Preconference Field Trips

The 2023 LDC is pleased to offer three pre-conference field trips on Thursday, March 23rd. We recommend that you please wear comfortable clothes for field trips and bring sun protection (hat, sunglasses, sunscreen) based on your needs.

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1. Highlights of the FAMU/ Grape and Wine Research Sciences Program  

The FAMU Viticulture Center is recognized internationally for excellence in warm climate grape research and facilitator of outstanding academic programs for experiential learning and student training. The Center is the only specialized research program among the 1890 colleges and universities dedicated to grape and wine, and it is a national leader in muscadine grape research.

By the USDA charter, the FAMU/ Viticulture Center maintains the most extensive muscadine grape germplasm collection in the world and is serving as one of the five National Clean Plant Centers for Grapes. Capitalizing on the close industry-clientele partnership, our economically feasible and accelerated breeding pipeline has allowed only within the last 2 years to release 3 new patented American native grape cultivars: ‘Floriana,’ ‘Florida Onyx’ and ‘Blanc du Soleil.’

This tour will include discussion from researchers and students about current research going on at the center as well as a walk in the vineyard and wine tasting during your visit!

The registration cost for this event is $20.00 and will include snacks, drinks, and transportation.

Meeting time: Thursday, March 23rd, 2022, at 1:00 PM ET

Meeting location: LDC Registration desk located in the H Manning Efferson Student Union Building on the campus of Florida A&M University. The address is 1628 S Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Tallahassee, FL 32307

Duration of the trip: 4 hours. (Be back by 5 pm)

Registration is Open!

**NOTE: Login is required to register for the pre-conference events.
Login if you are an ESA member. Create a new account if you are not an ESA member. If you have already registered for the conference, you may still sign up! 

Please note the [SAVE/UPDATE RESPONSES] button on the right side of the screen. You will need to click on the [SAVE/UPDATE RESPONSES] button BEFORE you Proceed to Checkout.

Should you have further registration difficulties, please email ldc@nullesa.org.

2. National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Tour

The only facility of its kind in the United States, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) is the largest and highest-powered magnet laboratory in the world. Every year, more than a thousand scientists from dozens of countries come to use our unique magnets with the support of highly experienced staff scientists and technicians. Thanks to funding from the National Science Foundation and the State of Florida, these researchers use our facilities for free, probing fundamental questions about materials, energy and life. Their findings result in more than 400 scientific publications a year in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters. The MagLab has several world records and on the tour, you will see some magnets in the Guinness Book of World Records, as well as some of the strongest magnetic fields on the planet.

UPDATE: We have a van able to take folks to the MagLab! If you need a ride, please meet us 2:00PM, at the LDC Registration desk located in the H Manning Efferson Student Union Building on the campus of Florida A&M University. The address is 1628 S Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Tallahassee, FL 32307

There is no registration cost for this event. Participants should anticipate finding their own transportation to the Mag Lab. Please email LDC@nullesa.org if you are willing to carpool.

Meeting time: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023, at 2:00 PM ET

Meeting location: 1800 E. Paul Dirac Drive Tallahassee, FL 32310

Duration of the trip: 1.5 hours. (Be back by 3:30 pm)

Registration is Open!

**NOTE: Login is required to register for the pre-conference events.
Login if you are an ESA member. Create a new account if you are not an ESA member. If you have already registered for the conference, you may still sign up! 

 Please note the [SAVE/UPDATE RESPONSES] button on the right side of the screen. You will need to click on the [SAVE/UPDATE RESPONSES] button BEFORE you Proceed to Checkout. I
Should you have further registration difficulties, please email ldc@nullesa.org.

The world record 45 Tesla hybrid magnet at the National Magnetic Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida.

3. FAMU-School of the Environment’s Rattlermoji Buoy CANCELED

Enjoy some sunshine on a boat-trip to the FAMU – School of the Environment’s Nexsens buoy, popularly known as Rattlermoji, that collects and transmits date wirelessly in real-time via radio, cellular or satellite communications to the WQData LIVE web datacenter, where data can be viewed and exported and alarms configured. Learn about the twenty six parameters monitored including the following ones ordinarily in common demand: Nitrates (NO3), Conductivity, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Salinity, Dissolved Oxygen (DO or ODO), Turbidity, pH, Oxidative Reductive Potential (ORP) and Chlorophyll.

Dress appropriately – there is a chance for a splash or two. And be sure to bring sunblock!

The registration cost for this event is $20.00 and will include snacks, drinks, and transportation.

Meeting time: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023, at 2:00 PM ET

Meeting location: LDC Registration desk located in the H Manning Efferson Student Union Building on the campus of Florida A&M University. The address is 1628 S Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Tallahassee, FL 32307

Duration of the trip: 3 hours. (Be back by 5:00 pm)