Space Coast Eco-Geeks

 The tortoises seem to be happy hanging out at Hundred Acre Hollows  Burrowing  Basking Doing all the things that Gopher Tortoises do.  There are other visitors too.  Not sur...

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The County Commission voted to lease the land to the GREAT group in October instead of pursuing plans to sell it to developers.  By November, GREAT was a registered non-profit and had insured a...

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 Since I last posted, the hundred acre hollows has been officially protected!  The county issued a lease to GREAT for $1 a year.  It can be ended at a later date, but for now, our 114 acres a...

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 During the days, the camera traps take lots of pictures of tortoises.  Not too surprising considering that the are set up outside tortoise burrows.  I always get the biggest kick out of the ...

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I think we have most of the gopher tortoise burrows marked with GPS coordinates.  There are 249 that we were able to find.  Apparently it would cost a developer about $1,7000 per tortoise to ...

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ECO Classroom was the program sponsored by Northrop Grumman which sent the Space Coast Eco Geeks to Costa Rica last summer.  Applications are open for teachers who want to go next year.  Jus...

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I created a google form to have my students help collect data from the camera trap photos.  They had fun being my beta testers.  Then Ryan set up the form on a web site and fixed the viewing ...

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 I moved the camera traps from the south side of the site to the north side.  Apparently, I'm not so good at aiming though.  Mostly I got a lot of pictures of the top of tortoise shells.  T...

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 I was doing a quick sort through the photos from the camera traps seeing what was new.  A nine banded armadillo.  Birds.  I'm sure Ryan could tell me what kind. So many bobcat pi...

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I was out on the 114 acres this weekend downloading photos and moving the cameras.  I have thousands of photos to sort through now, but I wanted to share a few from camera 5.  It was set up...

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 Ryan has been out tagging Gopher Tortoise Burrows. We've also been catching some different animals in the burrows.  We think that this is an Eastern Spotted Skunk This little guy ...

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After one full week of having the cameras placed in the field, I went out this morning to download the photos.  There were birds  And more birds. And even mice. But the thing ...

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We had a camera out on the property to get an idea of who is on the property.    Look at who is visiting the property.    Here is a nighttime shot.  These are just a few of the sh...

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Saturday morning we were lucky enough to go out to the sight to set up our cameras.    We scouted for burrows and worked to set up our cameras to see what is living in them.  Ryan t...

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 On Saturday, the Space Coast Eco-Geeks got together to take a tour of the Suntree Study Site. Anita and Tom along with Sarah and Terry from GREAT!  met us there.    There has been...

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I just got an e-mail letting me know that my donorschoose project has been fully funded!  7 donors all helped by sending money to help buy 2 more camera traps to start our gopher tortoise stu...

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On Tuesday of last week I went to a meeting of the group working to prevent development of the 114 acres in Suntree.  They are now calling themselves GREAT! which stands for Greenspace Environm...

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This is one of the pictures we took with a camera trap in Costa Rica.   We had 10 camera traps to do our collections while we were at La Selva.  Three were borrowed from Conservation Int...

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I learned how to use i-movie today and put together a video about our trip to Costa Rica.  Check it out.  I am scheduled to share photos of the trip at a faculty meeting next week and I thou...

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It was so much fun to hear about everyones individual projects during our last day at La Selva.  They were all so different!  The California group focused on soil testing.  They even had u...

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La Selva is a biological research facility not far from Saripiqui in Costa Rica.  It is run by the Organization for Tropical Studies and is also one the TEAM network sites.  Scientists and ...

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There were a few days at La Selva when I was just too tired to set up a post, I'll make those up now though, so that there is a complete record of what we learned. Here is the first of the makeu...

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Today we traveled again to Tirimbina.  Last night we visited for a bat tour.   No post on that yet, I was so tired that I was asleep on the bus ride home.  Tirimbina is a lodge and preserv...

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Most of the time we have been here we have been working, but there are a few educational tours mixed in as well.  Yesterday we spent the afternoon getting a tour of a fair trade coffee plant...

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We have spent many hours since arriving in Costa Rica out hiking the trails to check on our traps.  So far, we have logged 48 miles and the trip is only halfway done!  It has been well w...

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