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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.

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