Mangrove Scientist Kauffman, J. Boone taking sediment samples of mangrove forests

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Mangrove Scientist Kauffman, J. Boone taking sediment samples of mangrove forests

In January 2013, a team of international scientists, including experts from EAD, AGEDI, UNEP, WCMC, and GRID-Arendal, were joined by a group of volunteers in Abu Dhabi in order to survey the local mangroves, salt marsh.

Year: 2014

From album: Abu Dhabi Blue Carbon Demonstration Project

Photographer: Rob Barnes under licence from AGEDI

Tags: blue carbon coastal ecosystems

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