FLMS

SPRINGS ACADEMY: SPRINGS BIOLOGY WITH DR. STEVE WALSH

Date: Tuesday, September 9th
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Walsh, retired U.S. Geological Survey
Admission: Free! Drop-ins are welcome. No need to register in advance.
Time: 12-1pm
Location: Florida Springs Welcome Center
18645 High Springs Main Street, High Springs, Fl 32643


Springs Academy is a free lecture series on Florida’s freshwater resources and springs. Each class is tailored to make learning quick and easy so you’re ready to hit the ground running as a springs expert.

The classes will be held on the second Tuesday of every month, from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm. Participants who attend all 6 classes will receive a certificate of completion upon request. Discussion will go as deep as our time and audience allows.

If you are unable to attend in-person, you can watch the lecture live on Facebook, via Facebook live:
https://www.facebook.com/floridaspringsinstitute/live_videos


September 9th
Springs Biology – Dr. Steve Walsh, retired U.S. Geological Survey

October 14th
Springs Chemistry– Greg Owen, Alachua County Environmental Protection Department

November 11th
Springs Stresses – Dr. George Hochmuth, University of Florida

December 9th
Springs Advocacy – Ryan Smart, Florida Springs Council

Dr. Steve Walsh’s Biography:
Stephen J. Walsh is retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, where he was a research scientist for over 30 years. His interests are in the area of conservation biology, biodiversity, and ecology of aquatic organisms, primarily fishes. He has worked in freshwater and marine ecosystems in the southeastern and central U.S., Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Neotropics, southeast Asia, western Pacific, and Africa. He has a B.A. degree (magnum cm laude) in Biology from St. Louis University, a M.Sc. degree in Zoology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and a Ph.D. in Zoology (now Biology) from the University of Florida, where he currently has courtesy faculty appointments in the School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, and the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH). In addition to his current board service on the Howard T. Odum Florida Springs Institute and the Ichetucknee Alliance, he has served in numerous other professional capacities including with the American Fisheries Society, the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and the Southeastern Fishes Council. In his retirement, Steve enjoys traveling, tennis, swimming, kayaking, reading, photography, gardening, and curating the megadiverse Neotropical brush-footed butterflies of the genus Adelpha at the FLMNH McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity.
Questions? Send an e-mail to: [email protected]

SEE YOU THERE!

The second half of our winter workshop was filled with more of FLMS great partners sharing their projects and research. How do you get a legislative appropriation or identity the Asian swamp eel or handle your freshwater system after two hurricanes? Now we know! And all this before lunch!