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April 7 (noon to 1 p.m.) A Higher Standard
Lunch & Learn Lecture
Life in Henderson Creek in 1887 FRESH LOCAL SEAFOOD • FINE QUALITY STEAKS
This presentation will provide a glimpse into life as a pioneer in the Little
Marco community just before the 20th Century. It is based on the diary A little bit of heaven, right here in paradise!
of F. Watts Hall, who was the school teacher from 1898-99. Excerpts
from the diary are supported by nautical charts, historical images and Happy Hour in the Tavern
discussions with descendants of the Kirkland and Carroll families who 4-6PM
were living on Henderson Creek in 1898. Ray Carroll, Cindy Carroll, and
Chris Durfee will recount these stories and can authoritatively answer Dining Room 5PM
questions about what life was like on Henderson Creek over the years. Sundays
$10 includes lunch from Carrabba’s and Costco (free for members).
Prime Rib Special
Engaging iSntuSdceinentsce Sunday Brunch
R ookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve has been Live Entertainment
engaging students in science for more than 35 years. Through Friday & Saturday
a long-term partnership with Hiram College in northeast
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Professor Dennis Taylor, Hiram’s “Igniting Streams of Learning
in Science” co-director, established a partnership with Rookery Bay
Reserve through an invitation from Pat O’Donnell, the reserve’s
fisheries biologist and Hiram alumnus. Taylor has been taking his
marine biology students to conduct their research at the reserve since
2003.
According to Taylor,
these research projects
provide opportunities
for students to manage
experimental designs,
giving them vital
experience navigating
the difficulties associated
with gathering robust
data sets in the field.
Hiram students
participate in the reserve’s long-term shark, bony fish and invertebrate
monitoring surveys, providing experience that cannot be found in
textbooks.In addition,the students have created,and continue to direct,
their own ongoing surveys in the reserve on shorebirds, mangroves and
barrier island plants.The students have the opportunity to interact with
scientists on many levels, becoming peers in scientific investigations of
public importance.
Rookery Bay Reserve also benefits from this work. In addition to
the extra help with ongoing monitoring programs, the students provide
valuable research data, which has the potential to highlight issues that
may not have been identified by reserve staff.
“Programs like this not only help inform us on a wider variety of
resource issues, but they also engage and entice students who may not
have considered a career in science before their experience here,” said
Pat O’Donnell, Rookery Bay Reserve’s fisheries biologist.
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