<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed"><font size="4"><strong><u>THE VALUE OF WHALE WATCHING: Its contribution to Science and Conservation.</u></strong></font></div><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed"><font size="4">Tuesday, July 24 at 7:30 pm at Truro Community Center</font></div>
<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed"><font size="4">Free, all welcome.<br> <br> Presented by Carole Carlson, PhD</font></div><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed"><em><font size="4">Adjunct scientist with PCCS and Director of Research and</font></em><font size="4"><span class="text_exposed_show"><em> Education for the Dolphin Fleet.</em><br>
<br>Dr. Carole Carlson has spent over twenty-six years studying cetaceans off the east coast of the United States, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic and the Eastern Caribbean and is an acknowledged world expert on photo-identification techniques, humpback whales and whale watching. Her work (and that of Dr. Stormy Mayo) on humpback whale photo-identification at the Center for Coastal Studies was the inspiration for the PBS series <em>“The Voyage of the Mimi”.</em> </span></font></div>
<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed"><font size="4"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br>Carole serves on the Whalewatch Sub-Committee of the International Whaling Commission and has organized and conducted several international whale-watching workshops, promoting responsible whale watching as a viable ecological and economical alternative to whaling. Her marine education work in the Caribbean has touched over twenty thousand schoolchildren and their teachers, and she has trained college interns to collect scientific data in the region.<br>
<br> The Chase-Miller Policy Forum is a series of lectures and discussions designed to educate the public on the role of science in public policy as it relates to the marine environment. This forum was made possible by the generous support of Linda B. Miller, PhD, a long-time patron and member of the Board of Directors.</span><br clear="all">
</font><br>-- <br></div><div>Cathrine Macort<br>Executive Assistant<br>Center for Coastal Studies <br>508-487-3622 x 103<br>508-808-9660</div>
<div><a href="mailto:cmacort@coastalstudies.org" target="_blank">cmacort@coastalstudies.org</a><br><a href="http://www.coastalstudies.org" target="_blank">www.coastalstudies.org</a></div><br>