Ocean Acidification: Breaking it Down

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Guest Co-Host: Allie Toomey, Earth Echo International On Thursday, April 30th at 1pm Eastern/ 10am Pacific, join the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation and our partners at Earth Echo International for “Ocean Acidification: Breaking it Down,” an exciting Hangout …

New App gives Fishers a Say

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Written by Alison Barrat Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge in Honduras seems like an unlikely place to launch a custom-built app that collects fishing data but that’s exactly what a dedicated team from the Center for Marine Studies (CEM) in …

Why the ocean matters…to Google

The fact that you now can explore the ocean through Google Earth isn’t going to make Google much money directly. But the move is nonetheless smart. Why the ocean matters…to Google c|net February 2, 2009 By Stephen Shankland Google generated …

Mission to Palau

The Global Reef Expedition surveyed the reefs of Palau as part of their ongoing mission to study the health of coral reefs around the world. Palau’s reefs are filled with schools of large fish and ancient corals, important indicators of …

Mangrove Education & Restoration

  Our mangrove education and restoration program aims to increase environmental awareness and restore mangrove forests in the Caribbean. We have partnered with local educational institutions to teach students and teachers about the ecological importance of their mangrove forests and …

Stringing it Together

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Today, we returned to Holland High School to continue instructing students about the mangrove food web. We took students outside to participate in a hands-on food web activity. Each student received a different mangrove organism that they were to represent. …

Guest Appearance

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Today was our first day back at William Knibb High School. I was eager to see the students and to hear updates about how they have been growing their mangroves propagules in the classroom. We (me and Camilo Trench, partner …

Growing Tall!

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It’s sunny and warm outside and the students are eager to learn more about mangroves. I’m back in Jamaica for phase two of the Jamaica Awareness of Mangroves In Nature (J.A.M.I.N.) project. I’ve returned to provide more professional development training …

Troubling Taxonomy

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Expedition Log – Day 12 One of the largest challenges for our coral surveys is the proper identification of the corals.  When measuring and counting corals along transects we rarely identify them to species, mainly because there are some 450 …