Danijela Poljuha

In Croatia, we LOVE THE (Adriatic) SEA!
 
 We even have a festival dedicated entirely to the sea where art, culture, science, new technologies, innovations, stories, and legends interweave –
 
 
 aMORE Festival
 
 (AMORE=LOVE in Italian; MORE=SEA in Croatian).
 




 
 aMORE
 
 wants to draw attention to the environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural importance of the marine ecosystems as well as pointing out the causes of their degradation.
 
 aMORE
 
 festival, in particular, raises public awareness about the importance of preserving the sea and aims to improve the relationships that the local community, visitors, and tourists develop with it.


 This year
 
 aMORE
 
 gained a totally new dimension – a foldscope one!



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 Is there anything alive in the gigant heap of garbage ‘fished’ out of the sea?
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 Oooo yes, there is…
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 <img alt="Foldscope image" class="wp-image-158099 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="158099" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Foldscope image" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_158075/6-1.jpg"/>
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 A cross-section of a sea-grass (
 
 Cymodocea nodosa)
 
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 <img alt="Foldscope image" class="wp-image-158100 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="158100" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="158100" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Foldscope image" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=158100" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_158075/7-1.jpg"/>
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 A cross-section of a cuttlefish bone
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 <img alt="Foldscope image" class="wp-image-158101 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="158101" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="158101" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Foldscope image" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=158101" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_158075/8-1.jpg"/>
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 A cross-section of a sea lattuce (
 
 Ulva lactuc
 
 a)
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 FROM THE CLASSROOM…
 


 The foldscope journey began here, in the classroom of Tar-Vabriga elementary school, where students volunteered their time to help us assemble all of the microscopes.

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 Students of the Elementary school Tar-Vabriga (Istria, Croatia) assemble foldscopes together with scientists from Invasive Species Centre (CIV) and the Institute of Agriculture and Tourism on May 29, 2019
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 It is fun…
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 TO THE FOLDSCOPE MICROCOSMOS ON SITE….
 

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 Students enjoyed using foldscopes exploring marine life at the Lanterna beach (Istria, Croatia) on June 1st, 2019.
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 <img alt="Invasive Species Centre Croatia" class="wp-image-158107 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="158107" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="158107" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Invasive Species Centre Croatia" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=158107" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_158075/14.jpg"/>
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 Invasive Species Centre, Croatia
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 ENDING WITH FINAL MESSAGE:


 
 LET’S GET TO KNOW
OUR SEA SO WE COULD LOVE IT MORE AND PROTECT IT BETTER!

Danijela Poljuha

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EXPLORING THE SEA THROUGH THE EYE OF A FOLDSCOPE – aMORE FESTIVAL IN CROATIA

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