Tag: UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station

Learn about living shorelines – a natural defense against coastal erosion

by martinmain
February 4, 2025

Powerful coastal storms can be highly destructive to built environments, including modified shorelines. This is particularly true when nature's natural defenses, such as oyster reefs, mangroves, and tidal marshes are replaced with turfgrass ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Natural Resources, Professional Development, UF/IFAS Extension, Water, Wildlife
Tags: Florida Master Naturalist Program, FMNP, FMNP Blog, Https://www.facebook.com/@OfficialFMNP/, UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station, UF/IFAS Wildlife Ecology And Conservation

Florida Master Naturalist Program Online – Coastal Shoreline Restoration

by martinmain
April 15, 2020

We are excited to announce that the Florida Master Naturalist Program (FMNP) is offering online courses. The first offering, Coastal Shoreline Restoration (CSR), is scheduled for April 28 through May 12 and is open for registration (https://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/fmnp/CR20-06Live%20ONLINE%20via%20Zoom.html). ... READ MORE

Category: , Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Events, Forests, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Water, Wildlife, Work & Life
Tags: Community Outreach, Florida Master Naturalist Program, FMNP, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station, Workshops

UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station raises $9,000

by Samantha Murray
March 22, 2017

More than 50 residents from Florida’s Nature Coast and Gainesville paddled, jogged or cheered during the Workout on the Waterfront event held in Cedar Key, Florida to raise money for local causes. The event, held March 18, was sponsored by ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Natural Resources, Recreation, Water, Wildlife
Tags: Featured Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station

Workout on Waterfront supports Cedar Key community

by Samantha Murray
February 27, 2017

Sailors with a knack for building their own seaworthy vessels will join in the fun on March 18 in Cedar Key, Florida, for the first annual Workout on the Waterfront (WoW) Repurpose-It-Regatta. Organizers challenge participants to make their ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Events, Natural Resources, Recreation
Tags: Featured Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station

Get in touch with science, history at Seahorse Key open house

by Samantha Murray
February 16, 2017

Visitors of all ages will get up close and personal with local history and wildlife at the next Seahorse Key open house, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m on Feb. 25. A pop-up aquarium of ‘touch tanks’ will let families interact with living marine animals ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources, Wildlife
Tags: Featured Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station

Nature Coast research internships give UF students an edge

by Samantha Murray
January 12, 2017

Last summer, Cory Gillis found himself waking before dawn at the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, where he’d been assigned to track the breeding calls of the northern bobwhite quail as part of an internship with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Forests, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Water, Wildlife
Tags: Featured Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station

Big Bend Science Symposium puts research on public view

by Samantha Murray
January 11, 2017

Scientists on Florida’s Big Bend coastline spend their careers studying local ecosystems and finding solutions to challenges such as oyster reef decline or the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Feb 1 to 3, the second annual Big ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, Water
Tags: Featured Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station

Artist named for Seahorse Key artist-in-residence program

by Samantha Murray
November 28, 2016

The Cedar Key Artist-in-Residence Program has selected painter Daniel Gottsegen as artist in residence for 2017. Known for his meditative renderings of the natural world, Gottsegen will live and work at the University of Florida Seahorse ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Artist In Residence, Featured Hot Topic, Seahorse Key Marine Lab, UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station

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