Guide to Sewanee’s butterflies now online
Eileen Schaeffer and Arden Jones’ guide to Sewanee’s butterflies is now available online.
Current Students
From Australia to Belize: students study reef fish behavior
Damselfishes are considered the “poodles of the sea” for their active defense of food resources within their territories against much larger predators. During this summer’s Field Study in Belize course, current students and a recent alumna were able to investigate damselfish territoriality on the Belizean coral reefs.
Students discover massive mortality in sea fans on the Belizean Barrier Reef
The Common Sea Fan (Gorgonia ventalina) is undergoing an unexplained die-off along Belizean reefs. While snorkeling along the reefs in the Field Study in Belize class, it became obvious that the brown algae covering most of the sea fans was not a sign of natural coral health. Sara Smith (EcoBio, C‘14) and Sarah Delong (EcoBio, C‘13) studied this phenomenon for their class project by quantifying the algae cover of sea fans in two locations (South Water Caye and Tobacco Caye).
Students in Belize course encounter rare rainforest cat
During the Field Study in Belize course, Meg Armistead (EcoBio, C’14) and Sarah Delong (EcoBio, C’13) were lucky enough to see a margay, a rare rainforest cat species.
Student publication on cave biodiversity
Katie Wakefield (Biology, '13) published her research on cave biodiversity in the Carter State Natural Area, just south of Sewanee's campus.
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