<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" class=""><font face="Arial" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Woods Hole Sea Grant reminds our SEMCO </font><font face="Arial" class="">subscribers</font><font face="Arial" class=""> that our inaugural research symposium, “Science at Our Shores” is scheduled for tomorrow, Friday, March 6, from 1 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., in Redfield Auditorium in Woods Hole.</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Researchers funded with Sea Grant core funding will give a series of brief presentations describing their efforts to investigate pressing environmental and coastal issues at our shores. PIs funded </font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="" style="font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" class="">in 2018 will discuss the results of their research into topics such as the impacts of cranberry agriculture on the watershed, the ecosystem benefits of living shorelines, shoreline resilience, and HABs. Newly funded PIs will describe the projects just getting underway on microplastics, river herring, white sharks, and seals. </font></div><div class="" style="font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" class="">The event is free and open to all. Registration is not necessary but would help us anticipate numbers of attendees. For more information and registration, see <a href="https://seagrant.whoi.edu/science-at-our-shores/" class="">https://seagrant.whoi.edu/science-at-our-shores/</a>. </font></div><div class="" style="font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;" class="">Contact: Jennie Rheuban, WHSG Research Coordinator, </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" class=""><a href="mailto:jrheuban@whoi.edu" class="">jrheuban@whoi.edu</a></span></font></div></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"></div></div></span></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></body></html>