Blog Posts

I Love Diving

Diving

Marine Biology

Personal

When I talk about being a marine biologist one common question I get is if I scuba dive.

Franks Fisheries Data Analysis Report

Data Analysis

R

This post is another data analysis one, although a the topic has to do with fish. In this post I’ve taken some online data from here for analysis. This data records the…

Respect the Sharks, Don’t Fear them.

Marine Biology

Today, I’ll be writing about sharks. In truth, this post is a long time coming. Last year, I attended a seminar on sharks. Specifically the seminar was on dispelling the…

The Importance of Coral

Marine Biology

Today, I want to talk about coral. Now coral reefs are a topic tropical marine biologists love to go on and on about. Personally, for a while I thought they were obsessed.…

Connection, as a Marine Biologist

Marine Biology

Personal

On this blog post I want to talk about connection. This will, admittedly, be a bit of a strange post. It’s something I’ve never really done before, mixing in my Marine…

Getting Back to the Books

Personal

So, as of late last year(2023), I’ve decided to start intentionally reading again. Now, as a scientist, (and it still feels so funny to call myself that) It’s not like I…

Reviewing Year 1 as a Young Jamaican Scientist

Marine Biology

Personal

So this one is intended to be a little more of a personal post, not necessarily as data heavy or marine biology heavy as the others. This post is actually one I’ve been…

Why even use Data?

R

Data Analysis

Today is another data analysis session. Once again, this data is from Kaggle. It’s based on the results of human resources survey’s from a particular company. As usual, I’ll…

Analysing Someones Scuba Logs

Marine Biology

Data Analysis

Diving

This post is one I have a feeling I’m really going to enjoy. and for a couple of reasons.

Portland and The Alligator Head Foundation

Marine Biology

This post was inspired by some feedback on my post here about my trip to Bowden Bay. Over on that post, I’d mentioned that we brought the seaweed back to Turtle Crawle Bay.…

1st Attempt at Analysing World Data

R

Data Analysis

Here is another attempt at me trying to practice and get used to using R. I chose this one for a few reasons: One, I do have a passing interest in economics and development.…

My Summer Seaweed Project

Marine Biology

Seaweed

Just a brief disclaimer: This article was originally published in August 2023 on my LinkedIn. I’ve copied it over and made a few edits to drop it on my blog.

Students Performance Analysis

R

Data Analysis

It’s been a while since I’ve sat down to practice using R and looking through data. So this is a chance for me to shake the rust off. I’m trying to write this summary as I…

Matthew-Pierre Rogers

Trip to Bowden

Marine Biology

Kee Farms

Seaweed

So about a week ago, on February 11, 2023, I went on a dive trip with my team at Kee Farms. Here is a little bit of that story.

Welcome To My Blog

My name is Matthew-Pierre Rogers, but you’ll see MP around this site. I’m a young Jamaican, a marine biologist and a lover of the ocean.