WaterNotes

Halloween is one of those traditions in American culture that simply makes no good green sense.  Every year we buy up thousands of tons of sugared confections wrapped in individual bits of plastic and hand it out to the children in our communities.  They in turn eat the candy and discard all the plastic.  From [...]

Many people know of manatees and their endangered status within Florida and the remainder of their range through the Caribbean basin.  In 2007 the official Florida Fish and Wildlife count was 2,817.   Manatees, the only herbivorous marine mammal, are affected by boat impacts, human encroachment and interactions, and habitat loss as seagrass beds and aquatic plants [...]

I know, I just couldn’t resist the title.  PLOS Biology published an enlightening study yesterday on the survival rates of Chinook, steelhead, and other salmon smolts (er, juveniles) swimming through dammed and free flowing rivers. 
The Columbia-Snake River system is home to thirteen stocks of salmon considered to be threatened or endangered.  Its also home to several [...]

The Brevard Zoo recently launched a new website focused on the Indian River Lagoon, which as most of you know, is one of my favorite places in the world.  Lagoon Adventures attempts to encourage kids and families to get out and see places along the IRL system to gain a new appreciation for the resources [...]

I am a big believer in the power of photograghy.  Sandra Critelli, an amateur photographer, recently stumbled across a massive school of migrating cownose stingrays while out along the Mexican coastline in the Gulf of Mexico looking for whale sharks.  Her images are absolutely breathtaking. 
 
Mass migrations of cownose are known to travel from Florida’s Gulf coast [...]