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Heads or Tails? USGS Contractor Participates in Public Art Project
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Creative crustacean: Taking artistic license, Carey Hamburg (shown
here with his creative crustacean) transformed the fiberglass pelican into a
hot-and-spicy red crawfish, a.k.a. mudbug.
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USGS contractor Carey Hamburg, who does photography, videography, and
Web-site work at the National Wetlands Research Center (Lafayette, LA), was
featured recently in the Times of Acadiana article "Faces to Watch." Carey was noted
for his artistic contribution to the Pelicans on Parade public art project, similar
to projects that displayed cow statues in Chicago and fish statues in New Orleans.
The program features nearly 100 4-ft-tall fiberglass pelican statues that have been
"nested" throughout the Lafayette area.
Local artists uniquely painted each pelican. Carey created a Mardi Gras pelican
and one representing a hot-and-spicy red crawfish, a local Cajun delicacy from the
Louisiana wetlands. Part of the sponsorship money from each pelican will go to
local arts-in-education programs.
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April 2002
in this issue:
cover story:
Gas-Hydrate Research Wells Completed
Moloka'i Coral Reef Sediment
Role of Parasites in Ecosystems
Public Art Project
Prairie Restoration
Marine Science Day
Marine Environmental Careers Symposium
Students Visit Woods Hole
Congressional Briefing on Wetlands
Woods Hole Science Fairs
Talks—DOE and College of William and Mary
Netherlands Sediment-Transport Collaboration
Sediment-Transport Modeling
Tampa Bay Estuary Tour
Monterey Bay Research Award
Japanese Land-Management Team Visits St. Pete
Western Region Retirements
Woods Hole Visitor
April Publications List
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