[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update November 29 - December 13

Dear Friends of HUCE, This email contains event listings for Thursday, November 29 through Thursday, December 13, 2007. Please check the HUCE calendar on our website, <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/> www.environment.harvard.edu, for the most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions throughout the semester. If you would like to submit an event to the calendar or unsubscribe (!) from this list, contact Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment: <mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu> lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu. Please distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues, and anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the community. We hope to see you soon and often. Highlights: *Monday, December 3: " <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86790938> Climate Change: Is Economics the Source of the Problem or the Key to the Solution?" with Harvard University Center for the Environment Visiting Scholar Charles Kolstad, University of California, Santa Barbara. *Wednesday, December 5: "Biodiversity and Global Change: Are we Yet a Predictive Science?" with Peter Reich, whose recent research at the University of Minnesota focuses on the impact of environmental change on terrestrial ecosystems. The second lecture in the Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change lecture series. *Friday, December 7: The Commissioner for Energy of the European Union, Andris Pielbags speaks about Europe's lead in climate change and energy policy with respondent Manuel Pinho, the minister of Economy and Innovation of Portugal, as part of the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century: European and American Perspectives Series. Calendar Listings: Thursday 11/29/2007 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539784> OEB Seminar "The role of phenotypic plasticity and selection in the colonization of a novel environment". Speaker Trevor Price, University of Chicago Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge Contact: Katie Parodi, <mailto:kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu> kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, <http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm> www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm 5:00p - 7:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86174050> Science and Democracy Lecture Series: Why Environmentalism Needs History as much as Science "Saving Nature in Time" Speaker: William Cronon. In this lecture, drawn from a forthcoming book of the same title, William Cronon will examine the key cultural assumptions about humanity and nature that have characterized modern American environmental thinking. Science Center Lecture Hall A, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Lisa Matthews, <mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu> lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883, <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/> www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/ 5:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86693001> Arnold Arboretum: Landscape Institute Information Session Attend an Information Session to learn about the academic programs offered by the Landscape Institute. 29 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Contact: <mailto:landscape@arnarb.harvard.edu> landscape(a)arnarb.harvard.edu, 617.495.8632 Friday 11/30/2007 8:30a - 9:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87446355> Friday Chalktalk: "Insights into the Ecology of Environmental Microbial Fuel Cells" Speaker: Helen White, MSI Postdoctoral Fellow, OEB, Girguis Lab Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., 1st floor Geological Museum, Cambridge, MA Contact: Christy Herren, <mailto:herren@fas.harvard.edu> herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495-8643, <http://www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html> www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html 10:00a <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86693005> Arnold Arboretum: Landscape Institute Information Session Attend an Information Session to learn about the academic programs offered by the Landscape Institute. 29 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Contact: <mailto:landscape@arnarb.harvard.edu> landscape(a)arnarb.harvard.edu, 617.495.8632, <http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/programs/ld/ld.html> www.arboretum.harvard.edu/programs/ld... 11:00a - 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=82935340> Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series Michael Bank - Harvard School of Public Health Mercury in the environment: pattern and process Harvard Forest Seminar Room, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, <mailto:aabarker@fas.harvard.edu> aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, (978) 724-3302 12:00p - 1:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=85420905> Harvard Ecology Discussion Group Please check the Ecology Group website for topics of discussion. Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 20 Oxford St., 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA Contact: Mike Dietze, <mailto:mdietze@oeb.harvard.edu> mdietze(a)oeb.harvard.edu, <http://hcs.harvard.edu/hedg> hcs.harvard.edu/hedg Saturday 12/1/2007 11:30p - 3:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87642944> Ethics and International Affairs Conference Featuring a workshop on environmental sustainability. Bowie-Vernon Room (N262), CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:hyunjin@fas.harvard.edu> hyunjin(a)fas.harvard.edu Monday 12/3/2007 12:00p - 1:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=81038269> Harvard Energy Journal Club Visit the HEJC website for current topics of discussion. HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Kurt House, <mailto:khouse@fas.harvard.edu> khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, <http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html> www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84889772> Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia Lectures take place at 4:00pm in Haller Hall. Refreshments to follow, Hoffman 4th floor. Check seminar Web site for speaker information. Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:miller@eps.harvard.edu> miller(a)eps.harvard.edu, <http://www.eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscolloque.php> www.eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscollo... 