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Dear Friends of HUCE, This email contains event listings for Thursday, January 31 through Thursday, February 14. Please check the HUCE calendar on our website, www.environment.harvard.edu, for the most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions. If you would like to submit an event to the calendar, contact Highlights: Monday, February 4: A panel of scholars discuss how the field of Science, Technology and Society (STS) provides a bridge for those who see the intersection of science and humanities not only intriguing , but essential to addressing today's greatest policy challenges at "Lives and Careers in Science, Technology and Society." Thursday, February 7: Dr. Nick Aladin, the head of the Laboratory of Brackish Water Hydrobiology Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, discusses the "Past Present, and Future of the Aral Sea", focusing on the conservation and rehabilitation efforts of the remnant water bodies to reverse the negative effects on the lake’s ecosystem due to declining water level and increasing salinity. Calendar Listings: Thursday 1/31/2008 4:00p Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America (Adams Lower Common Room, 26 Plympton St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) Focus the Nation is organizing a national teach-in on global warming solutions for America. Contact: Karen McKinnon (EAC), mckinnon@fas.harvard.edu, www.focusthenation.org) 7:00p Harvard Coop Faculty Author: Anne Harrington (The Coop at Harvard Square, 1400 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA) Anne Harrington, professor and chair of the History of Science Department, will discuss and sign copies of her new book, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine. Contact: harvard.bkstore.com/default.asp?m=050 Friday 2/1/2008 8:30a - 9:00a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "The Surprising Microbial Diversity of Cystic Fibrosis Lung Infections" with speaker Vanja Klepac-Ceraj (Kolter Lab, MMG at Harvard Medical School). Contact: Christy Herren, herren@fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495-8643 , www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays_spr08.html 11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) "Coupling aquatic and terrestrial biogeochemistry: stream and wetland carbon losses from Harvard Forest's Prospect Hill Tract" with speaker: Bill Sobczak, College of the Holy Cross. Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker@fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 6:45p New England Botanical Club Meeting (Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA ) "Substrate Influence on Speciation in Lichenized Fungi" with speaker: Dr. Michaela Schmull, Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University Contact: nebc@rhodora.org, www.rhodora.org/Meetings.html Saturday 2/2/2008 9:30a - 12:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Adult Classes (Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Exploring Biodiversity." Contact: reservations@oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-2341, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/adult_classes/in... Monday 2/4/2008 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit website for current topics of discussion. Contact: Kurt House, khouse@fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 12:00p - 1:00p Molecular and Cellular Biology Seminar (Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Zhijian James Chen, UT Southwest Medical Center, Dallas. Contact: Kristen Uekermann, (617) 496-2306 3:00p - 4:00p Space Talk: NASA Astronauts Wilson & Melroy (Maxwell/Dworkin Lessin Room, G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) NASA Astronauts, specialist Stephanie Wilson '88 and Retired Air Force Col. Pamela Melroy will discuss their experiences on recent shuttle missions. Contact: Michael Patrick Rutter, mrutter@deas.harvard.edu, 617-496-3815 4:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "Fault Tremor Ignited by Shaking from Distant Great Earthquakes; Examples from the San Andreas Fault System and Vancouver Island" with speaker John Vidale, University of Washington. Contact: miller@eps.harvard.edu, www-eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscollo... 6:00p - 7:30p Lives and Careers in Science, Technology and Society (Boylston Hall, Ticknor Lounge, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA) Come hear a panel of scholars discuss the ways in which Science, Technology, and Society and life at the crossroads really works. Contact: www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/ Tuesday 2/5/2008
9:30a Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series (Belfer Center Library (L-369), Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA) The Impact of Policies to Reduce Oil Consumption and GHG Emissions in the Transport Sector: Insights from NEMS with Kelly Sims Gallagher, ETIP Director and Gustavo Collantes. Research Fellow. Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton@harvard.edu, www.energytechnologypolicy.org 12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series (Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA ) "Biogeography of Croton (Euphorbiaceae s.s.) in the Caribbean" with speaker Benjamin van Ee, Harvard. Contact: www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/ 3:00p Sixth Annual Biostatistics and Computational Biology Lecture (Smith Family Room, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Room 1620, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA) Speaker: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Professor, Department of Physics Northeastern University. Contact: Erica Feick, events@jimmy.harvard.edu, biowww.dfci.harvard.edu/~training/ 3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club (Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion. Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis@fas.harvard.edu, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... 6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project", lecture by Spencer Wells. Contact: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-2773, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/kids_and_familie... Wednesday 2/6/2008
