Naples Zoo Welcomes White Tigers
April 27, 2009
NAPLES – This summer, Naples Zoo welcomes one of the rarest creatures of the natural world, white tigers. For a limited time, Memorial Day through Labor Day, these four-year-old white tigers will be in the lush Tiger Forest exhibit near the new Black Bear Hammock exhibit.
These striking cats will be seen stalking past giant bamboo or splashing in the naturalistic rockwork pool. In concert with the new bear exhibit and just arrived young purebred South African lions, white tigers will be a wild part of the summer fun in Southwest Florida. Visit www.napleszoo.org.
Clifford In Miami at Miami Children’s Museum
April 27, 2009
MIAMI – As visitors to the Miami Children’s Museum pass by the Lighthouse and arrive on Birdwell Island, they will discover the world of Clifford, Emily Elizabeth and their friends at the “Adventures with Clifford the Big Red Dog” Traveling Exhibit.
Developed by the Minnesota Children’s Museum, this exhibit invites kids to explore art through textures and multi-media materials in this engaging blockbuster exhibit. There is even a nine foot Clifford! The exhibit is included with paid admission to MCM, and will be available from June 27 – October 11. See www.miamichildrensmuseum.org
Animation Show Featers Cartoon Network Stars
April 27, 2009
TAMPA – Capturing the phenomenon of motion drawing can be traced all the way back to Paleolithic cave paintings—and is still popular in some of your kid’s favorite Cartoon Network shows. ANIMATION, an all-new summer exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry, goes on a quest to understand how animation really works. This traveling exhibition brings together art, math, science, and technology. Visitors will have an opportunity to explore the process of animation, surrounded by colorful larger-than-life graphics of popular cartoon and animation characters from Cartoon Network. See www.mosi.org.
Science Exhibit With Mr. Potato Head
April 27, 2009
ORLANDO – Orlando Science Center presents “The Adventures of Mr. Potato Head,” May 23 – August 9. The exhibit will feature the much-loved Mr. Potato Head, leading adventures in outer space, the jungle, archeological sites and under the sea. See www.osc.org.
Brief: NASA May Delay Moon Launch
April 22, 2009
CAPE CANAVERAL – The Orlando Sentinel reports that budget pressures could delay America’s return to the moon to past a previously discussed date of 2020. The story says that NASA’s internal plans had called for Ares V to go to the moon in 2018, though the agency had announced a public goal of 2020.
Internal deadlines are used by NASA to keep programs on track and to provide a margin of error for developmental problems.
But because of growing budget woes, the agency is resetting its internal date to 2020.
More info is available at The Orlando Sentinel.
Worobel Promoted at Hilton Singer Island
April 3, 2009
WEST PALM BEACH - Crestline Hotels & Resorts, Inc. appointed Gina L. Worobel, to Director of Sales & Marketing for the Hilton Singer Island Oceanfront Resort in Singer Island. The 223 guest room hotel is an upscale property located on the tranquil four-mile stretch of sandy beach on Singer Island near Palm Beach.
Avissar New Miami Marine Dean
April 3, 2009
CORAL GABLES – Dr. Roni Avissar, a Duke University climatologist who has studied the way Amazon deforestation affects precipitation patterns around the world and was one of the first to employ a specially equipped helicopter to collect environmental data, has been named the new Dean of the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. He will begin his post on June 1.
“Dr. Roni Avissar is a distinguished scientist and prominent scholar who will bring strong leadership to the rich academic resources of the Rosenstiel School,” said University of Miami President Donna E. Shalala.
Born and raised in France, Avissar is a professor at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering. He joined the Durham, North Carolina-based University in 2001, serving for five years as the W.H. Gardner Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Florida Rescues Baby Manatee
April 3, 2009
Florida state biologists have found an orphan manatee calf.
Bbiologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute rescued the small female manatee calf from the Withlacoochee River in Yankeetown on Thursday, April 2.
The tiny calf is one of the smallest manatees ever rescued by the FWC Marine Mammal Stranding Team, measuring just over 3 feet in length and weighing only 50 pounds. Biologists rescued the manatee calf because there was no sign of her mother in the area. Since the calf is so young, she would not be able to survive on her own. She was taken to Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo, where she is receiving 24-hour care from the zoo’s manatee rehabilitation team.
The FWC Wildlife Alert hotline received the original report of the orphaned calf Thursday afternoon from a resident who lives on the river.
The United States Coast Guard assisted FWC biologists with the rescue.
To report a dead or distressed manatee, call the FWC Wildlife Alert hotline at 888-404-FWCC (3922).
Top Five Places To See Florida Mermaids
March 29, 2009
Florida is full of mermaids. Pretty ones. Live ones!
You just have to look underwater, where mermaids live. A quick roundup of mermaid haunts; these aren’t the only ones, just the easiest ones to find. Here are the top five, with two runner ups: Read more
JetBlue Orlando to Costa Rica $69
March 26, 2009
ORLANDO – New York-based JetBlue Airways Corp. (Nasdaq: JBLU) today launches Orlando’s only daily nonstop service to San Jose, Costa Rica’s Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO), the carrier’s first Central American destination and ninth country in its network. To celebrate the new service, sale fares as low as $69 (a) are available between Orlando and San Jose each way for travel purchased today through April 8, 2009 at www.jetblue.com.
