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20171105T020000 -0400 -0500 20181104T020000 EST 20180311T020000 -0500 -0400 EDT ai1ec-819063@oceans.mit.edu 20180503T103542Z Special Events Allison Provaire; provaire@mit.edu The John Carlson Lecture communicates exciting new results in climate science to the general 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 the Lorenz Center in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT. Speaker: Richard Alley, Penn State Event website: http://bit.ly/2aWlCd2 ical Date: Thursday, October 13, 7:00pm to 9:00pm Location: Simons IMAX Theatre, New England Aquarium "Big Ice: Antarctica, Greenland, and Boston" An ice sheet is 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 Boston 20,000 years ago melted when slowly acting features of Earth’s orbit raised summer sunshine and atmospheric CO2, warming the climate. The 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 outburst floods speed sea-level rise. About the Speaker Dr. Richard Alley is an Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences in Penn State's College of 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 climate change in the past—and likely will again, based on his meticulous study of ice cores from Greenland and West Antarctica. For more information contact: Allison Provaire, provaire@mit.edu More about previous Carlson Lectures here. Tickets: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/sixth-annual-john-h-carlson-lecture-new-england-aquarium. 20161013T190000 20161013T210000 Simons IMAX Theatre @ New England Aquarium 0

Sixth Annual John H. Carlson Lecture at the New England Aquarium

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