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[post_content] => Students are back into the swing of things here on South Caicos after the field trip to North and Middle Caicos and the mid-semester break. Case Study 2 and Directed Research have both started, so the days are academically busy. Additionally, there are different activities for them to be part of the community. We continue community outreach programs that have been implemented through the years (alumni will remember hearing "how many more minutes" on Saturday mornings as the local kids waited until the doors opened at 1:30PM). This semester the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS) implemented new outreach programs which have been successful thus far!
As mentioned in the "Sea Day" News from the Field update, we have partnered with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDC) in Plymouth, MA. This partnership has played an important role in the Saturday outreach programming; we have had five weeks of whale activities at the "featured creature station," which has successfully competed with the crafts and games stations. During these five weeks, the station had activities to teach the local kids (and us) about whales: how to identify individual humpback whales; humpback whale behavior patterns; baleen feeding; importance of blubber for marine mammals; and how whales communicate with each other. As the humpback whales have migrated north, the "featured creature station" now will focus on other featured marine creatures. Last week, the station taught us about sea turtles as there was a turtle survival (homemade) board game.
Humpback Whale ID ActivityTurtle Survival Board Game
Another station that we have on Saturdays is an "environmental station," where CMRS students and the local kids "do science." This includes beach erosion activities, global warming (ice surprisingly holds up well to the heat here!), and effects of trash blowing into the ocean. The goal is to spread our passion for not only the marine world, but for science as well.
Beach Erosion ActivityWind vs. Trash in Oceans Activity
We have begun a new program in order to help integrate the Center and the community: the Friendship Family Program. For this, students are partnered with a local family and spend approximately one hour per week together. Some are learning about the history of South Caicos through conversations with elderly couples while others are helping the children with their homework before a friendly volleyball game. Each partnership is unique and each provides a window into another aspect of the culture of South Caicos and its peoples. The community has commented as to the unique aspect of the program and we are all excited for it to continue.
Students are able to learn about the importance of the topics that are taught in the classroom during their time spent out of the classroom. Study abroad is a unique experience that allows students to not only study something different (or in a different format) than on their home campus, but without connecting with locals, it is incomplete.
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[post_content] => Can I just say that we have an amazing alumni community? I’m sure you all knew that already, but let me explain why I feel it merits repeating. The love and support for the South Caicos community continues long after students leave the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS). Here at CMRS we are involved with the community daily: the scheduled outreach opportunities, buying that $1 ice cream cone just to sit and talk with the store owner, playing softball (or basketball or volleyball or…), helping with homework, teaching a fourth grader how to read, interviewing locals for Directed Research purposes… which suddenly turns into a conversation among friends. The host community is part of CMRS, and our students and alumni have given back in a variety of ways.
Most recently, we have received donations that have shocked the community and us at CMRS. In January, Leah Shamlian, a Fall 2013 student (along with help from her sister), donated nine boxes of books. She noticed that the bookshelves looked barren in the schools during outreach and, after speaking with her younger sister, did something about it. The books were distributed into the three schools, leaving the principals speechless. After the books were delivered and sorted into the classrooms, which I had the pleasure helping with, I had local kids coming up to me for weeks thanking me for the books. This spring, the Iris Stubbs Primary School has started a Reading Club, hoping to further spark the interest in literacy.
ust this week, the last full week students are at CMRS for the Spring 2014 semester, Jessie Frascotti was able to distribute board games into Iris Stubbs Primary School. She noticed that aside from our Saturday outreach, the kids didn’t have much to do. One thing in particular that was lacking was something in the schools to keep the local kids out of trouble during breaks. Working with her family, Jessie was able to deliver a box (which was bigger than I am) full of board games. These are available to the students to check out during their class breaks and play.
Compiling up at headquarters are shoes and cleats, also donated by alumni and friends of CMRS. After a plea from the Sports Officer and the school Physical Education teachers, we put a call out to the SFS community. The local kids mostly end up playing and practicing for track meets in socks. (Have you ever run barefoot on concrete that has been baking in the sun all day? OUCH!) A few have shoes that were hand-me-downs from an older sibling, or a previous CMRS shoe-drive. The cleats will help the boy’s South Caicos softball team, as well as the rugby practices that CMRS helps run. With the sun beating down on the hard, rocky island, footwear is important.
On May 9th, CMRS will be turned from “school” to “clinic”. We are hosting the Turks and Caicos SPCA for a spay and neuter clinic again this year. So far our alumni have raised over $1,300 for the clinic, which will help control the stray dog ("potcakes") and cat populations. We continue to see overpopulation of animals on the island, and across the TCI. These funds help the TCSPCA provide spay/neuters and vaccinations for nominal fees, helping to control overpopulation and overall health of animals on South Caicos. The TCSPCA clinic is the only time that a veterinary service comes to our small island. In the photo below, spring 2014 students educate the primary school kids about proper dog care and announced the clinic.
As I told you, our alumni are pretty awesome. Not only do students live and work with the community for the semester or summer that they are here, but South Caicos remains in their hearts long after they have left.
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[post_content] => With a name like the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS), it is hard to hide the everyday study of what we do here. It’s only fitting, then, that we joined in the festivities that surround World Oceans Day. June 8 has been declared World Oceans Day, which is celebrated annually across the globe in a united effort to bring awareness for the conservation of the world’s oceans. As seen through older blog entries, here at CMRS we do this work on a daily basis: study, awareness, conservation, monitor and assessment, to name a few projects.
Students join faculty members in researching and studying the marine environment in order to best preserve the resources on and around South Caicos. Through the research, we have a comprehensive database of turtles and sharks in the area (in addition to other organisms).
Our students are in the water almost daily, whether it is for recreation or research. Students have the chance to go on recreations dives and snorkels, but also are in the water for field exercises; for example measuring the size of fish templates from a distance or identifying organisms.
We also provide swimming lessons in order for the local kids to be more comfortable in the water, and help spark an interest in the marine environment. During our Saturday Outreach, we also help educate the kids about the marine world around them.
What did you do to celebrate World Oceans Day?
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[post_content] => “Experiences like these don’t come very often,” Summer 1 2014 student Dewandre Smith noted a month after the program ended. SFS programs offer once in a lifetime opportunities for students. This is true even for those who are natives of the country; the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS) on South Caicos has had students study with us from Turks and Caicos Islands, like Smith. Some, like Fall 2013 student Lauren Reuss, have “known since high school that I wanted to study abroad with SFS,” while others learn about our programs at a study abroad fair; either way, students know that they are getting a truly unique experience.
