On April 29th, Seven dinners on the same night at friends’ homes. Each dinner includes a presenter whose topic is connected to our mission. This year the theme is Voyaging to Rivers, Bays and Oceans worldwide. Humans and the oceans are inextricably linked. Click here for more information.
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MME Annual Meeting in Woods Hole
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Register now for the Annual Meeting and Conference at WHOI
Please mark your calendar for MME’s 41st Annual Meeting and Conference in Woods Hole at WHOI’s Clark Building, Quissett Campus, which will be held on Saturday, April 8th from 8:30am to 4:15pm.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
WORKSHOPS
RECEPTION
For more information, including descriptions of each session and an event flyer, please visit our website! Please help us to spread the word about this exciting event.
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MME Marine Art Contest
The annual MME Marine Art Contest is now underway, and the theme for this year is “Exploring the Marine Biodiversity of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.” There are five contest divisions: K-4, 5-8, 9-12, scientific illustration, and computer graphics.
Winning entries will be posted on the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary website (http://stellwagen.noaa.gov), as well as used by the sanctuary and MME in their outreach programs. Notification and certificates will be sent to the participating teachers or individual students at their schools.
Click here for an event flyer and application form. Please share and/or post with your colleagues! Winning entries from 2016 can be viewed here.
The annual MA Marine Educators’ annual marine art contest is underway with a deadline of April 28. All students in grades K-12 are invited to participate. Entry is free. The theme is “Exploring marine biodiversity at Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.” Winning art is incorporated into an annual calendar and tours the region in a traveling exhibit. Click here for more information.
Science Cafes return for 2017
Join us at Mead Hall for great discussion of ocean plastics and much conviviality.
Where: Mead Hall, 4 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA (Kendall station on the Red Line)
When: Wednesday, March 8th, 2017, 6:30-8:30 pm
Topic: Ocean Plastics
What: Free food, cash bar, great conversations, THREE great speakers:
Keith Cialino – NOAA Ocean Debris Program
Linda Cabot – Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs
Jessica Donahue – Sea Education Association (SEA)
New England Aquarium Lecture Series
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The Aquarium has been providing free lectures and films by scientists, environmental writers, photographers and others since 1972. The Aquarium Lecture Series is presented free to the public through the generosity of the Lowell Institute, which has been providing funding for free public lectures at universities and museums since 1836. Lectures are free and open to the public. Registration is requested. All programs start at 7 p.m. in the Aquarium’s Harborside Learning Lab, unless otherwise noted below. Programs last approximately one hour followed by a reception.
New Season runs April 2nd to June 3rd, 2014. Lecture schedule here
New England Aquarium Lecture Series
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The Aquarium has been providing free lectures and films by scientists, environmental writers, photographers and others since 1972. The Aquarium Lecture Series is presented free to the public through the generosity of the Lowell Institute, which has been providing funding for free public lectures at universities and museums since 1836. Lectures are free and open to the public. Registration is requested. All programs start at 7 p.m. in the Aquarium’s Harborside Learning Lab, unless otherwise noted below. Programs last approximately one hour followed by a reception.
New Season runs April 2nd to June 3rd, 2014. Lecture schedule here
Lecture Series, Northeastern Marine Science Center
You are cordially invited to attend any and all of the Marine Science Center’s monthly lectures this academic year, for which the schedule appears below. Lectures are held in the Murphy Bunker at the MSC (430 Nahant Road, Nahant, MA 01908), which is ADA accessible. Most programs last from 1 to 1.5 hours, and light refreshments are served half an hour before the program begins. No RSVP is required.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 7 pm
EFFECTS OF OCEAN WARMING ON MARINE SPECIES: HISTORY & EXPERIMENTS FOR PREDICTING THE FUTURE
Dr. Cascade Sorte, Instructor and Post-Doctoral Researcher
Department of Biology, Northeastern University
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 7 pm
RESTORING AQUATIC HABITATS – FROM THE SOURCE TO THE SEA
Tim Purinton, Acting Director
Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration
ANNUAL RISER LECTURE
Friday, April 29, 2011 at 4:30pm
BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY AS THE CENTRAL ORGANIZING CONCEPT IN
MARINE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Dr. Emmett Duffy, Loretta and Lewis Glucksman Professor of Marine Science
Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of William and Mary
Vu Lam, Outreach Program Coordinator/781-581-7370 ext 321
Lecture Series from Gundalow Company
“Our Waters, Your Future: Choosing to Make a Difference” Mark your calendars for our fall Contemporary Coastal Issues series, which will examine local water quality issues and explore ways we can all reduce our impact.
November 17, 7:00 pm, Gundalow Company headquarters, 60 Marcy Street, Portsmouth, “Engaging Citizens to Protect Our Waters”, Presented by: Candace Dolan, Hodgdon Brook Restoration Project & the Southeast Watershed Alliance Based on her experience with the Hodgson Brook Restoration Project, which utilizes volunteers to protect the coastal watershed and decrease the flow of pollutants into surface waters, Candace will discuss citizen-based projects, such as rain gardens and vegetative buffers, that are already making a positive impact.
