Energy & Marine Center
Pasco County’s Energy and Marine Center is located on a coastal hammock on the Salt Springs Run Estuary in Port Richey, Florida. This facility is ideal for activities involving coastal ecology, wetlands, marshlands, and estuarine environments. Here Salt Spring drains into the Gulf of Mexico providing comparisons between freshwater and saltwater environments. The center is surrounded by marsh grasses, three species of mangrove, and oyster bars. Frequent visitors to the center outside of the students, includes raccoons, foxes, armadillos, marsh hares, marsh periwinkles, egrets, herons, stingrays, fiddler crabs, turtles and tortoises, dolphin, the occasional manatee, and much much more.
The EMC currently supports our Marine Explorer Programs for all 4th graders within the district and is also used for high school programs.
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Energy & Marine Center
9130 Old Post Road
Port Richey, FL 34668
Contact: Donna Hoague
Phone: 727-774-0580
Contact: Josh McCart
Phone: 727-774-0587
Photo Albums
EMC Tides
Fiddler Crabs
Activities / Features
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1.Aquarium Room
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2.Seining Beach
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3.Computer Lab
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4.Wet/Dry Lab
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5.Kayaking
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6.Touch Tanks
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7.Nature Trails
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8.Look Out Tower
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9.Teacher Training
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10.Lots More.....
Energy & Marine Center
Check out this video of a USF biologist searching for research sites around the EMC!
The EMC Weather Station in
Click HERE to go to other school based weather stations on the Pasco Weather Network
