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Information Launch Day: September 13, 2021
Make contact with: Geoffrey Sanders, 508-957-0737
WELLFLEET, Mass – Cape Cod Countrywide Seashore’s Atlantic Study and Mastering Centre will host the tenth annual Science in the Seashore Symposium, virtually, on Thursday, September 23, from 9:30 am to 1 pm. The on-line occasion is totally free and open up to the public. The software features a numerous team of researchers and students sharing natural and cultural study projects they are conducting in just the seashore.
The Science in the Seashore Symposium is a exclusive possibility to hear specifically from scientists and useful resource professionals conducting investigate in the national seashore. There will be eight quick and partaking presentations with possibilities to ask thoughts. Matters include cardiac exercise in Atlantic Bay scallops, genetic diversity of cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) across unique saltmarshes, cyanobacteria in freshwater ponds, eelgrass (Zostera marina) impacted by microplastics, and archaeology on Great Island.
The Atlantic Exploration and Finding out Center at Cape Cod National Seashore, the host of the symposium, is just one of 17 investigate and understanding centers in the National Park Program. Science and instruction arrive jointly at these facilities to protect, defend, take care of, and have an understanding of park resources.
The annual Science in the Seashore Symposium is sponsored by Mates of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Buddies has been the national seashore’s philanthropic associate because 1987, and sponsors the Nickerson Fellowship, which gives once-a-year grants for investigate in the nationwide seashore.
You should sign-up right before midday on September 22 to obtain the link to the on the web plan. Search for formal bulletins about the Science in the Seashore Symposium on the nationwide seashore’s web-site, on the park’s Fb website page, and on Twitter at @CapeCodNPS.
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