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WBUR Film Screening - Chasing Coral: A story hidden below the waves
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Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard Street Brookline, MA 02446Description
Join WBUR on August 14 at 7:00 p.m. for a screening and discussion of the critically acclaimed, award-winning documentary, Chasing Coral: A Story Hidden Below the Waves. With us to expand on the ideas presented in the film will be Robert Max Holmes, Deputy Director and Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center. Dr. Holmes is an earth system scientist who studies how climate change and other disturbances are impacting the cycles of water and chemicals in the environment.
This screening is part of WBUR’s series on the environment. Previous events include a discussion between Gina McCarthy, former head of the EPA, and Naomi Oreskes, author of Merchants of Doubt; an evening with Dr. Ernest Moniz, former Secretary of Energy, and Dr. David Cash, Dean of the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at UMass Boston; and the film How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can’t Change with filmmaker Josh Fox present to discuss the film.
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