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MBL Seminar Series | SES Distinguished Scientist Seminar: "Urban and Rural Forests as Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change" - Pamela Templer Ph.D.
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Pamela Templer Ph.D.
Boston University Department of Biology
Distinguished Professor and Chair of Biology
Forests are widely promoted as nature-based solutions to climate change because of their ability to absorb and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. However, our research suggests that their capacity to store carbon may be more vulnerable than previously thought. In a long-term experiment at Hubbard Brook in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, we study the effects of climate change across all seasons, including warmer growing seasons and a smaller winter snowpack. We demonstrate that while warmer growing seasons increase tree growth and carbon storage, these gains are significantly offset by a diminished winter snowpack and greater frequency of soil freeze/thaw cycles. Reduced snowpack exposes tree roots to freezing temperatures, causing injury that limits their ability to take up nitrogen —'97 a nutrient essential for tree growth and carbon storage. We also demonstrate that greater rates of atmosp…
Virtual Information: https://mbl.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=91866191-a965-47d2-87c3-b4ba00d36011. Event Type: SES Distinguished Scientist Seminar.
Friday, October 23, 2026, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
Speck Auditorium.
For more info visit www.bu.edu. MBL Seminar Series | SES Distinguished Scientist Seminar: "The Effectiveness and Environmental Impacts of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement for Carbon Dioxide Removal" - Adam Subhas Ph.D.
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Adam Subhas Ph.D.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Associate Scientist
Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) is a carbon removal approach that could supplement large-scale emissions reductions to avoid the worst effects of climate change. I will present and discuss the LOC-NESS Project (Locking Ocean Carbon in the Northeast Shefl and Slope) research program, a multi-year, multi-institution effort based at WHOI to study the effectiveness and envrionmental impacts of ship-based OAE. I will share results on laboratory experiments on the impacts on phytoplankton and marine life, studies on the transfer efficiency of alkalinity into seawater, and results from a large-scale field experiment conducted in the summer of 2025. These results inform how to balance the climate mitigation goals of OAE with its potential environmental impacts. I will then discuss future work, including research on the capacity of OAE to scale to climate-relevant, gigatonne scales.
Virtual Information: https://mbl.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=56c791d6-cac2-4c3e-a408-b4ba00d495d6. Event Type: SES Distinguished Scientist Seminar.
Friday, November 6, 2026, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
Speck Auditorium
10 MBL St.
Woods Hole, MA.
Veteran's Day - Union Holiday
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Event Type: Other.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026.
New England Immunology Conference 2026
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Event Type: Conferences.
Friday, November 13, 2026 – Sunday, November 15, 2026.
Cornelia Clapp Auditorium
7 MBL Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543.
For more info visit www.newenglandimmunology.org. MBL Falmouth Forum: “Creating Cape Cod: The Evolution of Tourism” - Jennifer Madden, Director of Collections & Exhibitions, Heritage Museums & Gardens
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Abstract: Today, few topics on Cape Cod are more controversial than tourism. Both a blessing and a curse, tourism simultaneously powers a humming economy and tightens the stranglehold on the region’s limited resources.
But the Cape wasn’t always known as a place people wanted to visit. Between 1860 and 1900, the region experienced a lingering depression as traditional industries faltered and residents moved away. In the 1850s, Henry David Thoreau described the Cape as a “Yankee backwater,” and most everyone agreed.
The Cape’s emerging tourist industry began slowly after the Civil War, picked up speed with the advent of the railroad, but didn’t really take off until the widespread adoption of the automobile. Once people could easily travel to and around the Cape, many discovered its seaside charms. Consequently, Cape Cod has been experiencing a tourist boom for more than 100 years now.
Jennifer Madden is the Director of Collections & Exhibitions at Heritage Museums & Gardens, where she has worked since…
Virtual Information: https://mbl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YxuiqAQdTyyqWsRDOzti-g#/registration. Event Type: Falmouth Forum.
Friday, November 13, 2026, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
Cornelia Clapp Auditorium
7 MBL Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543.
For more info visit www.mbl.edu. MBL Seminar Series | SES Distinguished Scientist Seminar: "Historical marine ecology and conservation" - Loren McClenachan Ph.D.
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Loren McClenachan Ph.D.
University of Victoria
Department of History and School of Environmental Studies
The field of historical marine ecology developed from the fundamental observation that marine ecosystems had been changed by human actions long before scientists began to study them. Information from historical written records—including photographs, newspaper articles, restaurant menus, and nautical charts—has revealed changes to species distributions and population structure farther back in time than was previously possible and provided new understandings of ecosystem function in the absence of pervasive human influence. Likewise traditional and local ecological knowledge held by coastal communities provides insight into long-term human relationships with oceans and adaptation to past ecological change. Many of these findings have application to conservation, and the growth of historical ecology research has sparked an increased use of these data in applied contexts. This talk will describe new and ongoi…
Virtual Information: https://mbl.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ebeaec2a-af6c-4375-8071-b4ba00d4f2a4. Event Type: SES Distinguished Scientist Seminar.
Friday, November 20, 2026, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
Speck Auditorium
10 MBL St.
Woods Hole, MA.
For more info visit mcclenachan.weebly.com. Thanksgiving Day - MBL Closed
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Event Type: Other.
Thursday, November 26, 2026.
Day After Thanksgiving - MBL Closed
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Event Type: Other.
Friday, November 27, 2026.
MBL Falmouth Forum: “Chords and Chuckles: Navigating the Ridiculous and the Sublime in Music” - George Scharr, Pre-Concert Lecturer Cape Symphony Orchestra
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Abstract: In this engaging 45-minute talk, George Scharr will take audiences on a lighthearted yet insightful journey through the history of humor in classical and popular music. Beginning with the classicists—Haydn, Mozart, and their contemporaries—who wove subtle wit and musical jokes into their most serious works, the talk will trace how composers across the centuries have used surprise, parody, and playfulness to delight listeners, often in ways modern audiences overlook. Drawing on his decades as a performer, educator, and lifelong student of music history, Scharr will blend scholarship with storytelling, revealing the sly humor hidden in the "sublime" and showing how the ridiculous has always had a place alongside the profound. The talk will build to a memorable and unexpected finale, in which Scharr will demonstrate that even an unconventional instrument can carry the day's themes of wit and invention to a rousing conclusion.
George Scharr retired from the bass trombone seat of the Cape Symphony…
Virtual Information: https://mbl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-L9tGPR8QG-uaXy8uN2lIQ#/registration. Event Type: Falmouth Forum.
Friday, December 11, 2026, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
Cornelia Clapp Auditorium
7 MBL Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543.
For more info visit www.mbl.edu. Christmas Day - MBL Closed
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Event Type: Other.
Friday, December 25, 2026.