JAMAICAN STUDENT MANGROVE PROGRAM CELEBRATES 5 YEARS
We have partnered with the Alligator Head Foundation to bring our Mangrove Education and Restoration Program to more students in Jamaica.
Atlantic Ocean
Living Oceans Foundation Completes Global Coral Reef Atlas
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation has completed the World Reef Map, an online interactive coral reef atlas that allows users to explore all of the coral reefs and shallow water marine habitats mapped on the Global Reef Expedition. With over 65,000 square kilometers of shallow water marine ecosystems mapped, this is by far the largest collection of high-resolution coral reef maps ever made.
J.A.M.I.N. Student Voices
Previously, you heard the voice of the students in our B.A.M. program. Now it’s time to hear how the students in Jamaica feel about our J.A.M.I.N. program. Year 1 Program “My favorite part of the J.A.M.I.N. program is when I actually got to …
J.A.M.I.N. Spring 2018
In partnership with the University of the West Indies Discovery Bay Marine Lab and Seville Heritage Park, we have successfully completed another year of the Jamaican Awareness of Mangroves (J.A.M.I.N.) program. Our tenth-grade students at St. Hilda and William Knibb High …
B.A.M. Student Voices
Throughout the B.A.M. and J.A.M.I.N. programs, we evaluate each program by surveying students in each of the three phases. We use this information to gage how much information the students initially know regarding mangroves and their attitudes towards them before we begin the programs. …
B.A.M. Spring 2018
With our partners at FRIENDS of the Environment, we would like to congratulate the students in our 2017-2018 Bahamas Awareness of Mangroves (B.A.M.) program for completing yet another successful year of the program. Our year 1 students from Forest Heights Academy had …
That’s a Wrap!
Another Successful Year of Mangrove Education & Restoration Programs We are midway through summer now in Jamaica and The Bahamas, and of course, it’s blazing hot in the Caribbean. I can’t help but wonder – how are the mangrove propagules …
The Journey of a Spore
Mangrove Education and Restoration Blog Fungi are all around us. Some of it we can see – mushrooms and molds, while others we cannot – Pestalotiopsis, the disease-causing fungi that our students in the B.A.M. and J.A.M.I.N. programs find present …
Mangrove Disease – A Citizen Science Investigation
Mangrove Education and Restoration Blog North Carolina State University (NCSU) student Ryann Rossi is studying mangrove disease throughout the Bahamas. Through a partnership with NCSU, our students in the B.A.M. and J.A.M.I.N. programs are participating in her hands-on citizen science …
J.A.M.I.N. to My Mangrove Song
Mangrove Education and Restoration Blog Ashanti Lyttle is a 10th grade student at William Knibb High School in Falmouth, Jamaica. She is an aspiring biologist who would like to one day work in the human health field. Ashanti loves learning …
