[SEMCO] Chase-Miller Policy Forum: The Value of Whale Watching by Dr. Carole Carlson

[Cathrine Macort]

*THE VALUE OF WHALE WATCHING: Its contribution to Science and Conservation.*
Tuesday, July 24 at 7:30 pm at Truro Community Center
Free, all welcome.

Presented by Carole Carlson, PhD
*Adjunct scientist with PCCS and Director of Research and** Education for
the Dolphin Fleet.*

Dr. Carole Carlson has spent over twenty-six years studying cetaceans off
the east coast of the United States, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Chile, the
Dominican Republic and the Eastern Caribbean and is an acknowledged world
expert on photo-identification techniques, humpback whales and whale
watching. Her work (and that of Dr. Stormy Mayo) on humpback whale
photo-identification at the Center for Coastal Studies was the inspiration
for the PBS series *“The Voyage of the Mimi”.*

Carole serves on the Whalewatch Sub-Committee of the International Whaling
Commission and has organized and conducted several international
whale-watching workshops, promoting responsible whale watching as a viable
ecological and economical alternative to whaling. Her marine education work
in the Caribbean has touched over twenty thousand schoolchildren and their
teachers, and she has trained college interns to collect scientific data in
the region.

The Chase-Miller Policy Forum is a series of lectures and discussions
designed to educate the public on the role of science in public policy as
it relates to the marine environment. This forum was made possible by the
generous support of Linda B. Miller, PhD, a long-time patron and member of
the Board of Directors.

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Cathrine Macort
Executive Assistant
Center for Coastal Studies
508-487-3622 x 103
508-808-9660
cmacort at coastalstudies.org
www.coastalstudies.org
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