Winter in New England can be long. Join us the 4th Thursday of each month for our Evening Program Series and learn about the marine life and conservation issues in the Gulf of Maine. Recordings are available for most of the programs.
A Whale of a Year
Dianna Schulte, Director of Research
Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation
Thursday, January 27
6:30 PM
Join Dianna Schulte, Director of Research, who will discuss our whale sightings from the 2021 season, how they compare to past years, and our research plans moving forward.
Virtual program via Zoom.
Marine Debris on New Hampshire Beaches, Past and Present
Thursday, February 24
6:30 PM
Danielle Kamberalis, Outreach Coordinator
Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation
Learn about the types of marine debris most commonly found on beaches in New Hampshire, southern Maine, and northern Massachusetts. We will talk about the top marine debris items found in 2021, how we get this data, and how you can get involved in this citizen science project!
Sea Turtle Rescue and Research on Cape Cod
Karen Dourdeville, Sea Turtle Stranding Coordinator
Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Sea Turtle Rescue and Research on Cape Cod
Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary conducts year-round sea turtle rescue, recovery, and research projects. Join Karen Dourdeville, Wellfleet Bay’s Sea Turtle Stranding Coordinator, for an overview of the four species of sea turtles that feed in our waters. Karen will also explore different aspects of Wellfleet Bay’s sea turtle work, including cold-stunned sea turtle rescue, the summer sea turtle strandings and sightings project, and the sea turtle conservation research resulting from necropsies and the collaboration with colleagues from other organizations.
Speaker Bio: Karen Moore Dourdeville received an undergraduate degree from Ohio Wesleyan University and a MS, Biology, from University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her work with protected marine species began (as Karen E. Moore) in the Marine Mammals Lab at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, on projects including marine mammal underwater acoustics, radio-tagging and tracking, and aerial identification of individual whales. She switched to sea turtles, and currently is Sea Turtle Stranding Coordinator for Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. She works in all aspects of the Sea Turtle Rescue, Recovery and Research Program, including cold-stun rescue, summer stranding response, summer sightings database and research from cold-stun necropsies.
