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NSU’s Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography to Participate in Tortuga Festival’s Conservation Village
(L to R) Guy Harvey, Ph.D., and NSU’s Derek Burkholder, Ph.D., in the NSU GHRI tent at 2015 Tortuga Festival’s Conservation Village.
If you are going to hold a music festival to bring awareness to the issue of marine conservation, where better to do it than world-famous Fort Lauderdale Beach? The annual Tortuga Music Festival – which has expanded to three days for 2016 – brings together surf, sand, sun and music, as well as the opportunity to heighten awareness for the need for ocean conservation.
And as in years past, Nova Southeastern University (NSU) will be participating in Rock the Ocean’s Conservation Village. This is an area of exhibits that provide a wealth of information, educational experiences and interactive lessons to festival attendees, all of which bring focus and attention to marine conservation.
“This event is something we look forward to each year as it gives us a great opportunity to share important information about our oceans with a huge group of people,” said Richard Dodge, Ph.D. dean of NSU’s Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography. “What’s great is that the event draws people from all over the world, so we have the ability to reach a very large and diverse audience. The health of the oceans affects us all, so this festival is a great way to spread the news.”
The NSU groups participating include NSU’s Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI), NSU Coral Nursery Initiative, NSU’s Fisheries Lab and the Broward County Sea Turtle Conservation Program.