Apr 26, 2019 Sea Grant Notes This Week Apr 27 – Escambia County Extension Office Open House Join Escambia County Extension as we host our annual plant sale and open house. There will be information… Read More
For the last four years, Florida Sea Grant has held a “GREAT SCALLOP SEARCH” in Santa Rosa Sound and Big Lagoon to determine the status of this popular recreational fishery in our bay. Though we do not find… Read More
I have written about the horseshoe crab before but this weekend I had a chance to attend a training on how to tag these animals. This is an “ancient mariner”. There are fossils of this guy dating back… Read More
Apr 19, 2019 Sea Grant Notes Apr 19-21 – Horseshoe Crab Time It is a full moon and if there are any horseshoe crabs in our bay, they should be looking for a nesting beach this week. … Read More
Apr 12, 2019 Sea Grant Notes Apr 13 – Earth Day Celebration Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center – Navarre Beach – 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Apr 15 – Diamondback Terrapin Monitoring Training Navarre Beach… Read More
Oysters are like snakes… you either like them or you hate them. You rarely hear someone say – “yea, their okay”. It’s either I can’t get enough of them, or they are the most disgusting thing in the… Read More
Apr 5, 2019 Sea Grant Notes Apr 10 – Seagrass and Terrapin Monitoring Training 10:00 – 12:00 – Southwest Branch Library 12248 Gulf Beach Highway Apr 11 – Science Hour: Beach Safety – Dave Greenwood, Escambia… Read More
Mar 29, 2019 Sea Grant Notes APR 3 – Guest Lecture with Dr. Marty Main, director of the Florida Master Naturalist Program Dr. Main will be giving a lecture at Northwest Florida State College in Niceville…. Read More
Giant Salvinia (Salvinia molesta) is an aggressively spreading free floating plant that can cover the surface of a water body reducing water flow, sunlight penetration, and dissolved oxygen to a point where the over health and biodiversity of… Read More
We have a lot of really cool and interesting creatures that live in our bay, but one many may not know about is a small turtle known as a diamondback terrapin. Terrapins are usually associated with the Chesapeake… Read More
