I lead a field trip to San Salvador, Bahamas (Gerace Research Centre) during even year Fall semesters to examine modern carbonate environments. The trip includes much snorkeling to a variety of patch reefs and a float down a tidal channel during ebb tide. Students collect and analyze sediments from beach profiles, Thallassia and sand flats, tidal channel and ebb deltas to compare the grain size spectrums and associated varying energy regimes.
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Life on a Patch Reef in Fernandez Bay. Photo Credit: Matt Tave
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Monument Beach reported site of Columbus landing.
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Pleistocene eolianites near Watling's Hole.
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TTU Students at French Bay.
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Gorgeous Sea Fan. Photo Credit: Matt Tave
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Lighthouse Cave explored without a Flashlight...Yikes.
Ruin within the Farquharson Settlement.
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Subaqueos Double T and Guns Up. Photo Credit: Matt Tave
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Farquharson Settlement ruin and dense overgrowth.
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Sandy Point and overwash fan.
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Grotto Beach with fossil reef in foreground.
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Students lounging at French Bay.
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Pleistocene eolianites.
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San Salvador public transportation.
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Cockburn Town Fossil Reef.
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Curious guy in Patch Reef in Fernandez Bay. Photo Credit: Matt Tave
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Watling's Hole.
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Acropora palmata (elkhorn coral) and Acropora cervicornis (staghorn coral) fragments preserved in Cockburn Town Fossil Reef.
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East Bay through the lense of a sea fan.
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