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Recapping A Busy Nesting Season And

Go Blue Award Recipients Announced

The 2022 Go Blue
Award Recipients
The 14th Annual
Go Blue Awards
was held on Oct. 28!
Attendees were treated
to an awe-inspiring
keynote presentation
by Dr. Wallace J.
Nichols. Captivating
everyone’s attention This initiative is not simply about collecting the most
of keeping a “blue mind,” we celebrated this special event candy wrappers, the competition between schools and
and the award recipients for their dedicated work in ocean community partners is a great way to keep them engaged globe who are making great strides in the attraction
conservation! in this initiative. industry using their innovation, creativity, and passion.
Blue Staff Member of the Year: Jennifer Reilly Recently, LMC hosted its HallowMarine event! From Influencers on the list are from zoos and aquariums that
LMC Blue Volunteer of the Year: Tammy Tauscher costume contests, trick or treating, and a pumpkin splash, are leading the way for sustainability within the attraction
Blue Nonprofit of the Year: Florida Marine Science there were many spooky activities for guests to take part industry.
Educators Association in! A special thank you to everyone who attended this With more than 25 years of experience, Dehart is well-
Blue Business of the Year: Brightmark inaugural event. known for his marine research, conservation initiatives,
Blue Friend of the Year: Leneita Fix November By The Sea Lecture aquatic life support operations, and expert animal
Blue Ambassador of the Year: Shelby Thomas From October to April, join LMC after hours for husbandry care. Throughout his career, he has played
Eleanor Fletcher Lifetime Achievement Award: our fun and engaging By The Sea Lecture Series. The a vital role in opening three world-class aquariums:
Roderic B. Mast series will feature local scientists, conservationists, and Kingdom of the Seas Aquarium at the Henry Doorly Zoo,
Blue Hatchling Youth of the Year: Ajani Stella photographers. Registration includes one beer ticket, Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada, and the Phillip and Patricia
Third Highest Nesting Season On Record access to LMC’s Sky Deck for a beer garden gathering, Frost Museum of Science in Miami.
The 2022 nesting season has officially ended and it’s and presentation in our new auditorium. New Year Blue Year
the third-highest season on record! This year, our research November’s presenters were, Matt Ajemian, Ph.D., We’re coming
team was incredibly hard at work documenting 18,132 FAU Harbor Branch and Angela Collins, Ph.D., Florida close to the end of
sea turtle nests within the 9.5-mile stretch of beach they Sea Grant, with a talk on the “The Return of Florida’s 2022 and there’s still
monitor. Great Goliath Grouper – New Opportunities and time to make this
Challenges.” year your bluest year
Current Sea Turtle Patients yet and participate in
Currently, our Loggerhead Marinelife
rehabilitation Center’s New Year Blue
team is busy Year Challenge. This
taking care of month we’re asking you to be thankful for sustainability
three juvenile and say no to plastic wrap and ziplock bags!
green sea turtles! To show exactly how thankful we are for sustainability,
Binx was we threw in an extra challenge in November and
found floating challenged you to have a sustainable Thanksgiving
in Port St. Lucie celebration.
with a healed boat strike injury that left permanent rear Our Community
limb paralysis. The impaction had been found to cause In partnership with the Richard David Kahn (RDK)
Halloween Happenings At Loggerhead Marinelife a buoyancy problem. Currently, Binx has a weight on Melanoma Foundation and Tiki Hut Livin, LMC was
Center (LMC) the carapace to counterbalance the floating and has been gifted a reef-safe sunscreen dispenser for campus. We are
Unwrap the moved to a larger tank. extremely grateful for this portable dispenser that we can
Waves is in full Smalls was found floating in Jenson Beach due to take to our beach cleanups and other outreach events.
swing. LMC’s pneumonia. This young green is emaciated and had a large The dispenser is pre-loaded with Stream2Sea, a
education team amount of epibiota on the carapace. Smalls is recovering mineral-based sunscreen and certified biobased product.
is hosting its in the shallow hatchling tank because of weakness and Stream2Sea has the only products in the world tested and
annual candy drowning risk. Recently, Smalls has been more active and proven safe for C. elegans, freshwater fish, saltwater fish
wrapper initiative. eating off the bottom. Antibiotics and supportive care will and coral larvae.
T hi s i ni t i a t i ve continue. Our mission is to promote the conservation of ocean
allows students Buoy was found floating and entangled in fishing line ecosystems with a special focus on threatened and
and community with fibropapilloma (FP) tumors in Dubois Park. Surgery endangered sea turtles.
members to get was performed recently to remove FP tumors on both
into the “spirit” eyes and the left front flipper. Additional tumors will be
of conservation removed in a staged, slow fashion in order to minimize
by collecting their stress and maximize healing. Buoy has been moved to a
candy wrappers larger tank.
from Halloween to Dehart Named Top 50 Blooloop Influencer
be recycled. This year, with the help of 80 schools and 28 President and CEO Andy Dehart was named in
community partners, LMC will ship the candy wrappers Blooloop’s first-ever 50 Zoo and Aquarium Influencer
off to TerraCycle to be recycled! List. The list showcases individuals from all over the

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