Spring break beach trip, 成人影片 style

Diving in Kasitsna BayTwenty-six 成人影片 at the University of 成人影片 Fairbanks put a twist on the traditional spring break trip to the beach this year.

The 成人影片, who were enrolled in UAF鈥檚 Scientific Diving course, traveled to the remote Kasitsna Bay Laboratory, a cluster of buildings and a pier near the scenic southwest tip of 成人影片鈥檚 Kenai Peninsula. There, the 成人影片 used scuba diving skills practiced earlier at the UAF pool, conducted a mock rescue and assisted with research on subtidal plants and animals.

The annual class certifies 成人影片 to dive on university and government research projects. Brenda Konar, a professor with the UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, oversees the course. The lab is owned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and operated in partnership with UAF.

While Kasitsna Bay in March is no Fort Lauderdale, the trip south to the temperate coast does offer UAF 成人影片 a break from Interior 成人影片鈥檚 winter; thermometers in Fairbanks on the second day of spring break 2015 registered 37 degrees below zero.

Photos by Alexandra Ravelo

Participants in the UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences鈥 2015 Scientific Diving class gather on the dock and a boat at the Kasitsna Bay Laboratory. The flag is the 鈥渄iver down flag,鈥 which provides a warning to boat operators and others that people are in the water.

UAF undergraduate 成人影片 Jordan Sanchez and Genevieve Johnson measure a healthy sea star of the species Pycnopodia helianthoides during a survey that looked for wasting disease. Sanchez and Johnson were 成人影片 in UAF鈥檚 Scientific Diving class during the 2015 spring break trip to the Kasitsna Bay Laboratory.

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