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Coastwatch, Winter 2006 Thanks COASTWATCH Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies • Massachusetts • 2005 • Volume 30 Issue 1 Non-profit U.S. Postage PAID Marshfield MA Permit No. 51 We are grateful to all our donors for making last fall’s rescue appeal and the C O A S T W A T C H recent year-end appeal record-breakers, raising over $20,000 and $31,000, is a publication of the Provincetown PCCS founders respectively; and particularly to Katharine Bachman, Frederick and Judith Center for Coastal Studies, an independent non-profit, member Stormy Mayo and Buechner, Doug Dick (our architect for the marine lab), Martin and Linda Graham Giese Haspel, the Perini Family Foundation, and Bill and Mia Rossiter. supported organization dedicated to research, public education and bid adieu to 59 The humpback whale program is always thankful for the ongoing generosity conservation programs for the marine Commercial of and and to the for strong Feodor Kirstin Pitcairn Beneficia Foundation and coastal environments. annual support. Also, thanks for a special gift from loyal supporter Judy Scherzo, who was so moved by the death of the humpback whale known as Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies Beacon (see http://www.coastalstudies.org/what-we-do/humpback-whales/ 115 Bradford Street P.O. Box 1036 Beacon.htm) that she made a special pilgrimage to the site of the whale’s Moving Day! Provincetown, MA 02657 stranding on Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet last year and wrote these Tel. (508) 487-3622 words: I was captivated by her plight. She was gazing out through sightless eyes at her Fax: (508) 487-4495 unreachable home. I prayed that she had died at sea in a sheltering and supportive E-mail: [email protected] cradle of water; perhaps not alone but with her kind nearby offering comfort and http://www.coastalstudies.org loyalty…. And not in agony and fear… And not with final, frantic futile efforts to Member Campus Provincetown free herself. Thanks to the Mary P. Dolciani Halloran Foundation for important annual EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR support to the Whale Rescue Emergency Fund. Peter Borrelli MassSail was a great success in its first year and MassSail 2006 is already CHAIR, BOARD OF DIRECTORS A permanent home well-supported thanks to a major grant from the Barr Foundation, and grants John Burman from the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust, COASTWATCH EDITOR for marine science Jan Young Seamen’s Long Point Charitable Foundation and TD Banknorth Charitable in Provincetown Foundation. 2006 Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies The Marshall Frankel Foundation has provided a substantial grant for the COVER PHOTO: Science and education start-up of the Cape Cod Bay Sanctuary program, now in the late planning staff outside the new marine lab: Joanne stages. James Murray provided the Center a major discount on the sale of his Jarzobski, Nathalie Jaquet, Amy Costa, vessel, R/V Good Fortune. And Thomas Niles made a gift of the entire purchase Cynthia Browning (kneeling, L to R); price. Brian Sharp, Stormy Mayo, Dave We are grateful to the following individuals and organizations for their Osterberg, Meri Ratzel, Graham Giese, generous ongoing support for a number of causes, including the Ruth Hiebert Denise Risch, Cathy Metzger, Peter Borrelli, Memorial Fellowship and the Cape Cod Bay Sanctuary Program: Grace W. Amy Kennedy, Jooke Robbins, Terri Smith (standing, L to R); Owen Nichols and Scott Allsop Foundation, John Burman (our chair) and Diana Stinson, Nancy Landry (back row). J. Crown, Richard Danne, Carol Green and the Green Family Fund, PHOTO E. NOGIEC Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies Street 115 Bradford 1036, Box P.O. MA 02657 Provincetown, John Lippincott, Martin Loftus, Mike Nader, Mary Oliver, Jean Pierce, John Pollis, Alix Ritchie and Marty Davis, David Ritchey, Seth Sprague NEWSLETTER DESIGN Educational and Charitable Foundation, Nicholas Skinner, Jeffrey Sliter, Shank Painter Co. Inc. Gregory Triandis and Jim Wansiewicz. Staff Notes Gregory Krutzikowsky of Newport, Oregon will join the Center as its first full-time director of large whale disentanglement in April. Greg holds a master’s degree in biological oceanography from Oregon State University, and has a lot of experience with satellite & Commitment of Discovery Years Thirty 1976-2006 ~ telemetry and marine mammal rescue. His last position was with the Hatfield Marine Science Center at Oregon State, where he was examining the effects of stressors on the health of juvenile salmon. The right whale surveillance and habitat monitoring season began in January and welcomes newcomers Denise Risch, (B.S., Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin) and Meribeth Ratzel, (environmental science student at Cape Cod Community College). We are also delighted to welcome back Dr. Amy Costa, former habitat research assistant, who is working both the right whale season and then will continue on as an