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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>For those of you interested in increasing Ocean Literacy far and wide, here is the first concrete effort to do so in Europe. I send this on behalf of my colleague in Belgium, who is coordinating this effort. All details can be found on the website.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Robert C. Rocha, Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Science Director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>New Bedford Whaling Museum<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>18 Johnny Cake Hill<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>New Bedford, MA 02740<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>(508) 717-6849<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>rrocha@whalingmuseum.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Evy Copejans [mailto:evy.copejans@vliz.be] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 30, 2012 8:38 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> Invitation to the First Conference on Ocean Literacy in Europe<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
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