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The Sea Oats Project - Putting Environmentalism into Action
Joan
Turner, DISL Marine Educator
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L to R: Alyson Gamble,
Joan Turner, Margaret Stewart, Priscilla Dabney, and
Cassie Stokes |
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On
May 1, 2004 local students came to the Dauphin Island Sea Lab to
plant sea oats along the beach. Three of the five students
chosen to attend the Student Ocean Summit, which met in January
2004 in Washington, D.C., participated in this event. The sea
oats planting day was a part of the Student Action Plan to which
this group committed themselves.
Priscilla
Dabney, Marine Biology teacher at Daphne High School, was one of
the two teachers who took these students to Washington, D.C.
She encouraged her Marine Biology students to raise money to
purchase the sea oats. Mrs. Dabney taught her students about
the importance of the primary dune plants. In turn, they spread
the message to their classmates. The Daphne High School
students raised over $900.
Joan Turner,
a Marine Educator at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, obtained a $500
micro-grant from the Mobile Bay National Estuaries Program to go
towards purchasing and planting the sea oats.
Half of the
total money was used to buy sea oats for the May 1 planting
day. The rest of the money will be held until the fall when
another planting day will be set for the Baldwin County beaches.
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