plenty of time for dr souza and his team to get out and do some science. >> so these are you know we have all the big trees tagged and then we need to find out what's going on with the youngest stages. >> this here is what we call a baby mangrove. it actually falls out of the tree looking like this and when it hits the ground, it grows these little roots. it will then turn into a little seedling, this might be a couple years old and eventually a big tree. >> okay, you kind of have to get down their on your hands. >> so we are looking for dead ones? >> oh yeah dead ones. >> when you talk about carbon storage in the roots, are you just talking about things we can see here? >> no, it's actually several compartments they might be called so we have the above ground carbon, the trees themselves. we have these prop roots that are supporting the red mangroves but then under the soil, at the soil level and below there's a dense network of roots and those roots as they die become peat and so you have layers that may be 10 feet deep of peat and so it's a huge sort of store house of carbon that