Loggerhead Island

The project our group did on the creation of Loggerhead island was fun and informative. On the side of the island with the sea turtle nesting we needed to consider the precautions of the public being a disturbance, and we also needed relocate the police and fire station on one side of it and the research center on the other for patrol. We placed our fishing dock on the lagoon side of the island because it is calm and peaceful over there and lots of fish will enjoy that location. Our golf course has a very convenient placement on the island, towards the end with lots of space. We placed a large fence around the sides of the water so that the golf balls don't enter the ocean. The economic benefits are the public housing is mostly on the lagoon side away from the economic stuff. Humans negatively impact the coastal ecosystems with there rowdiness, pollution, and the electricity distributed around the streets. With healthy vegetation and economy we can severely prevent the issues of storms starting. I wish that made the gold course larger, had more public attractions, and more security for the nesting turtles.

Which way the wind blows

This week we did four different assignments. One assignment we took a flashlight and we put it on a globe and pretended it was the sun to exemplify the equator and why it gets so hot. Next we did the lab with the globe again, where one person spun the ball and the other person takes the expo marker and makes the line strait in a diagonal line down the ball, to make it look like Coriolis effect. Next we took colored pencils and made the globe mapped out with trade winds, hadley winds, and the ITCZ, and the equator. We did another project where we plotted points on the map to make it show us where the hurricanes are located and developed. These different labs and acitivites helped to learn a lot of different types of wind and how it affects the earth and other things.