Events
Event details are subject to change.
Turtle Talk Tuesdays at Apalachicola NERR
Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve 108 Island Dr., Eastpoint, FL, United StatesLearn all about our nesting sea turtles. After a presentation on sea turtle biology, our conservation and monitoring program, and ways local residents and visitors can make the beaches welcoming to nesting turtles,
Shellfish, Sulfides, and Soil Carbon: Coastal Zone Soil Survey of Apalachicola Bay
GoToWebinar onlineSince 1899, the National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) seeks to develop a nationwide partnership of Federal, regional, State, and local agencies and private entities and institutions with the singular goal to investigate, inventory, document, classify, interpret, disseminate, and publish information about soils. Beginning in the 1990s, the NCSS and United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS) began extending these investigations into subaquatic environments to better understand soil properties and how it affects shellfish production, vegetation, and human-driven activities such as dredging. In the Fall of 2024, one of these coastal zone soil surveys (CZSS) began in East Bay with the goal of ultimately mapping wetlands and subaquatic soils in all of Apalachicola Bay, from Alligator Point to Indian Pass. Join us for this month’s Sci-Café and listen to Reuben Wilson of the USDA-NRCS-Soil and Plant Science Division talk about initial observations of the bay’s soils and what information will be available to the public upon project completion.
Assessment of Water Flows Through the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and Gulf County Canal
GoToWebinar onlinePaul Thurman, PhD, and Certified Senior Ecologist and Bureau Chief with the Northwest Florida Water Management District will talk about data collection efforts and preliminary results to better understand potential water flows through the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and Gulf County Canal and their effects on nearby water bodies.
What We Can Learn from a Long-Term Vegetation Census on St. George Island?
GoToWebinar onlineDr. Tom Miller professor of biological sciences at FSU has conducted a vegetation census on St. George Island since 1999, to document both short- and long-term effects on barrier islands. Hurricanes and droughts can have significant effects on plants, but the communities also show fairly rapid recovery. More importantly, long-term patterns reveal major changes in some plant abundances, with an approximately doubling of the number of plant species over the last 25 years.