FALMOUTH – William Fitzhugh, Director of the Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian Institution and Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College will explore “Climate Impacts in the Circumpolar Region: An Archaeological Perspective on the Present” at the next MBL Falmouth Forum on February 24 at 7:30 PM in the Marine Biological Laboratory’s Lillie Auditorium.
The event, the final presentation of the 2016-17 season, is sponsored by the MBL Associates and is free and open to the public.
The history of northern regions gives pause to those thinking we live in a complacent world.
For decades we became used to a world in which episodic disturbances like hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and floods were the only environmental events of note.
Long-term change seemed to be a story for the history books, not our lives.
Today that complacency has been shaken in a way we could not have imagined just two decades ago.
Changes in the Arctic have led the charge, and its role as the harbinger of global climate change is now widely acknowledged.
In this Falmouth Forum lecture, Fitzhugh will show how archaeology could have predicted the events we now find changing our world.
A review of some of the cultural and environmental shifts in the North may provide clues about where we are headed in the future, and what can be done about it.
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