Helping Students Study Diseased Mangrove Leaves

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Mangrove Education & Restoration Blog By Ryann Rossi Participating in outreach is one of the greatest joys of being a scientist. Sometimes outreach is as simple as creating a pamphlet with information about your research or giving an informal talk …

New B.A.M. Partnership

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Mangrove Education & Restoration Blog Last February, I presented about the B.A.M. program at the Bahamas Natural History Conference, a conference in the Bahamas that offers presentations about the science and education programs being implemented by various organizations that are …

Round Two! Mangrove Education & Restoration Program

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Mangrove Education and Restoration Blog It’s spring break in North America, which means that many families are traveling to warmer destinations to enjoy some rest, relaxation, and much needed warmth and sunshine. This is evident by the many travelers on …

The Year in Pictures 2016

Check out Living Oceans Foundation Year in Pictures 2016 of our most memorable moments and events of the year: the Nekton launch, filming in Dakar, the UNESCO Marine Site Manager’s Conference, B.A.M. / J.A.M.I.N. Year-2 Program Launch, and our annual …

BAM Fall 2016

Join along with Living Oceans Foundation Education Director, Amy Heemsoth, as she recounts in these photos her trip back to the Bahamas to kick-off the 2016-2017 Bahamas Awareness of Mangroves (B.A.M.) program with some fantastic new additions: a NOAA Knauss …

Monitoring and Managing Mangroves

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Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog Today, it’s absolutely beautiful weather in Abaco, Bahamas. It’s sunny outside and there is a gentle breeze wrestling the branches of the mangrove trees. Along the waterline of the mangroves, groups of students from Forest Heights Academy …

Bahamas Mangrove Program Year 2 Pilot

In this second year of our Bahamian Awareness of Mangroves (B.A.M.) program, we will work with grade 11 Biology students who participated in the first year program to monitor and manage mangroves, again through project-based learning. Students will apply the …

B.A.M.: My Introduction to the Bahamas

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Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog Symone Johnson is a NOAA Knauss Fellow who is volunteering with KSLOF for the first phase of our mangrove education and restoration programs in the Caribbean in order to learn about managing, implementing, and …