Meet the Scientists

Past Workshops

Climate Change and Long Island Sound, Maritime Aquarium, Norwalk, CT; April, 2006
Presenters:
Dr. Alistair Duncan Macgregor Dove, Marine Sciences Research Center of Stony Brook University, n "The Role of Climate in the Emergence of Marine Diseases;"
Dr. Johan Varekamp, Wesleyan University, "Environmental Changes in Long Island Sound: Rising Tides, Hypoxic Waters and Shifting Ecosystems."
After the presentations attendees were treated to a behind-the-scenes tour at the Maritime Aquarium, during which they learned how the Aquarium staff cares for sharks, jellies, sea turtles and more than 1,000 other species.

Global Warming Indicators and Coastal Impacts in Connecticut Groton, CT; March 2005
Presenters:
Global warming "indicators" drawn from historical climate records;
invasive marine species;
coastal impacts;
global warming messaging.
They also received a copy of the Indicators of Climate Change in the Northeast 2005 report. Synopsis and presentations.

Climate Change: The Need for Action, Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT; November 2004
Presenters:
Dr. James Gustave Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, science education and the urgency of the problem of global warming; scientists
Dr. Xuhui Lee, climate science
Dr. Michelle Bell, climate change nd public health.
Learn more about what was presented there.