Dr. Allen Curry taught BIOL 4373 Coral Reef Fishes of Cuba with Drs. Coqui Aguilar Betancourt and Gaspar Gonzalez from the University of Havana (and are also CRI Associates).
The course brings UNB students together with students from the University of Havana for a week long course with snorkeling in reefs around Cuba. This year was a super success, with the main drama being an encounter of a Portuguese Man O' War by two of the UNB participants - both escaped with some nice welts and a great story to tell.
The instructors left the students to snorkeling once in a while to dive down a bit deeper and explore Cuba underwater.
(left to right: Ivan-Dive Master, Mark Gautreau (CRI UNB-F), Michelle Gray (CRI UNB-F), Robyn O'Keefe (Dept of Biology UNB-F), Allen Curry (CRI UNB-F)).
Dea Chute and Allison Ritchey just finished their final field season for their MSc. projects in Northern Labrador Bear monitor John Anderson keeping watch as Dea and Allison measure and sample juvenile Arctic charr at a stream site in northern Labrador.
Bear monitor Bennett Barbour and Allison Ritcey at one of Andrea Chute's stream sites in the Torr Bay Brook watershed in northern LabradorAndrea Chute received a poster award at the Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS) 9th International Student Conference: Communities of Change--Building an IPY Legacy, which took place in Whitehorse, Yukon from October 2-5th.
Bill Tibble assisted Allen Curry this summer with Allen and Joseph Culp’s ongoing biomonitoring of Arctic rivers project funded by the International Polar Year. This 3-year project is establishing baselines for biological monitoring of Canada’s Arctic river ecosystems.
Allen Curry (CRI Director) sampling Arctic charr on the Koroc River.
Bill Tibble the Bear Monitor
WARNING - not for the squeamish folks...
Bill Tibble sampling his own finger.
NOTE: please see the posting from June 2009 "Recent Happenings Peake Lab" to see more of Bill Tibble's personal field surgery pictures - that time on his thumb (you would think he would learn... one more event and we will have a 'trend'!!)
