MERO co-founder Ahzha McFadden just received a $5000 Bay Area Inspire Award* to support the 2018 MERO Science Program!! Thanks to this generous award, and the support of many individual donors, we are now fully funded for the 2018 year! Thank you everyone for your incredible generosity!

Learn more about the award here:
​​www.bayareainspireawards.org/ahzha-mcfadden.html

*The Bay Area Inspire Awards program was started in 2014 by a group of Bay Area residents interested in building a better community for all residents. This year the program is supporting six 18-30 year olds in Alameda, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties with innovative ideas for improving social equity. 

Welcome to La Mera Ciencia, the official blog of Menlo-Atherton Ecology Research Outdoors (MERO). Founded in 2017, MERO is a free, after-school environmental education program for high school English Language Learners that gets students outside doing ecology. "Mero" (or "mera" for feminine words like ciencia) is Spanish for "legit" or "the real thing", which is exactly the kind of science we do in the MERO program!

We'll be starting the 2018 MERO program soon, so stay tuned for updates and pictures from the field. In the mean time, please like us on Facebook and check out our website to learn more about our program and the awesome students we serve!

Two students from the 2017 MERO program getting a close look at baby frogs during the Stanford BioBlitz.