Dear Friends of HUCE,
Please be sure to check the HUCE calendar on our website, www.environment.harvard.edu, for the most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions. If you would like to submit an event to the calendar, contact Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment: lisa_matthews@harvard.edu. Feel free to distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues, and anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the community.
Highlights:
TODAY: David Wilcove, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, discusses "The Impact of Agriculture on Biodiversity: Lessons and Lies from Kenya and Borneo" at the first Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change lecture series of the Fall.
October 29: Garth Heutel, Harvard University Center for the Environment Fellow, presents "Optimal Environmental Policy Under Economic Fluctuations", a very timely topic in the next Seminar in Environmental Economies and Policy.
November 3: On the eve of the election, Carol Dumaine, the Deputy Director for Energy and Environmental Security in the U.S. Department of Energy, joins professors Graham Allison (HKS) and Daniel Schrag (EPS) in the third Harvard University Center for the Environment 'Green Conversations' event of this fall semester.
Calendar Listings:
Thursday 10/23/2008
3:30p China Project Seminar
(Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Primary Air Pollutant Emissions of Coal-Fired Power Plants in China: Current Status and Future Prediction." Dr. ZHAO Yu, postdoctoral researcher, Harvard China Project
Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2@fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-2378, chinaproject.harvard.edu
4:00p OEB Seminar Series
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"Molecular switches for root/shoot fate during plant embryogenesis." Adam Summers, University of California, Irvine.
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu, www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin...
5:15p Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change
(Science Center Lecture Hall A, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"The Impact of Agriculture on Biodiversity: Lessons and Lies from Kenya and Borneo." David Wilcove, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University.
Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews@harvard.edu, 617-495-8883
5:30p Tufts Energy and Climate Forum
(Mugar 200, Fletcher School, Tufts University, Medford, MA)
"Community-Based Sustainable Development in Africa: How to Practically Promote Synergies in Climate Mitigation, Poverty Reduction, Health Improvement and Resilience."
Contact: environment.tufts.edu/?pid=16
6:00p - 7:00p Town Hall Meeting- what's next for Harvard?
(Sever Hall, Room 113, Harvar Yard, Cambridge, MA)
Directors from Harvard Operations and the Office of Sustainability will be on hand to hear your ideas for a greener Harvard. Come share your vision!
Contact: Spring Greeney , sgreeney@fas.harvard.edu
7:30p - 9:00p Environmental Justice Panel
(Kirkland House Junior Common Room, JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) presents Environmental Justice Panel: The environmental burden in Boston's disadvantaged communities.
Contact: www.green.harvard.edu/
Friday 10/24/2008
8:30a - 9:30a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"What yeast talk about when they talk about love." Andrew Murray, Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Contact: Christy Herren, herren@fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495 8643, www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html
12:30p - 1:30p Energy & the 2008 Election
(Tosteson Medical Education Center(TMEC), Room #309 , Harvard Medical School, Boston)
SEAM Lunch Lecture Series with Professor Henry Lee, Director of Environment & Natural Resources Program at Harvard Kennedy School. Burrito lunch provided.
Contact: Claire Berezowitz, Claire_Berezowitz@harvard.edu
2:30p - 4:30p MIT Seminar on Environmetnal and Agricultural History
(Building E51, Room 095, MIT, Cambridge, MA)
"The Triumph of Wheat: Defining Agriculture in the Development Decade." Nick Cullather, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University.
Contact: Margo Collett, mcollett@mit.edu
6:00p - 7:00p Environmental Justice: Why does it matter for the communities in which we live, work, and serve?
(Parlor Room, Phillips Brooks House, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA)
Come hear a short presentation on this engaging question, and then continue the discussion in a small group with pizza! Presented by the Phillips Brooks House Association.
Contact: www.green.harvard.edu/
Saturday 10/25/2008
9:00a - 3:00p Energy Savings Fair for Homes and Businesses
(Lexington High School, 251 Waltham St., Lexington, MA)
More than 40 exhibitors will offer products and services that reduce home and business energy use.
Contact: 781.862.2872, www.lexgwac.org
1:00p - 3:00p Phillips Brooks House Association & Public Interest Careers
(Emerson Hall 105, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA and Arminise Amphitheater, Longwood Medical Campus, Boston, MA)
PBHA alumni will speak about their careers and related social issues, followed by discussions between students and alumni in smaller public interest field groups.
Contact: Jennifer McKee, jmckee@fas.harvard.eud
3:00p - 5:00p PBHA Bike Auction and Parts Sale
(Phillips Brooks House, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA)
Help the environment and support public service at Harvard by buying a bike!
5:00p - 6:00p Environmental Justice: Issues and Strategies
(Taubman 5th Floor, Allison Dining Room, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
A special lecture by James S. Hoyte, Assistant to the President of Harvard University and Lecturer on Environmental Science and Public Policy.
Monday 10/27/2008
12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion.
Contact: Kurt House, khouse@fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
4:00p EPS Fall Colloquium
(Haller Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"The respective roles of flux- and decompression melting and their relevant liquid lines of decent for Continental Crust formation: evidences from the Kohistan arc." Oliver Jagoutz, MIT.
Contact: Ganna Savostyanova, annasavostyanova@gmail.com
4:15p Radcliffe Institute Dean - Lecture Series and Lecture in the Science
(Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden St., Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA)
"Can't You See I'm Busy? Computers That Know When to Interrupt." Barbara J. Grosz, Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences.
