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Inaugural “Ocean Kids” Teaches Conservation, Appreciation

F.I.N.SEA Foundation, the UM Rosenstiel School, and the Marine and Atmospheric Science Honor Society Rho Rho Rho will host the first annual Ocean Kids on Nov. 22 from 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. on UM’s Coral Gables campus. One hundred students from Dunbar and Holmes Elementary Schools in northwest Miami will enjoy marine science adventures, while learning about conservation and the ocean. Read more…

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Loggerhead Release Provides Valuable Tracking Data

Dr. Kirt Rusenko and staff from Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton will release two juvenile loggerhead sea turtles raised in captivity into the Indian River Lagoon near Sebastian Inlet. Dubbed Milton and FeeBee, the turtles hatched on Florida beaches in 2002. The pair will be satellite tagged by Dr. Kate Mansfield of UM’s Rosenstiel School to see if the turtles behave differently than wild turtles. Read more…