<div class="gmail_quote">To Whom It May Concern,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I would be very grateful if you would post the following announcement to the semco list-serve or let me know how to go about doing so. </div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Many thanks!</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Jill Holdren, FACES Administrator</div><div class="gmail_quote">508 548-5266 </div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><a href="mailto:info@facesfalmouth.org">info@facesfalmouth.org</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Greetings!<u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white"><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Please join us on </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 7 pm at the Falmouth Public Library for an enlightening talk entitled, ‘The Living Resources and Water Quality of Buzzards Bay: Trends and Opportunities,’ with Dr. Joe Costa, Executive Director of the Buzzards Bay Estuary Program. Attached is a flyer for the event. Please feel free to disseminate it to interested friends and colleagues. </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
<br><span style="background:white">Dr. Costa will talk about the criteria of a healthy estuarine ecosystem, the human activities that threaten the health of our estuaries, why healthy estuaries matter so much to people and all the other creatures who depend on them, and what we can do to protect and restore water quality and habitat in Buzzards Bay and its surrounding watershed.</span><br>
<br><span style="background:white">Our coastal waters are endangered, primarily by excess nitrogen resulting from human activity. Government efforts to address the issue include the updated Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan for Buzzards Bay and </span><span style="background:white">new Federal water quality standards. As Dr. Costa will discuss, meeting the challenges associated with the new water quality standards and TMDLs adopted by the USEPA will not be easy, but is essential for ensuring the region's environmental and economic future. </span><br>
<br><span style="background:white">Dr. Costa is eminently qualified to discuss problems of and solutions for our impacted coastal waters. He is the longtime Executive Director of the Buzzards Bay National Estuary Program, a planning and technical assistance unit of Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management. He received his Bachelor of Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the Boston University Marine Program in Woods Hole. His graduate, postdoctoral </span><span style="background:white">research and professional work has focused on the impacts of coastal development on water quality and coastal habitat, especially those impacts caused by nitrogen inputs. In his work at the Buzzards Bay NEP, he was the lead in establishing the Massachusetts alternative Septic System Test Center, helped develop state policy on a wide of issues, and helped </span><span style="background:white">municipalities design and implement solutions. </span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><br><span style="background:white">Please join us for an enlightening talk and light refreshments.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">We look forward to seeing you there!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">For more information, please contact <a href="mailto:info@facesfalmouth.org" target="_blank">info@facesfalmouth.org</a> or visit our website at <a href="http://www.facesfalmouth.org" target="_blank">www.facesfalmouth.org</a>. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Falmouth Associations Concerned with Estuaries and Salt Ponds</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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