When asked what Leah Shamlian, Fall 2013, learned while at CMRS, her answer was quite simple: “What didn't I learn while I was there?” With each student arriving to CMRS with a different background, the learning is incredible to watch. Smith notes, “being a Turks and Caicos Islander I knew much about going in the sea but knew very little about organisms living there. SFS taught me a lot of this.” Lauren Rasmussen, from Spring 2014, explains how CMRS teaches students about marine organisms: “For the first couple of weeks, we were introduced to various species of fish, corals, and other vertebrates/invertebrates. Following an "on land introduction," we traveled in small groups by boat to a site and jumped in the water with our snorkel gear. We spent about an hour swimming around identifying the different fish or coral species.”
Tropical Marine Ecology is not the only field of study here at CMRS. Shamlian particularly valued the Environmental Policy and Socioeconomic Values course, especially “discussions of traditional ecological knowledge and the importance of bottom-up environmental movements. I use my knowledge of sustainable fisheries every time I buy seafood!”
Learning is not restricted to the classroom or field experience. Smith identifies “how to cope with people and get along when living with what first started as strangers but quickly turn out to be some of the coolest people you’ll ever meet” as a lesson learned. Rassmussen looks to her time spent in the community, claiming “I'm so pleased with the community involvement I was able to partake in while on this journey. Whether that was just sitting down and talking to an individual or getting ice cream with the local kids.”
Shamlian returned from her experience with a “different perspective on need, dependency, and privilege. “It's much easier to remind myself to recognize and be grateful for what I have after my experience with SFS,” she says. Reuss notes part of her learning was about how to live sustainably: “After taking one freshwater shower a week and hand washing all of my laundry, I have become more conscience of my water use. I also make even more of an effort to know where my seafood is coming from and that it is harvested using sustainable methods.”
Students leave CMRS with a variety of different ideas for their futures, and how the SFS experience may impact them later. After Ross Johnston’s Fall 2013 semester, he was able to get into the field: “I was awarded a summer internship immediately after graduation working in the outer islands of the Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia. My internship was an extension of my Directed Research and focused on sustainable fishery management within tropical coral reef communities. My project was to provide marine conservation education to the native islanders, which further solidified my interests as an environmental social scientist.”
We see just how dedicated students are to improving the environment after the program, melding this new knowledge with old passions. Shamlian is looking to combine her “love for writing with environmental issues;” she is currently an intern for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For others, we see direct impacts to the community and region, like Smith, who wants to try to set up a more successful and productive Marine Protected Area in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
When these five students reflected on their program, memories filled the page; I did ask them to identify a “favorite” which may have not been entirely fair of me, given Rasmussen’s answer: “everything and everyone.” Johnston’s favorite SFS memory has nothing to do with the hours of field work, but instead time spent in the community: “I know I’d be in the minority by saying something that didn’t happen in the water, but I honestly think my favorite memory was celebrating the Oceans Day outreach with the local island kids. I had a chance to pass the hands-on learning to the local kids that the CMRS professors inspired in me. I do have to mention my second favorite memory was finding a seahorse while shark tagging one afternoon.” Smith just enjoyed the time in the water during recreational dive days: “By far my favorite memory from the CMRS was diving with the interns and being able to be within 10 feet of a shark just cruising through the crystal clear waters.”
As Smith puts it, “SFS on the ‘Big South’ rocks!!” Rasmussen echoes Smith’s sentiments: “Maybe I'm a little biased, but I don't think any other study abroad institution compares to the SFS CMRS program.”
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[post_content] => As part of the field trip to North Caicos, Middle Caicos, and Providenciales, we partnered with Provo Primary again to participate in inter-island community engagement. The partnership with Provo Primary began in fall 2014 with the help of the manager of the Amanyara Nature Discovery Centre, Jackie Walker. We returned again this semester, armed with 10 marine-related educational activities. We set up stations,with each group of 3-4 students responsible for facilitating a 10-minute activity before the kids rotated. Below is written by one of the fabulous teachers (Cara Buddle) that helps coordinate the community engagement morning:
Wonderful Whale Awareness with SFS!
The whole of Key Stage 2 were lucky enough to have a second visit from the wonderful team at SFS in South Caicos. This was a new group of students who have just begun their time studying down there. As it was nearing the end of the whale migration season here in TCI, the students dedicated all their activities to educational information on them. The knowledge they had and the dynamic and entertaining way they delivered it to the children was wonderful. All our children loved the morning and didn’t want the students to leave. It was a fantastic opportunity to learn more about our nature here in the TCI while also having the chance to interact with a different age group and learn about their studies.
For more photos, visit the Providenciales Primary School blog.
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[post_content] => Students are back into the swing of things here on South Caicos after the field trip to North and Middle Caicos and the mid-semester break. Case Study 2 and Directed Research have both started, so the days are academically busy. Additionally, there are different activities for them to be part of the community. We continue community outreach programs that have been implemented through the years (alumni will remember hearing "how many more minutes" on Saturday mornings as the local kids waited until the doors opened at 1:30PM). This semester the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS) implemented new outreach programs which have been successful thus far!
As mentioned in the "Sea Day" News from the Field update, we have partnered with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDC) in Plymouth, MA. This partnership has played an important role in the Saturday outreach programming; we have had five weeks of whale activities at the "featured creature station," which has successfully competed with the crafts and games stations. During these five weeks, the station had activities to teach the local kids (and us) about whales: how to identify individual humpback whales; humpback whale behavior patterns; baleen feeding; importance of blubber for marine mammals; and how whales communicate with each other. As the humpback whales have migrated north, the "featured creature station" now will focus on other featured marine creatures. Last week, the station taught us about sea turtles as there was a turtle survival (homemade) board game.
Humpback Whale ID ActivityTurtle Survival Board Game
Another station that we have on Saturdays is an "environmental station," where CMRS students and the local kids "do science." This includes beach erosion activities, global warming (ice surprisingly holds up well to the heat here!), and effects of trash blowing into the ocean. The goal is to spread our passion for not only the marine world, but for science as well.
Beach Erosion ActivityWind vs. Trash in Oceans Activity
We have begun a new program in order to help integrate the Center and the community: the Friendship Family Program. For this, students are partnered with a local family and spend approximately one hour per week together. Some are learning about the history of South Caicos through conversations with elderly couples while others are helping the children with their homework before a friendly volleyball game. Each partnership is unique and each provides a window into another aspect of the culture of South Caicos and its peoples. The community has commented as to the unique aspect of the program and we are all excited for it to continue.
