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A Darwin Initiative research project

Led by the University of Greenwich

ManRADS

Field and engineering partner

Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá

Brings the project's engineering strength: drone design, and the mechanisms that carry and release propagules accurately.

Panama City, Panama 9°N 80°W

Role in the project

Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá in ManRADS

Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá brings the project's engineering strength, contributing to drone design and to the mechanisms that carry and release propagules accurately.

Location Panama City, Panama

Role Field and engineering partner

Field work Drone design and release mechanisms

Key personnel To be confirmed

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The site from the air

From the site

In the field

Photographs from TUP to follow. Until then, frames from the project's field sites in the Philippines and Indonesia.

Rows of young mangrove propagules planted across a tidal flat, with established forest on the horizon
Fig. 1 Leganes intertidal zone, Panay Island, Philippines.
Rows of young mangrove seedlings on the mudflat at the Leganes field site, Panay Island
Fig. 2 Preliminary propagule studies at the Leganes field site, Panay Island.
A field team at work across a wide intertidal mudflat, with survey kit in the foreground
Fig. 3 The IPB field team assessing drop sites at Pesantren, North Central Java.

The team

People at TUP

The researchers, engineers and field staff who carry out the work. Names and roles are confirmed with each partner.

Name to be confirmed

Principal investigator

Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá

Name to be confirmed

Research associate

Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá

Name to be confirmed

Role to be confirmed

Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá

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