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The Big Lunch
2023-07-30 11:00 - 14:00 UTC | Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The Big Lunch brings neighbors and communities together to share friendship, food, and fun!
BRING A PICNIC • STROLL IN, ROLL IN • BRING YOUR NEIGHBORS
Open to the community. Rain or shine. No alcoholic beverages.

Woods Hole Film Festival
2023-07-29 - 2023-08-05 | Woods Hole
Over 110 films from 19 Countries Chosen to Screen at the 32nd Woods Hole Film Festival
The Woods Hole Film Festival, the oldest film festival on the Cape and Islands, marks its 32nd year from Saturday, July 29, through Saturday, August 5, with 45 feature length and 66 short films culled from more than 1000 submissions (with 5 world, 3 North American, and 1 US premieres). Films are by both first-time and veteran filmmakers and almost evenly divided between women and men directors. Like previous years, many films fall into the festival’s hallmark categories: New England ties, music, and science (in conjunction with the Festival’s “Bringing Science to the Screen” program). And, before the Festival help us kick-off the Festival on Thursday, July 27th at a special screening of the award-winning documentary film GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT at 7:30 pm at Redfield Auditorium.

MBL Friday Evening Lecture Series: “Blindspots to Inclusion in Environmental and Ocean Sciences” - Karlisa Callwood
2023-07-28 20:00 - 21:00 | Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Inclusivity is not easy, especially in spaces, like environmental and ocean sciences, where people of color have traditionally been excluded. Yet, despite high interest in these fields from underrepresented groups, particularly Black and/or African American communities, many environmental and ocean science programs and organizations struggle with diversifying their students, staff, and/or researchers. Additionally, in attempts to be diverse, they tend to focus more on filling quotas, instead of building equity and inclusion by being welcoming, learning to recognize their own biases, developing cultural awareness and/or competencies, or acknowledging, and addressing, the white supremacy culture that is pervasive throughout our institutions. It is up to all of us to create inclusion, but some have more work than others. This talk will explore some important lessons and considerations for creating more welcoming environmental and ocean science spaces, discuss why “white supremacy culture” is not a dirty word and exploring patterns you should be looking for, and share strategies for being authentic in this work and keeping yourself and your organizations accountable.
Karlisa Callwood is a marine scientist, educator, and science communicator who focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to evaluating fisheries and conservation management. With 20 years of experience developing and managing science education programming, her work ranges from community engagement and partnership development to leading and implementing DEAI initiatives across several organizations. Her interests include establishing practices to enhance STEM education for underserved communities; understanding the socio-economic factors that influence fishers’ decisions and prompt behavior changes; enhancing strategies to better bridge the gaps that exist between scientists, policymakers, and the public; and developing tools to facilitate DEAI transformations in cultural organizations. Callwood was also selected as a National Geographic Fellow for her work focused on understanding the role of subsistence fishing in building resilience in Bahamian communities during the pandemic. She currently serves as a lecturer for the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy at the University of Miami, as Director of the Community Conservation Education & Action Program at the Perry Institute for Marine Science, and as an Equity Consultant for several organizations. Callwood holds a Ph.D. in Ecosystem Science and Policy from the University of Miami.

Talking Science in Crisis
2023-07-25 14:00 - 15:30 | Redfield Auditorium, Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
A conversation with WHOI senior scientist Chris Reddy and WHOI Director of Research Communications Ken Kostel
Join WHOI’s Chris Reddy, oceanographer, inventor, and author of the book Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider’s Guide, for a conversation about how science works when time is of the essence.
With behind-the-scenes stories and high-profile case studies, including the Deepwater Horizon oil spills and the 2021 X-press Pearl disaster in Sri Lanka, Chris lays out the major challenges that scientists face during an environmental emergency, when clear, consistent communication matters most, and offers advice on how to navigate the maze of competing interests to deliver actionable information.
Light refreshments in the Redfield Lobby will follow the event.
Autographed copies of Science Communication in a Crisis will be available for purchase.

Broadening Minority Participation in STEM
2023-07-25 10:00 - 11:00 | Redfield Auditorium, Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Nevada Winrow, Founder, Black Girls Dive Foundation and Dijanna Figueroa, Chief Academic Officer, Black Girls Dive Foundation
Also on Zoom (RSVP required for Zoom attendees).

