BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//18.83.4.138//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Oceans at MIT X-WR-CALDESC:Striving to understand\, harness and sustain Earth'\;s def ining frontier. X-FROM-URL:http://oceans.mit.edu X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20171105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20181104T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180311T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-819063@oceans.mit.edu DTSTAMP:20180503T103420Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Special Events CONTACT:Allison Provaire\; provaire@mit.edu DESCRIPTION:The John Carlson Lecture communicates exciting new results in c limate science to the general public. Free of charge and open to the gener al public\, the lecture is made possible by a generous gift from MIT alumn us John H. Carlson to the Lorenz Center in the Department of Earth\, Atmos pheric and Planetary Sciences\, MIT.\n\nSpeaker:\n\nRichard Alley\, Penn S tate\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent website:\n\nhttp://bit.ly/2aWlCd2\n\n\n\n\n\n\ni cal\n\n\n\n\n\nDate:\n\nThursday\, October 13\,\n7:00pm to 9:00pm\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\nSimons IMAX Theatre\, New England Aquarium\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n'Big Ice: Antarctica\, Greenland\, and Boston'\n\nAn ice s heet is a two-mile-thick\, continent-wide pile of old snow\, spreading und er its own weight and sculpting the land beneath.  The ice sheet that buri ed Boston 20\,000 years ago melted when slowly acting features of Earth’s orbit raised summer sunshine and atmospheric CO2\, warming the climate. Th e history of that Ice Age can still be read in Boston Harbor\, and in the layers of the surviving ice sheets on Antarctica and Greenland. But\, more warming may melt those ice records\, as break-off of huge icebergs and ou tburst floods speed sea-level rise.\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nDr. Richar d Alley is an Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences in Penn State's College o f Earth and Mineral Sciences. His research interests focus on glaciology\, sea level change and abrupt climate change\, and he frequently discusses earth sciences on major media outlets\, including NPR\, BBC and PBS. He is widely credited with showing that the earth has experienced abrupt climat e change in the past—and likely will again\, based on his meticulous study of ice cores from Greenland and West Antarctica.\n\nFor more information contact: Allison Provaire\, provaire@mit.edu\n\nMore about previous Carlso n Lectures here.\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/sixth-annual- john-h-carlson-lecture-new-england-aquarium. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T210000 LOCATION:Simons IMAX Theatre @ New England Aquarium SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Sixth Annual John H. Carlson Lecture at the New England Aquarium URL:http://oceans.mit.edu/event/sixth-annual-john-h-carlson-lecture-at-the- new-england-aquarium X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n
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The John Carl son Lecture communicates exciting new results in climate science to the ge neral public. Free of charge and open to the general public\, the lecture is made possible by a generous gift from MIT alumnus John H. Carlson to th e Lorenz Center in the Department of Earth\, Atmospheric and Planetary Sci ences\, MIT.
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\n\n'Big Ice: Antarctica\, Greenland\, and Boston'\n\nAn ice sheet i s a two-mile-thick\, continent-wide pile of old snow\, spreading under its own weight and sculpting the land beneath.  The ice sheet that buried Bos ton 20\,000 years ago melted when slowly acting features of Earth’s orbit raised summer sunshine and atmospheric CO2\, warming the climate. The hist ory of that Ice Age can still be read in Boston Harbor\, and in the layers of the surviving ice sheets on Antarctica and Greenland. But\, more warmi ng may melt those ice records\, as break-off of huge icebergs and outburst floods speed sea-level rise.\n\n\n\nAbout the Speak er\n\nDr. Richard Alley is an Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. His research intere sts focus on glaciology\, sea level change and abrupt climate change\, and he frequently discusses earth sciences on major media outlets\, including NPR\, BBC and PBS. He is widely credited with showing that the earth has experienced abrupt climate change in the past—and likely will again\, base d on his meticulous study of ice cores from Greenland and West Antarctica. \n\nFor more information contact: Allison Provaire\, provaire@mit.edu\n\nMore about previous Carlson L ectures here.\n\n
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Tickets: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/si xth-annual-john-h-carlson-lecture-new-england-aquarium.

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