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@harvard.edu, 617-495-8883.

Note: The China Project Seminar with Prof. WANG Tao originally schedule for Tomorrow, 10/26, has been rescheduled for 11/30/06

Highlights:
*10/31/06 – Information session at HUCE for Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
*11/2/06 – Harvard Climate Seminar
The 'instability' of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: - at 2PM
*11/2, 11/3 and 11/4/06 – Screening of “An Inconvenient Truth” at the Science Center

Calendar Listings:

Thursday 10/26/2006
Time for Action: A Midnight Ride for Peak Oil
2006 Boston World Oil Conference Co-Hosted by ASPO-USA and Boston University Boston University; Boston, Massachusetts
All Day Event

12:00p
Biomass-Derived Transportation Fuels to Meet Sustainability and Security Objectives
Lee Lynd, Professor of Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Biology, Dartmouth College
Innovation in Transportation Seminar Series
Carr Center
conference room, Rubenstein 219, JFK School of Government

12:30p - 1:30p
Exciting Geospacial Dimensions of Public Health Research: New Challenges and Mapping Health Inequalities
Chuck Croner, geographer and survey statistician, CDC
KSG 708
This event is open to the Harvard/Longwood community only

6:00p - 7:00p
Alternatives to Oil: Dream or Reality?
The Third Annual Everett-Moomaw Debate
TUFTS - ASEAN Auditorium

Friday 10/27/2006

Time for Action: A Midnight Ride for Peak Oil
2006 Boston World Oil Conference Co-Hosted by ASPO-USA and Boston University Boston University; Boston, Massachusetts
All Day Event

8:30a - 9:30p
Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday
Johan Paulsson, Harvard University, HMS, Systems Biology Research Focus: Modeling Gene Networks
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street

11:00a - 12:00p
Land-use history and patterns of biodiversity in Southern Appalachian forests
Scott Pearson, Mars Hill College and Harvard Bullard Fellow

Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series
Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest - Petersham, MA

12:30p - 1:30p
Methods to adjust for bias due to exposure measurement error in environmental and occupational epidemiology
Dr. Donna Spiegelman, Professor of Epidemiologic Methods, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public
Health Environmental Statistics seminar
Harvard School of Public Health, Building 2, Room 426

2:00p - 5:30p
The Green Living Program Waste Audit
175 North Harvard Street, Cambridge

2:30p - 3:30p
Satellite-Observed US Powerplant NOx Emission Reductions and Their Impact on Air Quality
Gregory J. Frost, NOAA
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge

Sunday 10/29/2006

3:00p - 5:00p
Henry David Thoreau Speaking For Nature
Dick Walton and John Huehnergard
Concord Art Association, 37 Lexington Road, Concord

7:30p - 8:30p
Global Warming and its Effects on New England
Kevin Knobloch, President, Union of Concerned Scientists
Cary Memorial Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA

Monday 10/30/2006

4:00p - 5:00p
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium
Brian Mapes, University of Miami
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford

Tuesday 10/31/2006

12:00p - 2:30p
Information Session: Duke Nicholas School
Harvard Center for Environment seminar room, 3rd floor, Geological Museum Building, 24 Oxford St

4:00p - 5:00p
Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar Series
Felisa Wolfe-Simon Arizona State University
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street

Wednesday 11/1/2006

4:00p - 5:30p
Does Electricity Restructuring Benefit the Environment? A Structural, Empirical Analysis of Intertemporal Emission Trading in the U.S. SO2 Allowance Market
Fan Zhang, Harvard University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

6:00p - 7:00p
Is the WTO Accountable?
Pascal Lamy, director-general, WTO, former European Commissioner for Trade, 1999-2004 2006
Wiener Lecture on International Political Economy
John F. Kennedy School
of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Thursday 11/2/2006

8:30a - 5:00p
The 2nd Annual Conference on Clean Energy: Financing and Partnering for Emerging Technologies
Hynes Convention Center, Boston

2:00p - 4:15p
The 'instability' of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: for too long a hypothesis?
Duncan Wingham, Director, Centre for Polar Observational Modelling, Professor of Climate Physics, University College London
Harvard Climate Seminar
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford

7:30p
Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth"
Sponsored by the Harvard Environmental Action Committee Climate Change Initiative
Science Center Lecture Hall D, Harvard

Friday 11/3/2006

8:30a - 9:30p
Bacterial natural product assembly lines- Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday
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

7:30p
Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth"
Sponsored by the Harvard Environmental Action Committee Climate Change Initiative
Science Center Lecture Hall D, Harvard

Saturday 11/4/2006  

7:30p
Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth"
Sponsored by the Harvard Environmental Action Committee Climate Change Initiative
Science Center Lecture Hall D, Harvard

Monday 11/6/2006  

4:00p - 5:00p
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium
Dan Harlov, Experimental Geochemistry and Mineral Physics, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street

Tuesday 11/7/2006

9:00a - 10:30p
Poverty Alleviation and the Environment in China
Zhang Shiqiu, Professor of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China
Energy Technology Innovation Project (ETIP) Seminar
Belfer Center
Library, Littauer 369, KSG

4:00p - 5:00p
Controlling Mercury Emissions at China's Coal-Fired Electricity Plants: An Economic Analysis
ZHANG Shiqiu, Professor, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University
Harvard China Project Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St.,

Wednesday 11/8/2006

8:00a - 9:15a
Genome Sequence Variation and the Inherited Basis of Disease
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
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
Robert Hazen, Carnegie
Part of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative Inaugural Symposium
Gutman Conference Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Thursday 11/9/2006

3:30p - 4:30p
Disease process models: A way to link exposure and outcomes in epidemiology
Tom Smith
Colloquium in Environmental Health
Kresge G-2, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston

7:30p
Religion and Climate Change
Boylston Hall Room 110, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Campus