[SEMCO] CCMNH Development and Potential Impacts of the New Inlet int Nauset Beach

[The Gilligans]

The Friends of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

Presents

Development and Potential Impacts of the New Inlet in Nauset Beach

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 1:30

Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

869 Rte 6A, Brewster, MA 02631

508-896-3867 x 133    www.ccmnh.org

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 19, 2010

Contact: Gayle Kenerson 508-385-2192 or gck1 at comcast.net 

 

Friends of CCMNH monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 9th at
1:00pm, followed by the program, 

Development and Potential Impacts of the New Inlet in Nauset Beach

with

Ted Keon & Dr. Graham Giese

 

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

1:30 pm

Friends of CCMNH members/free, guests/$3

 

 

 

Ted Keon will discuss factors leading up to the formation of the new inlet
in April 2007, its continued development since that time and some of the
physical changes as well as current and future management implications
caused by the inlet.

 

Dr. Graham Giese will follow with an overview of the past history of the
Nauset Beach cycle of beach growth and inlet formation and based on that
present a possible scenario of inlet development 50 years into the future.

 

Ted Keon is the Director of the Coastal Resources Department with the Town
of Chatham.  Mr. Keon is the primary liaison for Chatham's marine and
shoreline related activities.  He oversees the planning and implementation
of projects affecting Chatham's waterways, coastal shorelines and water
dependent infrastructure and also provides oversight of Chatham's town 

landings and water access.  Prior to his position with Chatham, Mr. Keon was
the Chief of the Coastal Planning Section of the Philadelphia District of
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.    .

 

Graham S. Giese is co-founder and a Senior Scientist at the Provincetown
Center for Coastal Studies, where he currently serves as Director of the
Land and Sea Interaction Program. Dr. Giese is also an Oceanographer
Emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and has over 50 years
experience in the fields of coastal geology and coastal oceanography. 

 

 

1:00 Friends Meeting

1:30  Talk by Ted Keon & Dr. Graham Giese

Friends/free, Guests/$3

 

 

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