Students are able to learn about the importance of the topics that are taught in the classroom during their time spent out of the classroom. Study abroad is a unique experience that allows students to not only study something different (or in a different format) than on their home campus, but without connecting with locals, it is incomplete.
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[post_content] => Can I just say that we have an amazing alumni community? I’m sure you all knew that already, but let me explain why I feel it merits repeating. The love and support for the South Caicos community continues long after students leave the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS). Here at CMRS we are involved with the community daily: the scheduled outreach opportunities, buying that $1 ice cream cone just to sit and talk with the store owner, playing softball (or basketball or volleyball or…), helping with homework, teaching a fourth grader how to read, interviewing locals for Directed Research purposes… which suddenly turns into a conversation among friends. The host community is part of CMRS, and our students and alumni have given back in a variety of ways.
Most recently, we have received donations that have shocked the community and us at CMRS. In January, Leah Shamlian, a Fall 2013 student (along with help from her sister), donated nine boxes of books. She noticed that the bookshelves looked barren in the schools during outreach and, after speaking with her younger sister, did something about it. The books were distributed into the three schools, leaving the principals speechless. After the books were delivered and sorted into the classrooms, which I had the pleasure helping with, I had local kids coming up to me for weeks thanking me for the books. This spring, the Iris Stubbs Primary School has started a Reading Club, hoping to further spark the interest in literacy.
ust this week, the last full week students are at CMRS for the Spring 2014 semester, Jessie Frascotti was able to distribute board games into Iris Stubbs Primary School. She noticed that aside from our Saturday outreach, the kids didn’t have much to do. One thing in particular that was lacking was something in the schools to keep the local kids out of trouble during breaks. Working with her family, Jessie was able to deliver a box (which was bigger than I am) full of board games. These are available to the students to check out during their class breaks and play.
Compiling up at headquarters are shoes and cleats, also donated by alumni and friends of CMRS. After a plea from the Sports Officer and the school Physical Education teachers, we put a call out to the SFS community. The local kids mostly end up playing and practicing for track meets in socks. (Have you ever run barefoot on concrete that has been baking in the sun all day? OUCH!) A few have shoes that were hand-me-downs from an older sibling, or a previous CMRS shoe-drive. The cleats will help the boy’s South Caicos softball team, as well as the rugby practices that CMRS helps run. With the sun beating down on the hard, rocky island, footwear is important.
On May 9th, CMRS will be turned from “school” to “clinic”. We are hosting the Turks and Caicos SPCA for a spay and neuter clinic again this year. So far our alumni have raised over $1,300 for the clinic, which will help control the stray dog ("potcakes") and cat populations. We continue to see overpopulation of animals on the island, and across the TCI. These funds help the TCSPCA provide spay/neuters and vaccinations for nominal fees, helping to control overpopulation and overall health of animals on South Caicos. The TCSPCA clinic is the only time that a veterinary service comes to our small island. In the photo below, spring 2014 students educate the primary school kids about proper dog care and announced the clinic.
As I told you, our alumni are pretty awesome. Not only do students live and work with the community for the semester or summer that they are here, but South Caicos remains in their hearts long after they have left.
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[post_content] => With a name like the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS), it is hard to hide the everyday study of what we do here. It’s only fitting, then, that we joined in the festivities that surround World Oceans Day. June 8 has been declared World Oceans Day, which is celebrated annually across the globe in a united effort to bring awareness for the conservation of the world’s oceans. As seen through older blog entries, here at CMRS we do this work on a daily basis: study, awareness, conservation, monitor and assessment, to name a few projects.
Students join faculty members in researching and studying the marine environment in order to best preserve the resources on and around South Caicos. Through the research, we have a comprehensive database of turtles and sharks in the area (in addition to other organisms).
Our students are in the water almost daily, whether it is for recreation or research. Students have the chance to go on recreations dives and snorkels, but also are in the water for field exercises; for example measuring the size of fish templates from a distance or identifying organisms.
We also provide swimming lessons in order for the local kids to be more comfortable in the water, and help spark an interest in the marine environment. During our Saturday Outreach, we also help educate the kids about the marine world around them.
What did you do to celebrate World Oceans Day?
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[post_content] => “Experiences like these don’t come very often,” Summer 1 2014 student Dewandre Smith noted a month after the program ended. SFS programs offer once in a lifetime opportunities for students. This is true even for those who are natives of the country; the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS) on South Caicos has had students study with us from Turks and Caicos Islands, like Smith. Some, like Fall 2013 student Lauren Reuss, have “known since high school that I wanted to study abroad with SFS,” while others learn about our programs at a study abroad fair; either way, students know that they are getting a truly unique experience.
When asked what Leah Shamlian, Fall 2013, learned while at CMRS, her answer was quite simple: “What didn't I learn while I was there?” With each student arriving to CMRS with a different background, the learning is incredible to watch. Smith notes, “being a Turks and Caicos Islander I knew much about going in the sea but knew very little about organisms living there. SFS taught me a lot of this.” Lauren Rasmussen, from Spring 2014, explains how CMRS teaches students about marine organisms: “For the first couple of weeks, we were introduced to various species of fish, corals, and other vertebrates/invertebrates. Following an "on land introduction," we traveled in small groups by boat to a site and jumped in the water with our snorkel gear. We spent about an hour swimming around identifying the different fish or coral species.”
Tropical Marine Ecology is not the only field of study here at CMRS. Shamlian particularly valued the Environmental Policy and Socioeconomic Values course, especially “discussions of traditional ecological knowledge and the importance of bottom-up environmental movements. I use my knowledge of sustainable fisheries every time I buy seafood!”
Learning is not restricted to the classroom or field experience. Smith identifies “how to cope with people and get along when living with what first started as strangers but quickly turn out to be some of the coolest people you’ll ever meet” as a lesson learned. Rassmussen looks to her time spent in the community, claiming “I'm so pleased with the community involvement I was able to partake in while on this journey. Whether that was just sitting down and talking to an individual or getting ice cream with the local kids.”
Shamlian returned from her experience with a “different perspective on need, dependency, and privilege. “It's much easier to remind myself to recognize and be grateful for what I have after my experience with SFS,” she says. Reuss notes part of her learning was about how to live sustainably: “After taking one freshwater shower a week and hand washing all of my laundry, I have become more conscience of my water use. I also make even more of an effort to know where my seafood is coming from and that it is harvested using sustainable methods.”
Students leave CMRS with a variety of different ideas for their futures, and how the SFS experience may impact them later. After Ross Johnston’s Fall 2013 semester, he was able to get into the field: “I was awarded a summer internship immediately after graduation working in the outer islands of the Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia. My internship was an extension of my Directed Research and focused on sustainable fishery management within tropical coral reef communities. My project was to provide marine conservation education to the native islanders, which further solidified my interests as an environmental social scientist.”
