Estuary Update!
Greetings to our entire estuary community. We send you our warmest regards and hope you are well as you receive this email. We are sharing these initiatives and actions carried out week after week. These activities, tips, and information are for the benefit of all.
Weekly water quality monitoring
We present the results of the weekly water quality monitoring, made the Thursday, June 17, 2021. These are published every Friday by our Facebook page.
Training workshop series: Identify risks and vulnerabilities
We continue with the Training workshops for the identification of risks and vulnerabilities from the communities of the San Juan Bay Estuary watershed. These workshops aim to prepare you in the process of validating and documenting vulnerabilities that pose a risk to your community in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. They consist of an informational section, followed by a collaborative session where we will identify vulnerabilities in your geographic area with other members of the public.
These will be provided by Zoom. Enter the portal and choose your workshop today:
[Training workshops: identify risks and vulnerabilities]
Training workshop for environmental educators
Estuary, in collaboration with the “Population Education” program, invites you to the professional training workshop, Population and environment: activities to connect students with topics in human geography; aimed at middle and upper-level educators. It will be the Friday, June 25, 2021, at 3 PM via Zoom.
All teachers in the public and private school systems who teach science, social studies, history, geography, and/or environmental science are welcome. Parents of homeschoolers and other educators who wish to integrate population-related activities into the school curriculum are also welcome to participate.
A certificate of contact hours will be awarded to those who participate in the entire workshop (2 hours). The workshop will be offered synchronously.
Resident Artists of the Estuary
Meet the Estuary's Resident Artists and their projects in the estuarine communities:
Oscar Meléndez Rivera and your project Community Graphic PortfolioTogether with young people from the Barrio Obrero Marina community in the Caño Martín Peña, they conduct screen printing workshops and explore its potential applications, seeking to learn about the fauna and flora that inhabit the Caño's ecosystems. In this way, they develop educational signs about solid waste management to educate and protect these natural resources.
[Watch the introductory video]
The initiative To the rescue of glass by Michelle Malley Campo, A filmmaker and resident of the Machuchal neighborhood will create workshops on reusing glass bottles as a method of reducing solid waste. Discover the versatility of this material.
[Watch the introductory video]
Message from your Virtual Community Center
El Virtual Estuary Community Center It keeps you up-to-date with the information you need to be prepared during the 2021 hurricane season. Download the available preparedness guides and share them with your family and community.
[Access the Estuary Virtual Community Center]
Media coverage
We share the following coverage of the Estuary's collaboration with the Santa Ana Environmental Center (CASA) in carrying out the workshop: Celebrating our endemic birds from an urban karst forest; where the use of technologies for counting bird species in the San Juan Bay estuary watershed was covered.
Rivera Bonet, CN June 13, 2021. They urge the census of endemic birds. Atmosphere today. The New Day. p.37.
The Estuary wishes you a great weekend!
Tune in to our social media channels, where we share information, including various virtual activities that will contribute to your personal and professional development. For any questions or inquiries, please contact us through [contact information missing]. [email protected].
The Estuary wishes you a good weekend. We invite you to stay up to date with us through our social media channels and to register as a volunteer. HERE.
The restoration and water quality management efforts in the San Juan Bay Estuary watershed are made possible by our community. Donations to the Estuary are tax-deductible in Puerto Rico and the United States.
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