Thursday, June 30, 2016

Last field day!

On our last day in the field, we spent the morning at LUMCON's (Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium) research facility in the middle of the bayou.



Weather prevented us from taking the kayaks out to explore, but we did take advantage of a break in the storm showers to go out into the bayou on a pontoon boat. Sorry, no pictures of me fighting off an alligator with my kayak paddle.


For lunch, they served us up red beans and rice and sausage.

We spent the afternoon on a visit to Isle de Jean Charles, an island that has lost 98% of its land since the 1950's, due to subsidence, erosion, and sea level rise. While there have been attempts to move the entire community, a handful of residents remain and refuse to leave the island.

Quo Vadimus

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