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January 2024 Class List

by Morgan Roth
December 27, 2023

Join us at the UF/IFAS Brevard Extension office for some fun learning experiences! Make sure to follow us on Eventbrite to be notified by email whenever we post a new class: https://brevardextension.eventbrite.com ServSafe Manager's Class and ... READ MORE

Category: Events
Tags: Bycatch Reduction Devices, Canning, Cooking Classes, Fitness, Fitness Challenge, Florida Friendly Fishing, Food Safety, Horseshoe Crab, Master Food And Nutrition Volunteer, Master Gardener, Nutrition, Nutrition Class, Poultry, Pressure Canning, Soil Health, Soil Improvement, Urban Farming, Volunteer Program, Volunteering, Water Bath Canning, Wellness

Living fossils saving lives

by Barbara L. Edmonds
February 4, 2021

The COVID-19 vaccine has slowly rolled out to states across the country. Behind the scenes an ancient marine creature with ten eyes, twelve legs and magical, milky blue blood is being utilized worldwide for testing vaccines and sterility of ... READ MORE

Category: Clubs & Volunteers, Coasts & Marine, Community Volunteers, Conservation, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Water, Wildlife
Tags: Conservation, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Fishery, Horseshoe Crab, Human Health, Shorebird, Vaccine, Wildlife
Horseshoe crab shells.

Prepping our next horseshoe crab citizen science effort

by Armando Ubeda
October 9, 2019

  Enthusiasm is high for citizen science projects in our area, as we've seen with the success of our Sarasota County Horseshoe Crab Watch Program. Participants eagerly have waded in (sometimes literally) on efforts to gather more information ... READ MORE

Category: Community Volunteers, Conservation, Natural Resources, Wildlife
Tags: Citizen Science, Conservation, Florida Sea Grant, FWC, Horseshoe Crab, Marine, Pgm_Marine, Volunteer
Horseshoe crab shells.

Citizen science opportunity closing quickly… don’t miss it

by Armando Ubeda
September 13, 2019

Did you know that horseshoe crabs have been around for at least 445 million years? Fossil records from prehistoric horseshoe crabs look very similar to existing horseshoe crabs, with not much change. And, that is why some people refer to them ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Community Volunteers, Natural Resources, Wildlife
Tags: Citizen Science, Citizen Scientist, Florida Sea Grant, Horseshoe Crab, Pgm_Marine, Research, Volunteer, Wildlife

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