<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000099"><div><b>From: </b>"Allison White" <abwhite@whrc.org><br></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman',serif;">The Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) will hold the third and final lecture of its Environmental Tipping Points series on Thursday, October 24, at 5:30 pm, when WHRC Senior Scientist Michael T. Coe will present </span><i style="font-family:'times new roman',serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman',serif;">Food for Thought: Balancing Agriculture, Forests, and Climate</i><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman',serif;">. Dr. Coe will discuss deforestation in the Amazon and how it can lead to radical climate shifts that will affect forests, crops, and hydropower.</span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" face="times new roman, serif">Dr. Coe is an earth system scientist who specializes in understanding how human land cover change and land management decisions affect the energy and water cycles, and ultimately feedback to regional climate. He is currently participating in projects based in the Brazilian Amazon and savanna environments. He leads field research programs to collect data on how expanding agriculture changes evaporation, soil moisture, river discharge, and biochemical cycles. He and his colleagues combine field data with satellite observations and earth system computer models to better understand the scale of historical and potential future human impacts on tropical climate and ecosystems and help develop mitigation strategies. </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt" data-mce-style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" face="times new roman, serif">Dr. Coe was co-author of a study released last May that suggests large-scale deforestation in the Amazon could backfire for the country's cattle ranchers and soybean growers, reducing precipitation and increasing temperatures to the point that production falls way behind normal for the amount of land cleared. “The whole point of the deforesting is so that you can get agricultural production out of it,” remarked Dr. Coe. “It surprised us that it reduced yields so much that in fact you might as well not have done the deforestation in the first place.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" face="times new roman, serif">In 2014, Dr. Coe will be in residence as a Fulbright Scholar at the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil, continuing his work with colleagues there to understand how massive deforestation in the savanna regions of Brazil may affect the climate in the coming decades.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" face="times new roman, serif">Prior to working at WHRC, Dr. Coe was a scientist at the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has been a visiting scientist at Lund University, Sweden, and the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" face="times new roman, serif">The lecture will take place at 5:30 pm in WHRC’s Harbourton Auditorium, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, MA. There is no charge and the public is invited to attend. Parking and seating are limited, however, and reservations are highly recommended. To reserve, email <a href="mailto:events@whrc.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:events@whrc.org">events@whrc.org</a> or call <a href="tel:508-444-1517" target="_blank" data-mce-href="tel:508-444-1517">508-444-1517</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" data-mce-style="font-family: Times New Roman;" face="Times New Roman">---</span></p><p><span style="font-size:x-small" data-mce-style="font-size: x-small;">Contact:</span><br></p><span style="font-size: xx-small;" data-mce-style="font-size: xx-small;" size="1">Beth Bagley<br><a href="mailto:ebagley@whrc.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:ebagley@whrc.org">ebagley@whrc.org</a><br><a href="tel:508-444-1517" target="_blank" data-mce-href="tel:508-444-1517">508-444-1517</a></span><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" data-mce-style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" data-mce-style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: xx-small;" data-mce-style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: xx-small;" color="#38761d" face="georgia, serif" size="1"><br></span></span></span><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>