Jamaica's Coastal Ecosystem Solutions. | Mona Webber | TEDxWorthingtonAvenue

This lady loves mangroves. She is busy fighting and preventing the removal of forests and other destructive activities that deplete the mangrove wetland ecosystems. Prof. Mona Webber is a marine biologist & ecologist with 25 years of experience in teaching & research at the UWI Mona Campus. A Senior Lecturer, her research has focused on Zooplankton: their production, community structure and distribution, and their use as indicators of water quality and mangrove habitats, including an assessment of their biodiversity and the evaluation and development of appropriate water quality indices. She has supervised over 30 graduate students and a large number of undergraduate research projects. Her current research involves mangrove forests and associated lagoons found in the coastal areas of Jamaica to document information on the biodiversity associated with these areas and the essential role they play in protecting coastlines, especially during natural disasters, and sustainable economic activities in the hope of preventing the removal of forests/trees or other destructive activities that contribute to the depletion of the mangrove wetland ecosystems. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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