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Does your neighborhood, community group or class want to help restore Tampa Bay?

Our Bay Mini-Grants program provides funding of up to $5,000 for bay restoration, pollution prevention and education projects. 

  

Learn more about the grants, and tips for completing the grant application, by registering for one of our two upcoming grant webinars:

 

August 13, 2015 at 3:00 p.m.   

 

August 27, 2015 at 6:00 p.m.

 

Contact Misty Cladas at misty@tbep.org to sign up, or call her at (727) 893-2765.

The Bay Mini-Grants are a
competitive grant program awarded annually. In addition to our regular grants of up to $5,000, three special criteria habitat restoration projects (of up to $10,000 each) will be awarded this year. Grants must involve the community.

 The deadline to apply is October 1.

 

Bay Mini-Grants are funded from sales of the Tampa Bay Estuary license plate.   

 

Pinellas Residents: Take the Watershed IQ Quiz, Win Prizes!

 

Pinellas County Watershed Management is conducting an online survey to find out what residents know about watersheds. The survey will be open until August 31 and can be found here.  

 

Information gathered from the survey will help Pinellas environmental managers assess  the success of their education campaigns. If participants supply an email address, they will be eligible for a random drawing for prizes donated by Be Floridian and the Tampa Bay Estuary Program. Prizes include Be Floridian sunglasses, beach balls, Be Floridian plastic pink flamingos, and flamingo art posters suitable for framing.

 

For more information about watersheds and Pinellas County Watershed Management visit

www.pinellascounty.org/watershed.   

   

Fostering Behavior Change Workshop

Monday, August 31
9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Sarasota County UF/IFAS Extension
6700 Clark Rd.
Sarasota


The Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program (CHNEP) invites you to a behavior change workshop on Monday, August 31, 2015 at the Sarasota County UF/IFAS Extension. The workshop will be led by marketing experts with Salter>Mitchell, who worked with the Tampa Bay Estuary Program to create the "Be Floridian" fertilizer education campaign (billboard below used in campaign).  

 

 

   

Salter>Mitchell is a marketing and communication agency focused on change -- behavior change, culture change and changing public opinion.     

 
Participants will be introduced to the concept and application of behavior change outreach in a way that will shift how they think about and conduct educational outreach efforts going forward, and will leave them feeling more confident about putting this practice into action.

 

The workshop will cover key steps to creating a successful behavior change effort -- from determining one's target behavior and audiences, to conducting research, to developing a plan with creative components purposefully designed to influence behavior. Each participants will be given their own behavior change toolkit.

 

Sponsors:

This training is made possible because of the generosity of CHNEP, Gulf of Mexico Coastal Training Program, International Ocean Institute-USA, Sarasota County UF/IFAS Extension, Janet and Bruce Bunch, GE Foundation and the Friends of Charlotte Harbor Estuary, Inc.  

 

 

Registration: There is a registration fee of $20 with refreshments and lunch provided. Please register by noon on Monday, August 24 by completing the registration form on  www.EventBrite.com. 

 

 (If the link doesn't work for you, go to www.EventBrite.com then search for CHNEP but change the location to Florida.)  

 

 

AGENDA 

9:00       Registration

9:30       Introduction to Behavior Change

11:00     Letting Research Guide You

12:00     Lunch

1:00       Developing Your Outreach Plan

2:00       Break

2:15       Ensuring Your Creative Serves Your Goal

4:00       Summary Wrap-Up

4:15       End of training

 

Directions: The training will be held at the Sarasota County UF/IFAS Extension (6700 Clark Rd, Sarasota, 941/861-9900) located east of I-75 on Clark Road at Twin Lakes Park. After entering the park, take the second right-hand and parking will be on the right. The Extension office is situated northeast of the parking areas. The conference room is adjacent to the office lobby, on the right as you enter. The main line for this complex is 941/861-9900.

  

 




Register Now To Get Early Bird Rates for BASIS 6 Conference
Student Scholarships Still Available
 
Bay Area Scientific Information Symposium
USF St. Petersburg University Student Center

200 6th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701

September 28-30, 2015

 

  Registration is now open for the 6th Bay Area Scientific Information Symposium, with 

early bird fees of $100 for the full conference, as well as single-day registration options. Conference details and online registration are at http://tbrpc.org/events/basis6/index.shtml

   

A limited number of student scholarships will be offered; contact maya@tbrpc.org or esherwood@tbep.org for more information.

 

The theme for BASIS 6 is Navigating Changing Tides: Addressing New Challenges with Effective Science and Management. The symposium will explore the 21st century dimensions of environmental challenges and the innovative and practical strategies to address them.  

  

Sessions will focus on the themes involving Tampa Bay or nearby estuaries:

  • RESTORE Act research & restoration priorities (including oil spill science and coastal restoration techniques)
  • Climate Change (including invasive species, sea level rise, extreme weather and habitat adaptation)
  • Coastal Connections (including community-based projects engaging homeowners, students, and other groups; and the Bay's connection with the Gulf of Mexico)
  • Emerging Technologies, Methods & Issues (including water reuse, chemical contaminants and micro-plastics)
  • Practical Application of Environmental Management & Policy (including fertilizer ordinances, low impact development, and evolving regulatory policy)
BASIS 6 is jointly sponsored by the Tampa Bay Estuary Program and the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council.

 

The mission of the Tampa Bay Estuary Program is to build partnerships to restore and protect Tampa Bay through implementation of a scientifically sound, community-based management plan. TBEP is a partnership of Hillsborough, Manatee and Pinellas counties; the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater; the Southwest Florida Water Management District; the the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. 
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