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Schoodic Institute will host its annual Goldstein Lecture on Tuesday, July 26. National Park Service Director Charles F. “Chuck” Sams III will be the featured guest.

Director Sams and early-career science fellows will discuss some of the most pressing climate challenges in national parks and the importance of Indigenous leadership and knowledge as well as conventional science to inform the response to ecological transformation.

The lecture will take place at Schoodic Institute at 9 Atterbury Circle in Winter Harbor. There will be a Zoom option as well. Register online at www.schoodicinstitute.org/event/science-for-the-present. Email Nick Fisichelli, president and CEO of Schoodic Institute, at nfisichelli@schoodicinstitute.org for more information.

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