MBL Friday Evening Lecture Series: “The Time to Be Born” - Louis Muglia, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
2023-07-21 20:00 - 21:00 | Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
What determines the timing for birth? This question is one of the great unsolved mysteries in biology and has enormous health relevance to impact upon preterm birth, the leading cause of death of infants and children under 5 years old. This presentation will describe the utility of human genetics and genomics to understand normal birth timing and how this mechanism malfunctions to lead to preterm birth. Evidence will be presented that genetics plays an important role in shaping maternal risk for preterm birth. Moreover, recent genome wide association studies that identify novel loci robustly associated with the risk for prematurity will be described and what the ramification of these are for interventions. Finally, the potential to exploit unique aspects of human evolution in shaping pregnancy characteristics using comparative genomics and animal models will be conveyed.
Louis Muglia is President and CEO of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, an independent nonprofit research foundation accelerating discovery in the biomedical sciences. Previously, he served as Vice Chair for Research, Director of the Division of Human Genetics, Co-Director of the Perinatal Institute, and Professor of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Muglia’s research focus has been to understand the molecular pathways determining when birth occurs to prevent preterm birth and better treat human preterm labor and delivery, considering both genetic and environmental factors. Priorities now at Burroughs Wellcome Fund include climate change and human health, promoting diversity and equity in science, and science communication, better partnering science and the arts. Among Muglia’s achievements are more than 300 publications and election to the American Society for Clinical Investigation and Association of American Physicians, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Medicine, and the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Muglia earned his Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Chicago. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan.

Animal Kingdom Night at The Captain Kidd
2023-07-15 21:00 | Captain Kidd, 77 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
You won’t want to miss this! Head to Captain Kidd on July 15 dressed as your favorite animal for some rowdy and roaring 🦁 fun!

MBL Friday Evening Lecture Series: "Single Genes and Brain Synchronization: An Ion Channel Portrait of Epilepsy" - Jeffrey Noebels, Baylor College of Medicine
2023-07-14 20:00 - 21:00 | Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Throughout the last century, the ability of electroencephalography to visualize fluctuating microvolt potential differences between two points on the scalp has guided our understanding of the cortical landscape as neurologists correlated both hyperactive (epileptic) and silent (ischemic) areas of brain damage with clinical deficits in their patients, mapping the functional topography of the neocortex, literally, “stroke by stroke”. Later, axon hyperexcitability and leg-shaking in the Drosophila mutant shaker led the way to the first gene encoding an ion channel. This same neurogenetic strategy motivated a search for spontaneous mutants in mice with EEG hyperexcitability, and the discovery that a single gene locus in the tottering mouse causes childhood absence epilepsy, establishing that common human epilepsy syndromes could be inherited as a mendelian disorder. Today, genes for 800 monogenic epilepsies, of which over 100 involve mutations in voltage- and ligand-gated ion channel genes, not only allow precision clinical diagnosis and gene-directed treatment of epilepsies but illuminate the molecular anatomy of neuronal microcircuitry “gene by gene”. Current research linking abnormal cortical synchronization with ion channelopathy is providing remarkable insights into developmental brain plasticity and a powerful experimental framework to cure rare neurological disorders. Unexpectedly, the approach bridges the pathophysiology of previously unrelated conditions, including cardiac arrhythmias and sudden unexpected death, Alzheimer’s disease, and growth of malignant brain tumors.
Jeffrey Noebels is Cullen Chair in Neurogenetics and Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Molecular and Human Genetics, and founding director of the Blue Bird Circle Developmental Neurogenetics Laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine. His major research focus is to identify gene mechanisms of cortical network synchronization and molecular targets for the treatment of epilepsy and its comorbidities. His pioneering discovery of the first single gene mouse model for childhood epilepsy in 1979 transformed the experimental approach to this disease. Noebels graduated from Reed College and received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Stanford, postdoctoral training in Neuropathology at Harvard, M.D. at Yale, and neurology residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was a Basil O’Connor and Klingenstein Fellow, Pew Scholar, and Javits Awardee. He is a past President of the American Epilepsy Society, a current ILAE Ambassador and AAAS Fellow, and a proud former Grass Foundation Trustee.

