Images tagged "mangrove-restoration"

Students at Forest Heights Academy sterilize tweezers and scissors over an open flame before they use them to cut or pick up the diseased mangrove leaves. This prevents contamination.
Ryann Rossi, PhD Candidate at North Carolina State University helps a student at Forest Heights Academy to isolate a piece of his diseased mangrove leaf.
Partner from North Carolina State University, Ryann Rossi helps students to set up and sterilize their station.
Students at Forest Heights Academy label their agar plates so that they can later check their plates after 3 days, 1 week, and 2 weeks to see if there is any type of fungus growing.
Here are a couple of proud Forest Heights Academy students who have completed isolating and plating their potentially diseased mangrove leaves.
It looks like these students from Forest Heights Academy have found more than enough mangrove seedlings to plant when they return to the classroom.
The red mangrove propagules are all tagged with different colored tape, which represents the various types of media that they grew in: mangrove mud, pebbles, and sand.
FRIENDS of the Environment intern, Christian McIntosh helps to tag each of the mangrove propagules with orange so that we can monitor their growth and health.
Students at Abaco Central High School are excited to plant their mangrove seedlings after nurturing them for the past 7 months.
Even though this Forest Heights Academy student was hesitant about walking in the mangrove mud, she did it anyway and with a smile on her face!
B.A.M. year 2 student from Forest Heights Academy proudly shows off his plated mangrove leaf. Now all he has to do is wait to see if fungus will begin to grow.

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