Caribbean Partnership
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UNH marine and terrestrial acousticians join the teaching, research and outreach effort in the British Virgin Islands
COLSA’s teaching and research partnership with the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC) in Tortola, British Virgin Islands (BVI), which was spearheaded by Gregg Moore, coastal restoration ecologist and associate professor in the department of biological sciences, has expanded to include associated ecological restoration work by Michelle Fournet and Laura Kloepper, both assistant professors in the same department. Fournet and Kloepper also support the work of two of Moore’s students, Creightanya Brewley ’24G and Nia Jeffers ’24G, HLSCC alumni who joined UNH’s graduate programs in fall 2021. Jeffers, who managed the HLSCC mangrove nursery, is comparing techniques to increase mangrove restoration planting success. Brewley has been conducting research to update the status of an endangered endemic frog known as the Virgin Islands coqui (Eleutherodactylus schwartzi) and studying the characteristics of its habitats. She hopes this work will inform conservation and management plans to protect the frogs from current and future threats.
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