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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Photo of a Great White Shark by Dr. Greg Skomal</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif">Presents the</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif"></span></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif"> White Shark Research Update</span></i></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif">Dr. Greg Skomal</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif"></span></i></b></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">BREWSTER, MA —The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster will be hosting Dr. Greg Skomal of the Massachusetts Shark Research Program on
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<b><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Doors will open for wine and hors d’oeuvres at 6 pm. Lecture at 6:30pm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: black;">For the last 1</span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">4</span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: black;"> years,
Dr. Skomal has been studying the life history, ecology, and behavior of white sharks off the coast of Cape Cod and beyond. In doing so, he has tagged </span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">almost 300</span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: black;"> white
sharks with a variety of new state-of-the-art technologies to drill deeper into how this top predator hunts seals off our coastline, as well as striving to reduce the incidence of shark and human interactions.
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Dr. Skomal is an accomplished marine biologist, charismatic speaker, and senior fisheries biologist with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries since 1987. He currently
heads up the Massachusetts Shark Research Program </span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">and he has been directing </span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">the
scientific research on Great White Sharks off the coast of Cape Cod for </span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">more than a decade</span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: black;">Join us on June </span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">15th </span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: black;">for
an exciting update on this research.</span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">The presentation is $60 per person</span></b><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">. All proceeds will benefit the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History’s
education programs.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Reservations are required:
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Tickets available online at
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"> For more information, please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Cape Cod Museum of Natural History</span></p>
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