August 2011

FSU Coastal & Marine Lab technician Tanya Rogers describes the building of what she calls “ecological art.” She is referring to the Kimbro lab’s summer experiment, for which several artificial oyster reefs with different combinations of animals was built near St. Augustine, FL.

Howdy. The tide normally doesn’t look this high. This means that Irene is causing the…

Rob Diaz de Villegas WFSU-TV For a few months now, we’ve been telling you about…

Hey y’all Waiting for the tide to drop so that we can get started this…

My favorite part of an experiment: getting to see how treatments affected your samples. Team…

Hey y’all. Heading out to breakdown the experiment. Everyone is worried about low tide not…

Howdy folks. Just raced over to st Augustine to quickly take down experiment before hurricane…

Stretching from the tip of Cape San Blas to the eastern end of St. George Island, the Forgotten Coast segment of the Florida Circumnavigational Trail passes by large stretches of pristine coastal habitat. If you’ve paddled all or part of this trail, we want to hear your stories! Share them on the “In the Grass, On the Reef” blog.

Fiddler crabs benefit salt marshes. Ribbed mussels benefit salt marshes. But together, is their effect even greater, or do they cancel each other out? Dr. Randall Hughes of the FSU Coastal & Marine Lab looks to find out.

This one is for all you animal lovers! WFSU’s dimensions producer and In the Grass,…