to also try to get a handle on what species of fish are being caught. The students work with the local fishermen who volunteer to allow the students to come down to the docks at the end of the day and see what kind of fish they are catching and how big they are. The fishermen know that research like this and marine protected areas will help to insure that there are always enough fish to catch.
Another team of students, another research project. This team is working in snorkel depths without scuba--studying a big snail called a conch.
The conch is one of the most popular seafoods in the Caribbean, and a whopping 10% of the world’s supply comes from the tiny island of South Caicos, so it’s an important resource.
This transect in the seagrass bed is being used to count conch. They also collect a few conch for additional research on land.
Back at the shore, alongside a representative from the Turks & Caicos Department of Environment and Maritime Affairs, the students crack the conch open in the traditional way.
Fishermen often take the meat out of the shell at sea and return with only the meat and no shell. How can the government recommend or enforce size regulations if there is no shell to measure? So Daniel’s research is looking at other ways to gauge the maturity of a conch, without a shell.
Baby sharks live in the mangroves, where they are safe from a lot of larger predators.
A couple of nights a week, Dr. Henderson and his students head over to the mangrove areas to catch baby sharks.
They start by setting a net in the chest-deep water, hoping to snare small sharks as they cruise by. Every 15 minutes they check the net, and when they have a shark, they bring it back to a makeshift lab on shore where they will weigh it, tag it with a electronic tag, take a small tissue sample, some ID photos, and then quickly get it back into the water.

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A little bit of light on the Marine biology field from someone who is currently a marine biology major. We rarely do this kinda stuff. Only a select few marine biologist are in the Caribbean doing field work like this. And even so, 3/4 of their job is in a lab. I’m working with worms and crawfish not sharks. Probably 98% of y’all who are becoming marine biologist, are gonna working with smaller animals like barnacles and cyclopses in ponds

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