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Spring 2018
Climate Reality: Real Facts & What You Can Do About It	Robert Bonney, Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s (CCL), North Shore Chapter	31 Jan 2018
Fall 2017
The Next Big Storm: Preparing Newburyport for Extreme Weather	Panel of Newburyport City Officials	7 Dec 2017
After the Storm: One Community’s Encounter with Hurricane Sandy	Chris Raia, Toms River Police Department Officer, Retired	9 Nov 2017
Spring 2017
Coastal Processes Along Plum Island	Matthew Shultz, PE, Senior Coastal Engineer, Woods Hole Group, Inc.	24 May 2017
Climate Café	Climate Café is a community conversation about local climate issues, facilitated by our future leaders – students from our area high schools	13 May 2017
Ocean Acidification	Professor George Buckley, Assistant Director of Sustainability Programs, Harvard University Extension School	26 Apr 2017
Coastal Adaptation: We Have No Plan	Rob Young, PhD, Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, Western Carolina University	29 Mar 2017
Fall 2016
Coastal Ecosystems: Our Best Shoreline Protection	Michael R. Johnson, U.S. Department of Commerce NOAA Fisheries Habitat Conservation Division, Gloucester, MA	7 Dec 2016
Fun Science: Drones & Robotic Boats to Study Coastlines	Peter A. Traykovski, Associate Scientist, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	2 Nov 2016
Spring 2016
How the 1800s Jetties Affected the Merrimack River Inlet	Irene Watts, Coastal Engineer and Oceanographer, Florida Institute of Technology	8 Jun 2016
Water on the Waterfront: How Portsmouth and Gloucester Face the Future	Rick Taintor, Planning Director, Portsmouth, NH and Rick Cademartori, Planning Director, Gloucester, MA	25 Apr 2016
Plum Island Point Erosion Explained	Mike Morris, Chairman, Storm Surge	2 Feb 2016
Fall 2015
Plum Island: A Night at the Movies	Viewing	2 Dec 2015
Massachusetts Hurricane Risk in a Changing Climate	Kerry A. Emanuel, PhD, Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT	4 Nov 2015
Plum Island: Lessons from Nature	Dennis Hubbard, PhD, Professor of Geology, Geology Department Chair, Oberlin College	21 Oct 2015
Spring 2015
Coastal Resilience of the North Shore	2015 Environmental Science Class, Essex Technical High School	29 Apr 2015
Poetry of New England Weather Data with Sculpture & Music	Nathalie Miebach, Artist	4 Mar 2015
Storm Surge Art Exhibition	Various Artists	6-28 Mar 2015
Fall 2014
Encroaching Tides: How Sea Level Rise & Flooding Threaten East Coast Communities Over the Next 30 Years	Erika Spanger-Siegfried, Senior Analyst Climate and Energy, Union of Concerned Scientists	19 Nov 2014
The Next Storm: Understand the Risks and Be Prepared	Mike Morris, Chairman, Storm Surge	29 Oct 2014
Reducing Risk through Enhancing Great Marsh Resiliency	Peter Phippen, Coastal Resources Coordinator, Merrimack Valley Planning Commission & MassBays Estuary Program	1 Oct 2014
Spring 2014
The Pros & Cons of Coastal Erosion Control	Jim O’Connell, Coastal Geologist / Coastal Processes Specialist / Certified Floodplain Manager	18 Jun 2014
Using Oysters to Protect Towns and Cities From Sea Level Rise	Anamarija Frankić, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Boston	4 Jun 2014
Preparing for Sea Level Rise	Kirk Bosma, Coastal Engineer, Woods Hole Group	21 May 2014
Shored Up: When Human Nature and the Force of Nature Collide	Documentary film by Ben Kalina	7 May 2014
Investing Now to Prepare for Climate Impacts	Wendi Goldsmith, Bioengineering Group, Salem, MA	16 Apr 2014
Rolling the Dice With Big Storms	Mike Morris, Chairman, Storm Surge & Bob Thompson, Meteorologist in Charge, National Weather Service, Taunton, MA	3 Feb 2014
Fall 2013
How Do We Assess Coastal Vulnerability & Plan to Adapt?	Paul Kirshen, PhD, University of New Hampshire	16 Dec 2013
Ocean Frontiers II: A New England Story for Sustaining the Sea	Film and Discussion with Catherine Bowes, Program Manager, NE Offshore Wind Program, NWF; Chris Boelke, Field Office Supervisor, NOAA Fisheries Gloucester; and Mike Morris, Chairman, Storm Surge	2 Dec 2013
Changing Our Conversations about Our Changing World	John Anderson, Director of Education at New England Aquarium	18 Nov 2013
Changing Climate, Changing Coasts	Rob Thieler, PhD, Director – U.S. Geological Survey’s Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center	4 Nov 2013
Climate Change in New England: Past, Present and Future	Cameron Wake, PhD, Research Professor Climatology and Glaciology, University of New Hampshire	21 Oct 2013
Sea Level Rise: The Plum Island Story	William Sargent, Author, Storm Surge Committee Member, Coastlines Project Director	9 Oct 2013