Aug 22, 2025
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,...
Jul 31, 2025
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,...
Jul 30, 2025
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...
Jun 25, 2025
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...
Jun 16, 2025
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...
May 27, 2025
Marine Discovery Center intern Zoe Stuckwisch certainly knows her way around the center after 1½ years of hands-on experience with everything from aquaria, exhibit maintenance, and conservation deployments in the Shuck & Share shoreline restoration program to sea...
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