Open Mic Night
2023-07-13 17:30 - 20:00 | Firehouse in Woods Hole
presented by the Woods Hole Theater Company

Jaws
2023-07-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Redfield Lawn, 45 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Movie on the Lawn
Bring a blanket or lawn chair. Play our trivia quiz for a chance to win prizes! Movie starts at dusk. In case of rain, film will be shown in Redfield Auditorium.

MBL Friday Evening Lecture Series: "The Molecular Anatomy of Animal Body Plans" - Chris Lowe, Hopkins Marine Station, Standford University
2023-07-07 20:00 - 21:00 | MA
Our understanding of major events in animal evolution have largely been based on comparative anatomy of both living and fossil taxa. The large morphological disparity between living taxa, and an often-imperfect fossil record, have made reconstructing early events in origins of animal phyla challenging. A growing body of work from developmental biology reveals that bilateral animals share a very conserved set of gene regulatory networks that define the major organizational axes during early development: the genes in these networks are expressed in very similar spatial and temporal patterns across animals with fundamental differences in their body plan organization. This “molecular anatomy” is more conserved than the anatomies that it regulates and provides a novel set of data to test outstanding zoological puzzles. Lowe will discuss his lab’s work in hemichordates and echinoderms and how this has helped to give insights into early brain evolution and a broader perspective on animal body plan evolution.
Chris Lowe moved to the USA from the UK following a BSc in Biology from the University of Sussex. He received his Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook in Ecology and Evolution on echinoderm evolution and development in Greg Wray’s lab. He moved to University of California Berkeley as a Miller Fellow and worked in Mike Levine’s lab then with John Gerhart to develop hemichordates as a new developmental model species, which is when he first started working at the MBL. His first independent academic position was at the University of Chicago in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy. He then moved to Stanford University based at Hopkins Marine Station where his lab works on body plan evolution.

Woods Hole 4th of July Parade
2023-07-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Woods Hole
This annual, science-themed parade will begin at 12:00 noon at the entrance to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s parking lot located on School Street in Woods Hole, and will travel down Water Street, and end at Waterfront Park, 100 Water Street.
This long-time Woods Hole tradition, organized by the Marine Biological Laboratory, brings students, scientists, locals, and visitors together to celebrate Independence Day with costumes, dancing, and music.

MBL Friday Evening Lecture Series: “Changing the Complexion of the Life Sciences” - Kenneth Turner
2023-06-16 20:00 - 21:00 | The Cornelia Clapp Auditorium, MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Lecture Abstract:
The life sciences is the sector ready for the moment we’re in. The life sciences remain a major economic and workforce driver for Massachusetts. But until recently, you’d be hard pressed for people to recognize names like Moderna, ThermoFisher, or the role an MBI plays in Worcester or LabCentral in Cambridge. The COVID-19 vaccine has literally and figuratively given our society a shot in the arm about the impact of the life sciences. Yet, we have companies across all sectors experiencing a crisis in finding talent. The future of work and demographic shifts adds significant layers of opportunities and challenges to this. The life sciences is positioned to meet these converging forces perfectly. Our key priority must be to meet the clarion call to continue to engage young women and men of color early on in STEM and the opportunities it can offer, to capture their interest and curiosity. Then supporting them through middle school, high school, and college, and preparing them for a career that they deserve opportunity in. For Turner, it comes down to role models. People need to envision themselves in any job or career, STEM or otherwise. Young people of color need to see scientists, engineers, chemists, and data scientists who look like them. This requires a paradigm shift and thinking differently and acting boldly. Turner will discuss his background in service to our nation and his success in the private and public sectors. He will also provide an overview on how we can take the current state of play and change the complexion of the life sciences—the critical component of Massachusetts remaining the global leader in this space.
Kenneth Turner is President and CEO of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC), an economic development and investment agency dedicated to supporting the growth and development of the life sciences in Massachusetts. He directs and oversees the center’s operations, investment strategy, programs, and partnerships. Prior to joining the MLSC, Turner served as Director of Diversity & Inclusion/Compliance with Massport. He oversaw and managed the Authority’s multiple diversity programs, including business and supplier diversity, workforce diversity, and airport concessions, as well as all compliance initiatives associated with Massport’s Disadvantaged/Minority/Women Business Enterprise programs. Previously, Turner served as Deputy Secretary for Administration & Finance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Veterans’ Services. He has over 20 years of general management and executive experience in various Fortune 100 media and package goods companies including having served as Senior Vice President of Emerging Markets at AOL Time Warner as well as having held various marketing positions at Hallmark Cards and Hasbro Toys. A retired U.S. Navy Captain and submarine nuclear weapons system officer with 26-years of service, Turner holds a B.S. degree from Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA.

