[SEMCO] Next Woods Hole Research Center Serminar - June 3

[Allison B. White]

For immediate release:

Harvard paleoclimatologist to speak at the Woods Hole Research Center

The Woods Hole Research Center’s seminar series will continue on Thursday,
June 3, at 3 p.m., with Daniel P. Schrag of Harvard who will speak on
“Climate Change: Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future.” The
seminar will be held in the Harbourton Auditorium of the Center’s Ordway
Campus at 149 Woods Hole Road. The seminar is free and open to the public;
however, seating and parking are limited. Please call 508-540-9900 for
reservations.

Dr. Schrag is a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
and the newly appointed director of Harvard’s Center for the Environment. He
is active in public and policy-maker education concerning problems of the
environment. A MacArthur Prize Fellow of 2000, Dr. Schrag was cited for
having “blazed diverse trails through paleoclimatology and oceanography in
his work on oxygen isotope geochemistry of marine fossils, early global
glaciation of the Earth, and physical oceanography.”

Dr. Schrag received a B.S. in Geology/Geophysics and Political Science from
Yale in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Geology from U.C. Berkeley in 1993. He was an
assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences at Princeton from 1994
to 1997, when he joined the faculty at Harvard.


****************Short Version for Calendars*******************
The Woods Hole Research Center will hold a seminar on Thursday, June 3, at 3
p.m., with Daniel P. Schrag of Harvard who will speak on “Climate Change:
Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future.” The seminar will be held
in the Harbourton Auditorium of the Center’s Ordway Campus at 149 Woods Hole
Road. The seminar is free and open to the public; however, seating and
parking are limited. Please call 508-540-9900 for reservations.

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Allison B. White
The Woods Hole Research Center
PO Box 296
Woods Hole, MA 02543
tel: 508-548-9375 x150
fax: 508-540-9700
www.whrc.org
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