[SEMCO] February 24 MBL Falmouth Forum Explores Climate Impacts in the Circumpolar Region

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For Immediate Release: 
February 8, 2017 

Contact: Susan Joslin 
sjoslin at mbl.edu ; 508-289-7281 

MBL Falmouth Forum Explores Climate Impacts in the Circumpolar Region 
WOODS HOLE, MA—William Fitzhugh, Director of the Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian Institution and Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College will explore “Climate Impacts in the Circumpolar Region: An Archaeological Perspective on the Present” at the next MBL Falmouth Forum on Friday, February 24 at 7:30 PM in the Marine Biological Laboratory's Lillie Auditorium, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole. The event, the final presentation of the 2016-17 season, is sponsored by the MBL Associates and is free and open to the public. 

The history of northern regions gives pause to those thinking we live in a complacent world. For decades we became used to a world in which episodic disturbances like hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and floods were the only environmental events of note. Long-term change seemed to be a story for the history books, not our lives. Today that complacency has been shaken in a way we could not have imagined just two decades ago. Changes in the Arctic have led the charge, and its role as the harbinger of global climate change is now widely acknowledged. 

In his Falmouth Forum lecture, Fitzhugh will show how archaeology could have predicted the events we now find changing our world. A review of some of the cultural and environmental shifts in the North may provide clues about where we are headed in the future, and what can be done about it. 

Fitzhugh is an anthropologist specializing in circumpolar archaeology, ethnology, and environmental studies. He first became interested in the North through canoeing in Ontario and his anthropological studies at Dartmouth College with Elmer Harp, Jr., who invited him to take part in archaeological projects in Newfoundland and Hudson Bay. After two years in the U.S. Navy Fitzhugh attended Harvard University where he received his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1970, and thereafter took a position at the National Museum of Natural History. As director of the Arctic Studies Center and Curator in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, he has spent more than thirty years studying and publishing on arctic peoples and cultures in northern Canada, Alaska, Siberia, and Scandinavia. 

An optional dinner will precede the lecture at 6:00 PM in the Swope Conference Center, 5 North Street, Woods Hole. Tickets are $30 each (meal includes choice of two entrees, wine, dessert, tax, and gratuity). Purchase tickets in advance at Eight Cousins Bookstore , 189 Main Street, Falmouth or at the MBL Communications Office, 127 Water Street, Woods Hole. Dinner tickets are available until they sell out or until Tuesday, February 21 at 5:00 PM. We regret that no tickets are sold at the door. For more information, contact the MBL Communications Office at (508) 289-7423 or comm at mbl.edu 

Visit mbl.edu/falmouth-forum for details and updated information. 
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