MBL Falmouth Forum: “ROGUES: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks—12 Tales of Skulduggery and Intrigue" - Patrick Radden Keefe
2023-06-11 14:00 - 15:00 | Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Join us for a conversation with Patrick Radden Keefe, award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and bestselling author who will discuss his New York Times bestselling book Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks with Mindy Todd, host and producer of The Point on CAI, the Cape and Islands NPR station. Rogues brings together a dozen of Radden Keefe’s most celebrated articles from The New Yorker, covering a dozen years, most of them about people behaving badly.
A book signing will follow the presentation. Books available for purchase on event night from Eight Cousins Books.
Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of Pain and Say Nothing, as well as two earlier nonfiction books: The Snakehead and Chatter. His most recent book is Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks.
Radden Keefe started contributing to The New Yorker in 2006. He received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2014. Say Nothing received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, as well as the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and was selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the “10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade.” Empire of Pain was awarded the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the FT Business Book of the Year.
He is also the writer and host of WIND OF CHANGE, an 8-part podcast series, which investigates the strange convergence of espionage and heavy metal music during the Cold War and was named the #1 podcast of 2020 by The Guardian.
Radden Keefe grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts and went to college at Columbia. He received masters degrees from Cambridge University and the London School of Economics, and a law degree from Yale. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and fellowships from the New America Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He lives in New York.
Mindy Todd is Managing Director of Editorial at CAI and host and producer of The Point, which examines critical issues for Cape Cod and the Islands. Her 30+ year career has covered nearly all aspects of broadcasting. Todd has received numerous awards, most recently her 5th National PRNDI (Public Radio News Directors Incorporated) award for best Call-in program and best Interview.
Photo Credit: Philip Montgomery

MBL Falmouth Forum: “Speaking Science to Power: My Eight Years in the Obama White House” - John Holdren
2023-05-05 19:30 - 20:30 | Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The President’s Science Advisor is the chief scientist of the U.S. government—a position that few people other than government officials and science-policy wonks have ever heard of. Why does the President of the United States need a science expert close at hand in the White House? What does the Science Advisor actually do on a typical day? (Actually, few days are typical in the White House.)
In this lecture, John Holdren, former Science Advisor and Senate-confirmed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Obama will discuss his experience in the White House—how he got the job, what Obama was like, as a person and a boss, the main achievements of the Obama administration applying science and technology to the public interest, and where they failed. Holdren will also discuss what challenges and opportunities President Biden’s Science Advisor—Arthi Prabhakar, the first woman and first Asian-American to hold the job—faces.
John P. Holdren is the Teresa and John Heinz Research Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Co-Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program in the School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is also Senior Advisor to the President at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth. From January 2009 until January 2017, he was President Obama’s Science Advisor and Senate-confirmed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. His responsibilities in those roles included advising the President on all science and technology issues bearing on the national agenda; coordinating R&D strategy & budgets across the Executive Branch; and leading the Administration’s efforts on science and technology cooperation with other countries. Trained at MIT and Stanford in aerospace engineering and fusion-energy science, Holdren spent most of his career focused on energy technology and policy, environmental science and policy, and nuclear nonproliferation and arms control. In 1995 he gave the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance lecture on behalf of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international organization of scientists and public figures in which he served in leadership positions from 1982 to 1997. He and his wife Cheryl live in Falmouth.

