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Oct 19

Take Climate Action: Choose Local Seafood

October is here and so is National Seafood Month! In the Lowcountry, we're welcoming the onset of cooler temperatures by cooking steamy seafood dishes, from serving a Lowcountry boil overflowing with shrimp to stoking the flames for an oyster roast. Many local restaurants join in too, with daily seafood…
Oct 19
Oct 17

Shredder

Kemp’s Ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) Stranding Location: Lighthouse Inlet at Folly Beach, SC Arrival Date: 10/10/2022 Age: Juvenile Weight:2.38 kg (5.2 lbs) Case History On Monday night, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) technicians Meredith Bean and Kaitlyn Roberts responded to a juvenile Kemp’s Ridley that was caught…
Sep 22

Jo

Kemp’s Ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) Stranding Location: Hilton Head Island, SC Arrival Date: 9/5/2022 Age: Juvenile Weight: 2.89 kg (6.3lbs) Case History Jo was caught on hook and line on Hilton Head Island, SC. Amber Kuehn, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) team member and leader of the…
Sep 08

Data Drives Decisions

If you’ve ever attended a South Carolina Aquarium litter sweep in the community, you’ve contributed to a growing citizen science dataset. To date, more than 1,950 litter sweep participants have removed over two million pieces of debris from our natural areas and documented it all in the Litter-Free Digital…
Sep 08

Take Climate Action: Minimize Your Mailbox Contents

Shifting schedules in the fall can often lead to chaos and clutter accruing all around you. Suddenly, you might find your countertops covered in homework, books, bills, magazines and an increasing pile of junk mail. Did you know all those pieces of unsolicited junk mail you receive aren’t just…
Sep 07
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Aug 15

Celeste

Kemp’s Ridley (Lepidochelys Kempii) Stranding Location: Cherry Grove Pier, North Myrtle Beach, SC Arrival Date: July 25, 2022 Age: Juvenile Weight: 2.3 kg (5 lbs) Case History Celeste was caught on hook and line off of Cherry Grove Pier in North Myrtle Beach. South Carolina Department of Natural…
Aug 08

Take Climate Action: Making Moves

There are ample ways to get from point A to point B; our animals at the Aquarium display a variety every day! As they’re making moves crawling, slithering, flying, swimming or a mixture of the aforementioned, we should consider our own transportation plans. The start of a new…
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