Friends of the Sea Lab
Summer is here and it's a hot one! Come down to the Dauphin Island Sea Lab and visit The Alabama Aquarium where you can experience the sights and sounds of our bountiful waterways. See live sting rays, red snapper, soft shell turtles, sea horses, an octopus and so much more.
Join the Friends of the Sea Lab and bring your family down as many times as you like for the whole year. Click below to become a Friend of the Sea Lab. Memberships include entrance to Alabama's Aquarium for your entire family and discounts in the gift shop. Don't forget to stop in at the Snack Shop for an ice cream cone or snacks.
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Thank You Cocktails with the Critters Sponsors 2025
Signature Sponsor
Mobile County Commission
Poarch Creek Indians
Event Sponsors
First Horizon Bank
Oakworth Capital Bank
University of Alabama
University of South Alabama
Underwriter Sponsors
Alabama Power
Alabama State Port Authority
Bay Steel Corp.
Canfor Southern Pine, Inc.
Karen and Steve Chambless
Engineered Textile Products
Lisa and Travis Goodloe
Gulf of Mexico Alliance
Hancock Whitney Bank
Hargrove Foundation
Helene and David Hassell
Lexus Mobile
Metzger's
Mobile Airport Authority
Mobile Big Game Fishing Club
Mobile Dermatology
Norton Lilly International
Osprey Initiative
PowerSouth Energy Cooperative
Rogers and Willard
Saunders Yachtworks - Carolyn Williams Saunders Foundation
Thompson Engineering
Thompson Tractor Company
UAB Education Foundation
Urology Associates
Denise and John Valentine
WB Shedd & Co, LLC
Patron Sponsors
Alabama Shipyard
Animal Hospital of Mobile
The Barber May Clinic
Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLC
CMG Engineers, Inc.
Charlene and John Dindo
Jane and George Davis
England Consulting Group, LLC
FTS/Flexible Staffing
Greer's Markets
Hand Arendall Harrison Sale, LLC
HUB International
Ingalls Shipbuilding
Jamie and Jay Ison
Luther Collier Hodges & Cash, LLC
Mosquito Joe
Personal Edge Fitness
Persons Services Corp.
Pischeck Industries
Renasant Bank
River Bank and Trust
Sanders Hyland
Tammy and Riley Smith
SouthState Bank
Synovus
U-J Chevrolet
Volkert
Wade Distributing
Waterways Towing
Carolyn and Jim West
West Mobile Dental Care
Wilkins Miller
Xante Corporation
2024 Marine Environmental Awards Luncheon
Wednesday, October 30th 2024
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Your Hometown - Dauphin Island Sea Lab
WKRG Your Hometown spotlights the Dauphin Island Sea Lab programs that allow students to make discoveries while learning about local marine biology
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Alabama Power Celebrates Earth Day with Donation
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Alabama Power celebrated Earth Day on April 22, 2024 with a donation to the Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation request funds to assist its fisheries research program in expanding and maintaining the Coastal Alabama Acoustic Monitoring Program (CAMP). The network tracks important fisheries species through out Mobile Bay, Mississippi Sound, the Mobile Tensaw River Delta to provide critical information needed for conservation and restoration planning as well as fisheries management. Tracking species such as juvenile red drum, speckled sea trout, flounder and triple tail.
Thank you so much to Alabama Power!
Alabama Dermatology Society Sponsors New Shades on Campus
The Alabama Dermatology Society (ADS) generously sponsored new shades for two locations on the DISL Campus. The new shades allow students and teachers to be out of doors to learn about Marine Science in a safe comfortable environment. THANK YOU ADS!!
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"The course style influenced me in the college that I eventually attended. I am very thankful for the Marine Science Course and the Sea Lab. It was my first step into a field of study which I still find very interesting."
- Autumn, Marine Science Course
for High School Students.
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"The diversity of these experiences and being exposed to different lab techniques and a variety of field work has really helped me as a young scientist."
- Ph.D. Student Jesse Gwinn
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"I wanted to come to the Dauphin Island Sea Lab because of the researchers and the resources", Rodriguez explained. "It's a close environment with easy access to faculty and everyone is excited to help you."
- Masters Graduate, Alex Rodriguez
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