[SEMCO] Falmouth Forum December 1st at 7:30

[Nancy Bridges]

For Immediate Release:
November 28, 2017

Contact: Nancy Bridges
nbridges at mbl.edu<mailto:sjoslin at mbl.edu>; 508-289-7281


Former U.S. Ambassador Robert Barber to Speak at MBL Falmouth Forum, December 1
Woods Hole, MA - Former U.S. Ambassador Robert Cushman Barber will share personal anecdotes and reflections of his experience as Ambassador at the Marine Biological Laboratory's Falmouth Forum<http://www.mbl.edu/falmouth-forum>, Friday, December 1.  Barber's lecture, titled "Iceland, An Ambassador's Perspective," will be held at 7:30 PM in the MBL's Lillie Auditorium, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole.  The free series is presented by the MBL Associates<http://www.mbl.edu/associates> and offered as a cultural connection between the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Cape Cod community.  Free parking is available in any MBL lot.
Barber will describe the unique aspects of serving in Iceland, related in part to the country and its peoples' focus upon ingenuity and innovation in utilization of natural resources (renewable energy deep below the surface and fish/shellfish from the sea). He will detail Iceland's special geostrategic significance to the U.S., historically and currently, and the resulting close bilateral relationship and collaborations ranging from NATO, to the Arctic Council, to governmental organization of eight nations within the Arctic Circle.
Appointed by President Obama, Barber served as U.S. Ambassador to Iceland from 2015 to 2017. He recently resumed  his commercial law practice with Prince Lobel Tye LLP as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group.
An avid musician, Barber will share his experiences with the people of Iceland, a progressive, modern society that continuously ranks highly for quality of life, and how beer and the Blues got him into the "Club."
The MBLWHOI Library will offer open house of the Marine Biological Laboratory Rare Books Collection <http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/collections/rare-books-and-mbl-archives>  prior to the lecture from 5:45 to 7:15 PM in the Grass Reference Room, Lillie Building 2nd floor, located at 7 MBL Street. Library staff will display books and artifacts including An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, by John Hawkesworth and Captain James Cook (1773) as well as T.H. Morgan's Nobel Prize.  The Library will host another open house on March 2, 2018 prior to the Falmouth Forum with Professor Loren Graham.

The 2017-2018 season continues with the following presentations.  Visit mbl.edu/falmouth-forum<http://www.mbl.edu/falmouth-forum> for details and updated information.

March 2, 2018
Visiting Russia over Half a Century
Loren Graham, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science Program, MIT

April 6, 2018
Antarctica: Glacial History and the Future of Sea Level
Mark Kurz, Senior Scientist and NOSAMS Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
May 4, 2018
Film Presentation - Inspiration for Action - From Iraq and Afghanistan to Rwanda and our own Cape community, filmmaker Beth Murphy shares her powerful journey through storytelling and its impact.
 Beth Murphy, Director/Producer and Founder of Principle Picture
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