associate scientist with the new Cape Cod Bay Sanctuary Program. The program also welcomes back right whale aerial survey veterans Phil Kibler and Cynthia Browning. Lastly, but certainly not least, the program is ably coordinated by www.coastalstudies.org Owen Nichols (for the survey) and Dave Osterberg (for habitat), under the overall supervision of Dr. Stormy Mayo and Dr. Nathalie Jaquet. We are sad to report the death of Dorothy “Dorie” Bradley last November at the age of 91. Many members who joined the Center on a whale watch or in our retail store may have encountered the petite lady with the platinum blonde ponytail, the coral lipstick and the joie de’vivre. Dorie adored Provincetown and her summer job at the Center from 1995 through 2004. She will be deeply missed. coastwatch-v30iss1.indd 1 3/13/06 5:55:30 PM H A R B O R NOTES MOVING ON UP! Setting sail for new horizons What’s Wrong with although the U.S. is by no means oslyn Garfield, the ceilings, tearing down walls, and technology and finish off one of the ust as it finds a new of specialized trips departing a leader in the field. One pressing Center’s vice-chair and a working an extremely tight renovation building’s outstanding features, an home for itself at from Provincetown and Boston this Picture? question is whether planning will yield longtime Provincetown schedule to complete Phase I of a 850-square-foot marine library open the marine lab, the to explore the Stellwagen Bank resident, attorney and three-phase renovation by January 15. to the public. by Peter Borrelli greater protection, especially of fragile Center’s educational National Marine Sanctuary, realtorR said it best: “To acquire a LDa is an award-winning, progressive “Although the real estate division finds itself Cape Cod Bay, the Great South areas such as Cape Cod Bay, which is J Cape Cod blogger who already recognized by Massachusetts 10,000-square-foot building in this firm that specializes in educational and transactions have proven to be with a new director and Channel, and Nantucket. happens to be a local elected state law as an ocean sanctuary and town for $800,000 is incredible.” environmentally friendly projects, such extraordinarily complex, the Center exciting changes coming up The standard three-to- official recently suggested by the federal government as a critical The Center’s long sought-after as the Appalachian Mountain Club’s is grateful for the cooperation of the in its programming for 2006. four hour whale watch will that the solution to Cape habitat for right whales. The O’Leary dream; the dream of its staff, board Highland Center in Pinkham Notch, school committee, board of selectmen Joanne M. Jarzobski, be enhanced to include an ACod’s growing septic problem is to legislation, for example, ignores one of and supporters for a permanent home New Hampshire. and town manager for making this in her new role as marine introduction to research Ethel Kennedy guides the Spirit through the key recommendations of the U.S. pump it into Cape Cod Bay. Several for marine science and education Twenty-five percent of the new possible,” said Peter Borrelli. education director, has developed Nantucket Sound techniques and the use of electronic towns on Cape Cod and the Islands Commission on Ocean Policy that in Provincetown, became an official lab building is being reserved for a challenging curriculum for an equipment. There will also be all-day that have permitted development on ocean plans include the designation reality on January 19, when two classroom and public space, an expanded second year of MassSail MassSail will be expanded and ecological tours for more experienced the edge of steep, fragile dunes that are no clear vision of how the oceans of marine protected areas, while moving trucks laden with 30 years objective the Center shared with aboard the 125-foot schooner Spirit of includes Community Days programs amateur naturalists interested in now falling into the sea are considering should be managed. What passes providing a number of exemptions for worth of research files, photographs, the building’s seller, the Town Massachusetts. Included are a variety in several new communities,” marine mammals, seabirds, and dredging huge volumes of sand in for public policy is a hodgepodge of development of “small scale renewable lab equipment, curricula and the of Provincetown. In most New of educational programs featuring Jarzobski said. “Our college-level marine exploration; and overnight energy projects,” even while the Cape Cod Bay and Nantucket Sound, single-purpose statutes draped over a professional belongings of sixteen England towns, that means that a two-week college course for high course will be open to even more trips to Nantucket. Working with while also permitting landowners to framework of national security and planning process is underway. scientists, research assistants, the townspeople themselves have school students and undergrads; one- students with the availability of Center naturalists, Portuguese build more and more revetments.
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