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What does it have to do with our local beaches?<br><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Megan May is a second year graduate student pursuing her Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, she is a National Science Foundation Fellow and works in Rebecca Gast's laboratory in Woods Hole.</span></em><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td><td width=160 valign=top style='width:96.0pt;background:#CCCCCC;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#638496' id="content_LETTER.BLOCK10"><tr><td valign=top style='padding:3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:white'>Coffee House Series<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center 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