<div dir="ltr"><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-cb28daf7-a40d-3ae8-1137-d1805fe64c13"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:32px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Join us to explore a strange planet—ours. </span><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/aKFDma8y3mFc84kPeBTwoZuR_ixaZcaz37EAhByWT6NiwSoKv9pF185Ge1aqGg5dLS0YJDLI3chMP76RXDJ9kwIx2bUS8isk6XhSGLuoiNX-3UUkEaGzX7I5lbbeSikriA" width="93px;" height="86px;" style="border: none;" alt="whoi logo.jpg"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/seb4yysUvrpA_q2rPh_VbxCu3dEJv8s4dNuyL83v6XJOa5KZMrlojtbd-B3curX1X1dJsZIGriiYjrFAhBWyBMNtmx5skMQDxEZxK14joNMYPWFRAuU4Dj7QS9BoiEd9BA" width="167px;" height="86px;" style="border: none;" alt="oecolorcmyk.jpg"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The Ocean Explorium Ocean Academy and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announce a unique professional development opportunity: a two-part workshop on </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Wednesday, October 29, 2014, from 8:00 am to 3:30 pm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Exploration and Research at Deep Sea Vents</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Visit two partnering institutions in one day and learn about the most alien landscapes on Earth: hydrothermal vents of the deep sea! </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Part 1: </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">In the morning, visit the Ocean Explorium, see a special Science on a Sphere®* presentation and learn about how chemosynthesis can add to your curriculum.  </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Part 2:</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> Travel to Woods Hole by bus, eat lunch, see the Visitor’s Center, go behind the scenes at one of the top oceanographic research institutions in the world, and tour the Deep Submergence Laboratory where engineers create vehicles and instruments for exploring the deep sea. </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Your guides to this deep-sea world will be expert educators, research scientists and engineers from the Ocean Explorium in New Bedford and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole on Cape Cod.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The workshop will provide content and build understanding of Earth Science topics adaptable across grade levels, 4-12. Topics covered will include plate tectonics, hydrothermal vents and how they form, and the strange animals that cluster around hydrothermal vents and live off chemical energy in this sunless, cold, and (to us) poisonous environment. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(255,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Limited to the first 20 registrants.</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Ar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top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">174 Union St.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New Bedford, MA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Union Square Building at the corner of Union and Purchase St. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">From Route 195 East or West:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Take Exit 15 (Route 18 South, Downtown New Bedford).  Travel approximately 1.5 miles to the second traffic light at Union Street. Take a right at the light onto Union St. and proceed up the hill through the 1</span><span style="font-size:9px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap">st</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> traffic light.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">At the 2</span><span style="font-size:9px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap">nd</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> traffic light, just past the Santander Bank Building on your left, turn left onto Acushnet Avenue. Our building is on that corner.  You will see a parking lot attached to our building, but this is reserved for tenants only. There is also parking in the Zeiterion parking garage which is on Acushnet Avenue, just past our building. The attendant leaves at 3:00, in which case you will not be charged for the day.  Please do not park in the Santander Bank parking lot as this is designated for customers only.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Enter the Ocean Explorium offices through the REAR entrance via the parking lot. Enter the glass lobby doors and take the elevator or the stairs to the first floor to the Ocean Explorium offices.  Please call the Ocean Explorium at </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">508 994-5400</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> if you need any assistance finding the building or entrance.</span></p><div><br></div></span></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">Annette Brickley<div>Ocean Explorium</div><div>508-994-5400 x.11</div><div>207-951-6273 mobile</div></div></div>
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