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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Friday May 18, 2007<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Media Release 5.4<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Tanya Gabettie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>508.487.3622
Ext. 103</span><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>PCCS
Hires New Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>(Provincetown, Cape Cod, MA) – </span></b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>At its recent
annual meeting, the board of directors of the Provincetown Center for Coastal
Studies (PCCS) elected Richard Delaney of South Orleans as executive director,
effective July 1, 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Delaney will succeed Peter Borrelli
who is retiring after twelve years at the helm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Delaney brings a seasoned perspective
and vast experience in coastal management and marine conservation through
various positions over the last twenty-five years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>As director of Massachusetts coastal
zone management throughout the 1980s, Delaney was involved with the scientific,
policy, legal, regulatory and political aspects of the Boston Harbor clean-up,
the debate over proposed oil drilling on Georges Bank, major open space
acquisitions, coastal wetland, and marine habitat protection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>In 1989, he was the founding director
of the Urban Harbors Institute (UHI) at the University of Massachusetts-Boston,
and provided technical assistance and training to local governments and
non-profit organizations in the United States and in over twenty countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Delaney has been instrumental in
establishing several environmental initiatives, including an outdoor
residential environmental program for Cape Cod National Seashore, the Mass Bays
National Estuary Program, the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary,
Waquoit Bay National Estuary research reserve, and the now international Coast
Weeks initiative.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>As national chair of the Coastal
States Organization representing the views of the governors of thirty-five
coastal and Great Lake states and five US Territories, he was the lead
spokesperson on issues in Washington, DC testifying before congressional
committees, addressing national conferences and working to develop a healthy
consensus of diverse issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>The
Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies is dedicated to researching and
protecting marine mammals and marine ecosystems in the Gulf of Maine through
research, conservation and public education programs. PCCS is internationally
renowned for its whale research, and is a leading authority in science-based
resource management policies in Massachusetts. To learn more about PCCS, visit
us on the web at coastalstudies.org.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Contact:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Tanya
Gabettie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Communications
Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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tgabettie@coastalstudies.org<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Rich
Delaney<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>E:
Delaney@coastalstudies.org<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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