Not every scientific and exploration achievement is the result of university driven, academic discovery. The value that any person can have in contributing to the body of knowledge is invaluable and Tamara Adame fills a unique and unusual role as a Citizen Scientist in Quintana Roo, Mexico.
The cave corrals project is based in the cave diving mecca of Quintana Roo on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The project documents the incredible abundance of coral fossils to be found within the flooded cave systems that can only be accessed by expert and highly trained cave divers through the cenotes.
In 2013 Tamara Adame dived the cenotes for the first time and was fascinated by the discovery that the fossils of ancient corals were so clearly defined in the cenotes she was diving. Tamara is a qualified cave diver as well as a self-taught naturalist and scientific diver. Tamara launched her first citizen science project in 2020 to create a database of these coral fossils through photo identification and macro photography techniques.
Project Antillothrix is a multi-organizational partnership formed to conduct biodiversity surveys and excavations of paleontological cave sites in the Dominican Republic. Together, researchers and divers from the City University of New York (CUNY), Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), Museo del Hombre Dominicano (MHD), and the Dominican Republic Speleological Society (DRSS) have documented and collected a trove of vertebrate fossils for study and preservation since the inception of this collaboration in 2011.
Project Antillothrix is a multi-organizational partnership formed to conduct biodiversity surveys and excavations of paleontological cave sites in the Dominican Republic. Together, researchers and divers from the City University of New York (CUNY), Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), Museo del Hombre Dominicano (MHD), and the Dominican Republic Speleological Society (DRSS) have documented and collected a trove of vertebrate fossils for study and preservation since the inception of this collaboration in 2011.
2021-ongoing
To identify, document and create a database of the various species of coral fossils that can be seen in the cenotes of Quintana Roo and associated cave systems.
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