2023 Membership Dues - Please pay by February 15th

Support our organization this year by joining or renewing your membership before February 15th. Membership benefits include discounted rates at workshops and meetings and being added to our mailing list so you receive our bi-annual newsletter and notifications of any upcoming events. Please fill out the registration form and you can pay your dues online or mail a check to the address below. We accept memberships after February 15th.

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37th FAB Annual Meeting

Dates: November 6-7, 2023
Location: Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center, 1800 Weedon Drive NE, St. Petersburg, FL 33702

Thanks to all of our presenters at this year's annual meeting, especially the students.

Congratulations to our student award winners!

• ​Best Graduate Oral Presentation: "Prescribed fire effects on aquatic invertebrate emergence and terrestrial invertebrate movement", Coleson Wrege, University of Florida
• Best Undergraduate Oral Presentation: "Stomach content analysis of the non-native Mayan Cichlid (Mayaheros urophthalmus) in Wolf Branch Creek Nature Preserve", Adam Cieslik, University of Tampa
• Best Poster Presentation: ​"Seasonal abundance of the aeolid nudibranch Dondice jupiteriensis in Tampa Bay", Samantha Schlegel, University of Tampa
• Student Travel Award: Coleson Wrege, University of Florida

Congratulations to our FAB award winners!

• Contributions to Florida Aquatic Biology: Russel Frydenborg
• Contributions to FAB: Mark Wetzel

Please click here for the final program.

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2023 Marine Workshop

Topic: Marine Bivalves
Lecturer: Dr. Jose Leal
Dates: November 8-10, 2023
Location: University of Tampa Marine Laboratory, Tampa, Florida

We thank Dr. Jose Leal for leading the third part of our Mollusca workshops on marine Bivalvia. He provided informative lectures on local bivalves, led a field collection trip, and assisted participants with bivalve identifications during our lab sessions. Thank you!