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Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Rockport Middle School eighth grader Zach Magee, with help from Jill Ortiz of Gloucester, a NOAA habitat conservationist, measures wind speed and direction at Front Beach during their two-day long research project there and in Millbrook Meadow earlier this week with NOAA scientists.

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