Dive In with Liz and Sylvia

Mar 25, 2021  3:00

(GMT -7:00) Pacific Time

Event URL:  https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PihnmkGrT3q-wFoovCmGRw
Cost:  Free

Do you love horseshoe crabs? We do and we are so excited to have horseshoe crab expert John Tanacredi join us. John is Professor of Earth & Environmental Studies, Executive Director of CERCOM (Center for Environmental Research and Coastal Oceans Monitoring) at Molloy College in Long Island, NY. Prior to academic life, he spent 24 years as a research ecologist with the National Park Service serving as the coastal parks Research Coordinator for the East Coast NPS units and as a Park Biologist at Gateway NRA in New York and New Jersey, after serving in both the US Navy and Coast Guard.
Join us as Liz, Sylvia and John talk about these remarkable creatures, their critical place in the ecosystem (especially with migrating birds), their declining numbers, and the need for banning their use as bait and use in the pharmaceutical industry.