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BAMZ Releases Ten Rehabilitated Longtails
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Since July, the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum & Zoo [BAMZ] has had 15 longtails brought in for rehabilitation, thanks to calls from the public, including three adults and 12 chicks. To date, 10 have already been released, and one will be released soon


Reef Watch set to become an annual event
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Over 100 people participated in the first ever Reef Watch hosted by the Bermuda Zoological Society that raised more than $21,000 for reef conservation awareness


Recently Held “Reef Watch” Hailed A Success
Friday, September 06, 2013

On Saturday [Aug 31], 21 boats made their way to over 40 reef sites around the island to take survey of the state of the coral, color and quantity of specific types of fish.


Reef Watch was fun and useful… …and volunteers are wanted all year round
Friday, September 06, 2013

Who knew that armed with just mask, snorkel, clipboard and a hula-hoop you can become a citizen scientist?


Reef Watch raise more than $15k
Wednesday, September 04, 2013

The inaugural Reef Watch citizen science research and awareness drive on Saturday has so far so far raised some $15k.



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Setting Sail for the Sargasso Sea
Bermuda Zoological Society
Wednesday, July 01, 2015

By Dr. S.R. Smith
Curator, Natural History Museum

The sailing research vessel Sea Dragon headed out to sea on Friday, June 5th to gather data on the Sargassum community around Bermuda, sponsored by the BAMZ support charities, the Atlantic Conservation Partnership and the Bermuda Zoological Society.

Dr. Robbie Smith, Curator of the Natural History Museum, led the team of Bermudian and US scientists and students for a three day expedition south of Bermuda. The crew consisted of Amy Harvey of the Bermuda College and two of her students, Joshua Stevens and Gary Taylor, Abbie Caldas of Greenrock, Kyla Smith from BIOS, Hannah Frith, a Bermudian undergraduate from Oberlin College, graduate student Pearce Cooper from the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama, graduate student Leslie Acton from Duke University and her professor Dr. Lisa Campbell.

The team collected Sargassum and described the diverse community within the seaweed. Pearce hoped to collect many fishes for comparison to his work in the Gulf of Mexico. Leslie is a marine policy student, and she and Lisa wanted a close-up look at Bermuda’s EEZ, as part of their study on Bermuda’s approach to ocean governance. Other work included surface tows to estimate floating plastic marine debris, night-time plankton tows to catch small vertically migrating deepwater fishes and also the deployment of a vertical longline to catch deepwater fishes and squids. Dr. Smith also kept an eye out for seabirds.