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Friday May 18, 2007

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Release 5.4

Tanya Gabettie

508.487.3622 Ext. 103

 

PCCS Hires New Executive Director

(Provincetown, Cape Cod, MA) - At its recent annual meeting, the board of
directors of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies (PCCS) elected
Richard Delaney of South Orleans as executive director, effective July 1,
2007.

Delaney will succeed Peter Borrelli who is retiring after twelve years at
the helm.

Delaney brings a seasoned perspective and vast experience in coastal
management and marine conservation through various positions over the last
twenty-five years.

As director of Massachusetts coastal zone management throughout the 1980s,
Delaney was involved with the scientific, policy, legal, regulatory and
political aspects of the Boston Harbor clean-up, the debate over proposed
oil drilling on Georges Bank, major open space acquisitions, coastal
wetland, and marine habitat protection.

In 1989, he was the founding director of the Urban Harbors Institute (UHI)
at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and provided technical assistance
and training to local governments and non-profit organizations in the United
States and in over twenty countries.

Delaney has been instrumental in establishing several environmental
initiatives, including an outdoor residential environmental program for Cape
Cod National Seashore, the Mass Bays National Estuary Program, the
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Waquoit Bay National Estuary
research reserve, and the now international Coast Weeks initiative.

As national chair of the Coastal States Organization representing the views
of the governors of thirty-five coastal and Great Lake states and five US
Territories, he was the lead spokesperson on issues in Washington, DC
testifying before congressional committees, addressing national conferences
and working to develop a healthy consensus of diverse issues.

 

 

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The Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies is dedicated to researching and
protecting marine mammals and marine ecosystems in the Gulf of Maine through
research, conservation and public education programs. PCCS is
internationally renowned for its whale research, and is a leading authority
in science-based resource management policies in Massachusetts. To learn
more about PCCS, visit us on the web at coastalstudies.org.

 

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Contact:

Tanya Gabettie

Communications Coordinator

O:  508.487.3622 Ext. 103

E:  tgabettie at coastalstudies.org

 

Rich Delaney

E:  Delaney at coastalstudies.org

 

 

 

 

 

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