Recreational bay scallop season is quickly approaching! Thousands of residents and visitors will flock to the shallow coastal areas of Florida’s Big Bend to go scalloping and seek out their limit of the sweet and tasty meat. Recreational… Read More
Living fossils, online! It’s clear that people love horseshoe crabs all over the state! The Florida Horseshoe Crab Watch citizen science program is strong and growing rapidly statewide. Unfortunately, we had to cancel or postpone many training workshops… Read More
Written by Trenton Aguilar, Ph.D. Student at UF IFAS NCBS & SFRC Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Florida is home to many forms of wildlife, on land, in our rivers and lakes, and in the sea. This diverse wildlife… Read More
Written by Taylor Dluzniewski, M.S. in UF IFAS SFRC Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Florida is home to the world’s highest density of springs and the largest springs by volume (Force 2000). A key feature of Florida springs is… Read More
Florida Horseshoe Crab Watch is a popular citizen science program where trained volunteers survey, measure, tag, and release horseshoe crabs on Florida’s beaches. Learn more about why we need to monitor our horseshoe crab populations in this post…. Read More
Seagrass restoration has a bad rap. Or, at least, recent studies about seagrass restoration report high costs and low success rates. But, much of what we know about seagrass restoration is buried deep in reports and permits, never… Read More
Written by Stephanie Verhulst, Graduate Research Assistant at UF IFAS Environmental Horticulture Stephanie is currently working on three projects focused on the role salinity and inundation has on salt marsh vegetation and coastal forest tree species. Her work… Read More
Written by David Chagaris, PhD. Research Assistant Professor at UF IFAS NCBS. The Florida stone crab fishery operates primarily along the Gulf coast from Cedar Key to southwest Florida and the Florida Keys. The fishery is one of the most valuable… Read More
Thu, Aug 15th, 2019 12:00:00 am For the people behind the phenomenal fish-catching baits at Z-Man Fishing Products, taking caring of the fish and their habitat has always been a primary priority. “Over the years, Z-Man chairman Jonathan Zucker and I… Read More
Written by 2019 Summer Intern, Anthony Messina, with host Charlie Martin, Estuarine Ecologist at UF/IFAS NCBS. Intro During my internship this summer I had the opportunity to work in both freshwater and estuarine environment with Charlie’s amazing… Read More
