REEF Reef Environmental Education Foundation

REEF Reef Environmental Education Foundation Conserving marine environments worldwide through citizen science, education, and research.

🐟 Ready, set, swim — er, run, walk, hike, bike, or paddle! The 7th Annual REEF Fish Out of Water Virtual 5K kicks off Ju...
05/29/2026

🐟 Ready, set, swim — er, run, walk, hike, bike, or paddle! The 7th Annual REEF Fish Out of Water Virtual 5K kicks off June 7 and runs through June 13, right alongside World Oceans Day. 🌊

Complete your 5K (3.1 miles) however you move best, anywhere in the world — all while supporting the REEF Oceans for All Fund.

⏰ Register ASAP at REEF.org/5K so your race pack arrives in time — limited-edition shirt, bib, and custom Fish Team stickers included!

📸 Don't forget: tag .org as you go for your chance to win a swag bag giveaway!

🔗 Sign up today: REEF.org/5K

05/28/2026

When your idea of "going out" involves 60 feet of water and counting fish. Tag the friend who never gets it.

Our Spring 2026 Marine Education & Conservation Interns just wrapped up an amazing semester with REEF. From running educ...
05/26/2026

Our Spring 2026 Marine Education & Conservation Interns just wrapped up an amazing semester with REEF. From running education programs for busloads of students and counting fish during this year's record-breaking Lionfish Derby, to welcoming visitors to our Ocean Exploration Center and helping us out with countless behind the scenes tasks at our Key Largo campus.

Now Stacie Strombom, Anna Hoover and Avery Kruger are on to new adventures in education, research and conservation management.

We're also sending off two Marine Education & Conservation Fellows. Anna Velardi and Sammy Brown, former REEF Interns themselves, have spent recent months gaining hands-on experience and professional development in marine conservation and the day-to-day operation of an environmental non-profit organization. Anna Velardi helped develop new grant, event and education programs at our Ocean Exploration Center. Sammy Brown supported program and communications work managing social media and outreach material development.

Thank you for everything you've poured into REEF's education and conservation work. We wish you all the best in what comes next.

05/21/2026

The only puzzle worth solving this summer 🧩🌊

From the Caribbean to the Coral Triangle, REEF Field Surveys put you in the water with fellow divers — surveying fish, exploring new sites, and contributing real data to ocean conservation.

Pick your destination → REEF.org/trips

05/18/2026

Calling all fish-spotters! Our friends at FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute just launched a new Zooniverse project, and they need YOUR eyes. Watch short underwater videos from the Florida Keys and help identify the fish you see — no diving required, just curiosity and a love for the reef. Every click contributes to real science protecting Florida's marine ecosystems.

Happy National Little Free Library Day! 📚Tucked into the gardens of the REEF Ocean Exploration Center is a Little Free L...
05/17/2026

Happy National Little Free Library Day! 📚

Tucked into the gardens of the REEF Ocean Exploration Center is a Little Free Library, one of more than 200,000 around the world. Open 24/7, free to anyone, stocked with ocean reads and the occasional surprise.

Today (May 17) is the first-ever National Little Free Library Day, kicking off Little Free Library Week. The premise is simple: take a book, share a book. Stop by next time you're at the REEF Ocean Exploration Center.

Want to keep reading with us? Our book club Into the Blue meets next in July. Details at REEF.org/bookclub.

Every survey counts. Every diver counts. Every July, thousands of citizen scientists around the world show up for the oc...
05/14/2026

Every survey counts. Every diver counts. Every July, thousands of citizen scientists around the world show up for the ocean, will your community be one of them this year?

Sign up or register your event at REEF.org/gafc

05/12/2026

Surfrider Foundation's network of more than 200 volunteer-powered chapters work across virtually every stretch of coastline in the US to reduce plastic pollution in our ocean and beaches, ensure clean water to surf, swim, and play in, protect the ocean, preserve beach access, and enhance the resilience of our coasts to a changing climate.

In this presentation, Emma will share more about what Surfrider is doing to protect coastlines from the Florida Keys to California, and everywhere in between. From hands-on coastal restoration work to leading coastal adaptation and managed retreat projects to advancing policy that protects and restores our most treasured coastal and ocean habitats, Surfrider is working to protect our coasts for future generations through the Coasts and Climate Initiative.

Which fish are YOU? 🐟Every racer has a spirit fish. This June 7–13, step out of the water and into your look for the Fis...
05/11/2026

Which fish are YOU? 🐟

Every racer has a spirit fish. This June 7–13, step out of the water and into your look for the Fish Out of Water Virtual 5K. Join us from anywhere in the world and run, walk, bike, paddle, or swim on your own terms, in your own waters, for the ocean you love. 🌊

Proceeds from your registration supports the REEF Oceans for All Fund.
Pick your fish team, lace up, and make your miles count.

👉 Register now at REEF.org/5K

Today we say a bittersweet goodbye to Carolyn Corley.Carolyn's REEF story is a special one. She arrived as our 2023 Dr. ...
05/08/2026

Today we say a bittersweet goodbye to Carolyn Corley.

Carolyn's REEF story is a special one. She arrived as our 2023 Dr. Jamie L. King Marine Conservation Intern through Our World Underwater Scholarship Society, stayed on as a Marine Conservation Fellow, and grew into a valued Education Coordinator and a true leader on our team.

In her time on staff, Carolyn organized the Florida Keys Lionfish Derby, brought our Fish Out of Water 5K to life, and launched the Ocean After Hours program at the Ocean Exploration Center. She wrote the REEF Junior Explorer guidebook that now sends young explorers on adventures through our exhibits.

She also held down so much of the everyday work that keeps REEF moving, leading trips, running the REEF Store, organizing trip materials, and writing donor letters. And as a former intern herself, she shaped our internship program with a rare thoughtfulness, making sure every intern had the kind of transformative experience she once had.

But what we'll miss most is harder to put in a list: her positive attitude, her cooperative spirit, and the way she made everyone around her better.

Thank you, Carolyn, for everything you gave REEF. We can't wait to see where you go next.

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98380 Overseas Highway
Key Largo, FL
33037

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Wednesday 9am - 5pm
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