August Member Meeting

When
August 07, 2025
7:00 PM

USA Dive Club members and their guests are invited to attend either an in person meeting or a virtual meeting using Zoom.

The IN PERSON MEETING will be held at our NEW location:

Elks Pompano Beach Lodge
4000 NE Tenth Way
Pompano Beach, FL 33064

Some GPS instructions may try and bring you in off Dixie, but there is a locked gate. Please come down Sample and turn onto 12th. Park anywhere, but enter the west door with the awning, the other door is their office entrance.

To Attend the ZOOM MEETING:

You must register in advance for this meeting. Click on the link below to register. Members bringing a guest should send the guest's name and email address to president@usadiveclub.org so the guest's registration will be approved. Members and guests must register using this link.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/2FyNWSBoT_q_CNwf494BJg

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the link to click when it is time to join the meeting. You must register before 5:00 PM on the day of the meeting.

Please join the meeting a little early to allow time to admit people from the waiting room before the meeting starts.

We will start the meeting with 10 minutes of social time so we can catch up with our friends. Then we will turn the meeting over to our speaker.

Program:

Seagrass conservation and restoration in Florida Virtual Speaker

***Virtual Speaker***

Joshua Patterson is Associate Professor of restoration aquaculture at the University of Florida. He has been faculty in the Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Program since 2014. Josh’s academic training started with a B.S. in Biology from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. He then earned an M.S. in Aquaculture/Aquatic Sciences from Kentucky State University in Frankfort, KY and a Ph.D. in Renewable Natural Resources from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. Josh conducts research and outreach, mentors graduate students, and manages projects. His lab focuses on using aquaculture as a tool to enhance or restore aquatic environments including coral reefs, nearshore hardbottom sponges, oyster reefs, and seagrass beds. In a unique arrangement, Josh and his lab are housed at The Florida Aquarium’s Coral Conservation and Research Center on the eastern shore of Tampa Bay in Apollo Beach. This talk will focus on Florida’s beautiful and important seagrass meadows, including discussion of impacts to these habitats and conservation/restoration strategies.

August Member Meeting

Seagrass conservation and restoration in Florida ***Virtual Speaker***

Seagrass conservation and restoration in Florida Virtual Speaker