Meet the Scientists

Past Workshops

Meet the Technologists
Learning about Clean Energy Technologies as Solutions to Climate Change

Friday, December 5, 2008
10:00am - 3:00pm

hosted by
Boston Children’s Museum
300 Congress Street
Boston, MA 02210

“Wind Energy 101”
Lynn B. Di Tullio, P.E. - Program Manager, The Wind Energy Center,
Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts
&
“Solar Energy Science and Technology Exploration”
Richard Lawrence - Clean Energy Program Coordinator and adjunct instructor at Cape Cod Community College

Climate Change: Impacts on New England Ecosystems
March 19, 2008, 10 - 3.
Hosted by The Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, VT. Cost: $15 includes lunch.

  • “Life in the Clouds: Potential Effects of Climate Change on Montane Fir Forests in the Northeast”
    Kent McFarland – Research Biologist, Vermont Center For Ecostudies
  • “Projected Climate Change in New England: Impact to Riparian Wetlands"
    Michael Simpson – Wetlands Scientist, Antioch New England University


Download event flyer here (PDF file).

Climate Change: Science and Solutions
November 14th, 2007, 10-3
Hosted by The Fulcrum Institute for Leadership in Science Education at Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts;

  • “Engaging Students and the Public in the Science of Climate Change: Look to the Arctic!”
    Dr. R. Max Holmes – Earth System Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center
  • “Suspended in Ice: Profiling the Arctic Ocean with New Technology”
    Mary-Louise Timmermans – Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • “An Introduction to the Costs and Benefits of Modern Wind Power”
    Sally Wright – Mechanical Engineer, Renewable Energy Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts
  • View Dr. Holmes' presentation here.

 

Impacts of Global Climate Change in Vermont
November 9th, 2006, ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain
Burlington, Vermont;

  • “Impacts of Global Climate Change on the Maple Sugar Industry in Vermont”
    Dr. Timothy Perkins, Director - Proctor Maple Research and Associate Professor of Botany and Agricultural Biochemistry, The University of Vermont
  • “Air Pollution and Global Warming” Dr. Nadine Unger, Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Science, The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, The University of Vermont
  • “Global Climate Change and Vermont”
    Dr. Alan K. Betts, President - Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering

 

Learning and Teaching about Climate Change
November 16th, 2006, Harvard Museum of Natural History and the Harvard University Center for the Environment In Collaboration with the New England Science Center Collaborative

  • Viewing of Climate Change:  Our Global Experiment exhibit and presentation of draft curriculum guide for Climate Change:  Our Global Experiment , developed by the HMNH and the HUCE
  • Daniel Schrag, Professor of  Earth and Planetary Science and  Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment
  • Paul Moorecroft, Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
  • Presentation and discussion of Climate Change unit from:  The Habitable Planet:  A Systems Approach to Environmental Science, developed for Annenberg Media as a  course for teachers by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in collaboration with the HUCE (appearing fall 2007)

 

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.