Website Launch: Amazon Continuum

Attention all aspiring scientists, Amazon River enthusiasts, and marine biology enthusiasts!

Boxkite Media has launched the official website for The Amazon Continuum, an Amazon River-based research project focused on studying the effects of the Amazon River plume and how it contributes to climate change. 

Led by Dr. Patricia Yager of the University of Georgia Marine Biology Department, the internationally respected ANACONDAS and ROCA research teams needed a website to communicate to the public information about The Amazon Continuum project, with hopes of changing the public's view of the Amazon to include what Yager calls "the lungs of the Earth."

She states, "In this program, we investigate how the Amazon continuum and its associated carbon cycle extend hundreds of miles from the river to the open ocean and suggest that making such a connection is vital to understand regional and global human impacts and potential feedbacks to climate change."

Along with research information, Dr. Yager thought it would be beneficial and wonderful for the public to gain front-row access to the Amazon Continuum Project by sharing images, videos and thoughts while aboard the ship.  With this in mind, we designed The Amazon Continuum Project to support our intuitive content management system, which will permit researchers to blog about their Amazon experience, upload videos from the vessel, and simply share information findings by the click of a button.  

We hope you will follow The Amazon Continuum Project on their journey at www.AmazonContinuum.org.