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2001
MEDIA ADVISORY FROM THE MEL FISHER MARITIME MUSEUM
The Mel Fisher Maritime Museum education department invites you to join
Glynn Archer Elementary School students to determine "How Clean is Clean."
On Monday, March 19, a group of elementary students will initiate their own
water quality monitoring program to test near shore waters around Key West.
The students, led by Mel Fisher Museum science teachers Clarice and Sara
Yentsch, will visit ten sites at the White Street Pier (Higgs Beach), South Beach,
Truman Mole, Key West Bight, Garrison Bight, Roosevelt Boulevard, the entrance
to Stock Island and Smathers Beach, to collect water samples for analysis. Tests will
be conducted for salinity , clarity and for presence of organisms. The class will
depart Glynn Archer Elementary at 2:15 p.m. with testing beginning at the White
Street Pier at 2:30 p.m.
This will be the first in a series of water quality monitoring efforts on the
part of Mel Fisher Museum education program participants. Almost three hundred
local children, kindergarten through eighth grade, participate in each of the
Museum's spring, fall and summer class offerings.
For more details, call education department director Jane Rohrschneider
(294-2633, extension 20). Don't miss this opportunity to join local youth as they
learn how to determine "How Clean is Clean." |
