Ocean Observing System Focus of Blue Hill Talk

BLUE HILL – The Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System: The State of the Art and Science will be presented by Dr. Heal Pettigrew 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25, as the first of the Marine Environmental Research Institute’s Ocean Environment Lecture Series.

The system is a real-time monitoring program that provides fishermen, scientists, sailors and others with weather and oceanographic conditions in the Gulf of Maine using a network of deployed buoys.

A reception and art exhibition will be held in the Ocean Art Gallery at 6 p.m. featuring paintings by Jetsun Penkalski of Surry and Robert Starkey of Sedgwick. All works are for sale, and a portion of the proceeds go to the institute’s research and education programs.

For more information, call 374-2135, or visit info@meriresearch.org.

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