Ecology Students Accepted to Indian River Lagoon Symposium

For the first time in any of Saint Edward's science programs, senior girls Chase Nelson, Emmy Dichter, Kiley Donovan, Millicent Critchfield and Selma Memet were accepted to the Indian River Lagoon Symposium. The students partnered with the Indian River County Conservation Lands Division and Inwater Research Group as part of an Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program funded grant to sample the shoreline biodiversity in the newly-formed salt marsh of the Jones’ Pier Conservation Area. Cast and seine nets were utilized to collect fishes and aquatic invertebrates. Their collections will continue to potentially describe spatial and temporal changes in species inhabiting the salt marsh. The young scientists will present their research poster at the symposium on Feb 22.