WaterNotes

A fellow marine educator, Ron Hirschi, was recently honored with a trip to the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. He was kind enough to detail his excursion on his own blog but his time spent on Midway Atoll particularly sparked a single great idea: Project Serious Sand.
As he recently wrote on the National [...]

The St. Johns River Water Management District is circulating a warning of recent sightings of invasive Australian spotted jellyfish in the Indian River Lagoon near the Eau Gallie River. The first reported sightings of the spotted invaders came in the 2001 and 2002 seasons with no further jellies seen in the interim until just [...]

To all the fathers out there who brave hurricane force winds, sub-zero temperatures, months of starvation, and the rigors of courtship just to raise a family - or would if they were emperor penguins - Happy Father’s Day! Not every mammal is so lucky to have the two-parent system we humans enjoy.

SeaWeb’s adventures with the Marine Photobank project continue to expand. In fact, the 2nd annual Ocean In Focus Conservation Photography Contest, held in concert between SeaWeb and the Project AWARE Foundation, just got underway last week on World Ocean’s Day. The contest runs until August 27th of this summer so if you don’t already [...]

Glad to see you back at WaterNotes after the hiatus. What have I been up to? Well, as any environmental educator knows all to well, when the kids let out of formal school for summer camp season begins! My work has altered dramatically from lectures, question-answer sessions, and narrations into a more [...]