Below are some images from The Diversity Project over the years.
2005
Our liveaboard
Hafiz with a puffer fish
Sample processing
More sample processing
Martha Munoz working on samples
Our Halmahera expedition team
Benita relaxing
A hold full of tuna
Disembarking in Bitung
2006
Divemaster training
Heading to our collecting site near Amed
Shinta Pardede
Krystle Chavaria looking for clownfish
One of our field sites
Shinta collecting
Krystle Chavaria and Matthew Subia
Alexis Jackson and Matthew Subia at the end of a LONG day
The 2006 TDP team
Candika at the end of the day
Back in the lab
…but wish we were here
2007
Sam Cheng exploring the estuary near Woods Hole
Rob Lasley looking for crabs
Fish? Or cut bait?
Sampling gut contents from dogfish
Rob Lasley
Roger Alvillar and Sam Cheng
2008
On the ferry to Romblon
One of our sampling sites
Just another day at the office
Mara Phelan with her samples
Adam Hanson
Taking a break for lunch
Dive team 1 ready!
Headed back out
Veronica Chaidez, Becky Hersch, Mara Phelaan
Our trusty boat
A happy dive team
Can we go back out?
2009
A lined surgeon fish
Melissa Kemp in the lab
Training students at University of Papua
Craig Starger, finishing our training
A kecak dance in Bali
A TDP day at the beach
2010
And this is how we get around
Princess Gilbert and Michele Weber
Emily Stump and Kadeem Gilbert
Searching the intertidal in Permuteran
Luisa Rubio
Heading out to collect
Sorting samples
A cremation in a local village
Matthew Craig
Hamid Toha training students
Adam Hanson in the lab
Our final research symposium
2011
Amanda Windsor, Dita Cahyani
Headed to the reef
Not a bad office
An ARMS unit
Teaching a biodiversity course
Sorting samples
Sorting samples
Abril Iniquez
Villa? Or research lab?
This is a LOT of samples
Enjoying the local culture
Too bad it has to end
2012
Chris Meyer leading class
Matthieu Leray and class
Chloe Henderson, Danielle Macedo, Akela Kuwahara
A colonized ARMS unit
sorting samples
Getting ready for the day
Akela Kuwahara
Sorting Samples
Asa examining an ARMS plate
Allen Collins at the microscope
Celebrating the Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center
Wayan, at the beach
2013
Tiara Moore and Camille Gaynus
Chloe Howard, Emily Schmeltzer, Jennifer Keliher
Getting ready to dive…
A pool training session
Help! It’s raining! We’re getting wet!
Camille Gaynus
Collecting demersal plankton
Taking notes at depth
Camille Gaynus
Tiara Moore
Exploring the reef
Collecting plankton on bali
Admiring the biodiversity
More pool training
Final research symposium
Relaxing on the beach
TDP 2013
Our classroom
This is a THICK wetsuit
Kari Jackson, Camille Gaynus, Tiara Moore, Chloe Howard
Do we like this? Oh yeah…
Diving in the giant kelp tank
Tiara Moore, Paul Barber, Camille Gaynus
Diving in the giant kelp exhibit
2014
Sahim Wallace
Wulan, Keeli Howard, Camille Gaynus
Packed in with the bags
Learning to use a dive compass
TDP Dive Class, 2015
Just dangling on the surface
All class should be like this
Diving on the fore reef
Peace out!
Sahim Wallace on a night dive
Christian Henry and Keeli Howard headed into the giant kelp tank
The kelp tank team!
TDP as part of the exhibit
Headed to Catalina Island
Oh, this water is COLD!!!!!
Prepping for a Catalina dive
Keeli Howard
TDP diving Catalina
2015
Symone Gyles, Christina Williams, Camille Gaynus
TDP 2015
Visiting the California Science Center
Diving at the California Science Center
Symone Gyles, Manuel Nieves-Ortiz
A night off at the cultural center
Moonrise over Cooks Bay
Deploying ARMS with a lift bag
Manuel in the lab
TDP Research Symposium
A day at the beach!
Tiara Moore
2016
De’Marcus Robinson in AAUS class
On our way to Mo’orea
Dive class
Erick Zerecero collecting eDNA
Taking notes underwater
Juliana Renzi, Erick Zerecero, Ciara Schnyder
A night of Polynesian culture
Research together, dance together
A visit with local school kids on Mo’orea
Aliyah Griffith on Catalina Island
Ashlyn Ford loves her fish…
Sennai Habtes
Preparing for a night dive
Ain’t nobody here but us squid!
Our last hurrah…
2017
Camille Gaynus arriving on Mo’orea
Shamoy Bideau headed to the dive site
Mike Anghera demonstrating a rescue
Brianna Mims and Hunter Howard
Carly Johnson setting up her gear
Maria Gasca suiting up
Koko Chong and Carly Johnson
Shamoy using a lift bag
Happy fathers day!
Descending on the fore reef
The 2017 TDP dive class
Headed out for a snorkel exercise
A swell shark
Collecting water samples on Catalina Island
A day off in the surf
A triple birthday!
2018
Blanca Alvarez relaxing in the pool
CPR Training
Our visit to Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Eli Catalan gearing up
Prepping for our first dive
Catching the view at Belvedere
Research IS better underwater
Moonrise over Gump
Iliana Fenwick taking data
Setting up research plots
Hunter Howard deploying feeding assays
Bianca Navarro with a cushion star
Eli Catalan inspects an urchin exclusion case
Heading out to the dive site
Peggy and Caitlin Fong
Fire dance at the Hilton
Celebrating the end of the program
2021
CPR training for AAUS Course
Introduction to SCUBA equipment
On the ferry to Mo’orea
Dive plananing
Evaluating the dive site
Waiting for the gear to arrive
Taking a break on Gump dock
Erick Zerecero
Janelle Layton taking notes underwater
Hannah Hayes and Adrianna Hernandez doing aa transect exercise
Learning to drive the boat
After dive fun
Nicholas Durgadeen heading to his research site
Hannah Hayes marking a coral head
Bryce Barbee, Janelle Layton, Brianna Velasco
2022
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