What is ClimateEdu Bahamas?
What is ClimateEdu Bahamas?
ClimateEdu Bahamas' mission is to improve climate change education across The Bahamas and the Caribbean. By empowering learners across the region, we can find more creative solutions to the climate crisis.
One of our projects creates accessible educational resources for teachers and students around the country to build this knowledge on fundamental climate change science and its effects on Bahamian biodiversity and food security.
We also provide assistance with curriculum writing for workshops, summer camps, school lessons and other education missions.
What is The Fin Forecast?
What is The Fin Forecast?
This is a newsletter sent directly to your email that is focused on telling you what the weather will be like across The Bahamas in the most fun way possible! Every week, our chief meteorologist, astronomer and astrologer (Marjahn) finds ways to better prepare you for the challenges for the week ahead.
The Fin Forecast team uses publicly available data to make predictions about the weather. Because the Fin Forecast is a climate impact service, the team will implement climate modelling as a means to better forecast weather AND climate.
We also provide information on weather phenoms which can be purchased here.
Development. Advancement. Preservation. Sustainability.
DAPS is a social enterprise with the mission to create spaces to introduce sustainable practices that align with climate action, such as thrifting in small communities, recycling and providing educational outlets for persons of all ages. This project serves as a means of Community Care and adaptation for climate action in small communities.
Green Settlements
Taking climate action means developing a "green settlement" mindset.
This means re-engaging with inherent sustainable practices and activating community care as a means to combat climate change.
Our Goals:
DAPS has been active in South Eleuthera, Bahamas for about a year.
Our Thrift Addicts campaign combats fast fashion and quantifies all inventory in dollar amounts.
Image is from Thrift Addicts event in October 2021.
DAPS In The MEdia!
Follow DAPS on Instagram @dapsbahamas to see our work on the ground!
Caribbean Climate Adaptation Strategies
As part of an Open Climate fellowship with the Open Environmental Data Project, we are creating an open wiki page dedicated to Caribbean Climate Adaptation Strategies throughout the Caribbean!
What will be on the wiki page?
Why Wiki?
To make shared knowledge more accessible.
Join the work in progress!
About Marjahn
Marjahn Finlayson is a climate change scientist, educator, and activist. She got her start in science as a tropical cyclone (hurricane) watcher, trying to figure out how climate change will affect these phenomena since she is a native of a hurricane-prone nation, The Bahamas. She is currently working on PhD research funded by the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia at The University of Bologna. Her project will focus on estimating and understanding the regional ocean heat content changes.
Based on her work in education and community engagement for climate science and weather, she founded ClimateEdu Bahamas and Fin Forecasts in 2022 and co-founded DAPS ( Development. Advancement. Preservation. Sustainability) as conduits to extend her reach in this work. Marjahn was an Open Climate fellow for 2023.
As an activist, Marjahn’s mission is to bring concerns of Small Island Developing States and underserved communities to the centre stage of the international climate change talks and to work more toward radical climate justice. Marjahn can be found on the Carbon Brief Global South database and is a Bahamian expert for the UN’s Third World Ocean Assessment.
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Photo Courtesy of Rhonda Eldridge and UB North
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Interested in working with Marjahn?
Email info@climateedubahamas.com with any inquiries about speaking events, educational support and fees.