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<b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif">The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
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<b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Receives NOAA -Sponsored
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<b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:black">Citizen Science, Civics, and Resilient Communities</span></b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:black"> </span><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Grant
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#262626">BREWSTER, MA —
</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:black">The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History is honored to be a 2021 recipient of a NOAA-sponsored <b>Citizen Science, Civics, and Resilient Communities</b> grant, </span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#333333">focusing
on Sea Level Rise</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:black">. </span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#333333">This project aims to increase environmental literacy among participants, contributing
citizen-created data, knowledge and values to resilience planning.</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#262626"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#333333">Please join us as we kick off our Sea Level Rise project! Sign up now to participate in a free </span><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#1E0A3C; letter-spacing:.4pt; background:white">Virtual
Forum on Climate Hazard Resilience: Sea Level Rise</span></b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#333333"> June 23<sup>rd</sup> from 5:30pm-7:30pm hosted by the Museum of Science in Boston.
</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:black; letter-spacing:.4pt">In this </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:black; letter-spacing:.4pt; font-weight:normal">facilitated, interactive
program</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:black; letter-spacing:.4pt"> </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:black; letter-spacing:.4pt">you will explore the
social, economic and environmental impacts of sea level rise, work with others to recommend resilience strategies, and learn about how participating in community science can help inform scientists about which communities are at risk for flooding.
</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#333333">No previous experience is required, all ages welcomed. </span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:black; letter-spacing:.4pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:black; letter-spacing:.4pt">*Featured speaker is Gayle Bowness, Coastal Resilience Program Manager at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland.
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<p style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:white"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif; color:black; letter-spacing:.4pt"> *</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#333333">Register for free
on EventBrite: </span><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#2196F3"><a href="http://bit.ly/ccmnhSLR" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ccmnhSLR</a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#333333">And coming soon</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#333333">...</span></b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#333333"> for
the next phase of this grant, CCMNH and the Brewster Department of Natural Resources are partnering on a Citizen Science beach monitoring project, and <b>we need your help!</b> Picture posts are being installed on Wing Island and Breakwater Beach. Use the
posts to snap cellphone photos of the beach, and share your pictures with a simple app. </span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#333333">For more information please email </span><a href="mailto:plegendre@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">plegendre@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">869 Main Street/Route 6A</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Brewster, MA 02631</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">508-896-3867 x 137</span></p>
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