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Falmouth Forum Series 2009-2010
"Our Water Our World"
November 6, 2009 - Lillie Auditorium, 7:30 PM
Lectures are free and open to the public.
Deborah Cramer, Visiting Scholar, Earth System Initiative, MIT
Press Release
Lecture Abstract
Deborah Cramer's talk, "Our Water Our World" invites people to reconceive their ideas about the ocean, to consider that in ways we have never imagined and science is just beginning to describe, all life, including ours, depends on the sea.
The challenges translating complex and nuanced science for the general public are many. Deborah Cramer's latest book, Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water Our World shines new light on the meaning of the sea in our lives, exploring the essential partnership between life and the sea, and how, now, the health of the sea really matters. This book is the companion book to the new, permanent Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the most heavily visited museum in the U.S., with 5.8 million visitors each year. Pulitzer prize winner E.O. Wilson said of Smithsonian Ocean, "Authoritatively researched, clearly written, and beautifully illustrated, this book is best of its class."
Deborah Cramer is currently Visiting Scholar at MIT's Earth System Initiative. She was the Dibner Science Writing Fellow at MIT for 2005-2006. She is also on the Advisory Council of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Deborah lives at the edge of a salt marsh in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the nation's oldest fishing port.
Admission to this Falmouth Forum presentation is free and open to the public. A buffet dinner is available before the lecture at 6:00 p.m. in the Swope Center located near the auditorium. Dinner tickets are $25 and must be purchased in advance at either Eight Cousins Children’s Books, Main Street, Falmouth, or at the MBL’s Communications Office in the Candle House in Woods Hole. Dinner seats are limited and tickets are only available until they sell out or until 5:00 on the Tuesday before the lecture. For more information, contact the MBL Communications Office at: (508) 289-7423 or
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