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Receive a Sea2Shore T-Shirt With a $35 Donation
Be the first of your friends to sport the new Sea2Shore  Alliance t-shirt! Your $35 donation will help us buy satellite tags for manatees, fuel for tracking boats, and supplies for our field work. We need your support to continue our projects. Please take a moment to make a donation today and wear your Sea2Shore t-shirt with pride knowing you helped make a difference for wildlife!
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News From the Field: Belize
Sea2Shore staff returned to Belize in June as part of our long-term project to strengthen manatee conservation throughout the Caribbean. Our team was truly international with participants from around the world including Cuba, the U.S., Australia, and Belize. We conducted manatee captures and health assessments in Southern Lagoon and this year we also added captures off Belize City.
Click here to read more on the Belize trip.
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Sea2Shore Updates Mission Statement
After much discussion and deliberation, we have a new mission statement. We feel this new statement conveys Sea2Shore's goals in a short, easy-to-understand way. We hope you all like it as much as we do!
Sea to Shore Alliance, through research, education, and conservation, works to improve the health and productivity of coastal environments for the endangered species and human livelihoods that depend on them. |
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Welcome New Employees
 Susan Kahraman is a native of New Jersey and spent 22 years commuting to New York City before moving to St. Petersburg. In 2006, after years in the corporate world, she was delighted to be hired by Buddy Powell as the office manager for Wildlife Trust's Aquatic Conservation Program. Susan now works for Sea2Shore and continues to enjoy learning about manatees, right whales, sea turtles and the incredibly fascinating lives of the researchers who study them. In her spare time she loves to garden, read, cook, and bake.
Lucy Keith Diagne has spent the past 25 years conducting field research with marine mammals, including 13 years working with manatees. She has a wide range of field experience with endangered species including penguins, sea turtles, the Hawaiian monk seal, and all three species of manatees.
Lucy began studying West African manatees in Gabon in 2006, and after six years of field work has completed the first countrywide manatee surveys there. Lucy is currently developing long-term manatee research projects and study 
sites in three different regions of Senegal where she began work in January 2009. Additionally, Lucy is in the process of building a collaborative partnership for manatee fieldwork, genetic sampling, and comparison of results with researchers from 18 West African countries.
She received her B.S. degree in biology from St. Lawrence University, her MSc degree in marine biology from the Boston University Marine Program in Woods Hole, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine, where her dissertation research focuses on the ecology and genetics of the West African manatee.
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News From the Field: MRP Manatee Amber Has a Calf
Amber the manatee gave birth to a calf at Blue Spring State
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image by Diane Schwartz
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Park on June 13. Both mom and calf are doing well. She's another wonderful success story for the Manatee Rehabilitation Partnership (MRP)!
Amber was rescued in 2001 at Florida's Blue Spring State Park as an infant after her mother and twin sister abandoned her. On February 26, 2009, Amber was released at Blue Spring State Park. She was tagged and tracked by Sea2Shore to ensure she adapted well to life back in the wild. Congratulations, Amber!
Visit www.Wildtracks.org to learn more about the MRP and follow tagged manatees online.
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Right Whale Festival
 The third annual Right Whale Festival is coming up! Join Sea2Shore and our partners at Jacksonville Beach's Seawalk Pavilion on Saturday, November 19, to celebrate right whale calving season with a festival for the whole family. We'll have a 5K run/walk, a beach cleanup, live music, food, games, and fun kids' activities. Click here for more information on the festival or becoming a sponsor.
Cool Right Whale Festival t-shirts are available for $10; email jkoelsch@sea2shore.org to order yours today! |
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An Evening With Photographer Wayne Lynch to Benefit Sea2Shore
 Save the date! Join Sea2Shore on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at The Art Center of Longboat Key for an evening with famed wildlife photographer Wayne Lynch. Additional details on the event will be coming soon, including ticket prices and time, but please mark your calendar now for this unique event. |
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Happy Birthday Snooty the Manatee
 Thanks to the South Florida Museum and Parker Aquarium as well as everyone who came out to wish Snooty the Manatee a happy 63rd birthday. Sea2Shore staff enjoyed meeting some new folks and sharing a little about what we do everyday to help manatees, sea turtles, and right whales survive. |
