Educational Outreach Activity for TKS Students

10 October, 2020

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Students in TKS' K-1 classes visited Nemo this fall. Members of Prof. Michael Berumen's Reef Ecology Lab in the Red Sea Research Center (RSRC) prepared an educational outreach activity to teach K-1 students how baby Red Sea anemone fish choose a sea anemone. The students were then given a tour of the Reef Fish Breeding Program lead by RSRC Postdoc Dr. John Majoris. Over the past year, Dr. Majoris and students in the Reef Ecology Lab have successfully established breeding populations of several reef fish species in KAUST's flow-through seawater facility. The goal of the program is to raise baby reef fish to better understand how their behavior influences the ecology, population dynamics, and conservation of coral reef fishes.