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<b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Contact: Dr.
Robert Kennedy<o:p></o:p></span></font></b>
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National Biodiversity Initiative
Chair<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> <a
href="mailto:rkennedy@mmo.org"><font color="black"><span
style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">rkennedy@mmo.org</span></font></a>
or (508) 228-1782<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><u><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">For Immediate Release<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">September 14, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">2<sup>nd</sup>
<st1:place w:st="on">Nantucket</st1:place> Biodiversity Initiative
Conference
Schedule Announced for Saturday, September 22<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">NANTUCKET--Scientists
from across North America will
converge on Nantucket on Saturday, September 22 from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. to
join local experts in discussing the island’s rich biodiversity—the
variety of all life (plants, animals and other living things) that
occur here,
including ecosystem, species and genetic diversity. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Admission to attend the
lectures is free to the
public but donations will be gladly accepted. The day-long conference
will
take place at the Egan Maritime Foundation at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Coffin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
4 Winter Street. Registration begins at 8 a.m. with coffee and
refreshments.
The program starts at 8:30 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">The Nantucket Biodiversity Initiative is a
partnership between <st1:place w:st="on">Nantucket</st1:place>
conservation organizations, universities,
non-governmental organizations, and individuals interested in
documenting the
biodiversity of the islands and adjacent waters and monitoring and
conserving
that biodiversity over time.</span></font><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></b><span class="BodyTextChar"><b><font
face="Arrus BT"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Members
of the partnership include the Linda Loring Nature Foundation, Maria
Mitchell
Association, Massachusetts Audubon Society, Nantucket Conservation
Foundation,
Nantucket Garden Club, Nantucket Islands Land Bank Commission,
Nantucket Land
Council, Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program of
Massachusetts Division
of Fisheries & Wildlife, Science Department of Nantucket High
School, The
Trustees of Reservations, Tuckernuck Land Trust, and University of
Massachusetts Boston Nantucket Field Station. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></span></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">For more information,
please visit <a href="http://www.nantucketbiodiversityinitiative.org/">http://www.nantucketbiodiversityinitiative.org/</a>
or contact Dr. Bob Kennedy, Director of Natural Science at the Maria
Mitchell
Association, who serves as chair of the National Biodiversity
Initiative. He
can be reached at 508-228-1782 or <a href="mailto:rkennedy@mmo.org">rkennedy@mmo.org</a>.
A complete schedule of the program is attached.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2nd <st1:place
w:st="on">Nantucket</st1:place>
Biodiversity Initiative Conference<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">8:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">September 22,
2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Coffin
School, Egan
Institute of Maritime Studies<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4 Winter
Street, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Nantucket</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">MA</st1:State></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><u><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Tentative Program Synopsis<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">8:00 - 8:30 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Coffee and refreshments<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">8:30 - 8:40 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Opening Remarks <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Bob Kennedy, Chair, <st1:place
w:st="on">Nantucket</st1:place>
Biodiversity Initiative<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">8:40 - 9:40 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Session 1: Plants –
Chair, Ernest <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Steinauer</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:State></st1:place>
Audubon Society<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">1) BRYOPHYTES OF <st1:place
w:st="on">NANTUCKET</st1:place>:
TOWARD A MODERN SPECIES CHECKLIST. Norton G. Miller.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">2) LICHEN DIVERSITY IN
THE PLANT COMMUNITIES OF
NANTUCKET AND <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">TUCKERNUCK</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">ISLANDS</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.
Elizabeth
Kneiper.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">3) WEE BEASTIES AND
TEENY PLANTS II – THE
STUDENT VIEW. Douglas E. Eveleigh.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">9:40 - 10:40 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Session 2: Marine
Ecosystems – Chair, Sarah
Oktay, UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">4) BIODIVERSITY SURVEYS
OF NANTUCKET AND <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">MADAKET</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">HARBORS</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> –
INCORPORATING EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAMMING WITH FIELD RESEARCH. Rachel Dacks, <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Bridget Deemer</st1:PersonName>, W. Forrest Kennedy, Meghan
J. Massaua, <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Caroline Polgar</st1:PersonName>,
and Robert S. Kennedy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">5) THE POSSIBLE ROLE OF
TELOMERE LOSS IN THE SHORT
LIFE SPAN OF THE BAY SCALLOP, Argopecten irradians irradians (LAMARCK
1819).
Stephen L. Estabrooks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">6) UNDERWATER SURVEYS
OF THE PLANTS AND
INVERTEBRATES OF <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">NANTUCKET
HARBOR</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MASSACHUSETTS</st1:State></st1:place>.
Meghan Massaua,
W. Forrest Kennedy, Rachel Dacks, Peter B. Boyce and Robert S.
Kennedy. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">10:40 - 11:10 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Break & Refreshments<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">11:10 a.m. - 12:10
p.m. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Session 3: Terrestrial
Invertebrates -1 –
Chair, Cheryl Creighton, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Tuckernuck</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Land</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> Trust <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">7) A PRELIMINARY
ASSESSMENT OF ANT SPECIES
DIVERSITY ON <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">CAPE</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">COD</st1:PlaceName>, MARTHA’S VINEYARD, AND <st1:place
w:st="on">NANTUCKET</st1:place>.
