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<p><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#383731">Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#383731"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:#14619E">Tuesday, June 4, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#383731">Please join us to learn more about this pilot project and what you can do to help "tackle the trash" on our beaches!</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#383731"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">Plastic pollution is an emergent global problem that is causing severe harm to ocean ecosystems and marine life. Join us to learn more about the plastic problem and ongoing research on Cape Cod,
as well as how you can be a part of the solution by participating in a new “Tackle the Trash” pilot project being launched by Grace Vachon, AmeriCorps Cape Cod, Nicole Vandale, Ph.D. candidate, Northeastern University and Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research
Reserve this summer. </span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#383731"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#383731">Meet our Presenters</span></b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#383731"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">Grace Vachon</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black"> is Waquoit Bay Reserve's Year 25 AmeriCorps Cape Cod member. As an AmeriCorps
member, she has participated in a variety of individual and group service projects related to natural resource management, disaster preparedness and response, community outreach, and environmental education. At her placement with the Reserve and the Friends
of Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge, she has designed educational programming, taught programs, and written outreach materials such as newsletter articles. Grace graduated from the University of New Hampshire last May with a degree in Wildlife Biology and
Conservation. She is interested in science communication and public outreach and was instrumental in developing the Tackle the Trash pilot project in coordination with WBNERR staff.</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#383731"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Homer, Alaska. At Northeastern, Nicole was awarded the Massachusetts Sea Grant Graduate Research Fellowship, and her research focuses on microplastics, plastic pollution, and plastic policy. She is collaborating with WBNERR on outreach, science communication,
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