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</v:background></xml><![endif]--><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Native Trout talk kicks off Coffee House Series at the Waquoit Bay Reserve<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>On Thursday, November 3, at 7 pm, Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve kicks off the program, “Community Coffee House Series: Research at the Reserve” with “Trout Tag Tales”. This program will focus on current studies tagging native Eastern Brook Trout in the Quashnet and Child’s Rivers. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>The Eastern Brook Trout, one of the species that travels between fresh and salt water, is renowned with sport fishermen. The Quashnet and Child’s Rivers were celebrated trout streams until they were degraded during the 1800 and 1900s due to mill dams, cranberry farming, fish stocking, and other human actions. The Quashnet River was restored in the late 1900s and work has begun to restore the Child’s River. Researchers at Massachusetts Fish and Wildlife and Waquoit Bay NERR are conducting several different types of research including DNA research, monitoring temperature changes in the river and tagging the native brook trout to track efforts to restore the Child’s River.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Jim Rassman, the Reserve’s Stewardship Coordinator who works with partners in the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, explained the tagging project this way, “Most people have heard about</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'>pet owners injecting their pets with a scannable identification tag to help recover them. The tags we’ve been using with the trout for the last several years work on the same principle. We can follow the path of each tagged fish as it travels through rivers, ponds, and the bay. Some of the results may surprise people.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Each Thursday evening during the first three weeks of November, a different scientist will discuss their research at the Waquoit Bay Reserve. In addition to explaining the research they’re doing, they will include personal anecdotes on how they did the science and how they feel their research will make a difference to those sitting in the audience. Education Coordinator Joan Muller had this to say about the series, “We get a lot of people asking, ‘What do you do there?’ We created this series to help answer that question and expose community members to cutting edge science in a relaxed and informal way. We’re pitching this towards members of the community who are curious but may or may not have a scientific background. We’re looking at this as an interactive coffee house format where people feel equally comfortable asking questions and joining in discussion or just sitting back and listening to the scientists’ stories of their work.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Doors open at 6:45 with a chance to view the exhibits in the visitor center and sample some homemade sweets and coffee and tea. Participants are encouraged to bring their own mug. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Registration is preferred but not required at <a href="http://www.waquoitbayreserve.org">www.waquoitbayreserve.org</a> . For more information, call 508-457-0495 x 107 or 108. Waquoit Bay Reserve is located at 149 Waquoit Highway, Waquoit, Massachusetts. <span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The next program is “Studying the Past to Understand the Future: A Submerged Ancient Forest and Sea Level Rise” which will be presented by UMass Boston doctoral candidate Chris Maio on November 10. Robinson “Wally” Fulweiler, Associate Director of the Boston University Marine Program will wrap up the series on November 17 with “Nitrous oxide: It’s No Laughing Matter.” For more information and a downloadable flyer, go to <a href="http://www.waquoitbayreserve.org">www.waquoitbayreserve.org</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>