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PRESS RELEASE<br>
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:<br>
April 9,
2015
Teresa Izzo<br>
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The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster<br>
presents<br>
Digging Into the Past Archaeology/History Series<br>
with<br>
Wyatt Oswald, Associate Professor of Science at Emerson College<br>
<i>Paleo-ecology of Cape Cod and Adjacent Islands<br>
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BREWSTER, MA.</b> The Cape Cod Museum of Natural
History in Brewster continues its Archaeology/History series, <i>Digging
Into the Past, </i>with Associate Professor of Science, Wyatt Oswald. The
subject of his program is the Paleo-ecology of Cape Cod and Adjacent
Islands<b>, Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 1pm. <br>
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</b> As lakes and ponds fill up with sediments over hundreds and
thousands of years, they create archives of past environmental and
ecological changes. Sediment cores have been collected from ponds
across Cape Cod and the adjacent islands, and analyses of chemistry,
pollen, and charcoal provide new insights into shifts in climate,
vegetation, and fire over the past 15,000 years. Of particular
interest are (1) the abrupt decline of oak populations that took place
5500 years ago, and (2) human-environment interactions during recent
millennia. In his research he uses retrospective approaches, including
the analysis of lake-sediment cores, to improve our understanding of how
ecosystems respond to climate change. Taken together, these studies
improve our understanding of the drivers, patterns, and rates of past
ecological changes relevant to contemporary conservation and
global-change questions.<br>
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Wyatt Oswald is also a Research Fellow at the Harvard Forest, Harvard
University’s center for education and research on forest ecology and
conservation. At Emerson he teaches courses on plant ecology, climate
change, and natural disasters, and in 2010 he received the Helaine and
Stanley Miller Award for Outstanding Teaching.<br>
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The presentation will be held at the Museum on Wednesday, May 6th at
1pm.<br>
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Free with Museum Admission<br>
For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext.
133.<br>
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Teresa Izzo<br>
Program Coordinator<br>
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History<br>
869 Main St./Rte. 6A<br>
Brewster, MA 02631<br>
508-896-3867 x137<br>
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