Housing & Meals

Living facilities for students are provided by Anthony’s Key Resort, adjacent to RIMS. Students are housed in louvered bungalows with porches and hammocks overlooking the lagoon reefs. Each unit has a ceiling fan, 24-hour electricity and hot water. Laundry services are available for a small fee. Accommodations are based on quadruple occupancy. Just a short walk away is the open air dining room where breakfast, lunch and dinner are served. Meals are a mixture of North American and local cuisines. In addition, students have full access to the resort’s recreational facilities.

 
Tentative Itinerary

LMU CAMPUS 

• Lectures                                                                 June 3-4 (9AM-Noon) 
• Travel from LAX to Roatán                                         June 4 (Evening) 

ROATÁN

• Check in and orientation to RIMS and AKR                     June 5
• Coral Reefs: Introduction, check out dive, lectures         June 6
• Coral Reefs: Lectures-reef invertebrates,
• fieldwork, identification                                              June 7-8
• Coral Reefs: Lectures-reef fishes,
• fieldwork, Identification                                             June 9-10
• Mangrove and sea grass communities:
• Lectures, fieldwork on snorkel                                     June 11 
• Coral Reef Ecology: Lectures, midterm field exams                                                                    June 12-13 
• Scientific Diving: Lectures, dives                                 June 14 
• Group field projects, data analysis                               June 15-16 
• Roundtable discussion, service project                         June 17 
• Final exam, island tours                                             June 18 
• Travel from Roatán to LAX                                         June 19