[SEMCO] Woods Hole Research Center - forum on scientific integrity - April 12

[Allison B. White]

PANEL DISCUSSION ON SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY AT
THE WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER

Five prominent scientists will meet at the Woods Hole Research Center on
Monday, April 12, at 4 p.m., in a panel discussion entitled, “Scientific
Integrity in Policymaking.” The forum will be held in the Harbourton
Auditorium of the Center’s Ordway Campus at 149 Woods Hole Road. The event
is free and open to the public; however, space and parking are limited and
reservations are required. Please call 508-540-9900 for reservations.

Dr. Kilaparti Ramakrishna, deputy director of the Woods Hole Research
Center, is convening the forum that will include John Farrington, vice
president of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Peter Frumhoff,
director of the Global Environment Program at the Union of Concerned
Scientists; John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental
Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; Jerry Melillo, co-director
of the Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory; and George M.
Woodwell, director of the Woods Hole Research Center. Dr. Ramakrishna will
serve as moderator.

The role of science and scientists in defining and defending the public
interest has never been brought into sharper focus than with the recent
release of and the controversy surrounding the report prepared by the Union
of Concerned Scientists entitled, “Scientific Integrity in Policymaking: An
Investigation into the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science.” The report
was followed by a statement signed by sixty prominent scientists, including
those on the April 12 panel. This moderated panel discussion will address
the issue and its implications for climate change science in the current
political landscape and more broadly in the role that science plays in
policy formulation.