Education Archives

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Mar. 5 Brown Bag Lunch: Healthy IRL Landscaping Practices

Events, Lagoon at Noon Seminars, Landscapes and Yards

Join us for our March 5 Brown Bag event with Sally Scalera, Urban Horticulture Agent and Master Gardener Coordinator at the Brevard County UF/IFAS Extension office.

Teacher Resources

Education Highlight, Youth Education, marine science, environmental education

Looking for an activity that will keep your students engaged? MRC’s Teacher Resources provide wonderful lessons covering estuaries, manatees, sea turtles, and other marine life found right in our back yard.

How Does Your Lawn Hurt the Lagoon?

Landscapes and Yards

Fertilizer may be the largest contributor of nitrogen to the IRL. Nitrogen and phosphorous from lawn fertilizer accumulates in soils and grass clippings, runs off during rain events, and leaches through the sand and into groundwater that leads to the Lagoon.

Landscapes and Yards

Fertilizing, applying pesticides, picking up pet waste, and blowing grass clippings into the street are a few of the notorious behaviors partially responsible for water quality issues and muck build-up in the Lagoon.

IRL Health Update

Is the Lagoon getting better? Thanks to donations from community members, MRC, in conjunction with our scientific partners, has conducted the first comprehensive, lagoon-wide ecological health assessment of the Indian River Lagoon.

Grass Clippings: Handle With Care!

Landscapes and Yards, Education Highlight

Grass clippings, when blown into the street, sidewalks and driveways, are picked up by stormwater runoff during rain events and washed down storm drains into the Lagoon.

Thanks for Visiting Our Virtual Classroom!

Thank you for visiting MRC’s Virtual Learning Portal!

Thank you for visiting MRC’s Virtual Learning Portal! We hope you have enjoyed your experience.

Presentations from the 2014 IRL Action Assembly

Presentations from the 2014 Indian River Lagoon Action Assembly

Events, marine science, habitat restoration

View presentations from the May 2014 Indian River Lagoon Action Assembly, coordinated by Marine Resources Council.

Indian River Lagoon Action Assembly

Events, marine science, habitat restoration

MRC coordinated the May 2014 Lagoon Action Assembly involving over 100 community leaders in facilitated discourse about the collapse of the Indian River Lagoon.