Hi, I'm Zoe welcome to Galbraith Marine Science Laboratory. Let's go take a peek inside follow me!
Welcome to the deck on Galbraith, look at this great view
we have here. Sometimes in the bay off in the distance
you can see manatees and dolphins swimming by which is a great place to study.
So now that we've kind of explored the outside of Galbraith
why don't we head on inside and we can kind of explore the inside. So inside we'll meet
Dr. Krediet who spends a lot of his time in this building and he'll be able to explain and show you guys around a little bit
more, and here is Dr. Krediet! Hi, Zoe!
Hi everybody! Welcome to Galbraith, my name is Cory Krediet. I'm a professor of biology and marine science. Let's take a look around.
So I teach a lot of classes in this building including biological oceanography
which is one of our first-year courses in marine science. I also teach marine invert biology and comparative animal physiology.
This is a typical lab room in Galbraith. You can see we've got lots of table space. We also have
sea tables that we fill with bay water, you saw the water from the deck outside.
We can take specimens from the bay, bring them upstairs, keep them all semester long and set up a wide variety of experiments with them.
As we walk down this hallway here we see a lot of kind of the same sort of lab rooms. Here, on this screen here
we see a lot of information about internships and graduate programs that our students are involved in.
As we walk through the hallway here
we see a lot of kind of recent developments in terms of research productivity from our students and faculty.
Our students are integral to our research programs,
they help us get grants, they help us work in the lab in the field and we can't really do our research without them.
As we continue on these are all faculty offices and individual research spaces,
highlighting some student research. We also are really active on Twitter
You guys can follow us on our handle is @ecmarinescience,
follow along what we're doing both in the lab and in the field.
One class that's really popular is our elasmobranch and shark biology and management course taught by Dr. Ski;
he takes students down to the shark lab in Bimini learning about conservation and preservation techniques in sharks.
I actually think he's here. Let's see if we can pop inside.
Hey, Dr. Ski, how are you? Good how are you doing? Good! So this is Professor Ski everybody and what do you teach here?
I teach the principles of ecology, I teach a course on sharks and rays called elasmobranch biology and management, I teach a course on fish biology,
I teach biological oceanography which our first-year students take along with geological oceanography.
Yeah, so we were just looking at your poster about Bimini. Can you tell us a little bit about that?
Sure, so we've been going to Bimini for about 12 or 13 years now. We're now up to two groups per year.
So we go meet with researchers, live with them for a week,
I kind of bill it as half science and half adrenaline because we,
we see a lot of big big sharks about eight to ten species of sharks each time we go.
Well, thanks so much for your time. It was great to see you.
We'll see you later. All right
All right
So one other thing I want to show you guys
while we're here is I want to talk briefly about some more student research that involves faculty and that's our Eckerd College Dolphin Project.
This is a program that's over 25 years old involving our students here on campus
getting out on the bay and studying population dynamics of the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. Speaking of accolades and awards,
Eckerd students lead the nation in the number of NOAA Hollings Scholars.
This is a scholarship program that affords them scholarship during the school year, as well as a 10-week paid internship at a NOAA research
facility during the summer between their junior and senior year.
Good good to see you
Thanks
So you can do marine bio, green chemistry, marine geology or marine geophysics. Whatever you choose there's lots of options,
lots of research opportunities and a great time right on the bay.
So thanks for coming to see Galbraith. I hope you have a great time and I'll pass you off to Zoe.
Hey Zoe! Hey Dr. Krediet! Thank you so much for showing us inside of Galbraith. So we're gonna go check out Boca Ciega
Bay now. Thanks so much for joining me at this part of the tour, and for even more
information why don't you go head on over to the marine science page on the Eckerd website.
Now I am gonna go take a nice walk and enjoy the sea breeze.