4:00p - 5:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86790938> Climate Change: Is Economics the Source of the Problem or the Key to the Solution? Speaker: Charles Kolstad, Harvard University Center for the Environment Visiting Scholar from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, Belfer Center, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Jennifer Shultis, <mailto:jennifer_shultis@harvard.edu> jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu, 617-496-8054 Tuesday 12/4/2007 9:30a - 11:00a <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=79422766> The Role of Scientists in the Science and Technology Policymaking in China Energy Technology Innovation Policy seminar series. Speaker: Peng Ru, ETIP Fellow. L-369, Belfer Center Library, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of Government Contact: ETIP Coordinator, <mailto:sam_milton@harvard.edu> sam_milton(a)harvard.edu, (617) 496-5584, <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.energytechnologypolicy.org> www.energytechnologypolicy.org 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84215041> Biological Anthropology Seminar: Social learning and traditions in wild capuchin monkeys Speaker: Dr. Susan Perry, Department of Anthropolgy, UCLA HUCE Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: Meg Lynch, <mailto:mlynch@fas.harvard.edu> mlynch(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539857> Herbaria Seminar Series Rare, endangered, and improbable plants of New Jersey with Jean Marie Hartman, Rutgers University. Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Harvard Campus, Cambridge Contact: <http://www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/> www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/ 3:00p - 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84667706> ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers. Geological Museum, Room 418, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge Contact: Kate Dennis and Martin Tingley, <http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html> www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=82838200> Earth History and Paleobiology seminar: "The Preservation of Burgess Shale fossils" Speaker: Dr. Andrea Grottoli, Ohio State University. "Stable Carbon Isotopes in Corals and Sclerosponges: Implications for Paleoceanography and Biology." Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Phoebe Cohen or Jon Wilson, <mailto:pacohen@fas.harvard.edu,%20jpwilson@fas.harvard.edu> pacohen(a)fas.harvard.edu, jpwilson(a)fas.harvard.edu 6:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86859319> Institute of Politics Forum: Overcoming Nuclear Danger A 2007 Albert H. Gordon lecture by Mikhail Gorbachev, President, Soviet Union (1990-1991) Institute of Politics, JFK School, Harvard University, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA Contact: 617 496 3864, <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.iop.harvard.edu> www.iop.harvard.edu CORRECTION (previously listed on 12/5/07) 7:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86301723> Screening: King Corn A new documentary about the state of agriculture and food systems in America today. Hilles Cinema, 59 Shepard Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Contact: Jessica Zdeb, <mailto:jessica_zdeb@harvard.edu> jessica_zdeb(a)harvard.edu, 617.496.6201 7:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84215056> Center for Astrophysics: Author Night "Planets, Stars, and Galaxies," with David Aguilar, Center for Astrophysics. 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:pubaffairs@cfa.harvard.edu> pubaffairs(a)cfa.harvard.edu, (617) 495-7461, <http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/public_events.html> www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/public_eve... Wednesday 12/5/2007 12:00p - 1:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87642945> Harvard Ecology Discussion Group Peter Reich, F.B. Hubacheck, Sr. Chair in Forest Ecology and Tree Physiology, University of Minnesota. HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA Contact: Mike Dietze, <mailto:mdietze@oeb.harvard.edu> mdietze(a)oeb.harvard.edu 4:15p - 5:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=79116312> Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Charles Kolstad and Nicholas Burger, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Voluntary Public Goods Provision, Coalition Formation, and Uncertainty" L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA Contact: Jennifer Shultis, <mailto:jennifer_shultis@harvard.edu> jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu, (617) 496-8054 5:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84995264> Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change "Biodiversity and Global Change: are we yet a Predictive Science?" Speaker: Peter Reich, F.B. Hubacheck, Sr. Chair in Forest Ecology and Tree Physiology, University of Minnesota. Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Lisa Matthews, <mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu> lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883 Thursday 12/6/2007 8:00a - 10:00a <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87318796> Harvard Recycling Appreciation Breakfast Join recyclers from across the University as we celebrate recycling 50% of campus refuse. Holyoke Events and Information Center, 1350 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA Contact: Rob Gogan, <mailto:rob_gogan@harvard.edu> rob_gogan(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-3042 2:00p - 6:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87544606> NEXUS Exhibitor Showcase: Green is Affordable Ttour the NEXUS Green Building Resource Center Exhibit Hall and speak with vendor representatives. NEXUS Green Building Resource Center, 38 Chauncy St., 7th Floor, Boston, MA Contact: Aaron Desatnik , <mailto:aaron@greenroundtable.org> aaron(a)greenroundtable.org, 617-374-3740 x.127 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86692940> OEB Seminar Series "Putting real adaptation into comparative tests of adaptive hypotheses: the way forward?" Speaker: Dr. Steve Orzack, The Fresh Pond Research Institute. Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge Contact: <http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm> www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm 6:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86682040> Carpenter Center Lecture: Understanding Anthropogeomorphology Speaker: Matt Coolidge, the director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI). Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: 617.495.3251, <http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/coolidgematt.html> www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/coolidgematt.... 7:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84215033> Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Family Friendly Nights A Star is Born, with Meredith Hughes. How are stars made, and what happens when their lives are over? 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:pubaffairs@cfa.edu> pubaffairs(a)cfa.edu, (617) 495-7461, <http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/ffn.html> www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/ffn.html Friday 12/7/2007 8:30a - 9:30a <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84638687> Friday Chalktalk: "Genes, Proteins and Organelles Responsible for Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence and the Mechanism of the Regulation of Flashing" Dr. Woody Hastings, Molecular and Cellular Biology. Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, 1st floor Geological Museum, Cambridge, MA Contact: Christy Herren, <mailto:herren@fas.harvard.edu> herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-8643, <http://www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html> www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html 11:00a - 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=82935342> Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series Scott Ollinger - Complex Research Systems Center, University of New Hampshire Canopy nitrogen, carbon assimilation and energy exchange in forest ecosystems. Harvard Forest Seminar Room, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, <mailto:aabarker@fas.harvard.edu> aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, (978) 724-3302 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86682052> Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Speaker: Jintai Lin, Univ. of Illinois, with hosts Michael McElroy & Yuxuan Wang. Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:bmathieu@seas.harvard.edu> bmathieu(a)seas.harvard.edu , <http://www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html> www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html 12:30p - 2:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=80808296> Environmental Statistics Seminar: "Topics in Environmental Health" Tom Webster, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health HSPH Building 2, Room 426, Boston, MA Contact: <http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostats/events/seminars/env_stat.html> www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostats/events/... 2:15p - 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=81454152> Challenges of the Twenty-first Century: European and American Perspectives Series "Climate Change and Energy; Europe Takes the Lead" with speaker Andris Pielbags, Commissioner for Energy, Commission of the European Union. Lower Level Conference Room, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA Contact: Renee Haferkamp, <mailto:haferkam@fas.harvard.edu> haferkam(a)fas.harvard.edu Sunday 12/9/2007 2:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539756> Sunday Family Program: Mammals in Winter: Survival and Adaptation When the ground is covered with snow and the trees are bare, just how do mammals survive? Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu> hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-3045 Monday 12/10/2007 12:00p - 1:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=81038270> Harvard Energy Journal Club Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion. HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Kurt House, <mailto:khouse@fas.harvard.edu> khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, <http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html> www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 7:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539760> Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series Raising Tomorrow's Naturalists: Film screening and conversation with E. O. Wilson and T. Berry Brazelton. Science Center, One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu> hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-3045 Tuesday 12/11/2007 3:00p - 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84667707> ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion. Geological Museum, Room 418, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge Contact: Kate Dennis and Martin Tingley, <http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html> www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... 7:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87672486> Cambridge Entomological Club Meeting "Interactions between invasive species: woolly adelgid, elongate scale, and the fate of New England's hemlock forests" with Evan Preisser, University of Rhode Island Museum of Comparative Zoology, 101, 26 Oxford Street, Harvard University Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:entclub@entclub.org> entclub(a)entclub.org, <http://entclub.org/> entclub.org/ Wednesday 12/12/2007 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87672478> Origins of Life Initiative Forum Microbial Population Structure of the World's Oceans: An Underexplored "Rare Biosphere" with speaker Mitchell L. Sogin Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole & Brown University Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Carol Knell, <mailto:cknell@cfa.harvard.edu> cknell(a)cfa.harvard.edu, <http://origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html> origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html Thursday 12/13/2007 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87672481> HUCE Green Conversations Series Join us for a conversation with three representatives from GridPoint technolgies. Pierce Hall, Room 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: Lisa Matthews, <mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu> lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539802> OEB Seminar: Evolutionary Biorobotics: Navigating Simulated Selection Environments to Test Adaptation Hypotheses Speaker Dr. John Lang, Vassar College Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge Contact: Katie Parodi, <mailto:kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu> kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, <http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm> www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm Lisa Matthews Events Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu p. 617-495-8883 f. 617-496-0425