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Students from William Knibb High School were excited to help recover the drone after taking aerial shots of the mangrove forest.
Coal burning in Jamaica - mangrove and other trees are cut down and burned to make coal for local hotel and personal consumption.
Director of Education, Amy Heemsoth teachers students at Marcus Garvey about the three main adaptations of mangroves: reproduction, anaerobic sediment, and living in salt water.
Director of Education, Amy Heemsoth helps 10th grade Biology students from Marcus Garvey to identify the different mangroves species.
Students from Marcus Garvey put STEAM into action as they draw and label the different species of mangrove leaves. Director of Education, Amy Heemsoth helps to guide this process.
Students and Ms. Mackenzie lean in to see the BAM group photo that we took at Seville Heritage Park.
As part of the J.A.M.I.N. year 1 program, we take students from Marcus Garvey High School to Seville Heritage Park. This park is a cultural site where the remnants of old buildings still exists. This sign tells of a building that once stood there.
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.

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