Thanks COASTWATCH Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies • • 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 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 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 . 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. A economic interests. Underlying all this The O’Leary bill also fails to grasp educators, rescue team members, a say in such matters through week marine mammal and seafaring scholarships. The program for teens Princess will also offer special tours company wants to build a liquefied confusion is the widespread belief that the full meaning of ecosystem based and naturalists made their way along the custom of annual town adventures for 13- to 16-year-olds; has been designed to integrate marine for school groups designed to meet natural gas facility on Outer Brewster the ocean belongs to private interests. management by limiting itself to the half-mile or so of narrow streets meeting. And last April, by a eight programs custom-designed mammals and seafaring for teenagers.” the requirements of the Massachusetts Island in , which is now The Massachusetts Legislature waters within the state’s three-mile that led from the Center’s first home, nearly unanimous vote, they part of a national park, while another is currently considering a bill (S. limit of jurisdiction. Unfortunately, for towns and cities throughout the As if that weren’t enough, 2006 curriculum frameworks. LNG facility is proposed for prime 2308) introduced by Senator Robert ecosystems do not conform to political the 1850 Cape Cod cottage at 59 resoundingly approved keeping Massachusetts coastline; and a special marks the beginning of a new era in Executive Director Peter Borrelli said fishing grounds near Gloucester. The O’Leary that seeks to redress these ills. boundaries. And the truth is that Commercial Street, to 5 Holway the Center in Provincetown. weeklong celebration of Nantucket whale watching, as the Center’s whale of the collaboration, “Whale-watching, American Petroleum Institute has Ironically, O’Leary’s district includes most of the conflicts over ocean Avenue, the yet-to-be-named former Now that staff are for the Sound, co-sponsored by the Alliance watch program goes to sea for the seal-watching, and bird-watching resumed lobbying to reopen Georges Cape Cod, the islands of Nantucket use in the region are occurring in school building built in the 1960’s most part comfortably installed to Protect Nantucket Sound. first time with Portuguese Princess should be fun and awe inspiring, but at Bank to oil and gas exploration. And and Martha’s Vineyard and most of federal, not state waters. What is that had just undergone a remarkable in their workspaces, Phase II, “Spirit will be sailing MassSail Excursions. Beginning in April, the the end of the trip, if our passengers are let’s not forget about Cape Wind, the Nantucket Sound ---- but not the called for is legislation at the state transformation in readiness for the which encompasses a brand-new programs for nearly 100 days this seasoned excursion company will team not spiritually and politically energized, nation’s first offshore wind energy federal waters area in the middle of and federal level that promotes big day. roof, siding, and thermo-paned summer. The second season of with the Center by conducting a series we have failed as educators.” project and the largest in the world the Sound proposed for large-scale cooperative management of local, The short distance belied the windows for the entire building, proposed for construction in the wind energy development. The state, and federal waters and interests. reams of paperwork, proposals and is well underway. Phase III, Save the harbor, save the bay, save the bank middle of Nantucket Sound, a body bill instructs the state’s secretary of Such a management regime was RFP’s; miles of red tape; frustrating dependent upon the success of of water twice recommended as a environmental affairs to develop an recommended in 1980 for Nantucket and fruitless negotiations for other the Coastal Campaign (see box), This is your chance to have a say when with noise, boat bottoms, fishing gear, gas (LNG) facility in the nation may national marine sanctuary. As for the ocean management plan for state Sound by the Commonwealth of properties; and years of planning, will turn the building “green” two important public policy initiatives even shadows from planes overhead; become a reality on Outer Brewster region’s only official national marine waters based on six basic principles: Massachusetts, but ignored by the scheming and dreaming it had taken with solar panels and geo-thermal undergo public and legislative review that present a veritable obstacle course Island if the Massachusetts legislature sanctuary on Stellwagen Bank, the • Fulfilling the state’s public trust federal government. Ironically, almost the Center to accomplish the near- this spring. for animals programmed to behave in passes a bill permitting the state’s government and user groups have responsibilities. Unlike most of the land the same management regime is now miracle of establishing a permanent, The first are the public hearings certain ways for undisturbed eons. conservation agency to lease the island now begun their second decade in the state ocean resources belong to the in place in the Florida Keys National modern, well-equipped