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Wednesday May 10, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PCCS Launches Cape Cod Bay Monitoring Aboard R/V Alert(Provincetown, Cape Cod, MA) - Cape Cod Bay Monitoring Program, a water quality initiative of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies (PCCS), kicked off its second season Monday at Rock Harbor in Orleans with words of support from State Representative Sarah Peake.
The primary focus of the program will be to collect and analyze water samples from 8 offshore, forty nearshore and inshore stations in an effort to determine key perimeters of clean water. The Cape Cod Bay Monitoring Program, directed by Dr. Amy Costa, is a follow-up to the Center's four-year study on the effects of the Boston Effluent Outfall. This program will study downstream sources of pollution and analyze their effects on the ecosystem of the bay, in addition to assessing water quality.
Through its various bay-related programs, PCCS has been conducting marine research in Cape Cod Bay for over thirty years.
# # # The Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies is a private, independent, and non-profit dedicated to the study and conservation of marine ecosystems and marine mammals in the Gulf of Maine, through educational, scientific and public policy programs.** ContactTanya Gabettie Communications Coordinator Office: 508-487-3622 x 103 tgabettie@coastalstudies.org
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Water quality volunteer monitors, scientists, boat captains, and the general public gathered on the pier, and watched the newly refurbished R/V Alert leave Rock Harbor.
