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 Fellow, and a BAM Year 2 pilot program!

B.A.M. 2016-2017 Biology grade 10 participants from Abaco Central High School
High tide in the mangroves at Camp Abaco.
FRIENDS of the Environment's Education Officer, Cassandra Abraham, shows students the prop roots of the red mangrove tree.
Students from Abaco Central High School hesitantly taste the black mangrove leaf only to find out that they are very salty.
Abaco Central High School students looking at the salt glands on a white mangrove leaf.
Students from Abaco Central High School identify mangrove roots as our Director of Education, Amy Heemsoth point to them.
NOAA Knauss Fellow, Symone Johnson helping students at Forest Heights to use a GPS device.
Our Director of Education, Amy Heemsoth shows students how to test the pH of various types of liquids.
Year 2 B.A.M. participants from Forest Heights Academy, test the pH of various liquids.
During the second year B.A.M. program, students will test several non-living factors in their mangrove plots. Here students are practicing using pH test strips.
Marine Biology students at Forest Heights Academy test the salinity (salt content) of various types of liquids.
Before students from Forest Heights Academy use equipment in the field, they are practicing using it in the classroom first. Here students are placing a sample of liquid on a refractometer to determine the salinity of the liquid.
Students test the pH of a liquid using pH paper and then match the color of the pH paper to the chart to determine the pH.
FRIENDS of the Environment's Education Officer, Cassandra Abraham, guides students from Forest Heights Academy as they measure the circumference of a tree. Students will measure the circumference of mangroves while on a field trip.
Students create the first corner of their square plot by hammering a PVC pipe into the ground.
Students at Abaco Central High School pose with their mangrove propagules that they will soon be planting.
Abaco Central High School students plant their mangrove seedlings in a flat filled with sand. They too will grow their seedlings in the classroom over the next eight months.
Biology students at Abaco Central High School are proud to plant their seedlings in mangrove mud.
FRIENDS of the Environment's Education Officer, Cassandra Abraham, helps students plant their mangrove seedlings in pebbles and then label the spot where they are placed in the plant flat.
Students at Abaco Central High School hypothesized the media that their seedlings will grow best in: mangrove mud, pebbles, or sand.
A brave student from Abaco Central High School fills the plant flat with mangrove mud. It's a dirty job, but she was happy to do it.
After an exciting mangrove field trip, students rinse their muddy shoes in the ocean before we head back to Abaco Central High School to plant their mangrove seedlings.
Playing in the Mud is Fun - Students from Abaco Central High School grade 10 Biology fill the plant flat with mud.
Abaco Central High School student has found all of her mangrove propagules. Now she is ready to plant them.
Forest Heights Academy student read instructions for how to take a pH and dissolved oxygen sample from their mangrove plot.
B.A.M. second year student reads the salinity of the mangrove ecosystem using a refractometer.
Forest Heights Academy student measures the temperature of the soil in her mangrove plot.

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