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Belize 2012 field log 1: Snapping Shrimps and Hidden Sponges
The sponge-dwelling shrimp Synalpheus carpenteri (Kenneth S. Macdonald) [Our team has just returned from a 10-day research trip to the Belize Barrier Reef, searching for social sponge-dwelling shrimp...
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Belize field log 2: Social breakdown on the reef
The Carrie Bow Cay field station, Belize (Dustin Rubenstein) [The second installment in our New York Times “Scientist at Work” field log.] Wednesday, July 4 Our hunt yesterday produced a good haul of...
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Belize field log 3: Journey to the center of the reef
Free diving in search of sponges (S. Bornbusch) [The third installment in our New York Times “Scientist at Work” field log.] Collecting shrimp is a complicated business. I am not as seasoned as my...
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Belize field log 2012: Witness to a murder
[The fourth installment, and I’ll confess my favorite, in our New York Times “Scientist at Work” field log.] Sunday, July 8 As the sun breaks the horizon, I sit in a wooden chair at the edge of the...
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Demise of reefs in Belize? Coda
[I was happy to receive a lot of comments on our most recent blog post from the field in the New York Times. Since the space available to respond to those comments on the NYT site is limited, I’ve...
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Goodbye to Belize
Sponges protruding from reef (JE Duffy) [The final post in our Belize series from the New York Times Scientist at Work blog]: Tuesday, July 10 As the days tick away, so do our last hopes of finding...
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