We see just how dedicated students are to improving the environment after the program, melding this new knowledge with old passions. Shamlian is looking to combine her “love for writing with environmental issues;” she is currently an intern for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For others, we see direct impacts to the community and region, like Smith, who wants to try to set up a more successful and productive Marine Protected Area in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
When these five students reflected on their program, memories filled the page; I did ask them to identify a “favorite” which may have not been entirely fair of me, given Rasmussen’s answer: “everything and everyone.” Johnston’s favorite SFS memory has nothing to do with the hours of field work, but instead time spent in the community: “I know I’d be in the minority by saying something that didn’t happen in the water, but I honestly think my favorite memory was celebrating the Oceans Day outreach with the local island kids. I had a chance to pass the hands-on learning to the local kids that the CMRS professors inspired in me. I do have to mention my second favorite memory was finding a seahorse while shark tagging one afternoon.” Smith just enjoyed the time in the water during recreational dive days: “By far my favorite memory from the CMRS was diving with the interns and being able to be within 10 feet of a shark just cruising through the crystal clear waters.”
As Smith puts it, “SFS on the ‘Big South’ rocks!!” Rasmussen echoes Smith’s sentiments: “Maybe I'm a little biased, but I don't think any other study abroad institution compares to the SFS CMRS program.”
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[post_content] => As part of the field trip to North Caicos, Middle Caicos, and Providenciales, we partnered with Provo Primary again to participate in inter-island community engagement. The partnership with Provo Primary began in fall 2014 with the help of the manager of the Amanyara Nature Discovery Centre, Jackie Walker. We returned again this semester, armed with 10 marine-related educational activities. We set up stations,with each group of 3-4 students responsible for facilitating a 10-minute activity before the kids rotated. Below is written by one of the fabulous teachers (Cara Buddle) that helps coordinate the community engagement morning:
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[post_content] => Students are back into the swing of things here on South Caicos after the field trip to North and Middle Caicos and the mid-semester break. Case Study 2 and Directed Research have both started, so the days are academically busy. Additionally, there are different activities for them to be part of the community. We continue community outreach programs that have been implemented through the years (alumni will remember hearing "how many more minutes" on Saturday mornings as the local kids waited until the doors opened at 1:30PM). This semester the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS) implemented new outreach programs which have been successful thus far!
As mentioned in the "Sea Day" News from the Field update, we have partnered with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDC) in Plymouth, MA. This partnership has played an important role in the Saturday outreach programming; we have had five weeks of whale activities at the "featured creature station," which has successfully competed with the crafts and games stations. During these five weeks, the station had activities to teach the local kids (and us) about whales: how to identify individual humpback whales; humpback whale behavior patterns; baleen feeding; importance of blubber for marine mammals; and how whales communicate with each other. As the humpback whales have migrated north, the "featured creature station" now will focus on other featured marine creatures. Last week, the station taught us about sea turtles as there was a turtle survival (homemade) board game.
Humpback Whale ID ActivityTurtle Survival Board Game
Another station that we have on Saturdays is an "environmental station," where CMRS students and the local kids "do science." This includes beach erosion activities, global warming (ice surprisingly holds up well to the heat here!), and effects of trash blowing into the ocean. The goal is to spread our passion for not only the marine world, but for science as well.
Beach Erosion ActivityWind vs. Trash in Oceans Activity
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[post_content] => Can I just say that we have an amazing alumni community? I’m sure you all knew that already, but let me explain why I feel it merits repeating. The love and support for the South Caicos community continues long after students leave the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS). Here at CMRS we are involved with the community daily: the scheduled outreach opportunities, buying that $1 ice cream cone just to sit and talk with the store owner, playing softball (or basketball or volleyball or…), helping with homework, teaching a fourth grader how to read, interviewing locals for Directed Research purposes… which suddenly turns into a conversation among friends. The host community is part of CMRS, and our students and alumni have given back in a variety of ways.
Most recently, we have received donations that have shocked the community and us at CMRS. In January, Leah Shamlian, a Fall 2013 student (along with help from her sister), donated nine boxes of books. She noticed that the bookshelves looked barren in the schools during outreach and, after speaking with her younger sister, did something about it. The books were distributed into the three schools, leaving the principals speechless. After the books were delivered and sorted into the classrooms, which I had the pleasure helping with, I had local kids coming up to me for weeks thanking me for the books. This spring, the Iris Stubbs Primary School has started a Reading Club, hoping to further spark the interest in literacy.
ust this week, the last full week students are at CMRS for the Spring 2014 semester, Jessie Frascotti was able to distribute board games into Iris Stubbs Primary School. She noticed that aside from our Saturday outreach, the kids didn’t have much to do. One thing in particular that was lacking was something in the schools to keep the local kids out of trouble during breaks. Working with her family, Jessie was able to deliver a box (which was bigger than I am) full of board games. These are available to the students to check out during their class breaks and play.
Compiling up at headquarters are shoes and cleats, also donated by alumni and friends of CMRS. After a plea from the Sports Officer and the school Physical Education teachers, we put a call out to the SFS community. The local kids mostly end up playing and practicing for track meets in socks. (Have you ever run barefoot on concrete that has been baking in the sun all day? OUCH!) A few have shoes that were hand-me-downs from an older sibling, or a previous CMRS shoe-drive. The cleats will help the boy’s South Caicos softball team, as well as the rugby practices that CMRS helps run. With the sun beating down on the hard, rocky island, footwear is important.
On May 9th, CMRS will be turned from “school” to “clinic”. We are hosting the Turks and Caicos SPCA for a spay and neuter clinic again this year. So far our alumni have raised over $1,300 for the clinic, which will help control the stray dog ("potcakes") and cat populations. We continue to see overpopulation of animals on the island, and across the TCI. These funds help the TCSPCA provide spay/neuters and vaccinations for nominal fees, helping to control overpopulation and overall health of animals on South Caicos. The TCSPCA clinic is the only time that a veterinary service comes to our small island. In the photo below, spring 2014 students educate the primary school kids about proper dog care and announced the clinic.
As I told you, our alumni are pretty awesome. Not only do students live and work with the community for the semester or summer that they are here, but South Caicos remains in their hearts long after they have left.
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[post_content] => With a name like the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS), it is hard to hide the everyday study of what we do here. It’s only fitting, then, that we joined in the festivities that surround World Oceans Day. June 8 has been declared World Oceans Day, which is celebrated annually across the globe in a united effort to bring awareness for the conservation of the world’s oceans. As seen through older blog entries, here at CMRS we do this work on a daily basis: study, awareness, conservation, monitor and assessment, to name a few projects.
