Join us next weekend in sunny Florida for BONES & STONES WORKSHOP, March 9 & 10, from 10am-4pm, at the Marine & Coastal Ecology Research Center (MCERC), Spring Hill, FL (near Tampa). This fun weekend of educational activities is centered on marine mammal form (anatomy) and function (behavior). Workshop includes lectures, discussions, and hands-on activities. Students will learn about skeletal adaptations to aquatic life, and be taught how to identify bones and fossils, and collect, clean, and prepare them for storage or display. All class activities will be in a small group setting (limit 10 adult or mature teen participants). To celebrate the first workshop to be held in the unique learning space of the “Sea-More Trolley” classroom, MCERC has acquired funding to subsidize every registered attendee with $500/person scholarships! This lowers the total cost to only $250/person for the two-day workshop (lunches, snacks, beverages included too!). The program fee is a fundraiser for the Trolley classroom project and may be deductible as a non-profit charity donation. Course instructors: Dr. Mithriel MacKay (marine mammal behavior scientist, Director of Research and Education at MCERC), and Dr. Joy Reidenberg (marine mammal anatomist, best known as featured anatomist in the TV documentary series Inside Nature’s Giants). To register, go to www.Marine-Eco.org<http://www.Marine-Eco.org> and click on the "Education Hub" link at the top. Once you enter the Education Hub click on green bar “Explore Program Opportunities” and the workshop is listed at the top. Click on “Read More” and the registration button is at the bottom.