Dinner & A Movie: Hello, Bookstore
2023-04-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Redfield Auditorium, Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The Woods Hole Film Festival series Dinner & A Movie continues on Saturday, April 15 at 7:00pm with the feature documentary, HELLO, BOOKSTORE, by A.B. Zax, USA, 2022, 86 mins.
ABOUT THE FILM
In the shadow of the pandemic, a small town rallies to protect a beloved local bookstore in its hour of need. A landmark in Lenox, Massachusetts, The Bookstore is a magical, beatnik gem thanks to its owner, Matt Tannenbaum, whose passion for stories runs deep. Presiding at The Bookstore for over forty years, Matt is a true bard of the Berkshires and his shop is the kind of place to get lost in. This intimate portrait of The Bookstore and the family at its heart offers a journey through good times, hard times and the stories hidden on the shelves.
Dinner & A Movie is a program of the Winter/Spring Film Series, twice-monthly in-person screenings of the best in independent film from January through May 2023. The screenings will be held in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Redfield Auditorium, located at 45 Water Street, Woods Hole. The program will include films from the past Woods Hole Film Festival as well as other selections curated specifically for this series.
Tickets are $16 general, $12 WHFF members, $10 student/military.
Not a member yet? You can check out your options and become one here:
https://www.goelevent.com/WoodsHoleFilmFest/Membership/Sale/Member

Ocean Encounters: Ocean Plastics
2023-04-12 19:30 - 20:30 | MA
How harmful are they, and how do we know?
Plastics are one of the most common substances in everyday life, found in everything from toothbrushes to cell towers. Now they have spread throughout the ocean, with surprising–and costly–consequences for us and for our ocean planet.
Speakers:
Sarah Dunlop, Head, Plastics & Human Health, Minderoo Foundation
Kara Lavender Law, Oceanographer, Sea Education Association
John Stegeman, Ocean toxicologist, WHOI
Host:
Veronique Lacapra, Director of Special Projects for Advancement, WHOI

Dinner & A Movie: The Long Rider
2023-04-01 19:00 - 20:45 | Redfield Auditorium, Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The Woods Hole Film Festival series Dinner & A Movie continues on Saturday, April 1 at 7:00pm with the feature documentary, THE LONG RIDER, by Sean Cisterna, Canada/Brazil, 2022, 96 mins.
ABOUT THE FILM
When Filipe Leite leaves his adoptive home of Canada, the aspiring journalist sets out on an epic quest to ride from Calgary to his family’s home in Brazil – and later beyond – entirely on horseback. Inspired by Aimé Tschiffely’s 1925 equestrian journey, Filipe’s 8 year odyssey of over 25,000 kms across 12 international borders, sees the young immigrant battle intense heat, drought, speeding transport trucks, nature’s wrath and corrupt border guards on his history-making long ride home.
Dinner & A Movie is a program of the Winter/Spring Film Series, twice-monthly in-person screenings of the best in independent film from January through May 2023. The screenings will be held in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Redfield Auditorium, located at 45 Water Street, Woods Hole. The program will include films from the past Woods Hole Film Festival as well as other selections curated specifically for this series.
Tickets are $16 general, $12 WHFF members, $10 student/military.
Not a member yet? You can check out your options and become one here:
https://www.goelevent.com/WoodsHoleFilmFest/Membership/Sale/Member

