Monitoring Dates for Fall 2006:
Shell Island - Saturday, October 7,
meet at 9:00 at the boat ramp in St. Andrew State Park. There is no rain
date for Shell Island Monitoring.
West Bay - Saturday, October 28, meet at 9:00 at the boat
ramp in Carl Gray Park (across from GCCC). Rain date for West Bay Monitoring is
November 4th.
Both boat captains and seagrass monitors are needed! Call
850-872-3488 to sign up to help! No experience is necessary; you are
placed into teams to do the monitoring!
Many, many thanks to all my volunteers! And a big thank you to
Dixie
Divers; my volunteers greatly appreciate the wetsuits and snorkeling gear you
lend them!
Coming Soon - Seagrass Monitoring
Data and maps showing seagrass monitoring sites!!! Check back later to see if
these items have been posted.
Seagrass Monitoring Presentations and Documents:
The following presentations are in powerpoint.
Eventually they will be displayed as pdf documents, but for now, you need
powerpoint or powerpoint viewer to view them.
Seagrass Loss in St. Andrew Bay
The St. Andrew
Bay system
Information about
seagrasses in St. Andrew Bay
These documents are in html:
Seagrasses Fact Sheet
East Pass Seagrass Report for Summer 2002
There are videos, pamphlets, and a CD-ROM that explain how
seagrass monitoring is completed. To request these items, please click on
this link - request seagrass monitoring
materials.
The St. Andrew Bay
Resource Management Association (RMA):
The St. Andrew Bay RMA,
www.sabrma.org, is always looking for
members and volunteers to help with their many programs: Baywatch (water
quality monitoring), Seagrass Monitoring, and Turtlewatch. The group
sponsors a float in the Mardi Gras parade, has wonderful speakers at their
meetings, and participates in many other activities around town. Their
latest newsletter can be found on their website,
www.sabrma.org.
Some pictures:
Monitoring the seagrasses in West Bay - Fall 2002
Measuring Seagrass Height in St.
Andrew Bay - Fall 2002
Seagrass Sign at Carl Gray Park - Fall
2001
Seagrass Monitoring Training
Session - Fall 2000
Setting Transects - Summer 2000
Creating the seagrass videotape -
Fall 2000
Discussing one of the shots while
videotaping - Fall 2000
The awesome volunteers! Without them, there would be no seagrass
monitoring! Thank you for your help!
The West Bay Gang
The St. Andrew Bay Team #1
The SAB Team #2
The SAB Team #3
The SAB Team #4
The SAB Team #5
The SAB Team #6
The SAB Team #7
The SAB Team #8
