BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, Sept. 16 (TNSOps) -- Samford University issued the following news release: Samford geography professor Jordan Cissell is part of a Smithsonian Institution and Mesoamerican Reef Fund project providing powerful tools and training to help conserve the Mesoamerican Reef (MAR) ecoregion, encompassing the Caribbean coasts of Belize, Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. The stakes are high for communities in the region. "The livelihoods of more than 2 million people are directly or in  more