Fundaraising campaign
Since 2012, we've brought together our scientific work, environmental education, and community activism. We've built citizen science programs for water quality monitoring, run educational trips for universities from Puerto Rico and abroad, and hosted hands-on learning for students from Puerto Rico's schools at our nurseries in La Parguera and Ceiba.
Now we want more students, teachers, families, and communities across Puerto Rico to have experiences that help them discover, explore, and understand the ecosystems around us, from the mountains to the sea. That's why we're creating our Interactive Center for Environmental, Marine, and Coastal Education (El Centro) at our community space in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.
El Centro will be an interactive space where students of all ages, teachers, and the general public can explore how land ecosystems like forests, rivers, and plains connect to marine ecosystems like wetlands, mangroves, seagrass beds, and coral reefs.
To make El Centro a reality, we need your support. Funds will go toward: (1) upgrading the community space that will become El Centro, (2) buying scientific and audiovisual equipment, and (3) building our children's library.
Educational tours of marine organisms nurseries:
We welcome students, teachers, families, and visitors to our CIROM facilities in Ceiba and La Parguera, where they can get up close to corals, sea urchins, and crabs, and learn about their importance to reef health.
Internships and hands-on learning experiences
We offer opportunities for high school and college students to gain experience in marine biology, aquaculture, propagation and care of marine organisms, as well as participate in research projects.