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OPET Annual Meeting 2023
OPET Annual Meeting Wednesday, August 16, 7 pm Sea Education Association, Woods Hole Rd., Falmouth “The Gray Curtain” with Peter Trull, Naturalist and Author Peter will describe, through lively discussion and his vivid photographs, the relationships among commercial fishing, expanding populations of Gray Seals, and the occurrence of [...]
2022 OPET Annual Meeting “The Osprey Project”
“The Osprey Project” OPET Annual Meeting Thursday, August 18, 7 pm Sea Education Association 171 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth ********************* Kevin Friel is a professional photographer and naturalist whose images of wildlife [...]
2021 Newsletter
Summer 2021 Newsletter A Message from Melinda Hall, OPET President 2021 Herring Count on the Trunk River, by Matt O'Connor OPET Board Member Monitoring Salinity in Oyster Pond, by Mike Spall, OPET Board Member Cyanobacteria Monitoring in Oyster Pond, by Jennifer Goebel, OPET Board Member
2021 OPET Annual Meeting
“Coming to a Suburb Near You” 2021 OPET Annual Meeting Thursday, August 19, 7 pm Sea Education Association 171 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth ********************* Speaker: Ian Ives, Director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary. Ian will explore the local increase in abundance of deer, coyote, fisher, [...]
2020 Cyanobacteria Report for Oyster Pond
Worried about a repeat of the terrible algal bloom from the summer of 2016, OPET hired the Association for the Preservation of Cape Cod (APCC) to sample the pond for cyanobacteria in the latter half of the summer. Their report for the 2020 season is now available. Levels remained [...]
October 2020 Salinity Levels now too high
Many thanks to Mike Spall who tests the salinity pond nearly every month from his kayak. Mike, a member of the OPET Board and a scientist at WHOI, had been tracking the pond's salinity and temperature levels every month using a CTD ( conductivity, temperature, and pressure) instrument borrowed [...]