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The remnants of an English warehouse that once stored sugar during the 1700's, which is located at Seville Heritage Park. This park is the location of the J.A.M.I.N. field trips for Marcus Garvey High School.
Director of Education, Amy Heemsoth poses for a photo with Shanna Thomas, Outreach Officer at the University of the West Indies Discovery Bay after a successful J.A.M.I.N. field trip to the mangroves.
An old windmill still stands at William Knibb High School to remind students of a time when slavery was a part of their culture and how William Knibb helped to free slaves.
William Knibb Memorial High School, a school participating in J.A.M.I.N., was named after an English Baptist Minister named William Knibb. He is honored for freeing slaves during the early 1800's.
Shanna Thomas (Outreach Officer, University of the West Indies), Amy Heemsoth (Director of Education, Living Oceans Foundation), and Fulvia Nugent (Science Teacher, William Knibb High School) stand at the entrance of the school.
We ended a successful day with a beautiful sunset in Falmouth, Jamaica.
Partners at the Living Oceans Foundation and University of the West Indies Discovery Bay make sure that all of the J.A.M.I.N. supplies for the year 2 field trip are in order.
J.A.M.I.N. year two students use various scientific tools to monitor their mangrove quadrats. Each group gets a bucket which includes various tools such as refractometers, pH strips, thermometers, and soil corers.
Camilo Trench, Chief Scientific Officer points out the growth of the mangrove seedlings from the prior year's planting.
After students from William Knibb High School monitored their mangroves, they helped videographer, Art Binkowski, to deploy the drone to get some aerial footage of the mangroves.
The year 2 J.A.M.I.N. students were really excited to assist with flying the drone as part of a film production about the program.
In Jamaica, mangrove trees are chopped down and burned to create charcoal. Here is a large charcoal mound that was burning near the restoration site in Falmouth, Jamaica.
Director of Education, Amy Heemsoth is ready to introduce a new cohort of grade 10 Biology students at William Knibb High School to the mangrove ecosystem and the J.A.M.I.N. program.
Director of Education, Amy Heemsoth prepares to meet students at William Knibb High School for the first time. These students will participate in a yearlong J.A.M.I.N. program that lasts from September to May.
Director of Education, Amy Heemsoth discusses the schedule for the J.A.M.I.N. program with participating science teachers, Fulvia Nugent and Andrea Dunn.
The spectacular backyard view of the Caribbean Sea at the University of the West Indies Discovery Bay Marine Lab.
Rain or shine, the J.A.M.I.N. program still continues. It's a good thing the field trip isn't today.
Often in the classrooms in Jamaica, there are educational posters hung around the room. This poster is of a map of the forests in Jamaica, including mangroves.
Amy Heemsoth, Director of Education discusses the role of sea stars in a mangrove ecosystem at William Knibb High School.
Shanna Thomas, Outreach Officer at the University of the West Indies prepares to talk to students at William Knibb High School about sea cucumbers as part of the mangrove food web.

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