Logistics

Following is logistical information to start your planning for the Climate Change of the Past... and Future Workshop here at WHOI from January 29 to 31, 2007. The meeting will be held in room 507 in the Clark Building on the Quissett Campus of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution starting at 9:00 am on Monday, January 29 and ending at 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 31. A Morss Colloquium titled “Fire and Ice: Climate Change of the Past... and Future?” will follow the Tuesday, January 30th workshop session and will be held in the Redfield Auditorium, WoodsHoleVillage, starting at 4:30 pm.

If you’d like to bring a poster please do so.Most of the poster boards available for the meeting allow a 3´W x 4´H poster. There is also limited space for larger posters on the walls.

Lodging

Suggested Accommodations for the Workshop

January 29, 30, and 31, 2007
Quissett Campus, WHOI

Important: to avail of the WHOI room rates you must say that you are participating in a WHOI workshop when reserving your room(s).

ShoreWay Acres Resort Inn
Historic Shore Street
P.O. Box 907
Falmouth, Cape Cod, MA 02541

Call Toll Free in US & Canada: (800) 352-7100
Telephone: (508) 540-3000     Fax: (508) 540-9337
http://www.shorewayacresinn.com/ViewPage.asp?PageID=3

WHOI Rate is $59/night + tax
Includes breakfast

Inn on the Square
40 North Main Street
Falmouth, MA 02540
phone: 508.457.0606
toll free: 800.676.0000
http://www.innonthesquare.com/

WHOI rate is $66 + tax
Nightly guest room does include a continental breakfast.

This Inn is most convenient for those arriving by the Bonanza bus (Peter Pan Bus Lines) from LoganAirport, Boston.

To review the bus schedule please go to http://www.peterpanbus.com/tickets/fares.php

The Coonamesset Inn
311 Gifford Street
Falmouth, MA 02540
phone: 508.548.2300

http://www.capecodrestaurants.org/coonamessett/index.shtml

WHOI Rate is $59/night + tax
Includes continental breakfast

Transportation

A transport shuttle will be arranged to pick guests up each morning and take them to workshop venue and return them to the above inns in the evenings. We will also work on carpools to get everyone to and from the workshop.

Both Boston's Logan Airport and Providence's TF Green Airport are about equal distance from WHOI. Logan Airport is more convenient with direct bus service to Falmouth and Woods Hole. The bus from Logan airport http://bonanzabus.com/schedules.shtml has a stop very close to the Inn on the Square (Put in Logan Airport and Falmouth on their web site to get the correct bus schedule). The Coonamessett Inn and ShoreWay Acres would require a cab from the bus station.

Driving directions to Falmouth from Logan Airport, Boston and TF Green Airport, Providence, Rhode Island.

Boston Logan Airport directions link
Providence T.F. Greene Airport Link