BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Woods Hole Business Association - ECPv6.2.0.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://woodshole.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Woods Hole Business Association
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20200101T000000
END:STANDARD
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20200308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20201101T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201203T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201203T100000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155924
CREATED:20201105T235929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201105T235929Z
UID:4156-1606986000-1606989600@woodshole.com
SUMMARY:MBL Falmouth Forum - “Refugees and Migrants\, A Test for Civilization” - James Purcell
DESCRIPTION:The Falmouth Forum series hits the airwaves this fall in collaboration with WCAI\, the Cape\, Coast\, and Islands NPR station. Forum speakers will join host Mindy Todd on “The Point” at 9:00 AM on the first Thursday of each month for discussion and listener Q&A. Tune in to WCAI 90.1\, WNAN 91.1\, WZAI 94.3 or online at capeandislands.org. \nAfter graduating from Syracuse University’s Maxwell Graduate School in 1962\, James Purcell was appointed as a Kennedy Administration management intern and served the next fifteen years in the Atomic Energy Commission\, the Agency for International Development\, and the Bureau of the Budget/Office of Management and Budget. \nIn 1977\, he moved to the State Department\, where the deputy secretary of state asked him to oversee the creation of a new rescue organization for Vietnam War refugees in 1979. As “acting” and then “permanent” director of the new bureau for refugee programs (RP) from 1979 to 1987\, Mr. Purcell directed his team’s implementation of initiatives passed by Congress in the Refugee Act of 1980\, including consultations with state and local governments and other partners. Many of the original implementation measures were maintained and further refined by successor administrations. More than 1.1 refugees were resettled in the United States during his administration and many millions more (up to 10 million annually) were aided overseas. \nMr. Purcell was subsequently elected to two five-year terms as director general of the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration\, serving from 1988 to 1998. \nHe is presently board chair for USA for IOM\, a U.S. private sector advocacy and fund-raising organization. His book We’re in Danger! Who Will Help Us? Refugees and Migrants: A Test of Civilization was published in 2019.
URL:https://woodshole.com/event/mbl-falmouth-forum-refugees-and-migrants-a-test-for-civilization-james-purcell/
LOCATION:MA
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://woodshole.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/James-Purcell-.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Marine%20Biological%20Laboratory":MAILTO:cjohnson@mbl.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201214
DTSTAMP:20260426T155924
CREATED:20201204T190747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T190747Z
UID:4166-1607558400-1607903999@woodshole.com
SUMMARY:WHFF Virtual: The Race to Alaska
DESCRIPTION:The Woods Hole Film Festival season series WHFF Virtual presents the documentary THE RACE TO ALASKA\, including a live online Q&A with the the film’s director Zach Carver on Saturday\, December 12 at 7pm EST. Presented in partnership with the Woods Hole Yacht Club. \nABOUT THE FILM:\nThe Race to Alaska is an adrenaline-fueled\, 750-mile boat race through the dangerous and spectacular wilderness of the Inside Passage to Alaska. \nDescribed as “the Iditarod\, on a boat\, with a chance of drowning or being eaten by a grizzly bear\,” it’s amazing anyone enters at all. This epic endurance race attracts the intrepid and unhinged who find their edge along a coastline that is as punishing as it is beautiful. \nFor the best community viewing experience\, we recommend starting the film at 5:00 p.m. EST on Saturday\, December 12 and then join WHFF Executive Director Judy Laster and The Race to Alaska director Zach Carver for the Q&A on Zoom at 7:00 p.m. EST. \nThe film will be available to watch between Thursday\, December 10 at 8am and Sunday\, December 13 at midnight EST. If you purchase a ticket in advance you will receive an activation link to view the film via e-mail on Thursday morning\, December 10. If you purchase a ticket on or after December 13 you will receive a watch link immediately after your order confirmation. A free ticket to the virtual Q&A will be made available when you purchase your ticket. A separate access link for the Q&A will be e-mailed to you approximately one hour before the start of the event. Once you start playing the film you will have 48 hours to finish watching\, or until midnight on Sunday\, December 13\, whichever comes first. \nTickets are $14 per person and $12\, for Woods Hole Film Festival members and are on sale in now at: https://www.goelevent.com/WoodsHoleFilmFest/e/WHFFVirtualTheRaceToAlaska \nThe series is supported in part by grants from the Cape Cod 5 Foundation\, the Mass Cultural Council and the Falmouth Fund of The Cape Cod Foundation. \nFor more information email info@woodsholefilmfestival.org or call (508) 495-3456.
