Quarterly Compass

Where we've been and where we're going...

March 31, 2025

ANGARI PREPARES TO CELEBRATE 100 EXPEDITIONS

PBIBS GIVES BACK GRANT AWARDEES ANNOUNCED

ONSHORE CONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT RETURNS AS ANNUAL CELEBRATION GOLD SPONSOR

We're excited to welcome ONSHORE CONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT back as a GOLD Sponsor!

A premier custom home builder in Palm Beach & Martin Counties, Onshore Construction practices a culture of honesty, hard work and absolute dedication to successful projects and satisfied customers. The company recognizes this same commitment at ANGARI Foundation. Onshore's support is invaluable to our marine science research and STEM education mission.

We had a super successful semester of Coastal Ocean Explorers: Sharks expeditions with our partner scientists from Florida International University and six Palm Beach County middle and high schools! We want to thank the Palm Beach International Boat Show Gives Back and Society for Science STEM Action grant programs for supporting these hands-on educational opportunities.

Know a group of youth interested in their own student expedition? Applications are open for the 2025-26 school year so visit our COE webpage and apply today!

Led by shark behavioral ecologist Yannis Papastamatiou and our Coastal Ocean Explorers: Sharks program lead scientist Will Sample, students in Florida International University's Shark Handling course spent a day onboard R/V ANGARI honing their field research skills.

During their expedition offshore Palm Beach County, the workshop participants caught, collected data from and released six sharks of four different species. Read more about their productive day of shark research and early career scientist training on the Expedition 94 webpage.

We've had an engaging semester of Ocean Expert Exchange webinars with our partners at the UF Thompson Earth Systems Institute learning about everything from nudibranchs to American crocodiles, as we explore marine careers.

Just one event remains in our spring lineup. On April 10th, we will be joined by Lindy Knowles of the Bahamas National Trust who will share his work to establish, expand and manage Marine Protected Areas. For event details and registration, as well as recordings and resources from past webinars, visit our OEE webpage. 

We're gearing up for the 13th experiment in our long-term Lagoon Drift Card Study. On April 14th, we will deploy 280 eco-friendly wooden drift cards into the Lake Worth Lagoon and Intracoastal Waterway.

This is where you come in! Once these pink cards are in the water, you can be a citizen scientist by looking for, recovering, keeping and reporting any drift cards you find. We will use the important drift card data you report to us to examine the motion of marine debris in and around our local waterways. Learn more about the study on our Lagoon Drift webpage.

Our COE: Sharks lead scientist Will Sample of Florida International University shared the who, what, where and why of South Florida shark research with 400+ students and educators this semester!

Forest Hill High School, Oxbridge Academy, Royal Palm Beach High School, Palm Beach Day Academy and The Benjamin School learned about Will’s research on bull sharks in the Everglades and our ongoing local COE: Sharks research. Thank you to the Society for Science STEM Action grant program for funding this educational offering for Forest Hill High School.

On March 6, President & R/V ANGARI Captain Angela Rosenberg joined an expert panel, alongside Captains Kerry Titheradge and Sam Morcroft, at the Marine Industry Association of Palm Beach County's Marine Industry Career Day to speak with Palm Beach County students about working in the yachting, marine and ocean science fields.

Then last week, Angela remotely returned to her high school alma mater to share her work experiences and career knowledge as a marine scientist, research vessel captain and nonprofit cofounder with Hilton Head Island High School students preparing for college. To request a career visit for your students, please contact us.

Our Education Team and volunteers have been out and about engaging audiences of all ages at recent outreach events. 

Their first stop was Manatee Lagoon's ManateeFest, where they shared our COE: Sharks program. Everyone was excited to get the chance to participate in a mock shark workup and learn all about these apex predators. Next stop was Nature Fest at John D. MacArthur Beach State Park, and the team loved sharing our Lagoon Drift study and watching many new citizen scientists channel their inner artist while decorating drift cards!

University of Texas graduate Lauren Jones has joined ANGARI Foundation for a spring internship in film and science communications.

In college Lauren realized documentaries were the perfect way to combine her love for film and storytelling with her love for the environment. She is excited to bring her photography and videography experience to ANGARI, where she is using media to share environmental and marine science with others. This semester, Lauren is working on several film projects at ANGARI, including COE: Sharks and Lagoon Drift projects, so stay tuned for her upcoming videos!

Learn more about Lauren and her interests on our intern page.

We're looking for a full-time mate to join the R/V ANGARI crew in 2025. This upbeat team player will be an integral part of daily operations onboard and work closely with our 2 experienced captains. The mate will support deck, maintenance and engineering duties onboard as well as serve as expedition support when traveling. Vessel systems and operations training will be provided.

If you think you might be a good fit or know someone who is, please go to our website to learn more about this position, our expeditions and operations.