December 15, 7:00 pm, Levenson Community Room, Portsmouth Library, “Supporting Sustainable Fisheries”, Panel Discussion with: Bob Campbell, Yankee Fisherman’s Coop, Will Carey, Little Bay Oyster Company, Carolyn Eastman, Eastman’s Fish Market, Ken LaValley, UNH Cooperative Extention, Sara Zoe Patterson, Seacoast Eat Local, Roger Woodman, Commercial fisherman using 19th Century methods. Panelists will discuss what current issues face our local fisheries, how their organizations are addressing these challenges and what consumers can do to ensure the long term health of our fisheries.
MBL Ecosystems Center Seminar Series
A lecture exploring the future of the world’s seagrass ecosystems will kick off the 2010 Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series, sponsored by the Marine Biological Laboratory’s (MBL’s) Ecosystems Center. Carlos Duarte, Director of the International Laboratory of Global Change Research at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies in Mallorca, Spain will present the talk “Facing the Global Loss of Seagrass Meadows: Trends, Causes, Outlook, and Opportunities” on Friday, September 17 at 3:00 pm in the Speck Auditorium, Rowe Building, 18 MBL St., Woods Hole. The public is invited to attend.
The Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series is part of the MBL’s Semester in Environmental Science (SES), a 15-week program that provides college students from across the U.S. with an intensive field and laboratory-based introduction to environmental science of coastal forests, freshwater ponds and estuaries. The Distinguished Scientists Seminar Series gives SES students and the public an opportunity to meet and interact with some of the best practitioners of environmental science in the world.
The Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series will continue throughout the fall at the MBL. The remaining lectures in the series are:
September 24
3:00 PM, Speck Auditorium, Rowe Building, 18 MBL St., Woods Hole
Kenneth O Buesseler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
“Understanding the Ocean’s Biological Pump”
October 15
3:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium, 7 MBL St., Woods Hole
Samantha Joye, University of Georgia
“Distribution, Biogeochemistry, and Effects of Oil and Gas Hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem”
October 29
3:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium, 7 MBL St., Woods Hole
Thompson Webb III, Brown University
“Climate Warming and Vegetation Changes in North America Since the ‘Last Ice Age’ 21,000 Years Ago”
November 5
3:00 PM, Speck Auditorium, Rowe Building, 18 MBL St., Woods Hole
Monica G Turner, University of Wisconsin
“Landscape Heterogeneity, Disturbance, and Ecosystem Function”
Great White Shark Lectures
Dr. Greg Skomal will be presenting 2 lectures this Wednesday, August 4, sponsored by Mass Audubon:
“Tracking Great White Sharks”, Presentation by Dr. Greg Skomal
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
4:30 pm at Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary, Barnstable
7:30 pm at Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, South Wellfleet
In September 2009, more than a dozen white sharks were sighted in close proximity to the gray seal colony on Monomoy Island in Chatham. Great whites have also been sighted this summer off Chatham again. This has sparked international media attention and resulted in the closure of some beaches. Fisheries biologist Dr. Greg Skomal of the Mass. Division of Marine Fisheries tagged five of these sharks in 2009 with pop-up satellite archival transmitting (PSAT) tags in order to examine site fidelity, seasonal movements, and habitat use. In this presentation, he will explore the implications of increasing seal populations in this region and present the results of PSAT tagging efforts in the North Atlantic. Dr. Skomal will also be bringing copies of his recent book “The Shark Handbook: The Essential Guide for Understanding the Sharks of the World” to both talks for purchase and signing.
For more information, contact:
Long Pasture www.massaudubon.org/longpasture
Wellfleet Bay www.massaudubon.org/wellfleetbay
Ocean Voices Series, New Bedford
The Ocean Explorium at New Bedford Seaport,174 Union Street,New Bedford, MA oceanexplorium.org
Presents Ocean Voices, August 5, reception 6:15 – 7, talk 7:00 PM
Join Dr. Ken Oliveira from UMASS Dartmouth as he discusses his work with the American Eel. Dr. Oliveira describes the American Eel as “an ecologically and commercially important species” possessing “an amazing life history with many unique adaptations” that make it a historically successful species. The American Eel spawns in secret locations within the Sargasso Sea, a process that has never been observed. In 2008, Dr. Oliveira and his research associate, Dr. Whitney Habel, a develop-mental biologist, successfully hatched American Eels in their laboratories at the University in Dartmouth. This represents a first for scientists long puzzled by the reproductive processes of the animals. While larval eels are found in the Sargasso Sea, adult eels have never been seen there. Dr. Oliveira will discuss the life history and current research of this fascinating fish.