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Fertilizer Fight: 55 groups pen letter to governor to veto fertilizer study, protect water
Nitrogen and Phosphorous can make your lawn beautiful, but they also feed blue-green algae and kill seagrass, critical to marine life in our waterways. Environmental groups want the governor to veto a plan they say will hurt local ecosystems.
Fertilizer use and Runoff
At Florida Oceanographic Society, we advocate for a fertilizer-free approach to landscaping to help safeguard our coastal ecosystems. Excess nutrients from fertilizers wash into our waterways, fueling harmful algal blooms that threaten marine life and water quality. However, if you choose to use…
Festival of Giving
Florida Oceanographic Society is excited to join The Children’s Museum of the Treasure Coast’s Festival of Giving with our very own tree!
Field Trips
Florida Oceanographic Society offers a variety of standards-based field trip and virtual field trip options for your students. These fun, interactive field trips make use of the Coastal Center property and our “Conservation Ambassador” animals to teach children from pre-K through grade 12 about…
Film Screening: “The Last of the Right Whales”
Join Florida Oceanographic and Oceana for a film screening of “The Last of the Right Whales”. Learn about the threats facing the critically endangered North Atlantic right whales and what we can do to help save these gentle giants from extinction.
Fish Cam
Check out Our Gamefish LAgoon Live Stream!
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The Gamefish Lagoon is a 750,…
Flawed water-delivery system continues to imperil estuaries
"The water management system in South Florida is designed, engineered and operated to provide flood protection and water supply, but it obviously is being controlled to support the profit-driven agricultural industry around Lake Okeechobee."
FLOOR
Oysters are a keystone species within the IRL ecosystem and provide several critical ecosystem services such as filtering nutrients and particles from the water column and food for shorebirds and marine animals. Oyster reefs are habitat for numerous fish and marine invertebrates and break up wave…
Florida and federal wildlife officials team with FPL in plans to aid manatees
Wildlife officials, now teaming with the state’s largest electric utility, have approved an unusual step of feeding manatees that face another winter of limited food supplies in Florida waters.
Florida Bay: An Ecosystem on the Brink
The River of Grass no longer provides freshwater inflows needed to maintain healthy salinity levels in Florida Bay. Learn what can be done to ensure a healthy habitat and viable estuary for future generations.
Florida Beach Quests
Discover the secrets behind every beachcomber’s unanswered questions about beach plants, animals, physical processes, and more.
Florida cutting red tape to expedite seagrass planting for starving manatees
As manatees die in record numbers, seagrass planters feel an urgency to restore the Indian River Lagoon.
Florida environment groups join Mast, Donalds calling on Corps to stop Lake O discharges
U.S. Rep Brian Mast joined a coalition of Florida environment groups at the Port Mayaca Lock and Dam Tuesday to convey support for a revised Lake Okeechobee plan which sends more water south to the thirsty Everglades and eliminates discharges from the lake to coastal estuaries.
Florida Estuaries In Crisis
Learn about estuaries,
why they are in crisis,
and what you can do to help…
Florida’s Fantastic Sea Turtles Virtual Lecture
In honor of Endangered Species Day, join Dr. Zack Jud for a live Zoom-based lecture focused on sea turtle biology, ecology, and conservation.
Florida’s Living Dinosaurs: Monitoring Florida’s Endangered Leatherback Sea Turtles
Discover the cutting-edge leatherback sea turtle research that’s being carried out under the cover of darkness on local beaches by biologists with Florida Leatherbacks, Inc.
Florida Oceanographic Coastal Center teaches protection, conservation
The Florida Oceanographic Coastal Center is located on Hutchinson Island in Martin County, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian River Lagoon. This interactive facility allows visitors to explore the native ecosystem of Florida in a way that some people may never experience.
Florida Oceanographic Coastal Center works to protect marine life, water quality, beaches
The Coastal Center on Hutchinson Island is a place where folks can learn about area coastal ecosystems and environmental stewardship and have fun while doing it.
