[SEMCO] CCMNH Monitoring Cape Cod Bay

[The Gilligans]

The Friends of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

Presents

Monitoring Cape Cod Bay:  Tracing the link between nitrogen, eelgrass,
invasive species and pharmaceuticals

with Dr. Amy Costa, Director of the Cape Cod Bay Monitoring Program at the
Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies

 

 

Tuesday, November 8, 2011, at 1:30pm

Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

869 Rte 6A, Brewster, MA 02631

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

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 26, 2011

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

 

Friends of CCMNH monthly program will be held on Tuesday, November 8, 2011
at 1:00pm

Followed by a talk at 1:30pm 

Monitoring Cape Cod Bay:  Tracing the link between nitrogen, eelgrass,
invasive species and pharmaceuticals

with Dr. Amy Costa, Director of the Cape Cod Bay Monitoring Program at the
Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies

Dr. Amy Costa, Director of the Cape Cod Bay Monitoring Program at the
Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, will talk about how in spring of
2006, the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies (PCCS) began a long-term
monitoring program to study the health of Cape Cod Bay, focusing on water
quality and related indicators of ecosystem health and the 
additional goal to understand the impact from "local polluters".  The
realization of the interdependence of many other facets of the C.C.Bay
ecosystem has expanded the scope of study.  In addition to water 
quality, PCCS now regularly is monitoring eelgrass habitat, marine invasive
species and has conducted preliminary research on the occurrence of organic
wast water contaminants (pharmaceuticals, personal care products) in the
Cape Cod Bay ecosystem.

Amy Costa also serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Massachusetts,
Boston.   she completed her PhD in Biological Oceanography through the
University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography in 2005.  Prior
to coming to PCCS, Amy worked as a research ecologist for USGS in Alaska. In
1999, she received her Master's in Marine Biology from Western Washington
University.

 

1:00 Friends Meeting 

1:30  Talk by Dr. Amy Costa                             

Friends/free, Guests/$3  

 

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