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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Marine Ecosystem Assessment of Pleasant Bay</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Friends of Pleasant Bay funded the Center for Coastal Studies to conduct an interdisciplinary, multi-scale ecosystem assessment of Pleasant Bay between 2014 and 2017. The goal of this assessment was to create an important dataset of baseline information assessing the present status of the natural resources of Pleasant Bay that can be used to develop a long-term habitat monitoring program. The Technical Report and the Report-in-brief can be downloaded at: <a href="http://coastalstudies.org/interdisciplinary/"><span style='color:blue'>http://coastalstudies.org/interdisciplinary/</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B050'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B050'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B050'>Pat Hughes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B050'>Marine Policy Director<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B050'>Center for Coastal Studies<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B050'>5 Holway Street<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B050'>Provincetown, Mass. 02657<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B050'>T: (508) 487-3623, ext. 121<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B050'>F: (508 487-4695<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B050'>E: phughes@coastalstudies.org<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B050'>www.coastalstudies.org<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>