Dinner & A Movie: WINTER SHORTS
2023-01-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Redfield Auditorium, Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The Woods Hole Film Festival Dinner & A Movie Film Series presents the short film program WINTER SHORTS
The Woods Hole Film Festival is pleased to announce the return of the Winter/Spring Film Series with twice-monthly in-person screenings of the best in independent film from January through May 2023. The screenings will be held in Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Redfield Auditorium, located at 45 Water Street, Woods Hole. The program will include films from the past Woods Hole Film Festival as well as other selections curated specifically for this series.
ABOUT WINTER SHORTS
Think it’s too cold for shorts? NONSENSE! We’re bringing back WINTER SHORTS. Here are eight inspirational, funny – and maybe a little quirky – award-winning and audience favorite short films that are sure to keep you feeling warm and happy on a cold, January evening.
Non-Negotiable • Comedy by Mike Doxford, UK, 2022, 9 mins.
A couple in a cafe await with trepidation their harshest critic and most important confidant… their 9 year old daughter. Here she outlines the terms and conditions she requires for the arrival of her new sibling.
Tiny Titanic • Documentary by Mike Scholtz, US, 2022, 9 mins.
A Minnesota family discovers some surprising connections to the Titanic disaster. They decide to honor the ship by building a miniature replica in their front yard.
The Diamond • Comedy by Vedran Rupic, Sweden, 2021, 14 mins.
Stefan is lonely with a blinding ambition to make friends. One day he stumbles upon a diamond in the woods. Unable to reach it, the solution presents itself in the form of an even smaller man.
8 ¾ • Comedy by Shawn Matthew Cheatham, USA 2020 10 mins.
Armed with a formidable knowledge of Italian cinema, an irrepressible eight-year-old boy helps his grandfather recover from a catastrophic loss.
Wei-Lai • Comedy by Robin Wang, USA 2022 14 mins.
Tired of getting pushed and punished by his own parents, Wei-Lai, an 11-year-old Chinese American boy, decides to show up at his best friend’s family and offer himself up for adoption.
Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver • Documentary by Lewie & Noah Kloster, USA, 2021 10 mins.
In 1982, the completion of Jim Jarmusch’s sophomore film, Stranger Than Paradise, hinged on producer Sara Driver’s willingness to smuggle one of the world’s rarest and most controversial films across the Atlantic Ocean.
The F-Word • Comedy by Alex and Paul Cannon, USA 2022, 7 mins.
A father explains to his young daughter what the f-word means.
Favorite Daughter • Documentary by Dana Reilly, USA, 2022, 19 mins.
A filmmaker’s grandmother and mother shelter in place together in a lower Manhattan apartment during the COVID-19 pandemic. A raw and charming, melancholy and funny portrait of two women with vastly different experiences coming together and supporting one another through the uncertainty of spending the next chapters of their lives “alone,” without a partner.
Screenings begin at 7 pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm. Tickets are $16 ($12 for WHFF members) and are on sale in advance at www.woodsholefilmfestival.org and at the door.
Restaurant partners will be announced soon. Check our Facebook page for updates.
The Festival is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Woods Hole Foundation, the Cape Cod Foundation, the Martha’s Vineyard Bank Foundation and the Cape Cod 5 Charitable Foundation Trust.
For more information email info@woodsholefilmfestival.org or call (508) 495-3456.

Woods Hole Holiday Stroll
2022-12-17 | Woods Hole
Community support powered by Martha’s Vineyard Bank
Schedule of events
WOODS HOLE SCIENCE AQUARIUM
11 am Santa arrives!
11 am-2 pm Meet Santa (Aquarium hours: 10-3pm)
MARTHA’S VINEYARD BANK
11 am-1 pm Hot drinks and treats with Mrs. Claus in front of the bank
WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY
1-5:30 pm Library & book sale and craft supplies available in children’s room
MASTERSON MADE
3-4 pm Wine tasting and charcuterie board. Cutting board raffle
CAPTAIN KIDD
4-6 pm $1 oysters/$1 wings
COMMUNITY HALL
The Solstice Singers presentation of “The Holly and the Ivy”. Showings at 4 pm and 7 pm
WOODS HOLE MARKET & PROVISIONS
Holiday treats and gift card raffle
SOFT AS A GRAPE
20% off sweatshirts, sweatpants, blankets, ponchos & winter accessories
WOODS HOLE INN
Tasty treats & tour of decorative Woods Hole Inn
INLET
Refreshments and pop up with LilWolfGoods
PIE IN THE SKY
Hot apple cider & gift card raffle

WHFF presents EXPOSING MUYBRIDGE
2022-12-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Redfield Auditorium, Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
On Saturday, December 10th at 7 pm at Redfield Auditorium, 45 Water Street Woods Hole, the Woods Hole Film Festival presents a screening of the feature documentary film EXPOSING MUYBRIDGE by Mark Shaffer.
ABOUT THE FILM
The story of trailblazing 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who changed the world with his camera. Muybridge set the course for the development of cinema when he became the first photographer to capture something moving faster than the human eye can see–Leland Stanford’s galloping horses. He also produced a sprawling and spectacular landscape catalog, ranging from Alaska to Central America, Utah to California. Artful, resilient, selfish, naive, eccentric, deceitful–Muybridge was a complicated, imperfect man and his story drips with ambition and success, loss and betrayal, near death experiences and even murder. More than a century after his death, Muybridge’s photographs have never ceased to seduce cutting-edge artists, scientists, innovators, and general viewers alike. 88 minutes, 2021.
For information call 508-495-3456