Students join faculty members in researching and studying the marine environment in order to best preserve the resources on and around South Caicos. Through the research, we have a comprehensive database of turtles and sharks in the area (in addition to other organisms).
Our students are in the water almost daily, whether it is for recreation or research. Students have the chance to go on recreations dives and snorkels, but also are in the water for field exercises; for example measuring the size of fish templates from a distance or identifying organisms.
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What did you do to celebrate World Oceans Day?
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[post_content] => “Experiences like these don’t come very often,” Summer 1 2014 student Dewandre Smith noted a month after the program ended. SFS programs offer once in a lifetime opportunities for students. This is true even for those who are natives of the country; the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS) on South Caicos has had students study with us from Turks and Caicos Islands, like Smith. Some, like Fall 2013 student Lauren Reuss, have “known since high school that I wanted to study abroad with SFS,” while others learn about our programs at a study abroad fair; either way, students know that they are getting a truly unique experience.
When asked what Leah Shamlian, Fall 2013, learned while at CMRS, her answer was quite simple: “What didn't I learn while I was there?” With each student arriving to CMRS with a different background, the learning is incredible to watch. Smith notes, “being a Turks and Caicos Islander I knew much about going in the sea but knew very little about organisms living there. SFS taught me a lot of this.” Lauren Rasmussen, from Spring 2014, explains how CMRS teaches students about marine organisms: “For the first couple of weeks, we were introduced to various species of fish, corals, and other vertebrates/invertebrates. Following an "on land introduction," we traveled in small groups by boat to a site and jumped in the water with our snorkel gear. We spent about an hour swimming around identifying the different fish or coral species.”
Tropical Marine Ecology is not the only field of study here at CMRS. Shamlian particularly valued the Environmental Policy and Socioeconomic Values course, especially “discussions of traditional ecological knowledge and the importance of bottom-up environmental movements. I use my knowledge of sustainable fisheries every time I buy seafood!”
Learning is not restricted to the classroom or field experience. Smith identifies “how to cope with people and get along when living with what first started as strangers but quickly turn out to be some of the coolest people you’ll ever meet” as a lesson learned. Rassmussen looks to her time spent in the community, claiming “I'm so pleased with the community involvement I was able to partake in while on this journey. Whether that was just sitting down and talking to an individual or getting ice cream with the local kids.”
Shamlian returned from her experience with a “different perspective on need, dependency, and privilege. “It's much easier to remind myself to recognize and be grateful for what I have after my experience with SFS,” she says. Reuss notes part of her learning was about how to live sustainably: “After taking one freshwater shower a week and hand washing all of my laundry, I have become more conscience of my water use. I also make even more of an effort to know where my seafood is coming from and that it is harvested using sustainable methods.”
Students leave CMRS with a variety of different ideas for their futures, and how the SFS experience may impact them later. After Ross Johnston’s Fall 2013 semester, he was able to get into the field: “I was awarded a summer internship immediately after graduation working in the outer islands of the Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia. My internship was an extension of my Directed Research and focused on sustainable fishery management within tropical coral reef communities. My project was to provide marine conservation education to the native islanders, which further solidified my interests as an environmental social scientist.”
We see just how dedicated students are to improving the environment after the program, melding this new knowledge with old passions. Shamlian is looking to combine her “love for writing with environmental issues;” she is currently an intern for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For others, we see direct impacts to the community and region, like Smith, who wants to try to set up a more successful and productive Marine Protected Area in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
When these five students reflected on their program, memories filled the page; I did ask them to identify a “favorite” which may have not been entirely fair of me, given Rasmussen’s answer: “everything and everyone.” Johnston’s favorite SFS memory has nothing to do with the hours of field work, but instead time spent in the community: “I know I’d be in the minority by saying something that didn’t happen in the water, but I honestly think my favorite memory was celebrating the Oceans Day outreach with the local island kids. I had a chance to pass the hands-on learning to the local kids that the CMRS professors inspired in me. I do have to mention my second favorite memory was finding a seahorse while shark tagging one afternoon.” Smith just enjoyed the time in the water during recreational dive days: “By far my favorite memory from the CMRS was diving with the interns and being able to be within 10 feet of a shark just cruising through the crystal clear waters.”
As Smith puts it, “SFS on the ‘Big South’ rocks!!” Rasmussen echoes Smith’s sentiments: “Maybe I'm a little biased, but I don't think any other study abroad institution compares to the SFS CMRS program.”
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[post_content] => As part of the field trip to North Caicos, Middle Caicos, and Providenciales, we partnered with Provo Primary again to participate in inter-island community engagement. The partnership with Provo Primary began in fall 2014 with the help of the manager of the Amanyara Nature Discovery Centre, Jackie Walker. We returned again this semester, armed with 10 marine-related educational activities. We set up stations,with each group of 3-4 students responsible for facilitating a 10-minute activity before the kids rotated. Below is written by one of the fabulous teachers (Cara Buddle) that helps coordinate the community engagement morning:
Wonderful Whale Awareness with SFS!
The whole of Key Stage 2 were lucky enough to have a second visit from the wonderful team at SFS in South Caicos. This was a new group of students who have just begun their time studying down there. As it was nearing the end of the whale migration season here in TCI, the students dedicated all their activities to educational information on them. The knowledge they had and the dynamic and entertaining way they delivered it to the children was wonderful. All our children loved the morning and didn’t want the students to leave. It was a fantastic opportunity to learn more about our nature here in the TCI while also having the chance to interact with a different age group and learn about their studies.
For more photos, visit the Providenciales Primary School blog.
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[post_content] => Students are back into the swing of things here on South Caicos after the field trip to North and Middle Caicos and the mid-semester break. Case Study 2 and Directed Research have both started, so the days are academically busy. Additionally, there are different activities for them to be part of the community. We continue community outreach programs that have been implemented through the years (alumni will remember hearing "how many more minutes" on Saturday mornings as the local kids waited until the doors opened at 1:30PM). This semester the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS) implemented new outreach programs which have been successful thus far!
As mentioned in the "Sea Day" News from the Field update, we have partnered with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDC) in Plymouth, MA. This partnership has played an important role in the Saturday outreach programming; we have had five weeks of whale activities at the "featured creature station," which has successfully competed with the crafts and games stations. During these five weeks, the station had activities to teach the local kids (and us) about whales: how to identify individual humpback whales; humpback whale behavior patterns; baleen feeding; importance of blubber for marine mammals; and how whales communicate with each other. As the humpback whales have migrated north, the "featured creature station" now will focus on other featured marine creatures. Last week, the station taught us about sea turtles as there was a turtle survival (homemade) board game.
