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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; background-color: white;">Greetings,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; background-color: white;">Mass Audubon Cape Cod is excited to announce the 29th Annual Cape Cod Natural History Conference will take place on Saturday, March 7th, 2026, at Cape
Cod Community College in Barnstable. </span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;">The goal of this year’s conference is to provide information about current ecological issues affecting the region, especially those associated with coastal resilience. The event
gives community members a chance to interact with professional researchers. These opportunities can be greatly enhanced when people can meet in-person, have conversations, and make connections with others in the community.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; background-color: white;"><b>Request for Proposals</b> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Mass Audubon is seeking requests for presentations that involve professional or personal research, studies, or observations focusing on the ecology, behavior, status,
or distribution of local plants, animals, natural communities, and/or environmental restoration projects on Cape Cod</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;"> and Islands</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">.
</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;">Special consideration will be given to topics associated with coastal resilience.
</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Individuals and organizations interested in presenting at the 202</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;">6</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> conference
are encouraged to </span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a data-auth="NotApplicable" originalsrc="https://forms.office.com/r/GXAsdFDpB6" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" title="https://forms.office.com/r/GXAsdFDpB6" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA561cb20e-8afb-bb7f-0dd8-8f24e8182123" href="https://forms.office.com/r/GXAsdFDpB6">submit
a proposal</a></u></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> by
<b>January 1</b></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;"><b>6</b></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>th, 202</b></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;"><b>6</b></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">. Proposals
for oral and poster presentations will be accepted. Oral presentations will be 15 minutes with an additional 5-minute Q & A period. Poster presentations will take place informally during breaks.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Please forward this opportunity to anyone you feel would benefit.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a data-auth="NotApplicable" originalsrc="https://www.massaudubon.org/places-to-explore/wildlife-sanctuaries/wellfleet-bay/news/cape-cod-natural-history-conference-submissions" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" title="https://www.massaudubon.org/places-to-explore/wildlife-sanctuaries/wellfleet-bay/news/cape-cod-natural-history-conference-submissions" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA760b9aa3-59e2-3422-fc68-b285fcc4847a" href="https://www.massaudubon.org/places-to-explore/wildlife-sanctuaries/wellfleet-bay/news/cape-cod-natural-history-conference-submissions">Cape
Cod Natural History Conference Request for Presentations</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Best regards,</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Cape Cod Natural History Conference Planning Committee</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);"><b>David Shapiro</b> (he/him)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">Senior Teacher Naturalist, Cape Cod</span></p>
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