Seagrasses and Sand Flats

New WFSU Ecology Blogger Dani Davis explores north Florida ecosystems as a master’s student in ecology at Florida State University.

New Ecology Blogger Jessie Mutz takes us back to the oyster reefs and seagrass beds of the Forgotten Coast with one of FSU’s newest biology faculty members.

For Gulf Specimen Lab interns, hands on experience means hands on octopi and in shark tanks at feeding time. We join them for a trip to Apalachee Bay.

We snorkel and snuba for scallops in the clear waters of Saint Joseph Bay, Florida. The lush seagrass beds of the St. Joe Bay make an ideal scallop habitat.

Captain Bobby Guilford shows us how to shuck our freshly caught Saint Joseph Bay scallops, and we take a look at upcoming EcoAdventures.

Loss of predator diversity is becoming a worldwide trend. Tanya Rogers investigates if more predators are better for the seagrass beds of Bay Mouth Bar.

A clam on a leash? Tanya Rogers talks about an experiment she painstakingly prepared on Bay Mouth Bar.

On a recent trip to Bay Mouth Bar, we witnessed a little romance in the air (or saltwater) as one of the Forgotten Coast’s most unique looking predators heads somewhere warm for the winter.

Bay Mouth Bar is one of the most ecologically diverse places in the world. Dr. David KImbro guides us through a menagerie of strange looking marine invertebrates, and describes the place’s importance to the field of ecology.

Seagrass beds are productive ecosystems. Not only are they nurseries for commercially important seafood species, they’re efficient at storing carbon.