The Sierra Club is hosting a Red Tide Forum this Thursday, 2pm, at the Manatee Community College campus in Venice, in the Selby Room at the Professional Development Center of the campus.
Topics covered will be Red Tide, fertilizers and water resources.
Larry Brand, a professor of marine biology at the University of Miami will be the [...]
A new Red Tide beach conditions hotline (and accompaning web sites), have been created. I’m not sure I should be even writing about them as there are several already.
Mote Marine Labs has a “Beach Conditions Reports for Southwest Florida” page that uses google Maps technology. Some web developer put a lot [...]
The health Dept in Indian River county Florida has finally issued a “red tide health advisory“. This does not include signs on the beaches. In fact it appears that you have to call them to get the info. Most people don’t call the health Dept before they go to the beach.
Indian [...]
4 Dead dolphins washed ashore in Volusa county recently. Red Tide exposure hasn’t been confirmed yet by the scientist at Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute in Orlando but it certinley appears as that at the moment as the area is afflicted by a sever red tide bloom at the moment and there non other immeditely visible [...]
I’m all for the study of red tide. We can’t ever learn how to control red tide if we don’t study it, in fact. But it downright makes me angry when money that is supposed to be going for the study of red tide is instead diverted to some kind of hustle. [...]