SEEDS Summer Field Camp to South Florida
Marine Turtle Nesting and Hatching
Everglades and Mangroves/Coral Reef Ecosystems
Wed 1st - Fri 10th July 2009
For ages 11 - 15
Fee: $720.00 - financial aid available and one full fee waiver available
Group size: Nine kids, two teachers.
Trip leaders: Dr. Mike
Rosenzweig, Director Virginia Tech Science Outreach Program and co-founder of
SEEDS, Ms. Anna Gianakos, Denver Co. Public School and SEEDS teacher since 2004.
Fee includes:
¥ nine nights lodging
¥ three
meals per day, drinks and snacks
¥ orientation
and training for activities
¥ round-trip
transportation
¥ field
trips
¥ A unique
and fun learning experience
Trip Itinerary
July 1:
Depart
Blacksburg 7:00AM SHARP
Rest stops
in NC, SC, GA, and FL.
Arrive
Central Florida 7:00PM
July 2:
AM Breakfast
Explore Wekiwa Springs State Park
Accompanied by Dr. Dave Jenkins (Ph.D. from Virginia Tech and Mike's old pal)
Dinner
July 3
AM Breakfast
Depart for Juno Beach
PM Arrive Juno Beach 3PM
Explore beach and dune ecosystem
Dinner
July 4:
Dawn exploration for nesting/hatching sea turtles
AM Breakfast, depart for Key Largo
PM: Arrive Key Largo, explore the local environment
Dinner
July 5:
AM Breakfast: Depart for Grassy Key
Dolphin Research Center
PM: Depart for Key Largo
Reflect/relax/postcards, explore local environment
Dinner
AM Breakfast
Snorkel at John Pennekamp State Park Reef
lunch
Snorkel off the beach John Pennekamp State Park reef.
Dinner
July 7:
AM
Breakfast
Snorkel with "Scuba Do"
Lunch
PM Depart for Jupiter (Florida, not the planet)
Explore mangroves and scrub forests
Dinner
July 8:
AM
Breakfast and travel to Canaveral National Seashore
Lunch
July 9:
AM Breakfast
Field Trip to Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge.
PM Dinner and Turtle nesting and hatching experience at
Archie Carr. Accompanied by Dr. Dave Jenkins
...then to bed!
Return To Blacksburg. Depart Orlando area at 8:00AM SHARP!
Arrive Blacksburg E.T.A 9:00 PM (we'll call by cell phone
when we are one hour from Blacksburg).