IRL Report Card: South Indian River Lagoon
MRC’s IRL Report Card assembles the most accurate data of Lagoon conditions to date. Find out what’s happening in the latest release.
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IRL Report Card: Central Indian River Lagoon
MRC’s IRL Report Card assembles the most accurate data of Lagoon conditions to date. Find out what’s happening in the latest release.
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MRC’s IRL Report Card assembles the most accurate data of Lagoon conditions to date. Find out what’s happening in the latest release.
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MRC’s IRL Report Card assembles the most accurate data of Lagoon conditions to date. Find out what’s happening in the latest release.
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Download this report today and please share. MRC’s IRL Report Card assembles the most accurate data of lagoon conditions to date.
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Dec. 1 Webinar: Right Whales in Peril
Watch our December Lunch & Learn Webinar, “Right Whales in Peril: Is Extinction Avoidable?,” with the MRC’s Julie Albert.
Join the Restoration Team
MRC depends on the community to help us in every aspect of managing our mangrove nursery. How can you help?
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Nov. 10 Webinar: Fishermen Helping to Save Whales
Watch our November Lunch & Learn Webinar, “Fishermen Helping to Save Whales,” with Kim Sawicki. This is a free virtual event, but you must register to receive the Zoom link and login information.
National Estuaries Day Celebration
National Estuaries Day is a nationwide celebration of our bays and estuaries and the benefits they provide local communities. Join MRC for a day of fun!
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Oct. 6 Webinar: Horseshoe Crab Watch
Watch our October Lunch & Learn Webinar, “Florida Horseshoe Crab Watch — Linked with Limulus,” with Holly Abeels. This is a free virtual event, but you must register to receive the Zoom link and login information.
Aug. 4 Webinar: Coral Reefs
Watch our Virtual Brown Bag Webinar, “Coral Reefs in Rapidly Changing Times,” with FIT’s Dr. Robert van Woesik! The webinar will entail how coral reefs are formed through a remarkable symbiosis. This is a free virtual event, but you must register to receive the Zoom link and login information.
July 7 Brown Bag Webinar: Living Shorelines
Watch our July 7 Virtual Brown Bag Webinar, “Living Shorelines for a Sustainable Future,” with MRC’s Director of Science and Restoration, Caity Savoia!
June 2 Brown Bag Lunch: Indian River Legacy
Join us for our Virtual Brown Bag Seminar, “Indian River Legacy” with Ms. Laurilee Thompson on Tuesday, June 2. This is a free virtual event, but you must register to receive the Zoom link and login information.
May 5 Brown Bag Lunch: All About Manatees
Join MRC and Cora Berchem from Save the Manatee Club for our first-ever Virtual Brown Bag Seminar on “All About Manatees with Save the Manatee Club” on Tuesday, May 5. Video from this event is now available!
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Mar. 3 Brown Bag Lunch: Plastics Ingestion by Post-Hatchling Sea Turtles
Join MRC and Nikia Rice from Mission: Clean Beaches at our March 3 Brown Bag Lunch to learn about recent research on the increasing issue of plastics ingestion by post-hatchling sea turtles. This event is free and open to the public.
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1st Annual Shipwreck Salvage Archaeology Symposium
Join MRC and Search and Salvage & Caribbean Treasure Salvors LLC at the 1st Annual Shipwreck Salvage Symposium at the Lagoon House in Palm Bay, FL on March 14 and 15, 2020.
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Visit MRC at the 23rd Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival
MRC will be part of the 23rd Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival, January 22–27, 2020, at Eastern Florida State College in Titusville, Florida.
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Dec. 3 Brown Bag Lunch: North Atlantic Right Whale Status Update
Join MRC’s Julie Albert at our Dec. 3 Brown Bag Lunch for the future outlook of the North Atlantic Right Whale—a species on the brink on extinction.
Nov. 5 Brown Bag Lunch: Cleaning Up Storm Water with Plants
Join MRC and Steve Beeman at our Nov. 5 Brown Bag Lunch and discover how Steve’s patented floating plant mats, or “Beemats,” can clean up storm water.
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Aug. 6 Brown Bag Lunch: Beach Nesting Species of the IRL
Join us at our August Brown Bag Lunch and discover how ecologically important our sandy shorelines are to many Indian River Lagoon species.
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National Estuaries Day Celebration 2019
National Estuaries Day is a nationwide celebration of our bays and estuaries and the benefits they provide local communities. Join MRC for a day of fun!
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July 9 Brown Bag Lunch: Changing Climate, Changing Fisheries
Join us at our July 9 Brown Bag Lunch for a look at the diverse effects on coastal waters and fisheries from climate change, and how they are being documented in the Southeast U.S. and Greater Caribbean.
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June 4 Brown Bag Lunch: Lionfish Inshore Invasion
Join us for our June 4 Brown Bag Lunch presentation with Aaron Hasenei and an in-depth look at lionfish. These animals drastically reduce biodiversity and cause large economic losses to a degree that has not yet been quantified throughout their invaded range.
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North Atlantic Right Whale Update on July 31
Register now for MRC’s North Atlantic Right Whale Update with Julie Albert. Julie will give a presentation at the Lagoon House on Wednesday, July 31 at 6:00 p.m. to update the public on why right whales are dying and what is being done about it. Please join us!
Read moreFWC Pauses Aquatic Plant Herbicide Treatment During Public Comment Period
Beginning Jan. 28, 2019, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will temporarily pause its aquatic herbicide treatment program throughout the state.
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