Building Local Capacity to Protect National Marine Biodiversity (BAIT)

BAIT proposes to enhance capacity and capability to observe and monitor marine ecosystems in the Cabo Verde archipelago. Through focused training initiatives built around a practical observation programme, BAIT will deliver important information for policy to promote environmentally sustainable economic growth and subsequently help to alleviate poverty. Owing to the project’s knowledge exchange group comprising offshore scientists from other small island developing states and African nations, BAIT’s potential to expand capacity and capability is not solely limited to Cabo Verde.

 

My role in the project is to develop the resources and deliver to training to our on-island collaborators - topics will span the entire data pipeline from how to deploy the camera equipment to data archiving practices and analysis techniques to support sustainable marine management.