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BAM year 2 students from Forest Heights Academy wade into the mangrove mud to sample the pH and dissolved oxygen in their quadrats.
Forest Heights Academy group members take a time out from monitoring their mangroves to pose for a photo.
Students at Forest Heights Academy that are in the year 2 program work in teams of 5-6 people in order to monitor the mangroves in a 5 x 5 meter area.
Year 2 B.A.M. students measure the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water of their mangrove quadrat. Dissolved oxygen is the amount of oxygen in water. It is important to measure dissolved oxygen because it is necessary for aquatic forms of life.
Forest Heights students record their data in the mangrove journals.
B.A.M. student collects a water sample inside his mangrove plot. He will measure the temperature, dissolved oxygen, salinity, and pH of the water.
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.

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