Woods Hole Research Center Newsletter
February 2013

 

'Barefoot Ecologists' are community managers with basic training in data collection and analysis. They work with other community members to design and implement management regulations.

 

 
 

WHRC scientists recently traveled to Ecuador to conduct fieldwork - this time, not to collect data, but to teach indigenous peoples techniques in mapping and monitoring their forests.

 
Huntington Prize:

  

WHRC named Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland as the recipient of the Lawrence S. Huntington Environmental Prize. The prize recognizes leaders who advance research and communication on climate, earth sciences, and conservation.  

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In the Field: Pantropical Scholars Newsletter

 

WHRC held workshops for a number of pantropical scholars from 2009-2011. The scholars expanded their skills in forest measurement and monitoring techniques to advance knowledge-transfer in their home regions. Browse their newsletter.



 

WHRC supporters give because they are concerned about climate disruption, they care about the future of the planet, and they want to see human prosperity develop within the vision of a verdant Earth.

  

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Extreme Weather: Losing Cape Cod 



As climate change continues, weather patterns we have known all our lives are becoming vastly different. Superstorm Sandy is being viewed as a wake-up call and has placed climate change back on the nation's agenda.

 
President's Blog
Guest Blog: Chico Mendes Forest Citizenry Prize  
 
On December 15, 2012, Tião Viana, the governor of the State of Acre, Brazil, awarded the National/International Chico Mendes Forest Citizenry Prize to Dr. Irving Foster Brown, a Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center. The award ceremony was held at the Rio Branco (Acre, Brazil) Palace, on the birthday of the late Chico Mendes, the famed rubber tapper movement leader. We would like to share with you a guest blog ... Dr. Brown's acceptance speech.  
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