Dear HUCE Faculty and
Friends,
A Happy New Year to All!
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.
Highlights:
Today, Good Jobs and Clean Energy @ Radcliffe
1/31/07 – Future of Energy with Saudi Aramco President and CEO,
Abdallah Jum’ah
2/1/07 – Climate Seminar – Atmospheric Chemistry with Paul Wennberg,
Caltech
Looking Forward to February (see Center
online calendar for details):
2/5/07 - Future of Energy with Dan Arvizu, Director of Nation Renewable
Energy
Laboratory
2/7/06 – Bioenergy in a Globalizing World with Corrado Clini, Director
General
of Italy’s Ministry of Land and Sea and Chairman of the Global
Bioenergy
Partnership
2/16/07 – Remote Sensing Technology and Applications Workshop
2/26/07 – Shorebird Distribution and Abundance on the Artic Refuge
Coastal
Plain with Stephen Brown of the Manomet Center for Conservation Studies
New Environmental Courses at Harvard:
STAT155/BIST284: Spatial Statistics for
Social Inquiry and Health Research
Chris Paciorek, Rima Izem, Louise Ryan
Spring T/Th 10:30-12
Introduction to spatial statistics with application to social science
and
public health research. Emphasizes methods for the analysis and
visualization of three basic types of spatial data: areal data, point
(geostatistical) data, and point processes. Heavy emphasis on real
applied problems through case studies, guest lectures, and student
projects. Basic GIS skills will be covered in a short module. Note
that
prerequisites are guidelines and students are encouraged to consult the
instructors.
OEB 122b. Field
Research in
Ecology and Conservation
D.
R. Foster, K. Donohue, and N. M. Holbrook Spring TBA
Field
Methods course in ecology and conservation biology that help
students reach research objectives. In small group seminars, workshops
and
field trips, students will work directly with faculty, discover new
research
opportunities and develop the skills needed at all stages of
independent and
collaborative research. Enrollment limited
Calendar
Listings:
TODAY 1/18/2007
4:00p
-
6:00p
The
Apollo Alliance: Good Jobs and Clean Energy
Radcliffe Gymnasium,
Friday 1/19/2007
11:00a
-
12:00p
Movement
underfoot and the dynamics of plant communities: the role of soil
microbes in
plant ecology
Jim Bever,
Shaler Hall,
Sunday 1/21/2007
2:00p
-
3:00p
Taking
a Closer Look at Everyday Life: From Flowers and Flags to Fishes and
Flytraps
Professor
L. Mahadevan, Harvard
Geological Lecture Hall,
Tuesday 1/23/2007
7:00p
-
9:00p
Overcoming
Public Complacency About Climate Change; Systems Thinking for Complex
Policy
Challenges
John
Sterman, the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management and Director of
the
Systems Dynamics Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Friday 1/26/2007
8:30a
-
9:30a
Leech
Symbiont and Mouse Pathogen, Aeromonas veronii, a Beneficial Microbe
with a
Dark Side
Prof. Joerg
Graf, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
11:00a
-
12:00p
Population
strucuture of Armillaria spp. in a temperate, old-growth rainforest,
Olympic
Peninsula, Washington
Nicholas
Brazee – Dept. of Plant, Soil, & Insect Sciences,
Shaler Hall,
Saturday 1/27/2007
8:45a
-
4:00p
Gene-Environment
Interaction Symposium
MIT -
Sponsored
by the
Wednesday 1/31/2007
5:00p
-
6:00p
The
Future of Energy Lecture Series - A Candid Assessment of the US and
World
Energy Future
Abdallah S.
Jum'ah, President and Chief Executive Officer, Saudi Aramco
Science Center Lecture Hall C, Harvard
Thursday 2/1/2007
12:15p
-
1:00p
Climate
Change 101 – Causes, Effects and Cures
Melissa
Cary, Climate Change Policy Specialist, Environmental Defense
Part of
Loeb Action on Climate Change Symposium
Stubbins Room 112, Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy
Street,
Cambridge
4:00p
-
5:00p
Measurements
of the column distribution of CO2: a new constraint for understanding
surface
exchange
Paul
Wennberg, R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and
Environmental
Science and Engineering, Caltech
Harvard
Climate Seminar
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum,
4:00p
-
5:00p
What
Cities Are Doing
Sadhu
Part of
Loeb Action on Climate Change Symposium
Piper
Auditorium, Graduate
5:00p
-
7:30p
Free
screeing of "An Inconvenient Truth"
Harvard School of Public Health, Longwood Campus,, HMS NRB (New
Research
Building), Amphitheater, 77 Louis Pasteur Ave, Boston
6:00p
-
7:00p
Living
on a Shrinking Planet: Challenges for a Sustainable Future
Dr.
Jonathan Foley, Director of the Center for Sustainability and the
Global
Environment,
Part of
Loeb Action on Climate Change Symposium
Piper
Auditorium, Graduate
-- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883