Symposium to Give Residents Inside Look at Climate Change in Woods Hole | Falmouth Enterprise
MBL's Chief Operating Officer Paul Speer and Distinguished Scientist Jerry Melillo will be among the symposium presenters.
ResilientWoodsHole is hosting a free public symposium on the impacts of climate change in the village on Thursday, November 18, which is intended to give attendees an inside look at the climate science at work just down the road.
ResilientWoodsHole is a public-private partnership spearheaded by three organizations in Woods Hole: the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Biological Laboratory, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Northeast Fisheries Science Center. The upcoming symposium is the second in a multi-phased series and will build upon previous assessments of potential impacts of sea-level rise and coastal storms that were introduced during the September 2020 event “Rising Tides: Phase I.”
“We really want to look at other things that we depend on, like Water Street, like the business on Water Street, like the residences in the village where a lot of our employees work or live, and make sure that they, too, were protected,” Ms. McGee said. “We’re all so dependent on this infrastructure and we want to make sure that we’re investing and understanding the impacts more clearly. That’s really the key for us. We wanted to make sure that we were moving quickly from phase one, beyond just admiring the problem into understanding the problem in much greater detail.” Read more ...