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Apalachee Audubon Events Calendar
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
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Event Title: Forests, Beaches, Marshes, and Scrublands
Thursday, February 23, 2012
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Florida has 100 designated Important Bird Areas (IBAs) that encompass a range of natural habitats including forests, grasslands and shrub lands, coastal beaches and tidal marshes, and migratory stopover habitats. Tour some of Florida's special IBAs and find out where the birds can lead us in citizen science, conservation, and outreach.
Marianne Korosy is Audubon of Florida's Important Bird Area coordinator. Her work for the past two years has focused on building chapter-based coastal bird steward programs in southwest Florida. Marianne leads a volunteer bird banding project involving Clearwater and St. Pete Audubon chapters at rooftop Least Tern colonies in Pinellas County and also conducts a volunteer-based winter sparrow banding project at Weekiwachee Preserve in Hernando County. Marianne has a Masters degree in geology from FSU and is a PhD candidate in conservation biology at the University of Central Florida.
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Event Title: Spring Lecture Series "Horizons 2012" presented by the Tallahassee Scientific Society
Thursday, February 23, 2012
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The Tallahassee Scientific Society is presenting a series of lectures February through May, 2012. Two of the lectures, in particular, will be of interest to Audubon members. A presentation by Joe Hutto on "his life as a turkey" and a presentation by Janisse Ray, a naturalist author and past member of Apalachee Audubon.
The complete schedule is as follows:
February 23
"The State of the Space Industry in Florida"Presenter:
FRANK DIBELLO, President, Florida Space Institute
March 22
"Run Silent, Run Deep: "New Life on WWII Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico"
Presenter: THOMAS SHIRLEY, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
April 25
"My Life as a Turkey: One Man's Study of Nature & Nurture in the Wilds of Sopchoppy"
Presenter: JOE HUTTO, naturalist, author, Illumination in the Flatwoods
May 24
"The Ecology of Southern Nature"
Presenter: JANISSE RAY, naturalist, author, The Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
You can obtain more detailed in formation at the Tallahassee Scientific Society web site and sign up online to order tickets at www.tallysci.org. Tickets may be purchased for all lectures or for individual lectures.
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