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concerns. "Salem has done an incredible job of finding these
homes. We just help them identify where the problem is,"
notes Warren.
Other SSCW programs include Adopt-a-Beach, started
in 2010. "We encourage people to not only clean up their
beach but to monitor it, " says outreach coordinator Susan
Yochelson. "A woman over at West Beach saw something she
had never seen before—it turned out to be a new invasive
algae—red filamentous." This is just the kind of success story
that keeps the staff going.
Greenscapes, another of SSCW's efforts, initially
provided information about environmentally friendly
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Staff Scientists: Barbara Warren (above left) and Liz Rogers (above right)
document the "fouling organisms" that have settled on plates at Beverly Pier.
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