Ohio students eye coral's rebirth
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) _ In this classroom, students can't hear a word their professor says, have to juggle notebooks and jellyfish, and must remember to breathe regularly.
Every January, 15 or so Capital University students dive along a small coral reef off the Mexican island of Cozumel, east of the Yucatan Peninsula, to catalog its incredible biodiversity as well as document natural and manmade factors contributing to its demise.
"It is probably the highlight of my career," said Stephanie Petitjean, 27, of Reynoldsburg, a graduate student who has been swimming the waters since 2005.
"Hopefully these corals won't be extinct by the time I do a postdoctoral (research project)."
Petitjean and other students almost lost their unique classroom once already.
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