Join Space Coast Audubon Society for our
January 15th Meeting
“Save the Manatee”
WHO: Space Coast Audubon
Society (SCAS)
WHERE: Rockledge
Presbyterian Church, 921 Rockledge Dr, Rockledge, FL.
WHEN: January 15, 2015 at
7:30 pm
Dr. Katie Tripp will be our speaker and
will be presenting Save the Manatee
Dr. Tripp is Save the Manatee Club’s Director of Science and
Conservation. She received her bachelor’s degree from Eckerd College in
St. Petersburg, FL, where she majored in Marine Science and received minors in
both Chemistry and Environmental Policy. Katie received her Ph.D. in
Veterinary Medical Sciences from the University of Florida, where she conducted
research on manatee physiology. Dr. Tripp was a lecturer, laboratory
instructor, and graduate research assistant at the university. She has
worked as a manatee consultant for one of the Comprehensive Everglades
Restoration Projects and also worked as a biologist with FWC’s Marine Mammal
Pathobiology Lab.
Save the Manatee Club (SMC) is an award-winning
national nonprofit 501(c)(3) and membership-based organization established in
1981 by renowned singer/songwriter, Jimmy Buffett, and former U.S. Senator, Bob
Graham, when he was governor of Florida.
Manatees are Florida’s official state marine mammal. They are listed as
endangered at the international level by the IUCN World Conservation Union, at
the federal level by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and at the state
level by the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).
Manatees are endangered largely due to human activity. Dr. Tripp will share SMC’s mission, objectives,
goals, work and core values. For more
information visit their website at www.savethemanatee.org.
Visit the Space Coast Audubon Society
website at www.spacecoastaudubon.org and check out the Space
Coast Audubon Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pages/Space-Coast-Audubon.
We look forward to another great
turnout.
Jim Eager
Space Coast Audubon Society
Vice President
Program/Publicity Chair
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