MBL Falmouth Forum: “The Changing Face of Whale Trauma: What We Know and Have to Do” - Michael Moore
2022-12-09 19:30 - 20:30 | MA
Large whales have suffered at the hand of man for millennia: by intent with harpoons, and recently by mistake through vessel collisions, and fishing gear entanglements. This has affected both the status of populations, and the welfare of individuals. The latter most especially, where larger species, such as North Atlantic right whales, have the power to swim off with entangling gear, whose deleterious effects can take months to be lethal. In this talk Moore will discuss how he, as a veterinarian and a scientist, and his colleagues have used diagnostics, energetics, therapeutics, and photogrammetric health assessment to gain this understanding. He will also lay out the steps they are taking, collaboratively with the fishing industry, to enable both the industry and the animals to prosper.
Michael J. Moore is a veterinary scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He has studied the effects of trauma from the shipping and fishing industries on North Atlantic right whale (NARW) survival and welfare. He is currently assessing NARW health using aerial photogrammetry and working with a group of stakeholders to establish ‘On-Demand’ fishing systems as a viable tool to remove entangling line from the water column.

WHFF presents A CAPE COD CHRISTMAS
2022-12-02 19:00 - 21:00 | The Cornelia Clapp Auditorium, MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Back by popular demand! On Friday, December 2, at 7 pm, the Woods Hole Film Festival presents a special event screening of A CAPE COD CHRISTMAS by John Stimpson at Clapp Auditorium, Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole.
ABOUT THE FILM
When a children’s author comes down to the Cape to host one last Christmas dinner with her disagreeable siblings before they sell the family house, she reunites with her childhood sweetheart, a local artist, who helps her find a way to keep the house she loves so dearly. Filmed entirely in Falmouth, MA. Starring Katie Leclerc and Brent Bailey, 90 mins, 2021.
Q&A with writer/director John Stimpson following the film.
Tickets $20, $16 for members. For more information call 508-495-3456.

Caroling in Woods Hole Village
2022-12-02 17:30 - 18:30 | Woods Hole Waterfront Park, 112-138 Water Street, Woods Hole, 02543, United States
Join us as we herald in the Christmas Season with Caroling at Woods Hole Waterfront Park
The Solstice Singers will lead us in a festive seasonal sing-a-long of Holiday classics
Hot cocoa and cookies will be provided by the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce

Small Business Saturday
2022-11-27 | MA
Shop Small and Dine Local in Woods Hole on Small Business Saturday, November 26, 2022
Shopping
Inlet: 20% off
Soft as a Grape: 20% off Sweatshirts
Handworks: 10% off
Masterson Made: 20% off
MBL Gift Shop: 25% off
Dining
Landfall: 10% off Gift Cards & Happy Hour (4-6 pm)
Captain Kidd: $1 Oysters/Wings (4-6 pm) & Fall Formal (8 pm)
Woods Hole Market & Provisions: Gift Certificate Giveaway & Seasonal Tasting
Accommodations
Woods Hole Inn: 20% off Gift Certificates