headquarters The Coastal Campaign on the revised management plan Executive Director Peter Borrelli for this specific commercial use, an act of quarreling and delaying action people of Massachusetts and are held in Marine Sanctuary. in Provincetown to fulfill the Board’s for the Gerry E. Studds-Stellwagen made a motion at its January meeting completely contrary to Outer Brewster’s over its long-term management and public trust by the state. What is needed at this critical ten-year vision for the Center’s On the eve of its 30th Anniversary, the Center kicked off a $3.5 million dollar Bank National Marine Sanctuary. to “recommend that SBNMS consult designation as a crucial habitat and time is a broad ocean vision and protection. What’s wrong with this • Valuing and protecting the abundance research and educational programs. capital campaign, the Coastal Campaign, to fund the new marine lab and to raise At issue are determinations on such with the appropriate agencies (NOAA nursery for fin fish and lobster and picture? and diversity of native species. commitment to work together both to Gone is the one leaky sink in the old $1 million towards the establishment of its first-ever endowment for research, environmentally critical realities as Fisheries and the United States Coast one of the jewels of the Boston Harbor It seems everyone is fighting over • Managing ocean resources in a manner protect and manage ocean resources. habitat lab; gone are the cubby-holed conservation and education programs. Lead gifts from the Green Family Fund, shipping lanes through large whale Guard) to examine the options to take Islands, themselves a national recreation a piece of the ocean. Massachusetts that reflects the interdependence of Creating that vision will first require workspaces; gone the one bathroom the Ruth L. Hiebert Charitable Foundation, and the Pegasus Foundation habitat and the effects of non-regulated emergency action for speed restrictions area and state park. Governor Mitt Romney has described ecosystems. the following: to serve two cramped buildings. launched the campaign. Thomas Niles of Cambridge underwrote the cost of the whale watching. for right whales for the 2006 season.” The Center has gone on record the scene as “the Wild West.” There • Fostering sustainable uses of ocean • That those who use the ocean new coastal geology and ecology lab (and also underwrote the Center’s purchase The motion passed and is under along with Save the Harbor/Save the have not been any shoot-outs, but resources, including fishing, energy abandon the notion of ownership and Multiple sinks, spacious countertops In evolutionary terms, the whale the amount of trash talking going production, recreation, and commerce. entitlement; and cabinets befitting an up-to-date of its newest vessel, the R/V Good Fortune, dedicated for use in the Cape Cod Bay species of Stellwagen Bank enjoyed review. Bay to oppose any sale or lease of on between traditional allies in the • Using the best available information • That regulators rely more heavily lab; three handicapped-accessible Sanctuary Program). The Center also extends its thanks to the following Coastal relative peace and quiet for thousands You can let your voice be heard Outer Brewster Island for use as an environmental and public health and expertise in making management on science and the local knowledge of restrooms; and spacious new offices Campaign donors: Edward McC. Blair, Jeanne L. Bultman, Eleanor Brown, of years before human beings by contacting the sanctuary at LNG terminal. You may read and organizations and even among decisions. those who know the sea; have taken their place. Samuel Graybill, Harvey Hollander, Walter Phillips and Jaye R. Phillips, Michael arrived—first in sailing ships, then in [email protected] to request that download the proposed legislation and regulators and resource managers is • Encouraging public involvement in the • That competing uses of ocean Although January 19 was moving Prodanou and Constantine Manos, Alix Ritchie and Marty Davis, Lillian Oxtoby, fishing schooners, then steam-operated you be put on its mailing list for the the full opposition statement at Save tragic. decision-making process. resources be resolved through a day, LDa Architects of Cambridge Susan Ronnlund, Albert and Martha Santoro, Cecile Schwartzman and Mr. and vessels, then in gigantic steel ships and schedule of public hearings. the Harbor/Save the Bay’s website at: Two national commissions have If the bill passes Massachusetts will comprehensive and participatory and Acella Construction Corporation Mrs. Paul C. Troy. For more information on the Coastal Campaign, or to see a 100-foot long whale watch boats, and Meanwhile, next door to Boston on www.savetheharbor.org. If you are a concluded that the underlying become one of the first states in the planning process. of Norwell were in the building on prospectus, please contact Director of Communications Theresa Barbo at: (508) finally, in aircraft overhead. The result one of the gateway islands into Boston Massachusetts voter, it is in your power problem is that the nation has country to attempt ocean planning, November 1, 2005, tearing out false 487-3622 x107, or by email at [email protected] is an un underwater environment filled Harbor, the largest liquid natural to affect the outcome of this legislation. .

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