On Saturday, September 16, hundreds of thousands of volunteers from across the world headed to their coastal beaches and marshes to remove trash and marine debris as part of the 2017 International Coastal Cleanup. In the 2017 International Coastal Cleanup Report, organizers write that over 500,000 people participated last year alone. In the end, 13,840,398 items…
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Nat Geo – Managing Feral Horse Populations in North Carolina’s Rachel Carson Reserve
As part of an ongoing project, Erika Zambello is visiting all National Estuarine Research Reserves in the continental United States. Established by NOAA, the sites work together toward long-term research, education and coastal stewardship. Paula Gillikin starts up the motor, flips the boat into reverse and pulls out of the North Carolina National Estuarine Research…
Press – NWF State Baseball Team Helps Build Reef
The Northwest Florida State College baseball team took time off the field last Friday to help build oyster reefs in Alaqua Bayou in Walton County. “They were some of the fastest reef builders so far,” said Erika Zambello, communications coordinator for the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance. Read the article on the Northwest Florida Daily News here!
E. Zambello Writing and Art 