4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy (Littauer-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) “Giving Green to Get Green? Incentives and Consumer Adoption of Hybrid Vehicle Technology” with speakers Kelly Gallagher and Erich Muehlegger, Harvard University. Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis@harvard.edu, 617-496-8054, isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword... 5:30p A Proposal for a US Carbon Tax Swap: An Equitable Tax Reform to Address Global Climate Change (Cabot 703, 170 Packard Ave, Tufts University Campus, Medford, MA) Speaker: Gilbert Metcalf, Professor of Economics, Tufts University. Dr. Metcalf will discuss his proposal for a carbon tax swap that is both revenue and distributionally neutral. Contact: Mieke van der Wansem, mieke.wansem@tufts.edu, 617-627-2476, fletcher.tufts.edu/ierp 7:00p - 9:00p Boston College Department of Geology and Geophysics Colloquium Series (Weston Observatory, 381 Concord Rd, Weston, MA) "Ice That Burns: Assessing Methane Hydrates as an Energy Resource and Contributor to Climate Change” with Carolyn Ruppel, Ph.D., Research Geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey. Contact: www.bc.edu/research/westonobservatory... Thursday 2/7/2008 4:00p Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Plant Biology Search Contact: www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin... 4:00p Center for Astrophysics Colloquium (Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) "High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Towards a Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Observatory" with speaker Francis Halzen, U. Wisconsin. Host: Andrew Szentgyorgyi. Contact: www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia/ 4:00p - 5:00p Climate Seminar (Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Myles Allen, Department of Physics, University of Oxford Contact: Sarah Colgan, colgan@eps.harvard.edu, 617-496-9770, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... 4:00p - 6:00p Past, Present, and Future of the Aral Sea (Maxwell/Dworkin Lessin Room, G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Dr. Nick Aladin, Head, Laboratory of Brackish Water Hydrobiology Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews@harvard.edu 7:00p The Economics of Climate Change, Climate Protection and Energy Policy: The European and German Perspective (Goethe-Institute Boston, 170 Beacon St., Boston) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, Humbolt Universität Berlin, Director of Department “Energy, Transportation and Environment” at the German Institute for Economic Research. Contact: info@boston.goethe.org, 617-262-6050, www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/en2897666.htm Friday 2/8/2008 8:30a - 9:30a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) John Mekalanos (MMG at Harvard Medical School). Contact: Christy Herren, herren@fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495-8643 , www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html 12:00p Atmospheric Sciences Seminar (Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Hubbert's Peak, The Coal Question, and Climate Change" with speaker Dave Rutledge, Caltech. Host: Daniel Jacob. Contact: Brenda Mathieu, bmathieu@seas.harvard.edu , www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html 3:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series (Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Bilingual Glass Flowers Gallery Talks," Celebrating the Chinese New Year. Encore at 4:00 pm. Contact: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045 , www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... Saturday 2/9/2008
2:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series (Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Documentary Screening: First Flower. Celebrating the Chinese New Year DVD screening of First Flower, a NOVA documentary. Contact: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... 3:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series (Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Shangri-La: At the Heart of a Biodiversity Hotspot" Slide Presentation by Susan Kelley. Celebrating the Chinese New Year. Contact: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... Monday 2/11/2008 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit website for current topics of discussion. Contact: Kurt House, khouse@fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 4:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Special Joint session w/ Radcliffe Christina Ravello. Contact: miller@eps.harvard.edu, www-eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscollo... 4:15p Radcliffe Institute Lecture in the Sciences (Science Center Lecture Hall D, One Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Regional Expressions of Global Warmth: Lessons from the Pliocene" with Christina Ravelo, University of California at Santa Cruz Contact: 617-495-8600, www.radcliffe.edu/events/calendar.php... Tuesday 2/12/2008 11:30a Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series (Room 209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "A New Continuum Model for Dense Granular Deformations" with Kenneth N. Kamrin, Applied Mathematics Program, MIT. Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM... 3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club (Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion. Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis@fas.harvard.edu, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... 7:30p Cambridge Entomological Club Meeting (MCZ 101, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) Meeting subject to be announced. Speaker: Barry Trimmer, Tufts University. Please join us for dinner at the Harvard Law School cafeteria, second floor of Harkness Commons, at 6:15pm - note new lo... Contact: entclub.org/ Wednesday 2/13/2008 4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy (Littauer-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) Speaker: Matthew Adler, University of Pennsylvania. “Risk Equity: A New Proposal” Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis@harvard.edu, 617-496-8054, isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword... 5:00p Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change (Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Jane Lubchenco, Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor of Zoology at Oregon State University Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews@harvard.edu, 617-495-8883 7:00p - 9:00p Boston College Department of Geology and Geophysics Colloquium Series (Weston Observatory, 381 Concord Rd, Weston, MA) "Ice That Burns: Assessing Methane Hydrates as an Energy Resource and Contributor to Climate Change” with Carolyn Ruppel, Ph.D., Research Geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey (Woods Hole... Contact: www.bc.edu/research/westonobservatory... Thursday 2/14/2008 3:30p - 6:30p Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series (HSPH, 618 Huntington Avenue, FXB G-13, Boston, MA) Applications of Relative Risk Modeling. Risky Business: Ecological Risk Assessment at Regional Scales for "Chemical and non-Chemical Stressors" with speaker Wayne G. Landis. Contact: Katherine von Stackelberg, Sc.D., 617.998.1037, KVON@hsph.harvard.edu, www.hcra.harvard.edu 4:00p - 5:00p Understanding Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides from China Using Satellite Observations (Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Dr. WANG Yuxuan, Research Associate, China Project and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2@fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-2378 , chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminars/200... 4:00p - 5:00p Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge) "The logic of self-deception" with speaker Robert Trivers, Rutgers University. Contact: Deborah Smiley, (617) 384-5062 4:00p Center for Astrophysics Colloquium (Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Bozena Czerny, Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw. Title TBA. Host: Aneta Siemiginowska. Tea at 3:30 pm, lecture at 4:00 pm. Contact: www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia/ |
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