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The WFSU Ecology Blog

  • Home
    • About
    • WFSU Public Media Home
  • Documentaries
    • EcoCitizen Show | Seasons in South Tallahassee
    • Red Wolf Family Celebrates First Year at the Tallahassee Museum
    • Roaming the Red Hills
    • Oyster Doctors
    • Testing the Ecology of Fear
    • EcoShakespeare
    • Stories from the Apalachicola
    • Classic WFSU Ecology Documentaries
  • Habitats
    • Estuaries
      • Oyster Reef
        • The Effects of Predators and Fear on Oyster Reefs
        • Apalachicola Oyster Research
        • Meet the Species “On (and swimming around) the Reef”
        • Oyster Reef Ecology | On the Reef
      • Salt Marsh
        • In the Grass- Salt Marsh Biodiversity Study
        • Meet the Species “In the Grass”
        • Salt Marsh Ecology | In the Grass
      • Seagrass Bed
        • Predatory Snails, and Prey, of Bay Mouth Bar
      • In the Grass, On the Reef Glossary
    • Waterways Big and Small
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        • Apalachicola RiverTrek | Kayaking, Camping, & Hiking the River Basin
        • Apalachicola River and Bay
    • Longleaf Pine & Fire Ecology
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    Steephead Salamander Search, and the Apalachicola’s Ice Age Refugees

    by Rob Diaz de Villegas November 16, 2017
    by Rob Diaz de Villegas November 16, 2017

    In a steephead ravine by the Apalachicola River, we look for the Apalachicola dusky salamander with Bruce Means. Here, we find a pocket of ice age Florida.

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    A Geologist’s View of the Apalachicola River | Shark Fossils and Rocks

    by Rob Diaz de Villegas February 9, 2017
    by Rob Diaz de Villegas February 9, 2017

    The upper Apalachicola River has geology like no other in Florida. Geologist Harley Means reads rocks and finds fossils in Means Creek and on Alum Bluff.

  • Apalachicola River and BayEcoAdventuresKayak and Canoe AdventuresRivers and Streams

    (Video) RiverTrek 2: The Apalachicola’s Bluffs and Tupelo Swamps

    by Rob Diaz de Villegas November 21, 2013
    by Rob Diaz de Villegas November 21, 2013

    In part 2 of our RiverTrek video, an Apalachicola River icon has a new facial scar and we kayak into Sutton Lake, the “quintessential” backwater swamp.

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WFSU Ecology Segments win Two Regional Murrow Awards

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WFSU Public Media took home five 2019 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards.  Two of those awards were for stories produced for the WFSU Ecology Blog.  Banding Snowy Plovers at Deer Lake State Park won for Excellence in Video for Small Market TV.  And Red Wolves Fight Against Extinction, a collaboration between WFSU-FM’s Lynn Hatter and WFSU Ecology Producer Rob Diaz de Villegas, won for Excellence in Video for Small Market Radio.

WFSU competed in Region 13, which includes Florida, Georgia, and Puerto Rico.

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This is going to be a big part of the Ecology Blog in 2019, so WFSU Ecology Producer Rob Diaz de Villegas has been getting to know this mobile tool for identifying and recording animal species in your area.  Look for more information on iNaturalist and our 2019 project soon!

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