Name: Third Thursday Lecture: Dr. Quint White, “50 Years of Change and the St. Johns River”
Start: 2025-11-20T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 11964 Mandarin Rd, Jacksonville, FL

$Third Thursday Lecture: Dr. Quint White, \u201c50 Years of Change and the St. Johns River\u201d$

Please join Mandarin Museum as we host our November Third Thursday Lecture featuring Dr. Quint White.
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025
Time: Refreshments and museum galleries open at 6:00 PM; Lecture begins at 7:00 PM
Location: Mandarin Museum, 11964 Mandarin Rd.
Admission: FREE
Dr. Quint White, Marine Biologist and Executive Director Emeritus of the Marine Science Research Institute at Jacksonville University, will reflect on his decades-long career conducting research on the St. Johns River. “Fifty Years of Change” will explore not only the changes Dr. White has seen in the river but also the evolving ways in which we study and understand it.
About the Speaker: Dr. Quinton White, Jr., Ph.D., is Executive Director Emeritus, Marine Science Research Institute and Professor of Biology and Marine Science at Jacksonville University. The Marine Science Research Institute building opened in 2010 and is the first LEED certified Gold building on the JU campus. The MSRI recently became home to OCEARCH which is the world’s largest shark tagging and ocean research program of its kind. White joined the faculty at Jacksonville University in 1976, having completed his Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina at the Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research. Dr. White has written numerous research and technical papers or reports and received grants and contracts to support marine research at JU. Currently he is conducting research on the history of human impact on the Florida environment and especially on the St. Johns River with a focus on manatees and water quality issues.
Dr. White has been active in the Jacksonville community and writes a monthly column in the Florida Times-Union called “River Life.” He is President-elect of the Southern Association of Marine Labs and past-Board Chair of the Southeastern Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association. Recent awards have included Florida Wildlife Federation Marine Conservationist of the Year in 2015, the Regional Leadership Award from the Northeast Florida Regional Council and the City of Jacksonville’s Christi P. Veleta Environmental Award in 2014. He was honored by Leadership Jacksonville in 2011 as a Community Trustee. In 2010 he received the City of Jacksonville Mayor’s Environmental Achievement Award. He was recognized as a 2016 Veteran of Influence by the Jacksonville Business Journal. Dr. White served in the U.S. Army prior to starting graduate school at the University of Virginia where he earned a MS in 1972.
Thank you to Endless Summer Roofing Co. for sponsoring Mandarin Museum’s Fall 2025 Lecture Series!
Mandarin Museum is funded, in part, through the Cultural Service Grant Program administered by the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville with funds from the City of Jacksonville.