 |  | Rainforest of the Oceans (8/23/00)
We know them by the name "coral reefs," but they're much more than coral. Reefs are home, by some estimates, to more than a million species, from the tiniest algae to 10-foot-high coral. |
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 | | Skirting the Storm (8/25/00)
Brisk winds remind us that Tropical Storm Debby, formerly Hurricane Debby, is bearing down on Forfar Field Station. |
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 | | The Wee-Wee Legend (8/28/00)
The creatures that live on the coral reef are no more colorful than those allegedly lurking in the forests of Andros, the largest island in the Bahamian archipelago. |
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 | | Truth in the Triangle (8/30/00)
We head out early into the sparkling waters of the Bermuda Triangle. Project leader Dan Brumbaugh has extensive scouting to do in the survey zone. |
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 | | Reaching for the Stars (9/1/00)
Project leader Dan Brumbaugh sprints toward a coral area to collect his specialty, bryozoans. Gordon Hendler, an echinoderm expert, follows. Their mission: to gather a sampling of creatures. |
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 | | Different Strokes (9/3/00)
There’s more than one way to view a reef, and I don’t mean by snorkeling or diving. The experts assembled here at Forfar Field Station see the reef through two distinct but complementary lenses: systematics and ecology. |
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 | | When a Reef Goes Green (9/6/00)
Around Andros, the water is green from overabundant algae. In some places on the patch reef, behind the reef crest, blue-green algae that looks like mucus drips from the tops of caves eaten into dead coral. |
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 | | Diving to Work (9/8/00)
There's a tropical ocean out my front door. There are coconuts, avocados and mangoes dripping from the trees here on Andros. But now I know, as the Bahamians say, "This be woikin'." |
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 | | Shedding Light on Stars (9/10/00)
After hours upon hours of floating in waters shallow and deep these weeks, his nose inches from the sand, Gordon Hendler finally has hit pay dirt: "I'm almost certain this is a new species of brittle star," he says as we watch an elegant creature edge nervously around a petri dish. |
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 | | Killer Snails (9/14/00)
Sitting around late at night playing sea creature charades with the biologists, I have the gall to say: "Can you imagine being killed by a snail? What a lame way to go."
That's all it takes: The mollusk lady has a story to tell. ... |
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 | | The Fish People (9/18/00)
The three-inch conch fish, shy and velvety maroon, has taken up residence in a pen shell — a kind of oyster shell. Queen conchs and their signature shells are so heavily gathered along the Andros reef that this small fish has had to find alternate quarters. |
