Enjoying the wonders of Florida's springs
The Sunshine State Book Festival
will take place Saturday, January 27th at the UF Hilton in Gainesville, FL.
Stop by Sandy's table and say Hi!
The Springs Run
benefiting the Florida Springs Institute
at First Magitude Brewery in Gainesville, Saturday, February 3rd in Gainesville, FL.
Thursday, February 8th, 2024 come to the Ocala Public Library for Sandy's presentation
Leapin' Lizards and other wildlife!
Greeting cards using the images from Wildlife of Florida's Springs newly available at the Online store.
Published by Pineapple Press.
Available at books stores and online!
"Florida is home to no fewer than 700 freshwater springs, more than any place in the world!
From the famed manatee to the obscure freshwater jellyfish, the springs provide sustenance to an abundance of wild, marine and insect life.
This beautiful guide features over 150 species, over 130 original illustrations,
and includes listings of commonly and not-so-commonly encountered 'critters' living in and near Florida’s springs."
Michael participated in projects diving and surveying in
Phantom Cave, Texas and Santa Rosa, New Mexico
with Curt Bowen's Advanced Diver Magazine.
Team photos courtesy of Curt Bowen/Advanced Diver Magazine
Watch Sandy's interview with local station
WOCA 96.7FM / 1370AM (Ocala, FL) on writing about caving.
A Field Guide to the Critters of Florida's Springs
Published by the National Speleological Society.
An illustrated guide describing the life of Florida's spring runs, springs, and caves.
Crystal Beach Revisited (DVD)
Watch the YouTube video teaser
Join us on a fascinating journey with a team of underwater explorers as they describe their exploration of this unique
Gulf coast cave system, from the no-mount restricted entrance, through scooter-sized passageways, to the mysterious Dragon's Lair.
With Brett Hemphill, Michael Poucher and Rudy Sturm. Underwater footage by Brett Hemphill. Aerial footage by Rudy Sturm.
Speleological and Karst Glossary of Florida and the Caribbean
"A growing community of scientists, land-management decision makers, and cavers are concerned about the protection of natural resources
and want to share research among themselves. But few of them are fluent in each discipline’s jargon, and cavers and geologists in particular
who want to share their discoveries find it difficult to understand each other. Sandra Poucher and Rick Copeland have created this comprehensive karst glossary
to correct discrepancies in communications among geologists and biologists, hydrologists and divers, cavers and speleologists,
thereby enabling researchers to speak a common language.
Cavers and cave divers are passionate about mastering the language to communicate their finds and understand the research of others.
Speleologists (cave scientists) are eager to understand and apply cavers’ discoveries to their work in the geology, biology, water flow,
and other scientific aspects of caves.
This multidisciplinary volume, featuring extensive reference materials, is the only one to focus on Floridian and Caribbean karst features.
The highly focused result of a dynamic team of scientists, cavers, and cave divers who have sorted through the myriad of terms and definitions,
this glossary is essential to geologists, hydrologists, biologists, hydrogeologists, and private businesses dealing with the study of groundwater, karst
and/or treatment of sinkholes, land-management decision makers, and speleologists." - University Press of Florida.
(no longer in print)
Off the Beaten Path! (DVD)
Four short programs of underwater cave systems rarely visited:
"Briland's Blue Hole"exploration diving in the Caribbean, 5 minute video;
"Crystal Beach"a blue hole off the Gulf coast of Florida, 6 minute video;
"Harvey's Cave"a fascinating north Florida system, 4 minute video;
"Suwannee Blue"a short, 3 minute video.
Tower's Productions, Chicago, Illinois Associate field production on episode of Outdoor Living Network's Outdoors Investigations shot in north central Florida cave country.
Facing Darkness Pixnat, Quebec, Canada Talent, safety diver and guide for UW videographer Nathalie Lasselin.
O'Leno State Park, High Springs, Florida The Mystery of River Rise underwater cave system documentary,
Ichetucknee Springs State Park, White Springs, Florida Documentary programming for visitors to the Ichetucknee Springs Welcome Center,
Private client, Georgia middle school geography lesson (video) of cave divers, water sampling, and basin fauna in the Peacock Springs Cave system.
Peacock Springs State Park, Luraville, Florida Underwater documentaries and media design services for kiosk at the main spring.
The Taming of the Slough: A Comprehensive History of Peacock Springs
Published by the National Speleological Society.
This is Sheck Exley's exciting story of the discovery and mapping of the Peacock Springs Cave System -
at the time believed to be the world's longest underwater cave.
His manuscript, incomplete at the time of his untimely death in 1994 on a dive in Mexico,
has now been completed and expanded as he had planned:
1. A thorough History of Peacock Slough through the creation of the state park
to preserve the cave and its surroundings as Exley had hoped.
2. Florida geology and biology.
3. Cave diving equipment.
4. Peacock Re-Survey, a five year project that updated Exley's original map.
(no longer in print)
Ichetucknee Springs State Park Welcome Center
MudBug Productions is proud to have been a part of the opening of the Ichetucknee Springs State Park welcome center,
presenting The Mystery of River Rise, Rose Sink, and Troy Spring and Peacock Spring videos,
introducing visitors to the incredible underwater cave features of north central Florida.
Mystery of River Rise
This award-winning program takes a tour of north Florida's O'Leno State Park, from the earliest settlement of gamblers to the present, exposing the extensive, and incredibly dangerous, underwater cave system.
White Ring Blue Hole
A 1999 Explorer's Club Caribbean expedition led by inventor and world-class explorer Tom Turner (Tom passed away unexpectedly in 2018). This program shows the beautiful world of a Caribbean Blue Hole and the variety of colorful life found in the cave system.
