TAKING THE BRUNT: BARRIER ISLANDS

Brenda Hull

Tuesday & Thursday, July 20 & 22

   (2 sessions)

1 – 3 pm

Maxwell 106

Cost: $11

Barrier islands are the first stop for migratory birds, spawning fish and shrimp and storm systems coming off the oceans.  We'll characterize a typical barrier island and its habitats and inhabitants and then look at a few special ones on our own Georgia coast and around the world.  The goal is to make you want to go to the beach and look at more than the people and the sand.

Brenda teaches animal behavior, ornithology, ecology, vertebrate & invertebrate zoology, and marine science at Young Harris College. She holds degrees from the University of Tennessee and East Tennessee State and has been to Sri Lanka on an Earthwatch adventure, the Amazon River in Peru, Ireland with students, and Costa Rica on sabbatical. She has also taken students on many trips to barrier island beaches studying those ecosystems. As Sustainability Coordinator at YHC she’s interested in supporting students in their efforts to become more sustainable, but willing to contribute to any project to green the planet.

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