The Florida State University Coastal & Marine Lab Conservation Lecture Series for August 11, 2011 will feature the History and Natural History of Dog Island.

The event will begin at 7:00 p.m. at the FSUCML Auditorium in St. Teresa, Florida.  The lecture will be presented by Dr. Fran James, FSU Biological Science Faculty Member Emeritus.

Dog Island is the easternmost barrier island off the panhandle of Florida.  A review of its history and natural history can tell us how human and natural forces have shaped its present condition and what it may be like in the future.  Today it is an ecological treasure.

Please join us for light refreshments after the talk to chat with Dr. James.

Fran James is a retired professor who taught courses in evolution and the natural history of birds and mammals at FSU.  She has visited Dog Island various times since the late 1970's.  Fran has been an active conservationist in the region and nationally.

She has served on the national boards of directors of both the World Wildlife Fund and The Nature Conservancy and she is a past president of both the American Ornithologists' Union and the American Institute of Biological Sciences.  Her most recent local research efforts have involved the fire ecology of the longleaf pine ecosystem in the Apalachicola National Forest.

The FSU Coastal & Marine Laboratory is located at 3618 Highway 98 in St. Teresa, Florida.  For more information, call 850-697-4120.

Visit www.marinelab.fsu.edu for more information.  Click here for directions.

Note:  Help solve the hunger crisis in our community by bringing non-perishable food items to the lecture to donate to Second Harvest of the Big Bend, part of “The Nation's Food Bank Network.”

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