This email contains event listings for Thursday, November 29
through Thursday, December 13, 2007. Please check the HUCE calendar on our website,
www.environment.harvard.edu, for the most
up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions throughout the semester.
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Highlights:
*Monday, December
3: “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
*Friday, December
7: The Commissioner
for Energy of the European Union, Andris Pielbags speaks about
Calendar Listings:
Thursday 11/29/2007
4:00p
OEB Seminar
"The role of phenotypic plasticity
and selection in the colonization of a novel environment". Speaker Trevor
Price,
Bio Labs Lecture Hall,
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu, www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm
5:00p - 7:00p
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,
Contact:
5:30p
Arnold Arboretum: Landscape
Institute Information Session
Attend an Information Session to learn
about the academic programs offered by the Landscape Institute.
Contact: landscape@arnarb.harvard.edu,
617.495.8632
Friday 11/30/2007
8:30a - 9:30p
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, herren@fas.harvard.edu,
(617) 495-8643, www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html
10:00a
Arnold Arboretum: Landscape
Institute Information Session
Attend an Information Session to learn
about the academic programs offered by the Landscape Institute.
Contact: landscape@arnarb.harvard.edu,
617.495.8632, www.arboretum.harvard.edu/programs/ld...
11:00a - 12:00p
Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series
Michael Bank – Harvard School of
Public Health Mercury in the environment: pattern and process
Harvard Forest Seminar Room,
Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, aabarker@fas.harvard.edu, (978)
724-3302
12:00p - 1:00p
Harvard Ecology Discussion Group
Please check the Ecology Group website
for topics of discussion.
Hoffman Faculty Lounge,
Contact: Mike Dietze, mdietze@oeb.harvard.edu, hcs.harvard.edu/hedg
Saturday 12/1/2007
11:30p - 3:30p
Ethics and International Affairs
Conference
Featuring a workshop on environmental
sustainability.
Bowie-Vernon Room (N262), CGIS Knafel Bldg.,
Contact: hyunjin@fas.harvard.edu
Monday 12/3/2007
12:00p - 1:00p
Harvard Energy Journal Club
Visit the HEJC website for current topics
of discussion.
HUCE Seminar room,
Contact: Kurt House, khouse@fas.harvard.edu,
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
4:00p
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,
Contact: miller@eps.harvard.edu,
www.eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscollo...
4:00p - 5:30p
Climate Change: Is Economics the
Source of the Problem or the Key to the Solution?
Speaker: Charles Kolstad,
Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, 5th
Floor, Belfer Center, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA
Contact:
Tuesday 12/4/2007
9:30a - 11:00a
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,
Contact: ETIP Coordinator, sam_milton@harvard.edu,
(617) 496-5584, www.energytechnologypolicy.org
12:00p
Biological Anthropology Seminar:
Social learning and traditions in wild capuchin monkeys
Speaker: Dr. Susan Perry, Department of
Anthropolgy, UCLA
HUCE Seminar Room, 3rd Floor,
Contact: Meg Lynch, mlynch@fas.harvard.edu
12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series
Rare, endangered, and improbable plants
of
Herbaria Seminar Room,
Contact: www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
3:00p - 4:00p
ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate
Dynamics website for current speakers.
Geological Museum, Room 418,
Contact: Kate Dennis and Martin Tingley, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
4:00p
Earth History and Paleobiology
seminar: "The Preservation of Burgess Shale fossils"
Speaker: Dr. Andrea Grottoli,
Haller Hall,
Contact: Phoebe Cohen or Jon
Wilson, pacohen@fas.harvard.edu,
jpwilson@fas.harvard.edu
6:00p
Institute of Politics Forum:
Overcoming Nuclear Danger
A 2007 Albert H. Gordon lecture by
Mikhail Gorbachev, President, Soviet Union (1990-1991)
Contact: 617 496 3864, www.iop.harvard.edu
CORRECTION (previously listed on 12/5/07)
7:00p
Screening: King Corn
A new documentary about the state of
agriculture and food systems in
Hilles Cinema,
Contact: Jessica Zdeb, jessica_zdeb@harvard.edu,
617.496.6201
7:30p
Center for Astrophysics: Author
Night
"Planets, Stars, and Galaxies,"
with David Aguilar, Center for Astrophysics.
