Bahamas Academy Of Sciences

"Bahamas Research, 1975–2025" by Amina Moss, Krista D. Sherman et al.
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#ClimateWeek starts TODAY at Eccho Gallery, Baha Mar.

Mon, Sept 21: BAS takes the Opening Session panel stage, represented by Dr. Kathleen Sullivan Sealey — Bahamian science has a seat at this table. 🌊

Full programme below ⬇️

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For decades, science asked how these islands were built.

Then the questions shifted: how do they work — and what breaks in?

Post-2000: the lionfish. An invasive predator with no natural enemies here. 🐟

🎥 Dr. Nicola Smith explains...

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The second and final part of our crossword!

🔬RESEARCH — asking the questions before the answers are needed.
🏝BAHAMAS — 700 islands, one shared future.
🐠REEF — the living structure that feeds, shelters and protects us.
🩺HEALTH — of people, oceans and the places we call home.

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Our first paper is HERE!  It has been published by Gulf and Caribbean Research.

*Fifty Years of Research on The Bahamas* maps 12,113 studies from 1975 to 2025 — the first full picture of what we know about our islands, and where the gaps remain. 📚

The full paper in the bio. 🔗

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You ask. Science responds.

A Bahamian asks how our blue holes were made, and Dr. Krista Sherman, President of the Bahamas Academy of Sciences, responds:

Science explains the how. The wonder is yours to keep.

[Big Fish Initiative @BigFishInit]

🐟 The ocean has a budget.

Take more than it can make, and the whole system runs short. 🎣🎣🎣
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@perryinstitute @BigFishInit

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Four words: Medicine, Data, Evidence, Climate (Change).

Apart, each is a discipline. Together, they read as a description of the work of the Bahamas Academy of Sciences.