Aaron M. Ellison, Mark R. Johnston, and Kelly C. McBride. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">8) INVENTORY AND
DISTRIBUTION OF SPIDERS ON
NANTUCKET, TUCKERNUCK AND <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">MUSKEGET
ISLANDS</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MASSACHUSETTS</st1:State></st1:place>.
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Andrew Mckenna-Foster</st1:PersonName> and
Cheryl
Beaton. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">9) THE DISTRIBUTION OF
ANNUAL CICADAS ON <st1:place w:st="on">NANTUCKET</st1:place>. Gerry
Bunker.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">12:10 – 1:40 p.m. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Lunch Break and Session
4: Posters: Chair, Sarah
E. Hinman, <st1:place w:st="on">Nantucket</st1:place> Conservation
Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">10) POPULATION TRENDS
OF NESTING PIPING PLOVERS
(Charadrius melodus) AND LEAST TERNS (Sterna antillarum) ON NANTUCKET
ISLAND,
MASSACHUSETTS: 30 YEARS OF MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT. Karen C.
Beattie, Edith
A. Ray, Scott M. Melvin, Bradford G. Blodget, and Carolyn S. Mostello.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">11) PRELIMINARY
RESPONSES OF RARE SANDPLAIN
WILDFLOWERS TO PRESCRIBED FIRE MANAGEMENT ON <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">NANTUCKET ISLAND</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MASSACHUSETTS</st1:State></st1:place>.
Sarah E. Hinman, Rachael S. Freeman, Karen C. Beattie, and Sarah A.
Treanor. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">12) THE MARIA MITCHELL
ASSOCIATION ELECTRONIC FIELD
GUIDE TO THE INVASIVE PLANTS OF <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">NANTUCKET ISLAND</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MASSACHUSETTS</st1:State></st1:place>.
Cheryl Beaton, Kristen Checkalski, Jennifer Forman Orth, Robert
Stevenson,
Jacob Asiedu, Robert Morris, and Robert S. Kennedy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">1:40 – 3:00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Session 5: Terrestrial
Invertebrates-2 &
Vertebrates -1 - Chair, Cormac Collier, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Nantucket</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Land</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
Council <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">13) ABOVEGROUND
ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY ASSEMBLAGES WITHIN
<st1:place w:st="on">NANTUCKET</st1:place>’S PITCH PINE AND SCRUB OAK
BARRENS HABITATS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE BEETLE FAUNA. Aaron
S. Weed.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">14) NANTUCKET
LEPIDOPTERA: AN ONLINE SEARCHABLE
DATABASE OF THE CHANGES IN THE MOTH FAUNA ON <st1:place w:st="on">NANTUCKET</st1:place>
BETWEEN THE EARLY 1900’S AND THE PRESENT. Mark J. Mello.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">15) BOX TURTLES
(Terrapene <st1:City w:st="on">carolina</st1:City>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">carolina</st1:City></st1:place>)
ON
CAMP EDWARDS, A SPECIES OF SPECIAL CONCERN, AND DO THEY CLIMB UP HILL.
Michael
Ciaranca.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">16) WHIP-POOR-WILLS
(Caprimulgus vociferous) AND
THEIR SPATIAL NEEDS ON CAMP EDWARDS. John P. Kelly.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">3:00 - 3:30 p.m. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Break & Refreshments<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">3:30 – 4:50 p.m. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Session 6:
Vertebrates-2: Richard R. Veit, <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">City</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">New York</st1:State></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">17) DIET COMPOSITION OF
GRAY SEALS (Halichoerus
grypus) IN <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>
WATERS. Kristen Ampela. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">18) WINTERING HABITAT
OF SEADUCKS IN THE <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">NANTUCKET</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">ISLAND</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> COASTAL
AREA BASED ON SATELLITE
TELEMETRY AND FOOD HABITS. Matthew C. Perry and Simon Perkins.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">19) THE POPULATION
DYNAMICS OF THE AMERICAN
OYSTERCATCHER (Haematopus palliates) ON THE ISLANDS OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Sean P.
Murphy and Richard R. Veit.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">20) WHAT DO HISTORIC
ACCOUNTS OF THE HEATH HEN TELL
US ABOUT SANDPLAIN HABITATS? Tim Simmons.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><font face="Arrus BT" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN">Special thanks
for support from
Provisions, Cisco Brewers, Foood for Here & There,</span></font></b><font
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN">Nantucket
Allserve, <st1:place w:st="on">Nantucket</st1:place> Ice House,
Espresso To Go and Island Coffee
Roasters. </span></font></b><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"
lang="EN">For
information go to: <a
href="http://www.nantucketbiodiversityinitiative.org/"><font
color="black"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">www.nantucketbiodiversityinitiative.org</span></font></a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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