Contact: pubaffairs@cfa.harvard.edu,
(617) 495-7461, www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/public_eve...
Wednesday 12/5/2007
12:00p - 1:00p
Harvard Ecology Discussion Group
Peter Reich, F.B. Hubacheck, Sr. Chair in
Forest Ecology and Tree Physiology,
HUCE Seminar Room,
Contact: Mike Dietze, mdietze@oeb.harvard.edu
4:15p - 5:30p
Seminar in Environmental Economics
and Policy
Charles Kolstad and Nicholas Burger,
L-382,
Contact:
5:00p
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,
Bio Labs Lecture Hall,
Contact:
Thursday 12/6/2007
8:00a - 10:00a
Harvard Recycling Appreciation
Breakfast
Join recyclers from across the University
as we celebrate recycling 50% of campus refuse.
Contact: Rob Gogan, rob_gogan@harvard.edu,
617-495-3042
2:00p - 6:00p
NEXUS Exhibitor Showcase: Green is
Affordable
Ttour the NEXUS Green Building Resource
Center Exhibit Hall and speak with vendor representatives.
Contact: Aaron Desatnik , aaron@greenroundtable.org,
617-374-3740 x.127
4:00p 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,
Contact: www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm
6:00p
Carpenter Center Lecture:
Understanding Anthropogeomorphology
Speaker: Matt Coolidge, the director of
the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI).
Contact: 617.495.3251, www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/coolidgematt....
7:00p
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?
Contact: pubaffairs@cfa.edu,
(617) 495-7461, www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/ffn.html
Friday 12/7/2007
8:30a - 9:30a
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,
Contact: Christy Herren, herren@fas.harvard.edu,
617-495-8643, www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html
11:00a - 12:00p
Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series
Scott Ollinger –
Harvard Forest Seminar Room,
Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, aabarker@fas.harvard.edu, (978)
724-3302
12:00p
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
Speaker: Jintai Lin,
Pierce Hall, Room 100F,
Contact: bmathieu@seas.harvard.edu ,
www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html
12:30p - 2:00p 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: www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostats/events/...
2:15p - 4:00p
Challenges of the Twenty-first
Century: European and American Perspectives Series
“Climate Change and Energy;
Lower Level Conference Room,
Contact: Renee Haferkamp, haferkam@fas.harvard.edu
Sunday 12/9/2007
2:00p
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
Contact: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu,
(617) 495-3045
Monday 12/10/2007
12:00p - 1:00p
Harvard Energy Journal Club
Visit
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion.
HUCE Seminar room,
Contact: Kurt House, khouse@fas.harvard.edu,
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
7:30p Harvard Museum of Natural History
Public Lecture Series
Raising Tomorrow's Naturalists: Film
screening and conversation with E. O. Wilson and T. Berry Brazelton.
Contact: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu,
(617) 495-3045
Tuesday 12/11/2007
3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate
Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion.
Geological Museum, Room 418,
Contact: Kate Dennis and Martin Tingley, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
7:30p
Cambridge Entomological Club Meeting
"Interactions between invasive
species: woolly adelgid, elongate scale, and the fate of New England's hemlock
forests" with Evan Preisser,
Contact: entclub@entclub.org,
entclub.org/
Wednesday 12/12/2007
4:00p 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
Bio Labs Lecture Hall,
Contact: Carol Knell, cknell@cfa.harvard.edu,
origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html
Thursday 12/13/2007
4:00p
HUCE Green Conversations Series
Join us for a conversation with three
representatives from GridPoint technolgies.
Pierce Hall, Room 209,
Contact:
4:00p
OEB Seminar: Evolutionary
Biorobotics: Navigating Simulated Selection Environments to Test Adaptation
Hypotheses
Speaker Dr. John Lang,
Bio Labs Lecture Hall,
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu, www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm
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