Last week I was very excited to find in my mailbox a postcard from Israel with a lionfish on the front. Even more exciting was that the postcard was from Ellen (PC37, Denmark) who has been diving in the Red Sea with lionfish, moray eels, scorpionfish and clownfish. Ellen also saw very large sea turtles and was still hoping to see dolphins and manta rays when she wrote. She is completing her dive master certification in the 24 degree Celsius water of the Red Sea, but claims that she misses canadian waters.
Ellen was a student in both Marine Science and Biology and a very active diver during her time here at Pearson College. She also participated in reconstructing the sea lion skeleton that is currently suspended in the floating lab.
UPDATE: 5 January 2013 – just realized that I didn’t include a photo of Ellen – just the lionfish postcard! Here she is as a ‘chubby flashlight fish’ and middle right in the class photo below.
Pearson College Marine Science 
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