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text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Max Holmes to Speak at the Woods Hole Research
Center</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">The Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC)
will hold a public lecture on Wednesday, April 18 at 6 pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>WHRC Senior Scientist Dr. Max Holmes
will present “Going with the Flow: A River-Centric View of Our Changing Planet”
at the Center’s Harbourton Auditorium, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth.
Reservations are required due to limited parking and seating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>To reserve, call 508-444-1521 or email <a href="mailto:events@whrc.org">events@whrc.org</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>WHRC lectures are free and open to the public.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Drawing on examples from around the
world, Dr. Holmes will use photographs, video, and maps to show that the health
of watersheds can be assessed by monitoring the characteristics of river
water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He has studied many
of the world’s largest rivers, including the Amazon, Congo, and Kolyma, and
much of this work is motivated by his interest in understanding the causes and
consequences of global climate change. Dr. Holmes will emphasize the
implications of permafrost thaw in the Arctic and deforestation in the tropics.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">The mission of the Woods Hole
Research Center is to advance scientific discovery and seek science-based
solutions for the world’s environmental and economic challenges through
research and education on forests, soils, air, and water. WHRC scientists
combine analysis of satellite images of the Earth with field studies to
measure, model, and map changes in the world’s ecosystems, from the thawing
permafrost in the Arctic to the expanding agriculture regions of the tropics.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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