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JANUARY 2013

Thur, Jan 10

VIP Tour for HBOI/Members & Guests-Reservations required. 10am-11:30am. Meet at the Ocean Discovery Center at 9:30am. Tour: Coral Reef Research Labs.(772) 242-2559 for information and reservations.

Sat, Jan 12

Spoil Island Clean-up. Depart Johnson Education Center at 8:30am, return at 12:30pm. Call (772) 242-2559 for information and reservations.

Wed, Jan 16 - Wed, Apr 3, 2013

Ocean Science Lecture Series, each Wednesday evening at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Johnson Education Center.

Thur, Jan 17

Tour Florida's Newest Winery - Endless Summer Vineyard and Winery, Ft. Pierce. Depart HBOI at 10:30am, return at 1:00pm. $30 for members, $35 for nonmembers. Call (772) 242-2559 for information and reservations.

Thur, Jan 24

Explore the Kissimmee - Depart HBOI at 9:00am, return at 3:00pm. Transportation and lunch included. $40 for members, $50 for nonmembers. Limited seating - call (772) 242-2559 for information and reservations.

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Wed, Jan 30, 2013

OSLS *Special Guest Speaker* Dr. Rita R. Colwell, Chairman, Canon US Life Sciences, Inc. and Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Ocean Science Lecture Series, 7 p.m. at the Johnson Education Center. Free Admission.

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Love Your Lagoon

February 6-8

Wed Feb 6 - 6:30 pm at St. Edwards School - HBOI OSLS in Partnership with the Yale Club of the Treasure Coast: Sir Peter Crane, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Thursday, Feb 7 - IR Lagoon Symposium 2013 Community encouraged to “Meet the Scientists” poster session from 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Friday, Feb 8 Forum on Lagoon Health 9 a.m - 12 p.m.

Friday, Feb 8 – “Love Your Lagoon” Dinner

For more information: www.indianriverlagoon.org

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Marine Mammal Spotlight

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	Pygmy Sperm Whale In the early morning of Sept. 7, a live 10-foot, 873-pound Pygmy Sperm whale came ashore during heavy surf conditions. Marine mammal specialists from the Marine Mammal Research and Conservation Program (MMRC), did a medical evaluation and transported the animal to Harbor Branch. MMRC Program Manager Steve McCulloch coordinated the rescue effort and worked with Dr. Juli Goldstein to obtain blood and other biological samples that may hold the key to the reason for the animal's stranding. READ MORE
	Entangled Whale Seen Offshore Staff with the Harbor Branch Marine Mammal Research and Conservation program confirm a sighting of an entangled humpback whale near the Ft. Pierce Inlet in March 2010.
	Rio, No Stranger to Intervention On March 16, 2010 FAU's Harbor Branch Marine Mammal Research and Conservation staff led a multi-agency effort to capture an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin entangled in fishing gear in the Mosquito Lagoon in Oak Hill, Fla.
	Three Stenellas On August 2, 1999, three Stenella attenuata dolphins were rescued after stranding on the Atlantic coast north of Vero Beach, Florida.
	C6 On August 31, 2000, the Atlantic Bottlenose dolphin known to researchers as C6 was rescued in the Indian River Lagoon after suffering an attack by sharks.
	Rocketman Near Cape Canaveral, Florida, an orphaned baby dolphin was rescued from a sand bar in only seven inches of water. No one knows what happened to his mother.
	Sunshine Key For weeks, dolphin researchers and local citizens had been monitoring a dolphin locked in shallow water after Hurricane Wilma affected the Florida Keys in October, 2005.
	Carter A dolphin calf is reported circling near his dead mother on August 9, 2003. Vero Beach Police Marine Patrol and Harbor Branch Dolphin Research personnel respond to the call.
	Castaway On January 30, 2007, efforts to release an Atlantic Bottlenose dolphin that stranded in November, 2006 proved unsuccessful. "Castaway" restranded four times before efforts were suspended. She was transported to the Marine Mammal Conservancy in Key Largo, Florida for further rehabilitation.
	Dolphin Intervention On June 19, 2008 a team of researchers from Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, the National Marine Fisheries Service, Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute, Save the Manatee Club and others set out in 5 boats on an intervention mission to locate, capture and treat a juvenile Bottlenose dolphin with a foreign object encircling its body.
	Lazarus On July 19, 2002, an Atlantic Bottlenose dolphin calf stranded near Ponce Inlet on Florida's east coast. The Harbor Branch marine mammal rescue team responded, transporting the young dolphin, "Mayday", over 140 miles south to the institute's stranding facility in Fort Pierce.
	Mandy & Troy On July 20, 2006, two Bottlenose dolphins stranded in Stephen's Creek in Clearwater, Florida. Rescuers from Clearwater Marine Aquarium determined both dolphins had upper respiratory infections, and brought them to the Aquarium for treatment and rehabilitation.
	Roughtooths On August 6, 2004, thirty-seven Rough-toothed dolphins (Steno bredanensis) mass stranded on Florida's east coast near Fort Pierce.
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