Events at the Center
The Woods Hole Research Center’s seminar series features presentations on key issues surrounding the global environment. All lectures take place in the Center’s Harbourton Auditorium at 149 Woods Hole Road in Falmouth. Center seminars are free and open to the public; however, due to space limitations, reservations are required. For further information, please call Connie Johnson at 508-444-1517 or . Parking is available on site, but is limited - carpooling is encouraged.
Upcoming Seminars
There are no seminars scheduled at this time - please check back again soon.
Recent Seminars
April 28, 2010
Shooting with the Radar Gun: Another Radiological Tool to Diagnose and Monitor Patient Earth
Dr. Josef Kellndorfer, Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center
March 25, 2010
From Fazenda Tanguro, Brazil: The Story of Scientists and Teachers Bringing Research in the Amazon to Falmouth Schools
Dr. Michael T. Coe, Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center
Christine Brothers, Science Dept. Head and Biology Teacher, Falmouth High School
Kelly Garrett, Biology Teacher, Falmouth High School
February 11, 2010
Manure Happens!
Environmental Consequences of Feeding About 6 Billion Carnivorous Humans
Eric Davidson, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center
September 3, 2009
Book Talk: The Nature of a House
George M. Woodwell, Founder and Director Emeritus, Woods Hole Research Center
Past Center Symposia
The Great Issues of Environment: Ecology and the Public Good (2008)
A Symposium Honoring George Masters Woodwell in Celebration of his Eightieth Birthday
Dean Abrahamson, Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Planning, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis
John H. Adams, Founding Director and former President, Natural Resources Defense Council
F. Herbert Bormann, Emeritus Professor of Forest Ecology, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Paul R. Ehrlich, President, Center for Conservation Biology and Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University
John P. Holdren, President and Director, Woods Hole Research Center
Thomas E. Lovejoy, President, Heinz Center
Daniel Nepstad, Chief Program Officer, Environmental Conservation Programs, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Frederica P. Perera, Director of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health
Kilaparty Ramakrishna, Policy Advisor, United Nations Environment Programme
J. G. Speth, Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Science
Sandra Steingraber, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies, Ithaca College
Twentieth Anniversary Symposium - Environmentalism: Retrospect and Prospect (2005)
Paul R. Ehrlich, President, Center for Conservation Biology and Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University
John P. Holdren, President and Director, Woods Hole Research Center
J. G. Speth, Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Science
Sandra Steingraber, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies, Ithaca College
George M. Woodwell, Founder and Director Emeritus, Woods Hole Research Center
Panel Discussion: Scientific Integrity in Policymaking (2004)
Kilaparti Ramakrishna, Deputy Director, Woods Hole Research Center
John Farrington, Vice President, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Peter Frumhoff, Director, Global Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists
John P. Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
Jerry Melillo, Co-Director, Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory
George M. Woodwell, Director, Woods Hole Research Center
Report on the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg 2002
Kilaparti Ramakrishna, Deputy Director, Woods Hole Research Center
Eric Davidson, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center
George M. Woodwell, Director, Woods Hole Research Center
Past Presentations and Speakers
(Alphabetical by speaker’s last name; title reflects affiliation at time of presentation.)
Finding the Right Balance: The Disposal of Nuclear Waste
Garry Brewer, Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Professor of Resource Policy and Management, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Management
People and Forests: The Human Signature on an Ancient Landscape
David G. Campbell, Henry R. Luce Professor in Nations and Global Environment, Grinnell College; author of, The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica.
The Amazon River: How Choices Now Shape Its Future
Michael T. Coe, Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center
Our Health in a Warming Climate
Devra Lee Davis, Director of the Health, Environment and Development Program, World Resources Institute
The Humanity Crisis: Focusing on the True Nature of Our Dilemma
Dianne Dumanoski, Journalist and Author
Newly Emerging Diseases in a World
Laurie Garrett, Author; former science correspondent for National Public Radio
Toward a Real Kyoto Protocol
Ross Gelbspan, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
Paul Epstein, Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School
Business on a Small Planet
Paul Hawken, Author
Bombs, BTUs, and the Biota: Priorities for the Next Four Years
John P. Holdren, Visiting Distinguished Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center; Class of 1935 Professor of Energy, University of California, Berkeley; Member, President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology
The Coming Energy-Environment Train Wreck: Why Energy Supply Remains the World's Biggest Environmental Problem; What Could and Should Be Done About It; Why We're Not Doing It
John P. Holdren, Visiting Distinguished Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center; Class of 1935 Professor of Energy, University of California, Berkeley; Member, President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology
Tropical Forests and Global Climate Change: Connections and Remedies
John P. Holdren, President and Director, Woods Hole Research Center
Daniel Nepstad, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center
Science, Education, and Policy in Action: Adventures and Climate Change in the Arctic
R. Max Holmes, Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center
Anya Suslova, Undergraduate Intern, Siberia
Nitrogen pollution of coastal waters: Sources, rates of change, and possible solutions to the problem
Robert Howarth, David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology, Cornell University
Agriculture's Ten Thousand Year Old Challenge
Wes Jackson, Co-founder and President, Land Institute of Salina, Kansas
Sustainable Development and Conflict Management in Latin America
Yolanda Kakabadse, President of the World Conservation Union (IUCN)
Assessing Human Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change
Roger Kasperson, Chair, International Geographical Union Commission on Critical Situations/Regions in Global Environmental Change (1992-1996)
Design, Ecology, Ethics, and the Making of Things
William McDonough, principal architect for William McDonough + Partners,
What If the Sky Fell and Nobody Noticed? Convincing the Public About Global Change
Bill McKibben, Author; former New Yorker staff writer
A Vision of U.S. Security in the 21st Century
Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense 1961-1968; former president, World Bank
The Science and Rescue of the Amazon
Daniel Nepstad, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center
Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead
Paul Raskin, President, Tellus Institute and Director, Stockholm Environment Institute-Boston
Beyond Johannesburg: Bridging the Gulf between Ecology and Environmental Law
Nicholas A. Robinson, Founder, Pace University's Environmental Law Programs
Tropical Economy and Economic Development
Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Harvard's Center for International Development
Climate Change: Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future
Daniel P. Schrag, Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Director, Harvard's Center for the Environment
The New Political Landscape
David M. Shribman, 1995 Pulitzer Prize winner for national political reporting; columnist and Washington Bureau Chief of The Boston Globe
Reflections on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: A UN Inspector's Experiences
Jørn Siljeholm, United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment
Sandra Steingraber, author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer
Understanding the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
Thomas Stone, Senior Research Associate, Woods Hole Research Center
Book Talk: Sippewissett, or Life on a Salt Marsh
Tim Traver, Author
The Earth's Cryosphere and Global Environmental Change
Richard S. Williams, Jr.
Senior Research Geologist, Woods Hole Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey
Vice Chairman Emeritus, Committee for Research and Exploration, National Geographic Society, Adjunct Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center
Wild Lands, Endangered People
Art Wolfe, photographer and author of, Migrations: Wildlife in Motion and, Light on the Land.
Russia’s Environmental Health: Role of Civil Society
Alexei Yablokov, Russian Academy of Sciences
Vladimir Zakharov, Center for Russian Environmental Policy