<div dir="ltr">Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies Winter Lecture Series<div><br>**Leatherback Turtles - Tagging along with a Leatherback in Cape Cod Waters and Beyond**</div><div><br>Wednesday, April 24 at 7 pm<br>Napi's Restaurant, 7 Freeman Street, Provincetown<br>
<br>Presented by Kara Dodge, Large Pelagics Research Center, University of Massachusetts and Scott Landry, Director, Marine Animal Entanglement Response at PCCS.<br><br>Kara will discuss her research to characterize leatherback habitat use on the northeast US shelf and identify important feeding areas in this region. She will share results of seven years of satellite tagging leatherback turtles in Nantucket Sound. <br>
<br>Kara and Scott will also describe collaborative efforts with Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies and the New England Aquarium to conduct health evaluations in order to better understand their baseline health, physiology, and pathology of leatherbacks off Massachusetts.<br>
<br>Free, all welcome!<br><br>Participants are encouraged to arrive between 5 and 6 pm to enjoy Napi's special early bird dinner.<br><br>Part of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies Winter Lecture Series, which is supported in part by Napi's. <div>
<span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></div>-- <br><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>
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