Contact: 617-495-8600, www.radcliffe.edu
5:00p The Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future Distinguished Lectures
(9th Floor Metcalf Trustee Ballroom at One Sherborn Street, Boston University, Boston, MA)
"Cooperation and Collective Behavior: From Bacteria to the Global Commons."
Professor Simon Levin, the Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University
Contact: pardee@bu.edu, www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept...
5:00p - 7:00p Gutman Library Art Exhibit
(6 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA)
Helen Chellin, an artist from Hawaii, will display her paintings of volcanoes and highlight the problem of plastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean. Reception on 10/27.
Contact: Janice Still, stillja@gse.harvard.edu
Tuesday 10/28/2008
9:30a - 11:00a Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series
(Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK St., JFK School of Government, Cambridge, MA)
"Research on Carbon Storage as a Climate-Change Reduction Strategy." Jose Condor Tarco, ETIP Research Fellow
Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton@harvard.edu, belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/project/...
12:00p - 5:15p Herbaria Seminar Series
(Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA)
"Exploring the plant-herbivore interface for insights into co-evolution." Noah Whiteman (Pierce Lab/OEB)
Contact: www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
(Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion.
Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis@fas.harvard.edu, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
4:00p Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar
(Haller Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"The Power of Plankton." Christian Hamm, Alfred Wegener Institut
Contact: ehap.seminar@gmail.com
Wednesday 10/29/2008
4:15p - 5:15p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
(Littaur-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
"Optimal Environmental Policy Under Economic Fluctuations." Garth Heutel, Harvard University Center for the Environment Fellow.
Contact: Jason Chapman, Jason_Chapman@ksg.harvard.edu, 617-496-8054, www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/heep/event...
6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Future(s) of Conservation" Lecture by Dr. Steven Sanderson The case for wildlife conservation is losing ground to economic growth and a variety of other social concerns.
Contact: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu
7:00p - 9:00p Science in the News Seminar Series
(Armenise amphitheater, Harvard Medical School, Longwood Campus, Boston, MA)
Visit the Science in the News website for the schedule of topics.
Contact: sitnboston@yahoo.com, www.hms.harvard.edu/sitn/
Thursday 10/30/2008
10:00a - 5:00p Postcolonial Wars: Current Perspectives on the Deferred Violence of Decolonization
(Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden St., Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA)
The focus of this multidisciplinary conference will be on the nature and dynamics of these wars and their impact on civilian and combatant populations, as well as on the political development of the postcolonial state.
Contact: http://www.radcliffe.edu/events/calendar_2008postcolonial.aspx
4:00p OEB Seminar Series
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"Southeast Asian Biodiversity in Crisis." Navjot Sodhi, Hrdy Fellow in Conservation Biology. Host: Losos, Pierce, and Edwards Labs
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu, www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin...
Friday 10/31/2008
8:30a - 9:30a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"Chasing pathogens in live cells by cutting edge fluorescence microscopy."Boerries Brandenburg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Contact: Christy Herren, herren@fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495 8643, www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html
10:00a - 5:00p Postcolonial Wars: Current Perspectives on the Deferred Violence of Decolonization
(Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden St., Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA)
The focus of this multidisciplinary conference will be on the nature and dynamics of these wars and their impact on civilian and combatant populations, as well as on the political development of the postcolonial state.
Contact: http://www.radcliffe.edu/events/calendar_2008postcolonial.aspx
11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series
(Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA)
"A keystone mutualist shapes the distribution and dispersal of North American myrmecochores." Joshua Ness, Skidmore College
Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker@fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
Sunday 11/2/2008
2:00p Sustenance & Sustainability: Where Our Food Comes From
(Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway Boston, MA 02130-3500)
A conversation with world-renowned ethnobiologist and conservationist Gary Nabhan.
Contact: 617.384.5251, www.slowfoodboston.com
Monday 11/3/2008
12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion.
Contact: Kurt House, khouse@fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
5:00p Green Conversations with Carol Dumaine
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
Carol Dumiane, Deputy Director for Energy and Environmental Security, Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, U.S. Department of Energy. Harvard Faculty discussants Graham Allison (HKS) and Daniel Schrag (EPS).
Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews@harvard.edu
Tuesday 11/4/2008
11:30a Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series
(Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 20 Oxford St., 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"True Triaxial Testing of Rock." John W. Rudnicki, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM...
12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series
(Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA)
"Phylogeny and Floral Development in Garcinia (Clusiaceae)." Patrick Sweeney,Yale, Peabody Museum
Contact: www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
(Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion.
Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis@fas.harvard.edu, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
4:00p Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar
(Haller Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Hits and Misses: Why Some Impacts and LIPs Cause Mass Extinctions and Others Do Not." Mike Arthur, Pennsylvania State University
Contact: ehap.seminar@gmail.com
Wednesday 11/5/2008
7:00p - 9:00p Science in the News Seminar Series
(Armenise amphitheater, Harvard Medical School, Longwood Campus, Boston, MA)
Visit the Science in the News website for the schedule of topics.
Contact: sitnboston@yahoo.com, www.hms.harvard.edu/sitn/
Thursday 11/6/2008
2:15p - 4:00p Challenges of the 21st Century Lecture Series
(Lower Level Conference Room, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
"Challenges Surrounding Public Health" with speaker Mrs. Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Environment.
Contact: Sarah Delude, sadelude@fas.harvard.edu
4:00p Climate Seminar
(Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
Drew Shindell, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Contact: Sarah Colgan, colgan@eps.harvard.edu, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
4:00p OEB Seminar Series
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
Speaker and Title TBA.
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu, www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin...
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