Here’s our summer event schedule, just for you. Bookmark this post and stay tuned for more events all year long. 🗓️ June 28, 8pm - Marine Biological Laboratory Friday Evening Lecture - Dr. Max Holmes will present the Glassman Lecture, speaking on “Climate Change: Charting a Path to a Positive Future.” https://lnkd.in/e-BiqC-4 🗓️ July 11 - Join Woodwell Climate scientists and Art-Science Fellows for the opportunity to interact with those behind Highfield Hall & Gardens’ summer exhibit In Flux: Perspectives on Arctic Change https://lnkd.in/ehwBKESy 🗓️ May 21 - July 14 - In Flux: Perspectives on Arctic Change https://lnkd.in/eK8UiUnn 🗓️ July 25 - Geschke Lecture by Dr. Max Holmes, moderated by Kitty Pilgrim, Nantucket Atheneum https://lnkd.in/e3h4xxH4 🗓️ July 27 - August 3 - Woods Hole Film Festival https://lnkd.in/eYGUjAuD
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Woodwell Climate conducts science for solutions for just, meaningful impact to address the climate crisis.
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Woodwell Climate Research Center conducts science for solutions at the nexus of climate, people, and nature—solutions that are urgently needed to propel us toward a more equitable, healthy, and sustainable world. Originally founded as the Woods Hole Research Center in 1985, we have a track record of partnering with a global network of communities and leaders for just, meaningful impact to address the climate crisis.
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https://www.woodwellclimate.org/
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- 51-200 employees
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- Falmouth, MA
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- 1985
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149 Woods Hole Rd
Falmouth, MA 02540, US
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Here’s our summer event schedule, just for you. Bookmark this post and stay tuned for more events all year long. Check the link in our bio for more information. 🗓️ August 10 - Woods Hole Science Stroll - visit Woodwell Climate’s booth: https://lnkd.in/gH_PEah6 🗓️ August 16, 4-5pm ET - August NOAA NWS Alaska Climate Outlook Briefing bit.ly/3LR8HKz 🗓️ August 18 - Falmouth Road Race - visit Woodwell Climate’s booth: bit.ly/3WSzDjo 🗓️ August 22, 4-5:30pm ET - Freshwater Pond Science 101 Zoom Webinar bit.ly/46BP5U5 🗓️ August 29 - U.S. Eastern Region NOAA Climate Services: 2024 Hurricane Season Update bit.ly/3LR8HKz
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We were proud to sponsor another great year at the Woods Hole Film Festival - an event that brings science-focused films to festival screens to improve public engagement with science. 🎥 We adopted five films: Brief Tender Light, Water for Life / Agua es Vida, Counted Out, Stewart Udall and the Politics of Beauty, and Gath and K’iyh: Listen to Heal 🎥 Our scientists introduced films and moderated panel discussions. 🎥 We shared thoughts about the critical and evolving role of storytelling in addressing the climate crisis. (📷: Woods Hole Film Festival)
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Congratulations to Melissa Alexander and Gena Falzon, Blue Cottage of CannonDesign, and Christina Shintani, Woodwell Climate Research Center, on being this year's ICA and IMIA Excellence in Cartography award winners recognized at this year's Esri User Conference. Learn more about this year's and previous ICA-IMIA award winners on our website: https://ow.ly/KzJH50SSeij
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Early extremes like hurricane #Beryl and tropical storm #Debby foretell an intense Atlantic hurricane season. This #MapMonday by Christina Shintani shows how climate change is affecting storms. Rising global temperatures have created the conditions for deadlier storms—meaning more category 3-5 storms and more big storms back-to-back. Since 1975 the number of category 4-5 cyclones has roughly doubled. Read more at https://lnkd.in/ey4xFNGc
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Here’s how climate change is affecting hurricane season Some category 5 maps, charts, and explainer information coming to you via Christina Shintani and Sarah Ruiz #climate #maps https://lnkd.in/eu2xNQzx
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Forests continue to play a critical role in efforts to mitigate climate change by absorbing massive amounts of carbon. According to a study published last month in the journal Nature, global forests absorbed an average of 3.5 billion metric tons of carbon per year between 1990 and 2019, despite these ecosystems' loss of resilience due to deforestation, wildfires, disease, and the effects of climate change. This uptake is equivalent to nearly half of the carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels during those three decades. The findings are based on long-term ground measurements combined with remote sensing data. Some other takeaways: 🌲 Boreal forests in places like Alaska, Canada, and Russia have experienced a 36% decline in their carbon sink capacity due to wildfires, insect outbreaks, degradation, and soil warming. 🌴 Tropical forests' sequestration is net neutral, with a 31% loss from deforestation and degradation mostly offset by forest recovery. 🍃 Temperate forests have seen a 30% increase in their carbon sink capacity due to reforestation efforts—particularly in China—and natural recovery. "The persistence of the global forest carbon sink was a surprise given global increases in wildfire, drought, logging, and other stressors," said Richard Birdsey of the Woodwell Climate Research Center in a statement. "But it turns out that increasing emissions in some regions were balanced by increasing accumulation in other regions, mainly re-growing tropical forests and reforestation of temperate forests. These findings support the potential for improving protection and management of forests as effective natural climate solutions." 🔬Yude Pan, The enduring world forest carbon sink, Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07602-x. https://lnkd.in/gFXSWYG6
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Got to spend this morning with this terrific group of filmmakers sharing the work of Woodwell Climate Research Center and sharing thoughts (both ways) about the critical and evolving role of storytelling in addressing #ClimateChange. Thanks to Woods Hole Film Festival for making this possible!
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Profs Oliver Phillips and Simon Lewis' recent Nature Portfolio publication presents extensive ground measurement forest data, incorporating research from 15 global collaborators across 11 countries. The study, investigating forests from across the globe found that the carbon sink capacity of boreal and tropical forests has significantly decreased due to disturbances including wildfires, insect breakouts, soil warming and deforestation. In contrast, reforestation efforts offsetting these losses have shown the importance of land management policies and practices in preserving the global carbon sink. Read more: https://lnkd.in/emjUwyGM USDA Forest Service, Woodwell Climate Research Center, University of Leeds, Peking University, University of Helsinki, Griffith University, Canadian Forest Service, The University of Tokyo, Wageningen Environmental Research, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, CIFOR-ICRAF.
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💧A new study suggests that severe droughts in the Amazon over the last two decades have isolated local populations who rely on water transport. “Scientists have been warning for years that the Amazon basin is facing a substantial increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme events due to climate change,” said Dr. Letícia Santos de Lima, researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Read more about the study’s findings and proposed solutions at https://lnkd.in/dgzm3qPe (📸 : Paulo Brando)