Dear HUCE Faculty and Friends,
Please refer to the Center website for complete details on these and
other environmental events taking place at and near Harvard. If you
would like to add an event to the calendar, or unsubscribe from this
list, please contact Jenny MacGregor, jenny_macgregor(a)harvard.edu
<mailto:jenny_macgregor@harvard.edu>, 617-495-8883.
*Highlights:*
*11/9/06 -- Climate Seminar - The Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Model (OLAM): A
new generation of Earth System Model
*11/16/06 -- The Future of Energy Lecture Series begins with *Mark
Little*, Director of Global Research at GE.
Other Future of Energy Speakers include:
12/14/06 - *John P. Holdren*, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of
Environmental Policy, Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of
Environmental Science and Policy, Department of Earth and Planetary
Sciences, Harvard University and Director, the Woods Hole Research
Center and Co-Chair, National Commission on Energy Policy, and
President, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1/31/06 - *Abdallah S. Jum'ah*, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Saudi Aramco
2/5/06 - *Dan E. Arvizu*, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
3/22/06 - *Andrew Gould*, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Schlumberger Limited
4/21/06 - *Vaclav Smil*, Distinguished Professor, University of Manitoba
Author of Energy: A Beginner's Guide and Transforming the Twentieth
Century: Technical Innovation and Their Consequences
*Calendar Listings:*
*Friday 11/3/2006 *
8:30a - 9:30p
Bacterial natural product assembly lines- Microbial Sciences Initiative
(MSI) Friday
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5918…>
Christopher T. Walsh, Harvard University (HMS, Biological Chemistry and
Molecular Pharmacology) Research Focus: Enzymology
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
1:00p
The Environment or the Enemy Within? Cellular Mechanisms to Offset
Genotoxic Threats
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6071…>
Ninth Annual JBL Symposium
Harvard School of Public Health/677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Kresge - G1
7:30p Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth"
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6092…>
Science Center Lecture Hall D, Harvard
*Saturday 11/4/2006 *
1:00p
The Environment or the Enemy Within? Cellular Mechanisms to Offset
Genotoxic Threats
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6071…>
Ninth Annual JBL Symposium
Harvard School of Public Health/677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Kresge - G1
7:30p
Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth"
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6092…>
Science Center Lecture Hall D, Harvard
*Monday 11/6/2006*
4:00p - 5:00p
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6071…>
Dan Harlov, Experimental Geochemistry and Mineral Physics,
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford
*Tuesday 11/7/2006 *
9:00a - 10:30p
Poverty Alleviation and the Environment in China
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5948…>
Zhang Shiqiu, Professor of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China
Energy Technology Innovation Project (ETIP) Seminar
Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, KSG
12:30p - 2:00p
Public Bads and Civic Deficits: Siting Controversial Facilities in
Advanced Industrial Democracies
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6098…>
Daniel P. Aldrich Assistant Professor of Political Science, Tulane
University, and Advanced Research Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Bowie-Vernon Room (N262), CGIS Knafel Building, Cambridge, MA
4:00p - 5:00p
Controlling Mercury Emissions at China's Coal-Fired Electricity Plants:
An Economic Analysis
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6068…>
ZHANG Shiqiu, Professor, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking
University
Harvard China Project Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge
*Wednesday 11/8/2006*
8:00a - 9:15a
Genome Sequence Variation and the Inherited Basis of Disease
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6052…>
David Altshuler, MD, Ph.D, Director Program in Medical Population
Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT Center for the Environment
GENETICS & ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERIES
Kresge Room 110, HSPH, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
4:00p - 5:30p
Evaluating Policy Impacts on Tropical Deforestation
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5898…>
Alexander Pfaff and Juan Andres Robalino, Columbia University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard
4:30p - 5:30p
Genesis: the Scientific Quest for Life's Origins
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6031…>
Robert Hazen, Carnegie
Part of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative Inaugural Symposium
Gutman Conference Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education
4:45p - 6:00p
Global Warming Goes to the Supreme Court
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6098…>
Harvard Law School TBD
*Thursday 11/9/2006 *
3:30p - 4:30p
The Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Model (OLAM): A new generation of Earth System
Model <http://www.deas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climateseminar.html>
Robert Walko and Roni Avissar, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Duke University
Harvard Climate Seminar Series
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
3:30p - 4:30p
Disease process models: A way to link exposure and outcomes in
epidemiology
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5836…>
Tom Smith, Professor of industrial hygiene, Environmental Science and
Engineering Program
Colloquium in Environmental Health
Kresge G-2, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
4:00p - 5:00p
Right and Left: Mineral Surfaces and the Origins of Biological
Homochirality
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6098…>
Dr. Robert Hazen, Carnegie Institute
Special Origins Seminar
Pierce Hall 307, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
4:00p - 5:00p
Phytochrome evolution in land plants: red light sensing meets the
challenges of changing light environments
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6098…>
Sarah Mathews, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University
Oganismic and Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series
Main Lecture Hall, BioLabs Building Host: Kramer Lab
4:15p - 6:00p
Empire and Environment: New Work at the Crossroads of French Imperial
and Environmental History
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6098…>
Caroline Ford, UCLA; Eric Jennings, Professor of History, University of
Toronto
Center for European Studies Seminar
Cabot Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot
Way, Cambridge
*Friday 11/10/2006*
7:30p
Screening of "Design E2" PBS series: green design/the economics of
climate change
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6055…>
Sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee
Boylston Hall Room 110, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Campus
*Saturday 11/11/2006 *
7:30p
Screening of "Design E2" PBS series: green design/the economics of
climate change
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6055…>
Sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee
Boylston Hall Room 110, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Campus
*Monday 11/13/2006 *
4:00p - 5:00p
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6071…>
Simone Kaseman, Grant Institute of Earth Science, Ion Microprobe Unit,
The University of Edinburgh
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
*Tuesday 11/14/2006*
8:00p
Climate Change Debate between the Harvard Dems and the Harvard GOP
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6055…>
TBA Sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee
*Wednesday 11/15/2006*
11:30a - 12:30p
Time to Abandon Darwin? Lessons from the Dover "Intelligent Design"
Trial
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6098…>
Kenneth Miller, Brown University
PEGG Seminar Series
Sherman Fairchild, Room 102
4:00p - 5:30p
Non-Linear Effects of Weather on Crop Yields: Implications for Climate
Change
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5898…>
Wolfram Schlenker and Michael Roberts, Columbia University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University
4:00p - 5:00p
The First Billion Years on Earth: When Did It Become Hospitable to Life?
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6098…>
Professor John Valley, University of Wisconsin
Origins Forum
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
4:00p - 5:00p
Your Visual Representations of Science: Are They Lost in Translation?
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6098…>
Felice Frankel, Senior Research Fellow Initiative in Innovative
Computing, Harvard University
Initiative in Innovative Computing Seminar
60 Oxford Street, Room 330
6:00p - 7:30p
Writing the Life of Jane Goodall
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6098…>
Lecture and book signing by Dale Peterson
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
*Thursday 11/16/2006*
5:00p - 6:00p
The Future of Energy Lecture Series - Green is Green
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6031…>
Mark Little, PhD, Senior Vice President and Director of GE Global Research
Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
6:00p - 8:00p
Justice & Policy on Indian Lands: Reforming the US Government's
Management of Trust Assets
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6098…>
Austin Hall North, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
7:30p
Religion and Climate Change
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6055…>
Sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee and the Interfaith Council
Boylston Hall Room 110, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Campus
