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The Gundalow Company will host “Our Waters, Our Future: Choosing to make a difference.” This four-part lecture series focuses on contemporary coastal issues surrounding local water quality issues and explores ways to reduce negative impact. Click to see schedule of events from September through December. 

The Gundalow Company will host “Our Waters: Our Future: Choosing to make a difference,” a four part Contemporary Coastal Issues series that will run through the end of the year. The series will examine local water quality issues and explore ways in which we can all reduce our impact on our local watershed. Programs will be held on September 22, October 13, November 17 and December 15 at 7:00 pm at the Gundalow Company headquarters at 60 Marcy Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  

Contemporary Coastal Issues programs are funded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management under the Coastal Zone Management Act in conjunction with the NH Coastal Program and NH DES.  

The first program in the series, "Human Impact in the Piscataqua Watershed: Then and Now" will be held on Wednesday, September 22. Presented by Jeff Bolster, Associate Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and David Burdick Associate Professor of Marine Wetland Ecology and Restoration at the University of New Hampshire, the program will highlight the dramatic changes in the Piscataqua estuary and coastal Gulf of Maine during the last 400 years.  

Subsequent Contemporary Coastal Issues programs will be held on:  

October 13
Single Use, Single Serving Society: Plastics in Our Waters
presented by Rian Bedard, Zero Waste Now  

November 17
Engaging Citizens to Protect Our Waters
presented by Candace Dolan, Hodgdon Brook Project and the Southeast Watershed Alliance  

December 15
Supporting Sustainable Fisheries
panel discussion with:Bob Campbell, Yankee Fisherman's Coop; Carolyn Eastman, Eastman’s Fish Market; Ken LaValley, UNH Cooperative Extension; Sara Zoe Patterson, Seacoast Eat Local; and Roger Woodman, a commercial fisherman using 19th Century methods.  

“After a summer of traveling around the seacoast celebrating our rivers, the Gundalow Company is excited to again be hosting our Contemporary Coastal Issues series at our new Portsmouth headquarters,” notes Molly Bolster, Executive Director of the Gundalow Company. “The line up of local experts promises to be educational, engaging and informative and will help each of us better understand and protect our local waters.”  

About the Gundalow Company

The mission of the Gundalow Company is to protect the Piscataqua Maritime Region through education and action. Gundalows were once the primary mode of transporting cargo to tidewater towns in the Piscataqua region. Now the gundalow Captain Edward H. Adams is used as a dockside stage for maritime heritage programs and environmental education in those same towns. This replica of an 1880’s era gundalow was built in 1982 and is now operated by the nonprofit Gundalow Company. All programs are designed to heighten awareness of our maritime history, contemporary water quality issues, and stewardship responsibilities. For information on the Gundalow Company’s events, education programs, volunteering, or sponsorship opportunities, please visit the Web site.