[SEMCO] CCMNH Paleo-ecology of Cape Cod and Adjacent Islands

[Teresa Izzo]

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE 
RELEASE                                                 FOR MORE 
INFORMATION, CONTACT:
April 9, 
2015 
Teresa Izzo
   508-896-3867 ext. 137
                                                                                                         tizzo at ccmnh.org

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster
presents
Digging Into the Past Archaeology/History Series
with
Wyatt Oswald, Associate Professor of Science at Emerson College
Paleo-ecology of Cape Cod and Adjacent Islands



BREWSTER, MA.     The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster 
continues its Archaeology/History series, Digging Into the Past, with 
Associate Professor of Science, Wyatt Oswald. The subject of his 
program is the Paleo-ecology of Cape Cod and Adjacent Islands, 
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 1pm.

  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.

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.

The presentation will be held at the Museum on Wednesday, May 6th at 1pm.

Free with Museum Admission
  For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133.
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Teresa Izzo
Program Coordinator
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Main St./Rte. 6A
Brewster, MA 02631
508-896-3867 x137
508-896-8844 - fax 
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