Humpback Whale ID ActivityTurtle Survival Board Game
Another station that we have on Saturdays is an "environmental station," where CMRS students and the local kids "do science." This includes beach erosion activities, global warming (ice surprisingly holds up well to the heat here!), and effects of trash blowing into the ocean. The goal is to spread our passion for not only the marine world, but for science as well.
Beach Erosion ActivityWind vs. Trash in Oceans Activity
We have begun a new program in order to help integrate the Center and the community: the Friendship Family Program. For this, students are partnered with a local family and spend approximately one hour per week together. Some are learning about the history of South Caicos through conversations with elderly couples while others are helping the children with their homework before a friendly volleyball game. Each partnership is unique and each provides a window into another aspect of the culture of South Caicos and its peoples. The community has commented as to the unique aspect of the program and we are all excited for it to continue.
Students are able to learn about the importance of the topics that are taught in the classroom during their time spent out of the classroom. Study abroad is a unique experience that allows students to not only study something different (or in a different format) than on their home campus, but without connecting with locals, it is incomplete.
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[post_content] => Can I just say that we have an amazing alumni community? I’m sure you all knew that already, but let me explain why I feel it merits repeating. The love and support for the South Caicos community continues long after students leave the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS). Here at CMRS we are involved with the community daily: the scheduled outreach opportunities, buying that $1 ice cream cone just to sit and talk with the store owner, playing softball (or basketball or volleyball or…), helping with homework, teaching a fourth grader how to read, interviewing locals for Directed Research purposes… which suddenly turns into a conversation among friends. The host community is part of CMRS, and our students and alumni have given back in a variety of ways.
Most recently, we have received donations that have shocked the community and us at CMRS. In January, Leah Shamlian, a Fall 2013 student (along with help from her sister), donated nine boxes of books. She noticed that the bookshelves looked barren in the schools during outreach and, after speaking with her younger sister, did something about it. The books were distributed into the three schools, leaving the principals speechless. After the books were delivered and sorted into the classrooms, which I had the pleasure helping with, I had local kids coming up to me for weeks thanking me for the books. This spring, the Iris Stubbs Primary School has started a Reading Club, hoping to further spark the interest in literacy.
ust this week, the last full week students are at CMRS for the Spring 2014 semester, Jessie Frascotti was able to distribute board games into Iris Stubbs Primary School. She noticed that aside from our Saturday outreach, the kids didn’t have much to do. One thing in particular that was lacking was something in the schools to keep the local kids out of trouble during breaks. Working with her family, Jessie was able to deliver a box (which was bigger than I am) full of board games. These are available to the students to check out during their class breaks and play.
Compiling up at headquarters are shoes and cleats, also donated by alumni and friends of CMRS. After a plea from the Sports Officer and the school Physical Education teachers, we put a call out to the SFS community. The local kids mostly end up playing and practicing for track meets in socks. (Have you ever run barefoot on concrete that has been baking in the sun all day? OUCH!) A few have shoes that were hand-me-downs from an older sibling, or a previous CMRS shoe-drive. The cleats will help the boy’s South Caicos softball team, as well as the rugby practices that CMRS helps run. With the sun beating down on the hard, rocky island, footwear is important.
On May 9th, CMRS will be turned from “school” to “clinic”. We are hosting the Turks and Caicos SPCA for a spay and neuter clinic again this year. So far our alumni have raised over $1,300 for the clinic, which will help control the stray dog ("potcakes") and cat populations. We continue to see overpopulation of animals on the island, and across the TCI. These funds help the TCSPCA provide spay/neuters and vaccinations for nominal fees, helping to control overpopulation and overall health of animals on South Caicos. The TCSPCA clinic is the only time that a veterinary service comes to our small island. In the photo below, spring 2014 students educate the primary school kids about proper dog care and announced the clinic.
As I told you, our alumni are pretty awesome. Not only do students live and work with the community for the semester or summer that they are here, but South Caicos remains in their hearts long after they have left.
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[post_content] => With a name like the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS), it is hard to hide the everyday study of what we do here. It’s only fitting, then, that we joined in the festivities that surround World Oceans Day. June 8 has been declared World Oceans Day, which is celebrated annually across the globe in a united effort to bring awareness for the conservation of the world’s oceans. As seen through older blog entries, here at CMRS we do this work on a daily basis: study, awareness, conservation, monitor and assessment, to name a few projects.
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Our students are in the water almost daily, whether it is for recreation or research. Students have the chance to go on recreations dives and snorkels, but also are in the water for field exercises; for example measuring the size of fish templates from a distance or identifying organisms.
We also provide swimming lessons in order for the local kids to be more comfortable in the water, and help spark an interest in the marine environment. During our Saturday Outreach, we also help educate the kids about the marine world around them.
What did you do to celebrate World Oceans Day?
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[post_content] => “Experiences like these don’t come very often,” Summer 1 2014 student Dewandre Smith noted a month after the program ended. SFS programs offer once in a lifetime opportunities for students. This is true even for those who are natives of the country; the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS) on South Caicos has had students study with us from Turks and Caicos Islands, like Smith. Some, like Fall 2013 student Lauren Reuss, have “known since high school that I wanted to study abroad with SFS,” while others learn about our programs at a study abroad fair; either way, students know that they are getting a truly unique experience.
When asked what Leah Shamlian, Fall 2013, learned while at CMRS, her answer was quite simple: “What didn't I learn while I was there?” With each student arriving to CMRS with a different background, the learning is incredible to watch. Smith notes, “being a Turks and Caicos Islander I knew much about going in the sea but knew very little about organisms living there. SFS taught me a lot of this.” Lauren Rasmussen, from Spring 2014, explains how CMRS teaches students about marine organisms: “For the first couple of weeks, we were introduced to various species of fish, corals, and other vertebrates/invertebrates. Following an "on land introduction," we traveled in small groups by boat to a site and jumped in the water with our snorkel gear. We spent about an hour swimming around identifying the different fish or coral species.”
Tropical Marine Ecology is not the only field of study here at CMRS. Shamlian particularly valued the Environmental Policy and Socioeconomic Values course, especially “discussions of traditional ecological knowledge and the importance of bottom-up environmental movements. I use my knowledge of sustainable fisheries every time I buy seafood!”
