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Climate change, land use and water resources are among the great environmental issues we are facing, and they will only become more pressing. These are the challenges that will define the next decade, the next generation, and the next century. What we choose to do today will be our legacy.
Please join in supporting our efforts by making a gift to the Woods Hole Research Center. Your support is a crucial partnership in helping our researchers meet our mission of science, education, and policy for a healthy planet.
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Science in the Spotlight
National Biomass and Carbon Dataset. Featured Scientist Dr. Josef Kellndorfer.
Video produced by Research Associate Kathleen Savage.
In April 2011, the Woods Hole Research Center released the first hectare-scale maps of canopy height, aboveground biomass, and associated carbon stock for the forests and woodlands of the conterminous United States. The multi-year project, referred to as the National Biomass and Carbon Dataset (NBCD), produced maps of these key forest attributes at an unprecedented spatial resolution of 30 m. The dataset represents a comprehensive assessment of forest structure and carbon stock within the lower 48 States at the beginning of the third millennium, providing an important baseline with which to improve our understanding of the United States forest resources and its link to the terrestrial carbon flux in North America. The NBCD data set also fills a crucial gap in biodiversity science and will provide ecologists and land managers with new and better information to support biodiversity conservation, wildfire risk assessment, and timber production while helping climate scientists and others to better understand the role that U.S. forests play in the global carbon cycle.
Click here to help support the work of the Woods Hole Research Center by making an online donation.
In our 2011 Annual Report we included a calendar for the coming year, with each month highlighting WHRC scientists and their research. Click here to find the excerpts from this calendar, including project information, field notes, images and more videos from our scientists.
Ways To Give
Unrestricted gifts are among the most valuable to the Center, as they provide greater flexibility and help us be responsive to emerging needs and complex challenges. Your unrestricted contribution may be used to support costs associated with research, equipment, facilities, and educational/outreach programs.
Directed gifts allow you to designate your gift to a specific project or a priority area at the Center. When you make a directed gift, you enjoy the satisfaction of knowing you are supporting a program that is personally meaningful to you. To learn more about specific programs or projects please contact the Development Office 508-444-1521.
Give an Honorary or Memorial Gift - Recognize milestones in the lives of family and friends or celebrate the memory of a loved one by making a gift to the Woods Hole Research Center in honor or in memory.
Matching Gifts - Gifts to the Center can often be doubled or tripled in size via a donor’s employer matching gift program.
Planned Giving - The George Perkins Marsh Society recognizes those donors who have remembered the Woods Hole Research Center with a planned gift.
Gifts of Securities or Real Estate - By making a donation of securities or real estate, donors often realize significant tax advantages.
Naming Opportunities - Create a lasting legacy of your commitment to the mission and vision of the Center. Through a named gift you have the opportunity to significantly impact the future of the Center. To learn more please contact the Development Office 508-444-1521.
Corporate Giving - The Woods Hole Research Center welcomes the opportunity to explore strategic partnerships with corporations to create mutually beneficial relationships between industry and the Center.
For these and other Leadership Gift opportunities, please contact:
Woods Hole Research Center
Office of Development
149 Woods Hole Road
Falmouth, MA 02540
508-444-1521
