PROPOSED SCHEDULE FOR COASTAL ECOLOGY INTERIM
KINO BAY, MEXICO

MARCH 4th Saturday

• Meet at 5:00 pm in the Science building to do gear check, have dinner in here, then depart. We will stay at the sleep inn DIA.

MARCH 5th Sunday

• Fly to Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
• Take Taxi to Prescott College Field Station in Kino Nuevo, Sonora Mexico
• -Orientation: “Gaining a sense of place”
• Hike up Punta Ignacio
• Map exercise. Identifying coastal habitats from aerial view
• Introduction to Ocean Zonation and Ocean Topography
  

MARCH 6th Monday

• Geography and Geology of the Gulf of California
• Geology lesson
• Map drawing
• Building the Gulf of California in the Sand
• Conceptualizing trenches, islands, upwelling
• Introduction to Taxonomy, “Why do we categorize things?”
• Phyla presentations
• Desert Hike

MARCH 7th Tuesday

• Common Intertidal invertebrates characteristics
• Go Tide Pooling
• Invertabrate Zoo
  

March 8th Wednesday Boat Day

• Island Formation, Island Management, Island Conservation
• Marine Mammal Spotting and Identification.Identifying the resident and transient mammals of the Gulf of California.
• Snorkeling
• Fish Identification
• Rocky Intertidal Exploration
  

March 9th Thursday

• Estero Sant Cruz
• Bird Identification and resource patritioning
• Tidal Excercise
• Mangrove exploration
• Visit Cardone Forest
• Visit Fishing Beach
• Go out to dinner in Bahia Kino

March 10th Friday

• Panga exploration and data collection on area of choice

March 11th Saturday

• Take Taxi back to Hermosillo
• Fly Back to Denver ( last year we arrived in Denver at 6:00pm Make any travel plans for the evening if we are not bringing your student home.)
• Drive to CRMS ( Last year we arrived around 11:00pm)