The Oyster Pond Environmental Trust Newsletter Winter 1999
OPET P.O. Box 496, Woods Hole, MA 02543-0496
OPET does not have a phone to its name, but you can e-mail brose@mbl.edu or call 508-548-5984 and leave a message. We'll gladly call you back!
Elected for the 1999/2000 Term
Officers
Directors:
Carl Breivogel, Eric Davidson, Jonathan Davis, John Dowling, Lisa Graziano, James P. Ferguson, Stanley R. Hart, William B. Kerfoot, Leonard Kreidermacher, Robert Livingstone, Cheryl Peach, Julie Rankin
OPET Board meetings are open to all OPET members. They are usually held on the 3rd Sunday of the month, at 4pm. We'd love to have you come!
1999 was the Year of the Swans on Oyster Pond: up to 40 swans called the pond home
for the summer, although none of those raised any young. A pair nesting in the Trunk
River Lagoon had 3 offspring. In September, that family also moved to the pond, but only
2 cignets survived. Presumably, the abundantly growing pondweeds were the attraction.
Photo B. Rose
Regretfully, Erik Zettler retired from the Board of Directors after having served one tenn. Erik decided to pursue a Ph.D. in addition to being Science Coordinator at Sea Education Association (SEA), and could not fit OPET into his busy schedule. OPET was fortunate to have had him on the Board; he was our first liaison with SEA and he recruited his successors from SEA to the Board for us:
Lisa Graziano and Cheryl Peach, both faculty at SEA.Lisa and Cheryl agreed to share a Director's "slot". They both co-ordinate study projects on Oyster Pond by SEA students as part of the students' landbased curriculum. They then go to sea with them for several weeks at a time on SEA's sailing vessels to conduct research in/on the marine environment. Since their tums at that are not simultaneous, at least one of them should always be in town for OPET Board meetings. Eric Davidson, senior scientist at WHRC (Woods Hole Research Center), the new campus of which will be located within the Oyster Pond watershed area on Woods Hole Rd., is another welcome addition. Eric's expertise lies in the globa nitrogen cyde (from air, to soil, to microorganisms, to plants, to people, to septic systems, to water, to ponds) and he shares his institution's concerns for environmental issues worldwide. The fourth new member, Leonard Kreidermacher, a Moors resident for nearly 20 years, is not so new to the Board at all: Leonard has been an active OPET volunteer since his retirement from Digital Equipment Corp a year ago. He has attended and contributed to many OPET Board Meetings and has helped with various OPET activities. Pete Murrany from Oyster Pond Road was also elected to the Board. To our regret, Pete resigned from the Board because of an arising conflict of interest. We hope he will find it possible in the future to serve on OPET's Board!
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