The Watershed Vol. 7, No. 2

The Oyster Pond Environmental Trust Newsletter, Summer 2003

OPET, P.O. Box 496, Woods Hole, MA 02543-0496

OPET Board meetings are open to all OPET members. Meetings are usually held on the third Sunday of the month, at 4 pm, in the Treetops Clubhouse. We'd love to have you come! For information call 508-540-7345.

OPET does not have an official phone, but you can leave a message call 508-540-7345.
We'll gladly get back to you! Or email OPET. And do visit our website, www.opet.org !

OPET Officers and Directors

Officers

Jonathan Davis
President

Eric Davidson
Vice President

Patricia Kerfoot
Clerk

Dana Rodin
Treasurer

Elected for the 2002/03 Term

Directors

John Dowling

Susan Gagosian
Cameron Gifford
Melinda Hall
Jason Hyatt
Robert King
Peter Valtin
Martin White

Honorary Boardmember

Robert Livingstone

The Woods Hole Research Center to

Host OPET's Annual Meeting

Special Building Tour for OPET Members


OPET's annual meeting will be held at the new Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) building, 149 Woods Hole Road (across from the Treetops), on Thursday, July 17. All OPET members are invited and encouraged to attend. In order to conduct a tour of the building while there is still some natural lighting, agenda of the meeting this year will be a bit different from previous years:

6:30 - 7:15 PM: Guided tours ofthe building for OPET members. Gather on the front deck of the WHRC building 7:00 - 7:30; light hors d'oeurves will be served on the front deck.

7:30: Meeting begins in the conference room, lower level of the building.
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PROFILE: Bob Livingstone, OPET Founder

So reads an entry from Bob Livingstone's Journal dated August 3, 1956, written aboard the Albatross III shortly after Bob's arrival in Woods Hole, from Newark, Delaware, at an invitation to join the Groundfish Group and John R. Clark's Haddock Investigation. Bob may not have known it at the time, but he had found what was to be his home for the next 47 years (and counting), as he pursued a career at the National Marine Fisheries. In 1957, Bob and his first wife Francis bought a home at 1 Fells Road on Oyster Pond, where they raised 3 sons and a daughter. By 1995, after moving first to Treetops and then to Nobska Road, Bob was already deeply involved in the concerns and science of Oyster Pond. Some brown-bag lunch sessions in WHOI's Redfield Building, back in the mid-eighties, gathered folks with varying fields of expertise to discuss the changing water quality of Falmouth's coastal ponds. Out of these discussions (Continued on Page Four)
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