URL:https://woodshole.com/event/whff-virtual-the-race-to-alaska/
LOCATION:Virtual Film Festival\, 89 Water Street Second Floor\, Woods Hole\, MA\, 02543\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://woodshole.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-Race-to-Alaska_video-thumbnail-FB.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Woods%20Hole%20Film%20Festival":MAILTO:info@woodsholefilmfestival.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201215T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201215T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155924
CREATED:20201203T205915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201203T205915Z
UID:4163-1608033600-1608037200@woodshole.com
SUMMARY:MBL Ecosystems Center Webinar: "Will Land Feedbacks to the Climate System Accelerate Global Warming?" - Jerry Melillo\, Gus Shaver\, Ed Rastetter
DESCRIPTION:Introduction – Human disruption of the global carbon cycle is the primary driver of climate change.  Scientist at The Ecosystems Center have been studying the role of land ecosystems in the global carbon cycle using field experiments and simulation modeling for four decades.  Today\, three Center scientists will present examples of their work on the carbon cycle.  Jerry Melillo and Gus Shaver will summarize long-standing field experiments and Ed Rastetter will report on a set of modeling experiments. \nJerry Melillo – Climate change over the 21st century is projected to lead to soil warming and trigger a complex self-reinforcing feedback to the climate system.  Through this feedback\, warming begets warming by acclerating the decay of soil organic matter that releases carbon dioxide to the atmosphere\, which leads to more warming.  For the past three decades we have been warming soils 5oC above ambient in a forest stand at the Harvard Forest in central Massachusetts.  We found that soil warming results in a four-phase pattern of soil organic matter decay and carbon dioxide fluxes to the atmosphere\, with phases of substantial soil carbon loss alternating with phases of no detectable loss. Several factors combine to affect the timing\, magnitude\, and thermal acclimation of soil carbon loss. These include depletion of microbially accessible carbon pools\, reductions in microbial biomass\, a shift in microbial carbon use efficiency\, and changes in microbial community composition. Our results support projections of a long-term\, self-reinforcing carbon feedback from mid-latitude forests to the climate system as the world warms. \nGus Shaver will now talk about controls on self-reinforcing carbon feedbacks from Arctic tundra ecosystems.  \nGus Shaver – The cold\, wet soils of Arctic and boreal regions contain over twice as much carbon as is currently held in the global atmosphere.  For over 40 years Ecosystems Center ecologists have studied how these very large terrestrial carbon stocks are controlled\, with a focus on the balance of plant inputs of organic matter and losses by decomposition.  Our initial focus was on direct controls by climate factors such as temperature and length of the growing season\, but it very quickly became apparent that interactions between the carbon cycle and the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles were of overriding importance.  This led to a series of long-term experiments in which we manipulated temperature\, nutrient availability\, and light in contrasting tundra types dominated by different kinds of plants.  Insights from these experiments have contributed significantly to our current “stoichiometric” perspective on local and global regulation of terrestrial feedbacks\, as discussed by Ed Rastetter in the following talk. \nEd Rastetter – The amount of carbon stored in ecosystems depends on the amount of nitrogen in the ecosystem and the distribution of nitrogen between vegetation and soil organic matter.  We examine ways that the amount and distribution of nitrogen might change with climate change and the consequences for the amount of carbon stored in ecosystems. \nJoin the MBL Ecosystems Center scientists as they explore critical problems in environmental science. Inspired by their research\, seminars will touch on topics covered as part of the Semester in Environmental Science at the MBL\, and span diverse ecosystems ranging from Arctic tundra to temperate forests\, coastal marshes and wetlands to the open ocean\, deserts to Cape Cod’s salt ponds. Deepen your knowledge about global change\, and unexpected consequences of human activity on our planet. \nParticipants will have an opportunity to submit questions during the webinar. Please contact ses@mbl.edu if you have any questions or issues with the registration process.
URL:https://woodshole.com/event/mbl-ecosystems-center-webinar-will-land-feedbacks-to-the-climate-system-accelerate-global-warming-jerry-melillo-gus-shaver-ed-rastetter/
LOCATION:Virtual Lecture\, Marine Biological Laboratory\, 7 MBL Street\, Woods Hole\, MA\, 02543\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://woodshole.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/melillo-etc.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Marine%20Biological%20Laboratory":MAILTO:cjohnson@mbl.edu
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR