{"id":12599,"date":"2021-10-05T17:02:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T15:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/?p=12599"},"modified":"2023-01-24T23:47:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T22:47:19","slug":"students-from-petrinja-visited-the-diving-center-on-island-brac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/projects\/saspas-safe-anchoring-and-seagrass-protection-in-the-adriatic-sea\/students-from-petrinja-visited-the-diving-center-on-island-brac\/","title":{"rendered":"Students from Petrinja visited the diving center on island Bra\u010d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eighth grade students from Elementary School Mato Lovrak from Petrinja<\/strong>, from September 18th to 24th visited the diving center in Milna on the island of Brac. For children, from the quake-hit region, this weekly visit was organized as a reward for outstanding school success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the recent choice of further education, among many activities, there was enoguh time to talk about future professions and occupations. Sunces’ Nature Conservation Program Associate presented her work as a biologist in the field of nature conservation and explained to them how she transformed her love of diving into a dream work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She presented her work trough three projects she is currently working on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Sushi Drop<\/a> – aimed at increasing the understanding of the habitat sensitivity to today’s pressures and the design and implementation of more effective marine management plans<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Adrireef<\/a> – aims to examine the potentiality of natural and artificial reefs in the Adriatic Sea to strengthen the Blue Economy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                SASPAS<\/a> \u2013 which deals with the preservation and restoration of seagrass by placing safe anchorages, performing pilot transplantations, monitoring activities and defining an integrated management system for seagrasses in the Adriatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since, unfortunately, we couldn’t explore coralligens and seagrass by diving, they experienced the marine world trough educational videos of Adrireef<\/a> and Saspas<\/a> projects. We told them about the importance of seagrass Posidonia and taught them a little about the methodology used in the implementation of monitoring of seagrass and how we measure population density with the help of squares and with transects the influence of anchoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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