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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>The New Bedford Whaling Museum would like to announce the first night of its free, four part lecture series, Man and Whales: Changing Views Through Time.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>February 16, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>D-tag is D-thing: From Discovery Tags to DTAGS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Since whaling crews often worked in close proximity to other ships’ crews, including those from other countries, they would avoid confusion by marking their gear and attaching flags to whales they captured. Whale researchers now attach satellite tags and acoustic recording tags to whales to learn details of the lives of animals who spend most of their time below the water’s surface.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dr. Stuart Frank</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>, Senior Curator, New Bedford Whaling Museum, will explain the methods, terminology, and protocols of marking whales and whaling implements in the Age of Sail to minimize disputes over commodities on the high seas. Stuart will bring examples of this hardware. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dr. Peter Tyack</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is co-creator of the DTAG (Digital Acoustic Recording Tag) technology that was developed to monitor the behavior of marine mammals, and their response to sound, continuously throughout the dive cycle. Peter will share some of the exciting insight about whales’ lives that has been gained by using this non-invasive form of tagging. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This free series, now in its third year, delves into a variety of whaling and whale conservation topics through the juxtaposed viewpoints of the historical and the modern. Each night, our presenters take turns at the podium as they share their knowledge of a specific aspect of whales and whaling, providing us with a broader understanding of these topics. This year we will look at stranded whales, tagged whales, a recent catastrophic event in an historic whaling ground and ‘non-Yankee’ whales. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The lectures will take place on Wednesday nights: February 16, March 16, April 20 and May 18<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> Join us in the Jacobs Family Gallery for a reception at 6:30. Each lecture starts at 7:30.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This series is sponsored by ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations) a program administered by the U.S. Dept. of Education. Offered in partnership with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Upcoming Lectures:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>March 16: <i>The Gulf of Mexico: Spilling Crude Oil Where We Once Spilled Sperm Oil</i>, with Judith Lund and Deborah Cramer<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>April 20: <i>The Great Sperm Whale</i>, book launch with Richard Ellis<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>May 18: <i>Stranded Whales: Commodity and Conservation</i>, with Michael Dyer and Katie Touhey Moore<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please contact me directly if you have any questions about this series.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Robert C. 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