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Educational Programs
The Woods Hole Research Center's education program may be divided into two
major divisions, one aimed at cultivating the future leaders of environmental
science through training and mentoring and the other, a program of public
outreach, focused on the dissemination of information related to our
core research programs.
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Outreach |
The Polaris Project
The Polaris Project is a collaborative effort involving the Woods Hole Research Center, seven universities and colleges, and the Northeast Science Station in Cherskii Russia. The project focuses on field research experience for undergraduate students in the Siberian Arctic working across five different ecosystem types at a field station in remote northeastern Russia. Learn more » |
Student Partners Project
Scientist Max Holmes, in concert with an international team of collaboratorshas created an innovative program - the Student-Partners Project - which will unite students, teachers, and scientists in advancing scientific understanding of the role of major arctic rivers in changing arctic and global systems. Learn more » |
Mentoring Brazilian Students
Center
staff members serve as thesis advisors to Master's and Ph.D. students
at several Brazilian Universities
US universities including Boston University, Tufts, Yale, University
of Maine, Univerisity of Miami, University of Wisconsin. Brazilian
students expand their educational experience by participating in
a residency program at the Center. Learn more » |
Building for the Future
The
Research Center moved to a new campus in March of 2003. Designed
as a "high-performance building." and powered without
any onsite combustion of fossil fuels, the Ordway Campus is a demonstration
of how a building can be made to function as a living organism. Learn more » |
Russian Visiting Scholars
The
Center's Russian Visiting Scholars Program provides
Russian forest ecologists the opportunity to spend up to three
months in Woods Hole learning state-of-the art technologies used
in forest ecology, advancing shared goals in research on forests,
and visiting other field sites. Learn more » |
Warming of the Earth
"Whereas
in the past human impacts were local, reversible, and escapable
through migration, they are now typically, global,
irreversible, and inescapable." - Paul Ehrlich
A basic guide to the issues and stakes involved in the issue of
climate change. Learn more » |
Summer Interns
Under
the auspices of a variety of educational programs, summer undergraduate
interns are contributing to ongoing research projects
in the Howland Forest in Maine and Harvard Forest in Massachusetts. Learn more » |
Staff Essays
Staff
members of the Research Center are uniquely positioned to comment
on the intricate relationship between science and policy. Essays
cover topics ranging from climate disruption to the war on terrorism. Learn more » |
Diversity
The Woods Hole Research Center joins with other local scientific
and educational institutions to develop programs for the recruitment,
retention, and mentoring of minority workers and students. Learn more » |
Seminar Series
Featuring some of the world's leading experts speaking on the
most pressing issues of global environment. Learn more » |
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