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<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Earth Week – Lectures Tomorrow!</span></font><br>
<br>
</u>Wednesday, April 26 <br>
</b>12:00 -1:00 pm<br>
Wong Auditorium (E51)<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>"The Charles River: Cambridge's front
yard: The transformation from industrial mudflats to recreational
parklands."<br>
</span></b>Speaker: Renata von Tscharner, President, Charles River Conservancy
(<a href="http://www.thecharles.org/" title="http://www.thecharles.org/">http://www.thecharles.org</a>)
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Once a polluted wastewater, the Charles River is swimmable again, and hundreds
of acres of parklands provide Cambridge residents a place of beauty, for
celebration and active recreation. As part of the Big Dig mitigation, new
parklands such as the 40-acre North Point Park, are being created — and
at the center will be a world-class skatepark. Renata will take you on a
virtual tour of this little-known last half-mile of the Charles.<br>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Wednesday, April 26<br>
</span></b>7:30 - 8:30 pm <br>
Guililand Auditorium (66-110) <br>
"<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>SEA CHANGE: Reversing The Tide"<br>
</span></b>Speakers: Dr. Roger Payne and Ms. Lisa Harrow, Ocean Alliance (<a
href="http://www.oceanalliance.org/" title="http://www.oceanalliance.org/">http://www.oceanalliance.org/</a>)<br>
Dr. Roger Payne is best known for his discovery (made with Scott McVay) that
humpback whales sing songs, and for his theory that the sounds of fin and blue
whales can be heard across oceans. The songs of the humpbacks are featured in
this presentation. In 1980 Dr. Payne founded Ocean Alliance. Its vessel Odyssey
has just finished a five-year, around-the-world "Voyage of the
Odyssey" to assess the extent and level of contaminants (eg. heavy metals
and synthetic organic chemicals) in the Earth's oceans by skin sample analysis
of whales (see the featured article "<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>A
Toxic Odyssey</span></b>" in <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>Science, </span></i></b><a
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/304/5677/1584"
title="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/304/5677/1584">http</a><a
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/304/5677/1584"
title="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/304/5677/1584">://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/304/5677/1584</a>
)<br>
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Lecture Series cosponsored by <a
href="http://www.bamco.com/website/responsibility.html"
title="http://www.bamco.com/website/responsibility.html">Bon Appetit</a>.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Beth Conlin</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Education Program
Coordinator</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Laboratory for
Energy and the Environment</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Massachusetts
Institute of Technology</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>E40-481, 1 Amherst St.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Cambridge, MA 02139</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>617-452-3199</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>bconlin@mit.edu</span></font></p>
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