Practice run
 Tuesday, September 18, 2007
After waking up in Mackaye Harbor, we motored away from Lopez Island and headed north to parallel the west coast of San Juan Island. The students continued to work on their final proposals and some began to read Kenna’s choice for this week’s journal club, Quantitative tools for comparing animal communication systems: information theory applied to bottlenose dolphin whistle repertoires. Once we saw a fleet of fishing boats, the students practiced their roles for data collection. Liz called out with boat, or “whale†to focus on while recording behaviors, Elise listened to “callsâ€, Kenna took ID photos, Heather measured bearing relative to the Gato Verde, and Wes recorded distance to our boat using the rangefinder. Afterwards, they discussed ways to improve and optimize data collection. Unfortunately, the whale’s locations were not in our favor today, so we headed back to Lopez island as the sun was setting. Wes prepared pasta with vegetables in cream sauce for dinner.
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