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Coral Monitoring Project 2009
We're gearing up now for the September 26 - October 10, 2009 coral monitoring survey.
Here is some general information about our coral monitoring and other Reef Protection projects.
- Most of the project work is coral monitoring, but other activities such as maintaining or expanding the mooring buoy system also take place as needed.
- Kosrae Village and our US partner OceanEarth, a non profit 501(c)3 organization, have an annual two-week project set for September - October.
- Additional surveys are needed, so if groups of 4 or more are interested in this work we can schedule projects to fit their time frames as long as:
- The project dates are set up in advance with OceanEarth to qualify for tax deductibility.
- We confirm that either Katrina or Dr Smith will be available for the training and to lead the project.
- Two weeks is an ideal length of time to complete a survey project, however it is possible to scale it back to seven to ten days. Anything shorter really isn't feasible. A typical schedule follows:
- Team arrives on a Saturday (if traveling via Honolulu)
- Land based ID and survey technique training on Sunday
- Checkout dives, in-water ID and technique training on Monday
- Survey dives begin on Tuesday and continue for the duration or the project. Breaks are taken on Sunday and other days as necessary.
- We don't expect that everyone will be comfortable with all the survey requirements and techniques by Tuesday, so the volunteers will work with experienced partners until they are ready to work on their own.
- At the end of the project the participants will receive a certificate verifying their participation should it be required by the IRS.
Photos and data collected by previous teams can be found on the OceanEarth site at http://www.oceanearth.org.
For more information please email
me or check this page.
