By Gabriela Canas, Guest Writer The GTM is special for many reasons but one that makes it particularly unique is its location. And with great [location] comes great responsibility (thanks, Spiderman). Located right on the boundary between the tropical and temperate zones, our estuary is considered to be an ecotone, or “transitional” zone (think awkward…
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Monitoring with Florida Institute of Oceanography
By Nikki Dix Participants in Florida Institute of Oceanography’s Marine Field Studies class assisted GTM Research Reserve biologists (yes, us NERRds!) in our annual mangrove monitoring this past May. This is a multi-university intensive marine science course that exposes undergraduate students to each part of the state of Florida. While with the GTM biologists, students…
Mangroves, maintenance, monitoring, oh my!
By Shannon Dunnigan This was a very productive week for us here at the GTM. We were finally able to make it out to our weather station on Tuesday; our first trip back since before Hurricane Matthew. We arrived to find that our station not only survived the storm, but had no other damages! Phew!…
NERRds on the Water 