Shell Club Meeting To Be One Week Late –March 17th at the Sanibel Community House. Hope you can join us!
Because we will be taking down the Shell Show on our usual meeting weekend, our March meeting will be one week later than usual. It will be held on March 17th at the Sanibel Community House
Please note that the doors to the meeting room will not open before 1:45. Only key persons setting up the room will be allowed inside prior to 1:45. Refreshments and the silent auction will begin at 1:45 with the meeting beginning at 2:15.
Greg Herbert, PhD will be our guest speaker. Greg is an Associate Professor in the School of Geosciences and Director of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture and the Environment at the University of South Florida in Tampa. The title of his presentation is “A decade of research expeditions to study the deep water mollusks of the eastern Gulf of Mexico.”
Dr. Herbert has a B.A. in Philosophy from Loyola University, New Orleans and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of California Davis. Greg lives in Tampa with his wife and two daughters.
Greg grew up on the gulf coast collecting seashells and has turned that lifelong passion into a career. As a professional malacologist, Greg and his graduate students study the conservation of Florida marine mollusks and the taxonomy and evolution of the family Muricidae.