2019 Healthy Bay Report Card

Florida Sea Grant is involved in several citizen science and education projects designed to monitor the health of the bay. Below is an annual report of those projects. WATER QUALITY – Fish Kills… Read More
Posted: November 14, 2019
Florida Sea Grant is involved in several citizen science and education projects designed to monitor the health of the bay. Below is an annual report of those projects. WATER QUALITY – Fish Kills… Read More
Posted: June 13, 2018
What is bioaccumulation of toxins? Our bodies come in contact, and produce, toxins every day. The production of toxins can result during simple metabolism of food. However, our bodies are designed with a system… Read More
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources
Tags: bioaccumulation, biomagnification, Estuaries, restoring estuaries
Posted: June 8, 2018
We have been posting articles discussing some of the issues our estuaries are facing; this post will focus on one of the things you can do to help reduce the problem – a Florida Friendly… Read More
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources
Posted: May 25, 2018
In the mid 1990’s, the Bay Area Resource Council was created. This multi-county (Escambia and Santa Rosa) organization included local scientists and decision makers to help better understand the health of Pensacola Bay, develop a… Read More
Posted: May 12, 2018
Records of the variety of aquatic life in Pensacola Bay go back to the 18th century. According to these reports, over 1400 species of plants and animals call Pensacola Bay home. Many of them depend… Read More
Posted: May 4, 2018
Humans have inhabited the shores of Pensacola Bay for centuries. Impacts on the ecology have happened all along, but the major impacts have occurred in the latter half of the 20th century. There has been… Read More
Posted: November 3, 2017
Discovering something new is possibly the most exciting thing a field biologist can do. As students, budding biologists imagine coming across something no one else has ever noticed before, maybe even getting the opportunity to… Read More
Category: Natural Resources
Tags: barrier islands, Birds, climate, coastal wildlife, Curiosities, Estuaries, Florida panhandle, Native plants, Panhandle Outdoors, Swamps, trees, wildlife
Posted: October 17, 2017
Discovering something new is possibly the most exciting thing a field biologist can do. As students, budding biologists imagine coming across something no one else has ever noticed before, maybe even getting the opportunity to… Read More
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources
Tags: climate, Escambia County, Estuaries, trees, wetlands
Posted: August 25, 2017
Life on the coast has tremendous benefits; steady sea breezes, gorgeous beaches, plentiful fishing and paddling opportunities. Nevertheless, there are definite downsides to living along it, too. Besides storms like Hurricane Harvey making semi-regular appearances,… Read More
Posted: August 25, 2017
The term biodiversity has multiple meanings. Some look at it terms of genetics, others ecosystems, but most look at it in terms of species. Simply put, it is the variety of life within a system. … Read More
Category: Coasts & Marine
Tags: Biodiversity, Coastal Habitats, coastal wildlife, Estuaries, Pensacola Bay
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