This blog is dedicated to the environmental well-being of our Florida coastal habitat.

This blog is
dedicated to the environmental well-being of coastal habitat.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Marine Science of the Gulf of Mexico (including Dr. Eugenie Clark)

Pieiran Spring Academy is offering a course this Fall with a lecture given by Dr. Eugenie Clark at Argosy University.
(This is a life long learning group.)

  • F10E03-A • Marine Science of the Gulf of Mexico
  • Survey the ecology and animals of Gulf and Bay waters. As part of this course, Dr. Eugenie Clark, Mote Marine Laboratory founding director, will lecture on the behavior and conditioning of Gulf sharks, and the amazing hermaphroditic fish, Serranus.
  • Thursdays, October 28-November 18 (4 weeks)
  • 9:30-11:30 am, Argosy University
  • $50
http://www.pierianspringacademy.org/CourseListings.aspx

Manatees hold mating ritual on beach

http://www.news-press.com/article/20100822/NEWS0102/100822027/Manatees-hold-mating-ritual-on-beach-
- Ft. Myers News-Press

Looking for the bathrooms on South Lido Beach?

Look more closely, and you will see
that they are surrounded by a native plant garden.
The plants and trees here like to be close to salt water beaches.
Orange Trumpet Plant

Oil damaged marshes making a comeback

http://galleries.heraldtribune.com/?id=328533#http://spotted.heraldtribune.com/images/100047/photos/2010/08/11/zoom/2124333.jpg
- Sarasota Herald Tribune

Scallops tell a tale of a troubled bay

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100822/ARTICLE/8221050/2416/NEWS?Title=Scallops-tell-a-tale-of-a-troubled-bay
- Sarasota Herald Tribune