Honors Program Spring Eco-Adventures

Most students at Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach campus, including those in the Honors Program, are not from Florida.  In fact, the Honors students come from 27 different states and 10 countries.  Because of this, part of their education ought to include gaining a better understanding and appreciation of the natural Florida environment and ecology, as well as some of the issues involving the collision and cooperation between urban and natural settings in the state.

Each spring semester the Honors Program students are encouraged to participate in the “Spring Eco-Adventure.” 

Past outings have included:

• Exploring the inland waters of Mosquito Lagoon and the ancient Timuquan Indian Turtle Mound;
• learning about the vast but threatened Floridan Aquifer, and then floating the unspoiled stretches of the crystal clear, spring-fed Santa Fe River at Ichetucknee Springs State Park;  
• and floating another region of the Santa Fe River at Ginnie Springs.

Photo Galleries:

• Everglades Trip 2007

In January 2007, the first entering class of students in the Honors Program (2003) was invited to participate in a first annual “senior trip” adventure: this time into the wilds of Everglades National Park.  Photos on this page were taken during this trip, which included a guided “swamp slogging” walk into a large stand of bald cypress, hiking dry hammock regions in the Park, canoeing an expanse of mangrove swamp, and bicycling along a 15-mile stretch of pathway at the Park’s north entrance.