Learning is not restricted to the classroom or field experience. Smith identifies “how to cope with people and get along when living with what first started as strangers but quickly turn out to be some of the coolest people you’ll ever meet” as a lesson learned. Rassmussen looks to her time spent in the community, claiming “I'm so pleased with the community involvement I was able to partake in while on this journey. Whether that was just sitting down and talking to an individual or getting ice cream with the local kids.”
Shamlian returned from her experience with a “different perspective on need, dependency, and privilege. “It's much easier to remind myself to recognize and be grateful for what I have after my experience with SFS,” she says. Reuss notes part of her learning was about how to live sustainably: “After taking one freshwater shower a week and hand washing all of my laundry, I have become more conscience of my water use. I also make even more of an effort to know where my seafood is coming from and that it is harvested using sustainable methods.”
Students leave CMRS with a variety of different ideas for their futures, and how the SFS experience may impact them later. After Ross Johnston’s Fall 2013 semester, he was able to get into the field: “I was awarded a summer internship immediately after graduation working in the outer islands of the Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia. My internship was an extension of my Directed Research and focused on sustainable fishery management within tropical coral reef communities. My project was to provide marine conservation education to the native islanders, which further solidified my interests as an environmental social scientist.”
We see just how dedicated students are to improving the environment after the program, melding this new knowledge with old passions. Shamlian is looking to combine her “love for writing with environmental issues;” she is currently an intern for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For others, we see direct impacts to the community and region, like Smith, who wants to try to set up a more successful and productive Marine Protected Area in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
When these five students reflected on their program, memories filled the page; I did ask them to identify a “favorite” which may have not been entirely fair of me, given Rasmussen’s answer: “everything and everyone.” Johnston’s favorite SFS memory has nothing to do with the hours of field work, but instead time spent in the community: “I know I’d be in the minority by saying something that didn’t happen in the water, but I honestly think my favorite memory was celebrating the Oceans Day outreach with the local island kids. I had a chance to pass the hands-on learning to the local kids that the CMRS professors inspired in me. I do have to mention my second favorite memory was finding a seahorse while shark tagging one afternoon.” Smith just enjoyed the time in the water during recreational dive days: “By far my favorite memory from the CMRS was diving with the interns and being able to be within 10 feet of a shark just cruising through the crystal clear waters.”
As Smith puts it, “SFS on the ‘Big South’ rocks!!” Rasmussen echoes Smith’s sentiments: “Maybe I'm a little biased, but I don't think any other study abroad institution compares to the SFS CMRS program.”
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[post_content] => As part of the field trip to North Caicos, Middle Caicos, and Providenciales, we partnered with Provo Primary again to participate in inter-island community engagement. The partnership with Provo Primary began in fall 2014 with the help of the manager of the Amanyara Nature Discovery Centre, Jackie Walker. We returned again this semester, armed with 10 marine-related educational activities. We set up stations,with each group of 3-4 students responsible for facilitating a 10-minute activity before the kids rotated. Below is written by one of the fabulous teachers (Cara Buddle) that helps coordinate the community engagement morning:
Wonderful Whale Awareness with SFS!
The whole of Key Stage 2 were lucky enough to have a second visit from the wonderful team at SFS in South Caicos. This was a new group of students who have just begun their time studying down there. As it was nearing the end of the whale migration season here in TCI, the students dedicated all their activities to educational information on them. The knowledge they had and the dynamic and entertaining way they delivered it to the children was wonderful. All our children loved the morning and didn’t want the students to leave. It was a fantastic opportunity to learn more about our nature here in the TCI while also having the chance to interact with a different age group and learn about their studies.
For more photos, visit the Providenciales Primary School blog.
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SFS Celebrates World Oceans Day
Posted: June 12, 2014
With a name like the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS), it is hard to hide the everyday study of what we do here. It’s only fitting, then, that we joined in the festivities that surround World Oceans Day. June 8 has been declared World Oceans Day, which is celebrated annually across the globe in a united effort to bring awareness for the conservation of the world’s oceans. As seen through older blog entries, here at CMRS we do this work on a daily basis: study, awareness, conservation, monitor and assessment, to name a few projects.
Students join faculty members in researching and studying the marine environment in order to best preserve the resources on and around South Caicos. Through the research, we have a comprehensive database of turtles and sharks in the area (in addition to other organisms).
Our students are in the water almost daily, whether it is for recreation or research. Students have the chance to go on recreations dives and snorkels, but also are in the water for field exercises; for example measuring the size of fish templates from a distance or identifying organisms.
We also provide swimming lessons in order for the local kids to be more comfortable in the water, and help spark an interest in the marine environment. During our Saturday Outreach, we also help educate the kids about the marine world around them.
Humpback Whale ID Activity
Turtle Survival Board Game
Another station that we have on Saturdays is an "environmental station," where CMRS students and the local kids "do science." This includes beach erosion activities, global warming (ice surprisingly holds up well to the heat here!), and effects of trash blowing into the ocean. The goal is to spread our passion for not only the marine world, but for science as well.
Beach Erosion Activity
Wind vs. Trash in Oceans Activity
We have begun a new program in order to help integrate the Center and the community: the Friendship Family Program. For this, students are partnered with a local family and spend approximately one hour per week together. Some are learning about the history of South Caicos through conversations with elderly couples while others are helping the children with their homework before a friendly volleyball game. Each partnership is unique and each provides a window into another aspect of the culture of South Caicos and its peoples. The community has commented as to the unique aspect of the program and we are all excited for it to continue.
Students are able to learn about the importance of the topics that are taught in the classroom during their time spent out of the classroom. Study abroad is a unique experience that allows students to not only study something different (or in a different format) than on their home campus, but without connecting with locals, it is incomplete.
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[post_content] => Can I just say that we have an amazing alumni community? I’m sure you all knew that already, but let me explain why I feel it merits repeating. The love and support for the South Caicos community continues long after students leave the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS). Here at CMRS we are involved with the community daily: the scheduled outreach opportunities, buying that $1 ice cream cone just to sit and talk with the store owner, playing softball (or basketball or volleyball or…), helping with homework, teaching a fourth grader how to read, interviewing locals for Directed Research purposes… which suddenly turns into a conversation among friends. The host community is part of CMRS, and our students and alumni have given back in a variety of ways.
