by Lisa D. Mickey Cheryl Hood and Holly Perpall moved to Port Orange in 2013, and once they retired in 2015, both began volunteering at Marine Discovery Center. Cheryl had worked in professional liability insurance with medical malpractice, while Holly, who holds a...
by Lisa D. Mickey The campus at Marine Discovery Center became one of Florida’s newest Motus tracking stations on August 13, expanding the North American network and enhancing Florida’s east coast range used to track movements of such flying species as tagged birds,...
As they say, time flies when you’re having fun, and Charlotte Harris should know. This is her 11th year of summer camp at MDC. Granted, most of those years were as a summer camper, starting at age 5 and ending last year when she aged out of the program. This year,...
Port Orange native Samantha “Sammy” Earney, 20, is currently enrolled at the University of Central Florida and is spending this summer working as an intern in MDC’s conservation program. While at Spruce Creek High School, she was dual-enrolled at Daytona State College...
Mia Harvey is a lead camp counselor for the second year at Marine Discovery Center and also is an intern with MDC’s conservation program. When she’s not guiding children at camp, Mia, 19, can be found tending mangrove trees, seagrasses and Spartina grass in the...
June 16th is World Sea Turtle Day, and we thought it would be fun to celebrate by getting to know someone who works with real sea turtles! Karrie Minch is a biologist with Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and is affiliated with FWC’s...
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