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The collection and open release of the most highly standardized and diverse environmental data in the U.S. by the NSF National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) are facilitating new pathways of discovery across the sciences. These big data and massive samples, acquired at sites across the U.S. through the coordinated efforts of humans and technology, provision ...
Read More about MBL Friday Evening Lecture Series: “Big, Diverse, and Standardized: The Use of NEON Data in Scientific Discovery” – Paula Mabee

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 ...
Read More about MBL Falmouth Forum: “Dare to be Naive” – Greg Watson, Director of Policy and Systems Design, Schumacher Center for a New Economics

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 ...
Read More about MBL Falmouth Forum: “The Changing Face of Whale Trauma: What We Know and Have to Do” – Michael Moore

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 ...
Read More about MBL Falmouth Forum: “Speaking Science to Power: My Eight Years in the Obama White House” – John Holdren

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. ...
Read More about MBL Falmouth Forum: “ROGUES: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks—12 Tales of Skulduggery and Intrigue” – Patrick Radden Keefe

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 ...
Read More about MBL Friday Evening Lecture Series: “The Molecular Anatomy of Animal Body Plans” – Chris Lowe, Hopkins Marine Station, Standford University

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 ...
Read More about MBL Friday Evening Lecture Series: “The Time to Be Born” – Louis Muglia, Burroughs Wellcome Fund

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 ...
Read More about MBL Friday Evening Lecture Series: “Blindspots to Inclusion in Environmental and Ocean Sciences” – Karlisa Callwood