Lyla Lemari

Lyla at Lawrence Livermore Lab

Lyla at Lawrence Livermore Lab

After eight years of work with the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority, Lyla Lemari has taken up work with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Lyla is Scientific Associate to the Marshall Island Program at Livermore, which is one of a network of US Department of Energy laboratories around the US. Livermore oversees environmental […]

MALGov celebrates new court

MALGov celebrates new court

Majuro Atoll Local Government joined with Assumption Schools, the Taiwan Embassy and numerous others to bless and open the new sports court next to the Uliga school Tuesday afternoon. The covered basketball/volleyball court was funded jointly by Taiwan and MALGov. It was a two-part event: opening of the new court and a soft opening for […]

Trashed lagoon gets first aid

Trashed lagoon gets first aid

The Uliga community conducted a day-long underwater cleanup last weekend. Originally planned from Loelen to Lotodrik wetos, the over 50 volunteers could not reach the other sites due to the heavily infested waters of Loelen and Lejolimen. Nearly 15,000 pounds of old tires, boat parts, aluminum cans, construction materials, household appliances and many more were […]

Radiation monitoring is our work

Radiation monitoring is our work

Four Marshallese participated in a technical cooperation program last month in Vienna, Austria organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The training last month was part of an ongoing program to develop capacity in the Marshall Islands and other countries to monitor the environment for radioactivity. RMI EPA staff Damiee Riklon and Kristina Reimers, […]