Most recently, we have received donations that have shocked the community and us at CMRS. In January, Leah Shamlian, a Fall 2013 student (along with help from her sister), donated nine boxes of books. She noticed that the bookshelves looked barren in the schools during outreach and, after speaking with her younger sister, did something about it. The books were distributed into the three schools, leaving the principals speechless. After the books were delivered and sorted into the classrooms, which I had the pleasure helping with, I had local kids coming up to me for weeks thanking me for the books. This spring, the Iris Stubbs Primary School has started a Reading Club, hoping to further spark the interest in literacy.
ust this week, the last full week students are at CMRS for the Spring 2014 semester, Jessie Frascotti was able to distribute board games into Iris Stubbs Primary School. She noticed that aside from our Saturday outreach, the kids didn’t have much to do. One thing in particular that was lacking was something in the schools to keep the local kids out of trouble during breaks. Working with her family, Jessie was able to deliver a box (which was bigger than I am) full of board games. These are available to the students to check out during their class breaks and play.
Compiling up at headquarters are shoes and cleats, also donated by alumni and friends of CMRS. After a plea from the Sports Officer and the school Physical Education teachers, we put a call out to the SFS community. The local kids mostly end up playing and practicing for track meets in socks. (Have you ever run barefoot on concrete that has been baking in the sun all day? OUCH!) A few have shoes that were hand-me-downs from an older sibling, or a previous CMRS shoe-drive. The cleats will help the boy’s South Caicos softball team, as well as the rugby practices that CMRS helps run. With the sun beating down on the hard, rocky island, footwear is important.
On May 9th, CMRS will be turned from “school” to “clinic”. We are hosting the Turks and Caicos SPCA for a spay and neuter clinic again this year. So far our alumni have raised over $1,300 for the clinic, which will help control the stray dog ("potcakes") and cat populations. We continue to see overpopulation of animals on the island, and across the TCI. These funds help the TCSPCA provide spay/neuters and vaccinations for nominal fees, helping to control overpopulation and overall health of animals on South Caicos. The TCSPCA clinic is the only time that a veterinary service comes to our small island. In the photo below, spring 2014 students educate the primary school kids about proper dog care and announced the clinic.
As I told you, our alumni are pretty awesome. Not only do students live and work with the community for the semester or summer that they are here, but South Caicos remains in their hearts long after they have left.
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When asked what Leah Shamlian, Fall 2013, learned while at CMRS, her answer was quite simple: “What didn't I learn while I was there?” With each student arriving to CMRS with a different background, the learning is incredible to watch. Smith notes, “being a Turks and Caicos Islander I knew much about going in the sea but knew very little about organisms living there. SFS taught me a lot of this.” Lauren Rasmussen, from Spring 2014, explains how CMRS teaches students about marine organisms: “For the first couple of weeks, we were introduced to various species of fish, corals, and other vertebrates/invertebrates. Following an "on land introduction," we traveled in small groups by boat to a site and jumped in the water with our snorkel gear. We spent about an hour swimming around identifying the different fish or coral species.”
Tropical Marine Ecology is not the only field of study here at CMRS. Shamlian particularly valued the Environmental Policy and Socioeconomic Values course, especially “discussions of traditional ecological knowledge and the importance of bottom-up environmental movements. I use my knowledge of sustainable fisheries every time I buy seafood!”
Learning is not restricted to the classroom or field experience. Smith identifies “how to cope with people and get along when living with what first started as strangers but quickly turn out to be some of the coolest people you’ll ever meet” as a lesson learned. Rassmussen looks to her time spent in the community, claiming “I'm so pleased with the community involvement I was able to partake in while on this journey. Whether that was just sitting down and talking to an individual or getting ice cream with the local kids.”
Shamlian returned from her experience with a “different perspective on need, dependency, and privilege. “It's much easier to remind myself to recognize and be grateful for what I have after my experience with SFS,” she says. Reuss notes part of her learning was about how to live sustainably: “After taking one freshwater shower a week and hand washing all of my laundry, I have become more conscience of my water use. I also make even more of an effort to know where my seafood is coming from and that it is harvested using sustainable methods.”
Students leave CMRS with a variety of different ideas for their futures, and how the SFS experience may impact them later. After Ross Johnston’s Fall 2013 semester, he was able to get into the field: “I was awarded a summer internship immediately after graduation working in the outer islands of the Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia. My internship was an extension of my Directed Research and focused on sustainable fishery management within tropical coral reef communities. My project was to provide marine conservation education to the native islanders, which further solidified my interests as an environmental social scientist.”
We see just how dedicated students are to improving the environment after the program, melding this new knowledge with old passions. Shamlian is looking to combine her “love for writing with environmental issues;” she is currently an intern for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For others, we see direct impacts to the community and region, like Smith, who wants to try to set up a more successful and productive Marine Protected Area in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
When these five students reflected on their program, memories filled the page; I did ask them to identify a “favorite” which may have not been entirely fair of me, given Rasmussen’s answer: “everything and everyone.” Johnston’s favorite SFS memory has nothing to do with the hours of field work, but instead time spent in the community: “I know I’d be in the minority by saying something that didn’t happen in the water, but I honestly think my favorite memory was celebrating the Oceans Day outreach with the local island kids. I had a chance to pass the hands-on learning to the local kids that the CMRS professors inspired in me. I do have to mention my second favorite memory was finding a seahorse while shark tagging one afternoon.” Smith just enjoyed the time in the water during recreational dive days: “By far my favorite memory from the CMRS was diving with the interns and being able to be within 10 feet of a shark just cruising through the crystal clear waters.”
As Smith puts it, “SFS on the ‘Big South’ rocks!!” Rasmussen echoes Smith’s sentiments: “Maybe I'm a little biased, but I don't think any other study abroad institution compares to the SFS CMRS program.”
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For more photos, visit the Providenciales Primary School blog.
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[post_content] => Students are back into the swing of things here on South Caicos after the field trip to North and Middle Caicos and the mid-semester break. Case Study 2 and Directed Research have both started, so the days are academically busy. Additionally, there are different activities for them to be part of the community. We continue community outreach programs that have been implemented through the years (alumni will remember hearing "how many more minutes" on Saturday mornings as the local kids waited until the doors opened at 1:30PM). This semester the SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS) implemented new outreach programs which have been successful thus far!
As mentioned in the "Sea Day" News from the Field update, we have partnered with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDC) in Plymouth, MA. This partnership has played an important role in the Saturday outreach programming; we have had five weeks of whale activities at the "featured creature station," which has successfully competed with the crafts and games stations. During these five weeks, the station had activities to teach the local kids (and us) about whales: how to identify individual humpback whales; humpback whale behavior patterns; baleen feeding; importance of blubber for marine mammals; and how whales communicate with each other. As the humpback whales have migrated north, the "featured creature station" now will focus on other featured marine creatures. Last week, the station taught us about sea turtles as there was a turtle survival (homemade) board game.
