By Lisa D. Mickey It’s hard to wrap your brain around one million pounds of oyster shells. But for Marine Discovery Center’s Shuck & Share Oyster Recycling program, it’s even harder to think of those shells going into the county landfill rather than into the...
By Lisa D. Mickey The gourds are up! And now, the Southeast Volusia Audubon Society (SEVAS) chapter is ready for the purple martins to move in. As part of its Purple Martin Project, SEVAS held the third annual “Gourd Raising” ceremony adjacent to the bird garden on ...
By Lisa D. Mickey It was long thought that American flamingos were a species you could only see in a zoo, the Yucatan Peninsula or in The Everglades if you were really lucky. As it turns out, when Hurricane Idalia hit the west coast of Florida in late August, a...
Marine Discovery Center has proudly participated in a community composting program for a number of years and hopes more local residents will become aware of our program during International Composting Awareness Week! The goal of the national and international...
By Lisa D. Mickey It’s only taken about eight years, but a pair of ospreys appear to be settling in on the osprey nesting platform that was installed at MDC during spring 2015. Our Conservation Science Coordinator, Tess Sailor-Tynes, snapped this photo last...
by Lisa D. Mickey Marine Discovery Center’s mission of coastal ecosystem education and conservation was fully experienced by nearly 500 elementary students during a special program in late 2022. Three third-grade classes of boys and girls from Volusia County Title I...
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