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Polaris Project July 2009 - International Team of Students and Scientists Departing for Month-Long Field Course in Siberian Arctic.   George M WoodwellJune 2009 - Leading scientists and scholars send open letter to Obama Administration urging action on climate issues.
   
WHRC CampusJune 2009 - Policy Brief Addresses Potential Incentive Payments for REDD Implementation.   WHRC CampusMay 2009 - Woods Hole Research Center Receives Building Permit to install a Wind Turbine on Campus.
   

Latest News

June, 2009 - Forum on Readiness for REDD Focuses on Building Cross-Stakeholder Dialogue.

May, 2009 - Center Founder George M. Woodwell speaks to the Ecologist’s View of the World.

May, 2009 - Woods Hole Research Institutions Announce Upcoming "Science Around the World” Diversity Events.

April, 2009 - Three leading scientific organizations based in Woods Hole, Mass., announce the creation of the Woods Hole Consortium.

April, 2009 - Woods Hole Research Center announces formal process for Director search.

March, 2009 - The Center's Spring Newsletter is now available online.

March, 2009 - Woods Hole Research Center Scientists near completion of the National Biomass and Carbon Data Set 2000 (NBCD2000).

March, 2009 - The United States Senate confirms former Woods Hole Research Center Director John P. Holdren to serve as director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President. Holdren also serves as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology.

February, 2009 - Center Economist Andrea Cattaneo proposes stock-flow mechanism to promote REDD.

December, 2008 - Woods Hole Research Center Furthers Work on Issues Surrounding REDD at COP-14

December, 2008 - 2008 Woods Hole Research Center's Annual Report Released.

November, 2008 -Woods Hole Research Center's Africa team conducted a Workshop in the Budongo Forest Reserve in Western Uganda to discuss how to combine remote sensing information with forest inventories to map the carbon stored in tropical forests.

UNEP Report: Reactive Nitrogen in the Environment - Too Much or Too Little of a Good Thing. Prepared jointly by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Woods Hole Research Center, with significant contributions from the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI), this non-technical report on reactive nitrogen in the environment summarizes the present scientific understanding of the major issues surrounding reactive nitrogen, and discusses the overarching environmental, human health, and economic issues created by both excesses and deficiencies.

Woods Hole Research Center Contributes Both Scientific and Policy Insights on REDD at COP 13.