Images tagged "bahamian-mangroves"

Forest Heights student collected a sample of water to measure the salinty or the amount of salt in the water in her mangrove quadrat.
Director of Education, Amy Heemsoth helps students at Forest Heights Academy collect mangrove data.
B.A.M. year 2 student from Forest Heights Academy is ready to identify and measure the mangrove trees in his group's quadrat.
Amy Heemsoth, Director of Education is excited to be monitoring mangroves at Camp Abaco.
Is this a new mangrove scientist fashion statement? Sometimes students find cleaver ways to carry their equipment like this student from Forest Heights Academy.
Mangrove scientist, Ryann Rossi, posing with the specimens that she studies - mangroves.
When we visit the mangroves, it's difficult to predict what types of animals we are going to encounter. On this day we were fortunate enough to see what looks like a species of white heron.
While collecting a soil sample, students at Forest Heights Academy take time to observe nature. It looks like they might have found some sort of organism in the water.
Forest Heights Academy principal and Marine Biology teacher gives the B.A.M. program a thumbs up.
Hmm…I wonder if how fast these red mangrove dwarf trees grow compared to non-dwarf trees?
Forest Heights Academy student gets up close and personal with the mangroves so he can record data about the size of the mangrove trees in his quadrat.
During the second phase of the B.A.M. year 1 program, students learn about the mangrove food web. What better way to learn about it then to form an actual food web.
Grade 10 Biology students at Forest Heights Academy form a circle around the sun, which is where the food web begins. Each student represents a different animal in the mangrove food web.
Forest Heights Academy student pretends to be a sponge.
Students at Forest Heights Academy begin forming a food web. Each student decides who they pass energy to (thinking about what-eats-what) and then they through a ball of yarn to that student.
Energy in the mangrove food chain begins with the sun, represented by the student in the middle. The sun provides energy to mangrove trees via photosynthesis – mangrove trees provide energy to mangrove food crabs who consume the leaves – mangrove tree crabs provide energy to great blue heron. This is an example of one of the food chains that the students at Forest Heights created.
Holding on by a string - that is how delicate the mangrove food web can be. If one species is reduced in the food web or another's population greatly increases, it can effect all of the other organisms in the food web.
Ryann Rossi, PhD Candidate at North Carolina State University explains the basics of plant disease with B.A.M. year 2 students at Forest Heights Academy.
As part of the B.A.M. year 2 program, the students are learning about mangrove disease in the Bahamas and participating in ongoing science being conducted by Ryann Rossi, PhD candidate at North Carolina State University.
Before the students begin the disease activity, Ryann Rossi provides a short presentation about the mangrove disease, the types of disease, and how they plants can contract disease. During the presentation, students take notes in their Mangrove Journals.

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