Education Programs
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Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory's educational program and exhibits are organized around the following interrelated themes:
- to display and communicate biological diversity at the phylum and class level and to display the wealth of marine life and natural environments that exist in this region. The program is unique in that it emphasizes creative display of the ocean's most unusual animals, the invertebrates - a group that is usually neglected in aquarium exhibits.
- to display and communicate regional coastal ecosystems; to emphasize the connection and interdependence of the coastal ocean to adjacent coastal forests, springs, rivers and marshes. GSML is located in one of the most natural coastal areas left in the lower 48 states.
- to display and communicate the value of marine organisms to human society in terms of their role in scientific discovery; to highlight the use of marine life in scientific and biomedical research, particularly cancer research, thereby providing a unique venue for broader aspects of science education, the value of marine biodiversity to human well-being in medicine, the practical benefits of scientific research and the intellectual excitement, adventure and discovery involved in doing science.
GULF SPECIMEN MARINE LAB • PO BOX 237 • PANACEA, FL 32346 USA • (850) 984-5297 • FAX (850) 984-5233
