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Fri, May 11 Spoil Island Clean-up. Depart from Harbor Branch’s Ocean Discovery Center at 9:30am and return around 1pm. Help Harbor Branch take care of its recently adopted spoil island in the Indian River Lagoon. Learn about the biodiversity of the lagoon and what’s going on right now on the waterway with scientist and boat captain Dennis Hanisak and Ocean Discovery Center guide Sunny Gardner. Take a turn on the rope swing and enjoy the beauty of the IRL. Board the pontoon boat on the Harbor Branch-FAU campus. Bring your water shoes, gloves, and a brown bag lunch for the cooler. Reservations required. Call (772) 242-2559.

Tues, May 22 VIP Tour for HBOI/Members & Guests-Reservations required. 9:30am-11:30am. Meet at the Ocean Discovery Center at 9:30am. Join us for a morning of shoreline discovery on the Indian River Lagoon.

Wed, May 23 at 7pm

The Other Side of Harbor Branch: Conservation on the Scrub Ridge
Presented by Dr. Jon Moore
Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University

About the Lecture
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution was established in 1971 along the shoreline of the Indian River Lagoon. Large tracts of land were purchased at the inception of HBOI, but have remained relatively undisturbed since then. As the east coast of Florida has continued to develop over the decades, this undisturbed land at HBOI has become a de facto nature preserve. One particularly endangered habitat preserved along the west side of HBOI's property is Atlantic Coastal Ridge scrub. This presentation will describe research on and conservation of the endangered plants and animals found in scrub habitat.

Johnson Education Center, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University, 5600 US 1 North, Fort Pierce, FL. Telephone 772-242-2506.

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Peter McCarthy, Ph.D.

Research Professor

pmccart5@hboi.fau.edu
772-242-2632

Title

Research Professor

Education

Ph.D. Microbiology/Biochemistry, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

B.Sc. (Hons) Biochemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

Career

Following a post-doctoral fellowship working with the Natural Products Discovery group at Smith Kline Beckman in Philadelphia, Dr. McCarthy joined Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution where he is currently a Florida Atlantic University Research Professor in the Center for Marine Biomedical and Biotechnology Research. Dr. McCarthy has over 50 publications in scientific literature, teaches through the Florida Atlantic University Semester-by-the-sea program, and is a former President of the Florida Branch of the American Society for Microbiology,

Detailed CV

Research Interests

Projects taking place in Dr. McCarthy's lab include: the cultivation and identification of the symbiotic microbes present in deep-water marine sponges; screening for novel antimicrobial agents from marine invertebrates and microbes; and finding biotechnological applications for microbial products. Dr. McCarthy works closely with the chemists in the Natural Products Discovery group on the isolation and identification of chemicals produced by the unusual microbes with the ultimate goal of discovering new therapies for diseases such as cancer.