Frost Science MUVE Virginia Key North Point ICC2024
Join us for the world’s largest, one-day volunteer effort for our oceans and waterways, and show your commitment to reducing marine debris, along with millions of volunteers from across the globe!
We will provide garbage bags, gloves, data collection cards, and a souvenir tote bag with this year’s marine animal theme, penguins!
This year’s Penguin T-Shirts are available for purchase here: www.bonfire.com/miami-icc-2024. Order before August 30 if you want to guarantee your shirt arrives before the cleanup.
*Community Service hours also provided. Registration + waivers are required to participate.*
- You can complete the online waivers in advance to help expedite check-in on the day of.
- However, if you are under 18 and coming without a parent or guardian, you must have a parent/guardian print and sign the waiver HERE in advance, and bring it with you to the cleanup.
Directions to check-in: Check-in will be located at the picnic tables at Virginia Key North Point Beach Park. For GPS directions enter “Virginia Key North Point Trails.”
Parking: Complimentary parking available at Virginia Key North Point Trails.
Important details:
- Download the Ocean Conservancy’s CleanSwell app to participate in the Citizen Science activity to log, tally and measure the impact of your cleanup.
- Dress for the weather and wear appropriate footwear. This is beach site, and we recommend you wear sturdy, closed-toed shoes.
- Sunglasses, hat, and sunscreen and recommended.
- If you have your own reusable working or gardening type gloves, bring them. We will be providing gloves but cannot guarantee they will be in your size.
- Some volunteers like to use a bucket during a cleanup. Ask your local Chinese, Burger or Bakery/Donut shop if they get food service items in 5-gallon buckets that they would like to donate for use during your cleanup!
- Please bring water in a reusable container. Let’s reduce waste and refuse single-use disposable plastic water bottles.
Spearheaded globally by the Ocean Conservancy, VolunteerCleanup.org organizes Miami-Dade County’s local participation in this worldwide event with 60+ shoreline cleanups around the county and is made possible by the generous support of our presenting sponsor The Brady Hunter Foundation, with additional support from The Benjamin & Gloria Joannou, Jr. Family Conservation Fund, Blackstone Charitable Foundation, Citadel, Related Group, City of Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County RER-DERM, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Miami Ironside, Save The Manatee, Waste Management and Watersports Association.
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What Should Volunteers Bring? - Closed Toed Shoes, Water in a Resuable Bottle, Sunscreen, Insect Repellent, Gloves, Hat & Sunglasses
What Will Be Provided? - Gloves, Garbage Bags, Water Refills, Pickers, Buckets
Meeting Spot Details - Check-in will be located at the picnic tables at Virginia Key North Point Beach Park. For GPS directions enter “Virginia Key North Point Trails.”
Parking Info - Complimentary parking available at Virginia Key North Point Trails
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MUVE is a volunteer-based habitat restoration group that uses citizen science, museum exhibits, and outreach initiatives to engage with local residents and enhance our coastal environments. Volunteers leave behind a living legacy of native habitats that they can visit and enjoy in perpetuity. We invite you to join our efforts to restore and explore these coastal habitats for our coastal communities, plants and animals alike!