WaterNotes

about & archives

Welcome to WaterNotes.  I’m Sarah.  I’m a student, environmental educator (or naturalist), SCUBA diver, aquarist and all around fish-obsessed person. 

By day, I enjoy sharing my passion for the ocean in outreach and education positions.  I’ve worked for several zoos and aquariums.  I studied wildlife conservation and marine biology while in school and worked in research labs.  I aspire to work on a dive boat in Belize, learn to parallel park, write novels, and swim with great whites.

By night, I helm the pages of this ‘blog.  WaterNotes is focused on the conservation issues present in coastal ecosystems, especially the habitats and wildlife found in Florida.  (That’s where I live afterall.)  In these pages I document the amazing, disturbing, upsetting, inspiring, and breathtaking moments and events that I experience while roaming about in the wilderness.  I also explore the process of adopting a green, eco-conscious, smart and intelligent lifestyle that will help decrease the impact I have on wild places.

You may notice several other undercurrents running through the posts.  These include thoughts about environmental education, fish, the aquarium hobby, and habitat restoration.  In fact, WaterNotes began as a place to chronicle the ups and downs of marine planted aquaria in an effort to gain experience in growing seagrass and eventually, restoring seagrass habitat.  Trust me, it all comes full circle.  Whatever your own interests, I hope you enjoy the ‘Notes. 

Contact me:   notes (at) seanursery (dot) com

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ARCHIVES

Conservation / Green Things / Nature Writing

• Not All Clownfish Are Named Nemo
• Climate Fatigue
• Penelope the Pinniped: Its a Sad Story
• Conversations with Kids on Earth Day
• These Slugs Like Salt (and Seagrass)
• Plankton or Plastic, That is the Question
• Leaping Leviathans in Florida
• What is it About Touch?
• I Brake For Tortoises
• Grey Skies Don’t Bother Me
• Wrangling Algae with a Super Sucker
• Its a Leap Year, Peepers
• Brown Penguins.. I Mean Pelicans
• The Hadal Deep and Fonzie
• Sauteed Purslane Sounds Divine
• I Spy.. An Atlantic Stingray
• Coastal Habitat, Restored by You
• Elkhorn Coral + Human Sewage = Disease
• Focus the Nation and Breakthrough
• Red Mangrove Restoration
• Left for Dead: Burrfish Bycatch in the Lagoon
• Cooling a Hot Ocean to Downgrade Hurricanes
• Lightbulb of the Sea
• A New DDT?  Antibiotics Accumulate in Vultures 
• Cetacean Conservation Videos Online!
• Healthy vs. Damaged Oyster Reefs
• I’ll Try the Saltwort Please
• Coffee with a Clear Conscience
• Subaru Promotes No Child Left Inside
• Trash Fish
• Oysters, a Manatee’s Best Friend
• Resolves and Discardia
• Dear Lipton: Get a Clue!
• Seaweed Pops or Agar Plugs
• Penguin Pandemonium
• Scary Behavior
• Plastic Bag Alternatives and IKEA
• Waterless Carwash?
• Seventh Generation
• Living Fearlessly, Taking Chances
• Traffic’s So Slow You Can Watch a Sunrise
• Homesick Crocodiles
• Obsessed with Questions
• Eights Pounds in Fifteen Minutes
• Float Like a Butterfly, Plummet Like a Hawk
• Moray Eels are Aliens
• Back to Natives
• Q-Tips and Gum
• Interpreting Natural Signs
• Deep Blue and Spots
• Natural Literacy
• Inspired by a Goldfish
• Hope, Is a Furry Bundle
• Wildife Up Close, Too Close
• Crabbies (Not Patties)
• Land Lobsters and Jays

Aquaria

• Seagrass Librarian: Part Three
• Lagoon Life
• Seagrass Librarian: Part Two
• Seagrass Librarian
• 20: May
• 20: April
• 20: March
• 20: Tank Restart
• Fertilizing A Marine Planted Tank
• Monterey Bay Visit: Fotos
• 20: One Year
• 20: Eleven Months
• 20: Ten Months
• 20: Nine Months
• 20: Eight Months
• 20: Seven Months
• 20: Six Months
• 20: Five Months
• 20: Four Months
• 20: Three Months
• 20: Two Months
• The Twenty Gallon Approach