Keene Is Reading Cod

From Brinda Charry, Keene Is Reading Committee:

A presentation on the Keene Is Reading (KIR) title for this year, Cod by Mark Kurlansky, and on some of the issues the book raises will be held on Thursday, October 8, from 4 to 5 p.m., in the Mountain View Room, Student Center. Dr. Charles Mayo and Mr. Jim Manning will share their work on New England’s coastal ocean with “Two Perspectives on New England’s Coastal Ocean: A marine mammal researcher, and a physical oceanographer.”

Charles “Stormy” Mayo is senior scientist and director at the Right Whale Habitat Studies and a senior advisor for the Whale Disentanglement Program at the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, Mass. Jim Manning is an oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, Mass.

The KIR Committee has other events lined up for the fall and expects to bring Mark Kurlansky to campus in March. Emails and posters with information forthcoming.