Highlights:

Thursday, February 4: Stephen Long, Professor in Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois, presents “Bioenergy, Biodiversity, Food and Global Change Mitigation – Can we have it all?” at the first lecture in the spring HUCE Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change series.

Tuesday, February 9: “Global Climate Policy after Copenhagen: Seeking a Way Forward,” a lunchtime discussion with Michael Froman, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs, and Bo Lidegaard, Permanent Undersecretary of State, Office of the Prime Minister of Denmark.

Note: Bryan Grenfell’s Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change lecture has been rescheduled for Wednesday, February 17 (originally March 3). Please check the HUCE website for updated information.

Calendar Listings:

January 28, 2010

4:00pm Human Evolutionary Biology Junior Faculty Search Lecture

HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge MA

"Integrative and Comparative Primate Behavioral Ecology." Erin R. Vogel.

5:30pm - 6:45pm Controlling Climate Change after Copenhagen: A European Perspective

The Crowe Room (Goddard 310) Tufts University Medford, MA

A presentation by Dr. Bert Metz, a Dutch scientist, who was the co-chair of IPCC Working Group III for the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports, and a senior researcher and climate division head for the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.

Jacqueline Deelstra Jacqueline.Deelstra@tufts.edu

8:30pm EAC Welcome Back Gathering

20 Dewolfe, Room 33 Harvard Campus Cambridge, MA

Environmental Action Committee Kick off -event. Chat about the environment, classes, etc. Light refreshments served.

January 29, 2010

8:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast

HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA

"It's not about disease: elucidating the function of the ESX1 secretion system in M. tuberculosis." Sarah Fortune, Harvard School of Public Health. 

MSI-Info@hms.harvard.edu

11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar

Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA

"Exploring historical hydrologic change across the Northeastern United States." Mark Green, Plymouth State University.

http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php

Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker@fas.harvard.edu

12:30pm - 2:00pm HSPH Biostatistics Environmental Statistics Large Group Meeting

FXB G11 HSPH Boston, MA

"Modeling spatial patterns of urban air pollution - Recent findings and implications." Jonathan Levy, Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Risk Assessment Harvard School of Public Health, and Jane Clougherty, Research Associate, Department of Environmental Health.
AMAITY@hsph.harvard.edu

4:00pm Applied Physics Colloquium

Pierce Hall, Room 209 29 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA

"The New Generation of Superconductor Electric Power Equiptment." Dr. Alex Malozemoff, American Superconductor Corporation. Refreshments starting at 3:30 pm.

Virginia Casas vcasas@seas.harvard.edu

February 1, 2010

12:00pm - 1:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club

HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA

Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of dicussion. *Note the February 8 meeting will be on the 4th Floor of Hoffman in the Faculty Lounge.

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/

Kate Dennis kdennis@fas.harvard.edu

4:00pm EPS Spring Colloquium

Haller Hall Geo-Museum 102 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA

"The 2008 Wenchuan, China (M7.9) earthquake: lessons learned about  mountain building and earthquake hazards assessment." John Shaw, Harvard University.

Ganna Savostyanova ganna@eps.harvard.edu

February 2, 2010

12:00pm - 1:00pm Herbaria Seminar Series

22 Divinity Ave, Seminar Room Harvard University Herbaria Cambridge, MA

"Consequences of an altered fire regime on climate and carbon storage in arctic tundra." Adrian Rocha, Marine Biological Laboratory.
http://www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/

Erin Ciccone (617) 495-7504

4:15pm MIT Energy Seminar

MIT 66-110 (Landau Building, 25 Ames Street) Cambridge, MA

"Why is Modernizing Our Energy Technologies So Darn Hard, But Worth the Effort?" Susan Tierney, Managing Principal at Analysis Group in Boston.

February 3, 2010

12:00pm - 1:00pm OEB Seminar

Bio Labs Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA

“Lessons from adaptation: parallelism, optimization of gene expression and mutations that do (or do not) play nicely together." Christopher Marx, Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.

February 4, 2010

11:30am Poverty, Hunger and Climate Change: Addressing New Challenges in Agricultural Development

Weil Town Hall (Belfer L1) Belfer BLDG Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA

Al_Mujenda@ksg.harvard.edu

11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club

HUCE Seminar Room 310 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA

Special guest Stephen Long. Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided.

Primrose Boynton pboynton@fas.harvard.edu

12:00pm - 2:00pm Climate Change & the Media Series

Harvard Kennedy School Nye B/C, Taubman Building, 5th Floor 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA

"The Public Divide Over Climate Change: Scientists, Skeptics and the Media."

Christine Russell Cristine_Russell@hks.harvard.edu

5:00pm Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change

Biolabs Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave

“Bioenergy, Biodiversity, Food and Global Change Mitigation – Can we have it all?” Stephen Long, Professor of Crop Sciences, Robert Emerson Professor, and Resident Scientist for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Reception to follow.

Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews@harvard.edu 617-495-8883

February 5, 2010

11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar

Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA

"The role of wood in Adirondack aquatic ecosystems and riparian." Cliff Kraft, Cornell University.

Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker@fas.harvard.edu

http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php

February 8, 2010

12:00pm - 1:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club

HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA

Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of dicussion. *Note the February 8 meeting will be on the 4th Floor of Hoffman in the Faculty Lounge.

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/

Kate Dennis kdennis@fas.harvard.edu

February 9, 2010

12:00pm -  1:00pm Herbaria Seminar Series

22 Divinity Ave, Seminar Room Harvard Herbaria Cambridge, MA

Ken Karol, New York Botanical Garden. Title TBA.
Erin Ciccone (617) 495-7504

12:00pm - 1:45pm Global Climate Policy after Copenhagen: Seeking a Way Forward

Nye Conference Room, 5th fl., Taubman Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA

Featuring Michael Froman, Deputy Assistant to the President, Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economic Affairs, and Bo Lidegaard, Permanent Undersecretary of State, Office of the Prime Minister of Denmark.

RSVP to Trudi Bostian Trudi_bostian@hks.harvard.edu

Museum of Comparative Zoology Room 101 26 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA

"Plagues and pupae: Using honey bees to model disease spread in natural populations." Phillip T.B. Starks, Tufts University.  

David P Hughes dhughes@oeb.harvard.edu (617) 496 8146

February 11, 2010

11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club

HUCE Meeting Room 318 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA

Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided.

Primrose Boynton pboynton@fas.harvard.edu

4:00pm - 5:00pm OEB Seminar

Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave Harvard University Cambridge, MA

Daniel Bolnick, University of Texas at Austin.

6:00pm HMNH: Food for Thought Program Series

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

 "Where Our Food Comes From: The Origins of Agriculture." Dr. Bruce Smith, Curator of North American Archaeology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/kids-and-families/google-calendar.html

 
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Always check the calendar on the website for updated information. If you would like to submit an event to the calendar, contact Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment: lisa_matthews@harvard.edu.