Please join us for the fifth in a series of six lectures in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Rookery Bay Research Reserve - Rookery Bay through the Eyes of the Researcher. Stephen Wilkie, Masters Candidate at Gulf Coast University in Environmental Science, will present on his effort to replicate the 1970’s fish population study by Dr. Bernie Yokel.

The 2018-19 lecture series will focus on the history of the Rookery Bay area and the establishment of the Research Reserve. Lectures by staff and volunteers will describe 3,000 years of use of the estuary, the grassroots movement to save the bay, fisheries research, the establishment of the Research Reserve and Environmental Learning Center, as well as some of the more recent accomplishments and notable events in the Reserve’s timeline.