Dr Owen O’Shea explains the importance of capacity building for coastal and nearshore communities when it comes to protecting their local resources. The Centre for Ocean Research and Education in Gregory Town is a place for local Bahamian communities to learn about their “Saltwater Backyard”. By involving local communities in the data collection of high-end research activities, Owen immerses his students into the marine environment and provides opportunities for them to work with world class
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researchers. Owen has created an environment where young Bahamians can gain the skills and confidence to manage their marine environment for generations to come.
"For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth" - Plutarch, Moralia, On Listening to Lectures (Loeb Classical Library, 1927 translation).
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