Photos of Field trip to Mariposa Key
(Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve)

A pond at Mariposa Key in the Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve.

Scientist Tom Smith, USGS/Biological Resources Division, collecting a wetland sediment sample at the Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve.

Randy Runnels of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Terry Edgar of the USGS/Geological Division, and Carole McIvor of the USGS/Biological Resources Division, sampling in a salt pan in the Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve.

Randy Runnels of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and Carol McIvor of the USGS/Biological Resources Division, collecting Fiddler Crabs in the Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve.

A view of one of the many karst ponds at the Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve.

Shoreline picture of mangroves along one of the many ponds in the Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve.

Scientists examine a sediment core from a salt flat at Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve. Note the change in color of the sediment core as indicated.

Scientist Terry Edgar of the USGS/Geological Division, examining sediment from a salt flat at Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve.

Mangrove fringed shoreline of a karst pond at the Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve.