Orleans Pond Coalition

Orleans, Massachusetts

Dedicated to the health of Orleans waterways for over 20 years.

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2024 OPC Annual Meeting: Save the Date

Date: October 16th, 2024

Time: 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Place: Orleans Yacht Club. 39 Cove Rd, Orleans, MA

Please plan to join us for a full slate of topics at our annual meeting this year. The agenda will include updates on how all of OPC’s initiatives are progressing plus voting in new board directors and our 2025 Nominating Committee.  For the Minutes from the 2023 meeting and for more information about our new directors and nominating committee click below:

Minutes from 2023 OPC Annual Meeting
Bio’s – New OPC Directors for Election in 2024
Proposed 2025 Nominating Committee

Keynote Speaker:

Katie Castagno from Cape Cod’s Center for Coastal Studies.

Katie’s topic will be:

“Monitoring, Restoration, and Resilience: a Geologic Perspective to Coastal change on Cape Cod”

Katie Castagno, Ph.D., is the director of the Land-Sea Interaction Program at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, MA. Katie’s research interests focus on the intersections among coastal resilience, salt marsh restoration, and sediment transport. Katie received a PhD in Geological Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography. Katie also holds an MA in Marine Affairs from the University of Rhode Island and a BA in Environmental Geoscience from Smith College. Katie has previously worked as an environmental educator and elementary school science teacher across Cape Cod.

Please mark your calendars and join us at 4pm at the Orleans Yacht Club on October 16th.

About Orleans Pond Coalition

Orleans Pond Coalition, Inc. is a volunteer organization dedicated to protecting and enhancing the saltwater estuaries and freshwater ponds and lakes of Orleans. Our work includes offering educational programs to encourage mindful land use practices, sponsoring water quality research, working with community, regional and state organizations to formulate constructive policies to protect our … Learn More

Our Mission

Orleans Pond Coalition is dedicated to the protection and health of our shared watersheds, estuaries, ponds and lakes.

Orleans   Pond   Coalition
PO Box 2485
Orleans, MA 02653

info@orleanspondcoalition.org

OPC is a volunteer organization dedicated to protecting and enhancing the saltwater estuaries and freshwater ponds and lakes of Orleans, MA.

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