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Research Center in the media

March - April, 2005. World's largest rainforest drying experiment completes first phase.

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TerraDaily - World's Largest Rainforest Drying Experiment Completes First Phase.
Discovery Channel, Canada - Controlling a man-made drought. Video interview with Dr. Daniel C. Nepstad.
 

March 29, 2005. NASA's Earth Observatory. Population's Impact on Nature, highlights recent work by the Research Center linking population growth and landscape change to the increased severity of natural disasters.

March 15, 2005. Cape Cod Today. Environmental Dreams - Environmentalism is about as moribund as the human spirit. Director George M. Woodwell counters claims that environmentalism has lost its way.

February 17, 2005. Providence Journal. The Kyoto Protocol: Waiting for Godot? - Deputy Director Kilaparti Ramakrishna asks the US to rejoin the world on climate change.

January 20, 2005. The Falmouth Enterprise & Upper Cape Codder. Energy, Planning, and Management of Coastal Resources - A Wind Farm in Nantucket Sound. Comments by George M. Woodwell on the urgent need for implementing renewable energy. January 31, 2005. Also appearing in The Cape Cod Times as Country urgently needs wind farm (My View: reader commentary).

January, 2005. Sierra Magazine. Green From the Ground Up - Using techniques simple and sophisticated, buildings can be easy on the planet.

December 10, 2004. Providence Journal. George M. Woodwell: Cape Wind vs. Brayton Point. Research Center Director places Cape Wind project in perspective, both local and global.

August 11, 2004. Boston Globe. Research Center directors Ramakrishna and Woodwell assert that World Bank undermines efforts on global warming.

August 7, 2004. Washington Post. Research by Associate Scientist Scott Goetz & team featured in article on DC area urban sprawl.

June 3, 2004. NASA. WHRC work on Amazon fire featured in NASA Earth Observatory feature "From Forest to Field: How Fire is Transforming the Amazon."

April 22, 2004. American Institute of Architects. Woods Hole Research Center's Ordway Campus named to AIA-COTE's "Top Ten Green Projects" for 2004.

March 25, 2004. NASA. NASA's "Top Story," March, 2004. NASA-funded researchers at the Woods Hole Research Center use "SLEUTH" computer model to project development in the Washington, DC - Baltimore area. (NASA site)

March 10, 2004. Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. 2004 Northeast Green Building Awards. The Woods Hole Research Center's new high-performance building earns a first prize in the category of small places of business. (NESEA site)

News Archives

October 24, 2003. Providence Journal. William Morgan: 'Strategy of hope' on Cape -- Architectural, environmental marvel

September 10, 2003. Architecture Week. Sustainable Center for Woods Hole. "...a research organization dedicated to studying the effects of human activities on the environment has a responsibility to go... further to apply sustainability as a guiding principle.

September, 2003. Northern Power Systems. Real World Power - Sustainable Energy for Woods Hole Research Center's New Facility.

May 3, 2003. Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. Homes, Businesses, Non-Profits Go Green with Building Projects. $3.5 million in grants support installation of more than 100 solar electric systems, including a grant of $273,692 to the Woods Hole Research Center for the permitting and installation of a wind turbine.

May 30, 2002. Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. Woods Hole Research Center receives grant of $226,308 for the installation of an eighty-eight panel photovoltaic array.