Save Your Applause For The Scientists
By Lisa D. Mickey I admit it. I’m as guilty as anyone else when it comes to admiring top sports teams and appreciating the skills of world-ranked athletes. I love seeing them work together as a team to win championships or close games. And I enjoy watching...
UPDATE: MDC & Hurricane Irma
Tuesday, September 12: MDC staff spent the morning cleaning up the center from blown-in water, monitoring tanks and checking for any issues, putting furniture and kayaks back, and generally making sure things are ok. We had some minor damage to outside structures...
MDC To Benefit From New Smyrna Beach Paint Out
by Lisa D. Mickey The Marine Discovery Center, along with Friends of Canaveral, will benefit from this year’s New Smyrna Beach Paint Out. In its seventh year in the New Smyrna Beach area, the Paint Out, formerly known as “Canaveral Seashore Plein Air Paint Out,” will...
Volunteers Ready To Pitch In For 2017 Coastal Cleanup
By Lisa D. Mickey Once again, it’s time for volunteers to spread out on beaches and parks in Volusia County and New Smyrna Beach for the annual International Coastal Cleanup and Halifax/Indian River cleanup. The theme for the annual event each September is to “think...
When MDC Naturalists Offer Helping Hands To Lagoon Species
by Lisa D. Mickey As naturalists at the Marine Discovery Center, it’s common to encounter wildlife on our eco-tours. Guests love it and we do, too! But sometimes we encounter wildlife in need during our tours as we paddle in kayaks or cruise past mangrove trees on the...
NSB High School Excavation Materials Become New Reefs
by Lisa D. Mickey When the Marine Discovery Center cleared the site previously occupied by New Smyrna Beach High School in the summer of 2014, a unique kind of “harvest” took place as the five-acre salt marsh was restored. All of the concrete and structural debris...
Osprey Nesting Platform At MDC
by Lisa D. Mickey Tom Draus and Susan Fetter experienced the usual dilemma of students enrolled in Florida Master Naturalist Program (FMNP) classes: What would be their required project? Both were enrolled in the FMNP Coastal Naturalist class at the Marine Discovery...
Discovery Island
By Lisa D. Mickey Visiting Discovery Island will give youngsters in the Marine Discovery Center’s summer camps and educational programs a sense of being far, far away, yet just around the corner. The island is actually an old spoil island created as a result of...
Support MDC
Follow Us!