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FAU Features from page 10 FAU Harbor Branch The Dolphin Spotter project was supported by the Protect
Announces Dolphin Spotter: Wild Dolphins Florida specialty license plate, which is
said Clara Tepohl, FAU-IMPRS graduate student. “This novel administered by the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
experience can open the possibility to take my research and A Land-Based Citizen Science Foundation.
my career anywhere.” For more information on Dolphin Spotter or other
IMPRS-SC program students will be enrolled in FAU’s Project outreach programs at FAU Harbor Branch, visit www.fau.
Integrative Biology-Neuroscience (IBNS) doctoral degree edu/HBOI/discover-fau-harbor-branch.
program offering interdisciplinary neuroscience education. Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch
Students from FAU’s new Neuroscience Ph.D. program, Oceanographic Institute in Fort Pierce is welcoming the The Osher Lifelong Learning
sponsored by the Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute, may also public to join researchers in collecting information on wild Institute At FAU Jupiter
participate in the IMPRS-SC program. dolphin populations through “Dolphin Spotter,” a new land-
“The IMPRS for Synapses and Circuits is an exciting based citizen science project. Announces Spring Course
step forward in cutting-edge neuroscience education as the The land-based Dolphin Spotter project encourages
flagship, U.S.-based IMPRS program. We are delighted to participants from across Florida to submit observations Schedule
launch this program that features a critical mass of leading and photos of dolphins from land through the web-based
neuroscience researchers and uniquely engages our students sighting submission portal. Submissions will be added to By Kami Batchelder
in the international bioscience community,” said David FAU Harbor Branch’s Stranding and Population Assessment The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Florida Atlantic
Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., CEO and scientific director of MPFI. Team’s database to support research efforts on dolphins living University in Jupiter has announced its course offerings
FAU and Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience in the Indian River Lagoon. With thousands of miles along for the spring semester, which begins Thursday, March 10.
partner to offer high school, undergraduate and graduate-level Florida’s coastline, citizen scientists can capture areas that Registration is now open.
educational programs. Learn more at www.fau.edu/jupiter/ traditional surveys don’t reach. Taught by FAU professors and distinguished guest
education/mp-partnerships/. “Like human fingerprints, dolphins can be individually lecturers, course offerings include such varied subjects as
identified using the unique patterns of nicks and notches on foreign policy, political science, film, music, art history
their dorsal fin,” said Gabby Barbarite, Ph.D., director of and literature. The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
outreach and engagement, FAU Harbor Branch. “Launching provides seasoned adults the opportunity to enrich their
the Dolphin Spotter citizen science project will give the lives through noncredit, university-level courses with no
public an opportunity to contribute to FAU Harbor Branch’s homework or tests.
efforts to better understand the ecology, behavior and Spring one-time lectures, performances and courses
distribution of wild dolphins across Florida.” will take place online and in-person in the Osher Lifelong
102 Year Anniversary The project’s goal is to create a platform for the community Learning Institute complex at FAU’s John D. MacArthur
nd
Do You Have to assist in the monitoring of Florida’s dolphins, while Campus, 5353 Parkside Drive, and include:
• Monday, March 10 at 2:30 p.m., “Objection! Current

An Old Fur Hanging providing opportunities for education and environmental Contentious and Confusing Legal Issues,” presented by
stewardship. Citizen scientists choosing to participate will
In The Closet be asked to record variables such as date, time, location, Irving Labovitz, a lawyer admitted before the U.S. Supreme
Court, as well as multiple federal appellate and trial courts.
dolphin behavior, water quality and weather conditions, in
Not Being Worn? addition to submitting photos. Reported sighting information This four-week course focuses on selected current, highly
also will be displayed on an interactive map located on FAU publicized, volatile and contentious legal and constitutional
Restyle Your Old Fur Harbor Branch’s Citizen Science web page. issues presented in cases pending before federal and state
“Factors that impact Florida dolphin’s ecosystems directly
Hanging In Your Closet impact our ecosystems and the more we can learn about the trial courts as well as the U.S. Supreme Court.

• Tuesday, March 22 at 1 p.m., “Germany and Israel: A
population, the more we can do to conserve it,” said Steve Story of Guilt and an Unlikely Friendship,” presented by
Burton, director, Stranding and Population Assessment Team, Anette Isaacs, an OLLI instructor who lectures on the topics
FAU Harbor Branch. pertaining to German history, culture, politics, and society.

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