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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><i>Frontiers in Cooperative Ocean Monitoring</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Dr. George Maynard, NOAA Fisheries Marine Resources Management Specialist</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Melissa Sanderson, COO of Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance &</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Scott Ellis, Sales & Marketing Manager at Lowell Instruments LLC</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">BREWSTER, MA —The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster presents the first of the Silver Science Speaker Series events:
</span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><i>Frontiers in Cooperative Ocean Monitoring</i></span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> on
<b>Thursday, September 4 at 1pm.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Dr. George Maynard of NOAA Fisheries, Melissa Sanderson of the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance and Scott Ellis of Lowell Instruments, LLC come
together to share their large-scale collaborative efforts to monitor ocean conditions from Maine to New Jersey. Their project,
</span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps and Large Trawlers (eMOLT) program outfits fishing vessels with oceanographic sensors to collect bottom-water
temperature data across the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf. They also set up data transmission routines that enable near-real time access to this data, feeding information into oceanographic models and data visualization platforms like Northeast and Mid-Atlantic
Regional Associations of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems. </span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">This collaboration benefits both fishermen and scientists whose day-to-day work is impacted
by ever-changing ocean conditions. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>George Maynard, Ph.D.</b> works with
</span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">commercial fishermen in New England to study topics ranging from halibut reproduction to reducing seal interactions with fishing gear. He is also
a professor and freelance data analyst. George’s applied research supports Cooperative Research Branch Projects, working closely with stakeholder groups. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>Melissa Sanderson
</b>leads key programs and collaborative research for the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance. She can be found in the space where the best ideas of the small-boat fleet are brought forward to scientists, tried and tested, and worked into regulations to
help fish and fishermen. She studied Marine Biology at Occidental College and completed a Masters in Coastal Environmental Management at Duke University. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>Scott Ellis</b> is the Sales & Marketing Manager at Lowell Instruments LLC. Scott has worked in the data logger industry for over 25 years. Lowell Instruments,
LLC provides advanced data loggers, software, and instrumentation to global scientific and engineering communities. </span></p>
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