[SEMCO] Evening lecture: March 14 - WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER

[Allison White]

On Wednesday, March 14, at 7:30 p.m., Woods Hole Research Center associate
scientist Dr. Michael T. Coe will speak on “The Amazon River: How Choices
Now Shape Its Future.”  As part of the Center’s Armand G. Erpf Lecture
series, the talk will be held in the Harbourton Auditorium of the Woods Hole
Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth.



The seminar is free and open to the public.  Due to limited seating and
parking, please call 508-540-9900 ext. 117 for reservations.



Dr. Coe will explore what has been learned about the variability of
Amazonian surface waters, what the different drivers of change may mean for
the future, and how this knowledge provides an opportunity to explore
alternatives through policy.  He will discuss how different paths in future
deforestation and creation and enforcement of forest policies make a big
difference to the resulting water resources as well as how controls on
carbon emissions (whether through industrial changes or avoided
deforestation) have the potential to make a measurable difference.  He will
explain how the tools Center researchers are developing and applying are a
way to articulate future possibilities.



The Woods Hole Research Center (whrc.org) is dedicated to science, education
and public policy for a habitable Earth. The Center sponsors initiatives in
the Amazon, Africa, Russia, Boreal North America, the Mid-Atlantic, New
England and Cape Cod. Staff work locally and regionally, assisting
communities with resource management, and internationally, promoting
policies that stabilize climate and protect the integrity of the global
environment.
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