MBL Falmouth Forum: “Dare to be Naive” - Greg Watson, Director of Policy and Systems Design, Schumacher Center for a New Economics
2022-11-18 19:30 - 20:30 | The Cornelia Clapp Auditorium, MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Greg Watson and his family moved to Cape Cod in 1980 when he was hired as education director at the New Alchemy Institute. New Alchemy was a revolutionary “think-do tank” located on 12 acres in Falmouth, MA that became world renowned for its systems approach to the development environmentally sound and socially just approaches to meeting basic human needs. Watson’s lecture will focus on the lessons he learned during his four years there and how he has applied New Alchemy’s problem-solving approach throughout his professional career in the areas of agriculture, renewable energy, community organizing, and new economics. He will conclude with a discussion of his current work on an approach to addressing the climate crisis inspired by Buckminster Fuller – considered by many to be the “father of whole systems thinking.”
Greg Watson is Director of Policy and Systems Design at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. His work focuses on community food systems and an initiative to improve global systems literacy informed by a reimagining of Bucky Fuller’s World Game Workshop. Watson has spent nearly 50 years studying systems thinking as inspired by Buckminster Fuller and to apply that understanding to achieve a just and sustainable world. He has served on the board of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and as a juror for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge. In 1978 he organized a network of urban farmers’ markets in the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area. He served as Commissioner of Agriculture in Massachusetts from 1990 to 1993 and again from 2012 to 2014 when he launched a statewide urban agriculture grants program.
Watson gained hands-on experience in organic farming, aquaculture, wind-energy technology, and passive solar design at the New Alchemy Institute on Cape Cod, first as Education Director and later as Executive Director. There he led the effort to create the Cape & Islands Self Reliance energy cooperative. He served four years as Executive Director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, a multicultural grassroots organizing and planning organization where he initiated one of the nation’s first urban agriculture projects. Watson was the first Executive Director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust and was part of the team that landed the National Wind Technology Testing Center in Massachusetts. He served on President-elect Barack Obama’s U.S. Department of Energy transition team in 2008. In 2015 he founded the Cuba-U.S. Agroecology Network which links small farmers and sustainable farm organizations in both countries to share information and provide mutual support.

Book event: Lethal Tides with author Dr. Catherine Musemeche
2022-11-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Redfield Auditorium, Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
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presented by the WHOI Women’s Committee
When Mary Sears entered marine science, women were few in number, but she wasn’t deterred. During WWII she got her chance to excel as a naval oceanographer and performed at a level very few could imagine for a woman of her time. She helped change the course of the war. Mary Sears represents the generations of women who came before us in science, and paved the path we walk now.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
2 p.m. Discussion and Q&A
3 p.m. Refreshments and book signing Redfield Auditorium
45 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543
This event is FREE and open to the public
MBL WHOI Library will have Mary Sears materials from the archives on view!

Captain Kidd Best Costume Halloween Party
2022-10-29 20:00 - 23:00 | Captain Kidd, 77 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States

Halloween in the Hole
2022-10-29 | MA
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MBL Friday Evening Lecture Series: "Pocket Doctors: Diagnosing Diseases with Mobile Phones" - Dan Fletcher
2022-08-12 20:00 - 21:00 | The Cornelia Clapp Auditorium, MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Lecture Abstract:
Light microscopy remains a central tool for disease diagnosis. Direct imaging of pathogens in blood, sputum, and stool can enable rapid screening and diagnosis of multiple diseases and has been in use since the earliest days of the microscope. However, modern microscopy requires advanced equipment and skilled users typically not available outside of well-equipped laboratories and hospitals. In recent years, mobile phones have emerged as powerful tools for capturing clinically useful data. This talk will describe ongoing work using mobile phones as light microscopes for disease diagnosis. By combining mobile phone cameras with optical attachments and automated image processing, we aim to expand access to basic diagnostic testing for diseases that range from blood-borne pathogens to viral infections. These mobile phone microscopes also open up new possibilities for biological discovery outside of the laboratory.
Daniel A. Fletcher is the Chatterjee Professor of Bioengineering & Biophysics at the University of California, Berkeley. He and his laboratory develop new technologies to study the role of mechanics in biology and detect diseases in low resource settings. Their cell biological work is identifying how molecular-scale forces drive spatial organization of membranes and the actin cytoskeleton and movement of immune cells and pathogens. Their diagnostic work is introducing new mobile tools to fight infectious diseases with collaborators around the world. Fletcher is a faculty member in the Bioengineering and Molecular and Cell Biology Departments, a Visiting Investigator of the Gladstone Institutes at University of California, San Francisco, and is currently Director of the Blum Center for Technology and Development. He is also a Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and co-Director of the Physiology Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Dan received a DPhil from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, a Ph.D. from Stanford University, where he was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and a B.S. from Princeton University. His research has received an NSF CAREER Award, a National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Award, and was designated “Best of What’s New” by Popular Science magazine among other awards. He has been a Miller Professor, a Bakar Fellow, a Hellman Fellow, and served as a White House Fellow during the Obama administration.
