26 Feb
2009
26 Feb
'09
5:21 p.m.
Highlights:
Monday, March 2: Join Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies,
at the Science, Technology, and Society Circle to discuss "Options for a Low-Carbon
Energy Future."
Wednesday, March 5: The Environemntal Law Review Symposium focuses on methods of
allocating the costs of addressing climate change among nations and how the international
community’s human rights obligations could, or should, affect policy responses.
Tuesday, March 10: A presentation by artist Eve Mosher of her project, "High Water
Line" which visualizes the impact of climate change on coastal cities. A panel of
three --a scientist, a critic and a designer -- respond to her presentation, informing
their responses according to their various expertise.
Calendar Listings:
Today 2/26/2009
6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History: Evolution Matters
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Evolution in the Post-Genomic Age." Pardis Sabeti, Center for Systems Biology,
Assistant Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard.
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe...
Friday 2/27/2009
11:00a - 12:00p Harvard Forest Seminar Series
(Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA)
"Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution."
Ben Bolker, University of Florida.
Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268,
harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
12:00p GSD Green Design Lecture
(Stubbins Room at Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 42 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA )
"What's Google Doing? Working Towards Sustainability."
12:30p - 1:30p Seminar in Occupational and Environmental Health Research
(Kresge 502, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA)
"Fetal Window of Vulnerability to Airborne Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons:
Prospective Birth Cohort Study of 344 Polish Mother-Newborn Pairs." Hyunok Choi, PhD,
MPH, Research Fellow, Harvard.
Contact: Ann Backus, MS, abackus(a)hsph.harvard.edu, 617/384-5404
Sunday 3/1/2009
12:30p - 5:00p Weatherization Barn-raising
( 120 Chestnut Street and 100 Henry Street, Cambridgeport, MA)
Help to weatherize a neighbor's home (a skill you can take back to your own home).
Contact: Steve Wineman, swineman(a)gis.net , 617-876-4753
6:00p Japanese Spirit in Nature: Save our earth. Stop the global warming.
(Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, lecture hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA)
.
An ensemble of students and teachers from the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, Japan, will
perform Japanese music with a "green" theme.
Contact: Jennifer Aubin, jennifer_aubin(a)harvard.edu , 617-496-5331,
www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/events/con...
Monday 3/2/2009
11:30a Harvard Energy Journal Club
(HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion.
Contact: Mark Winkler, mwinkler(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
12:00p - 1:00p Environmental Sciences and Engineering Seminar
(Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Constraints on Tropospheric Ozone Production: From Aircraft Observations to
Heterogeneous Kinetics." Dr. Timothy Bertram, University of Michigan.
Contact: Norma Stewart, nstewart(a)seas.harvard.edu
12:15p - 2:00p Science, Technology, and Society Circle
(124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106, Cambridge, MA)
"Options for a Low-Carbon Energy Future." Michael B. McElroy (Harvard
University). Sandwich lunches will be provided. Please RSVP to harvard.sts(a)gmail.com.
Contact: harvard.sts(a)gmail.com by
4:00p EPS Spring Colloquium
(Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"What do the noble gases really say about mantle convection and the deep Earth
volatile cycles?" Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, Harvard University
Contact: Ganna Savostyanova, savosty(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mukhop/
4:00p MIT Science Technology, and Society Colloquia
(MIT, Building E51-095, Cambridge, MA)
"'Sustainable Development' from Tanzania to Chicago: Tracking the Subaltern
in STS Studies." Chris Walley, Associate Professor of Anthropology, MIT.
Contact: 617-452-2390, web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html
5:30p - 6:30p Business & Environment Club Event
(Aldrich 207, Harvard Business Scool, Boston, MA)
Tim Healy, CEO, Chairman and co-Founder, EnerNOC.
Contact: www.studentclubs.hbs.edu/benv/index.htm
6:00p Bright Green Talent
(Starr Auditorium, 3rd Floor, Belfer Building, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St.,
Cambridge, MA )
Bright Green Talent is a mission-critical recruiting firm driven by the goal of helping
solve climate change.
Contact: www.brightgreentalent.com
Tuesday 3/3/2009
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(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-384-8398,
www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
4:00p IOP Study Group: Art and Politics - The Influence of Writers and other Artists on
Human Rights and Public Policy
(Institute of Politics, Room L166, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
"How the poetic imagination, and poetry and its performance, have been used to
enhance reason and passion on issues from war to global warming." Guest: Jorie
Graham, Pulitzer Prize poet.
Contact: www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-...
Wednesday 3/4/2009
9:00a - 12:00p Boston Solar Workshop
(Foley Hoag, 155 Seaport Blvd, 13th Floor Conference Room, Boston, MA)
The City of Boston's Solar Boston program would like to invite you to a half-day
solar energy conference focusing on the solar energy market and new solar energy
policies.
Contact: Andy Belden, andy.belden(a)mc-group.com
10:30a - 12:00p Geopolitics of Energy Seminar Series
(Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, HKS, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA)
"China." Erica Downs, China Energy Fellow, the Brookings Institution.
Contact: bcsia_ksg(a)harvard.edu
8:00p Environmental Action Committee Meeting
(Spindell Room, Quincy House, 58 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA)
Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a
difference for the environment is welcome.
Contact: Caitlin Rotman, caitlin.rotman(a)gmail.com
Thursday 3/5/2009
3:30p Harvard Environmental Law Review Symposium
(Harvard Law School, Langdell North, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA)
"Climate Change and Global Justice: Crafting Fair Solutions for Nations and
Peoples."
Contact: hlselr(a)law.harvard.edu, www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr...
3:30p China Project Seminar
(Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Wind Power in China." Dr. Joanna Lewis, Assistant Professor, Science,
Technology and International Affairs, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service,
Georgetown University.
Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:00p - 5:00p OEB Seminar Series
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"The strategies of stationary organisms: summoning the wind, finding self, and
invading new territory." Anne Pringle, Harvard University.
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-5891
4:00p Climate Seminar
(Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Evolution of the tropical warm pool and the modulation of convective heating."
Peter Webster, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech.
Contact: Shuting Jin , shuting(a)eps.harvard.edu, 617.384.9005,
www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
4:15p MIT Energy Initiative Seminar Series
(MIT Building 66, Room 110, Cambridge, MA)
"Meeting U.S. Energy and Climate Challenges with Rational Policy." Severin
Borenstein, E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy, Haas
School of Business, UC Berkeley.
Contact: web.mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars/
6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History: Evolution Matters
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Survival of the Swiftest, Smartest, or Fattest? Human Evolution 150 Years After
Darwin." Daniel Lieberman, Harvard Professor of Biological Anthropology.
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe...
7:00p Climate Wars. What one will kill for in the 21st century.
(Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA)
Speaker: Harald Welzer. Moderator: Roger Kasperson.
Contact: info(a)boston.goethe.org, 617 262 6050, www.goethe.de/wis/fut/dos/gdw/wel/en2...
Friday 3/6/2009
10:00a - 3:00p All Ivy Environmental and Sustainable Development Career Fair
(Low Library, Columbia University, New York, NY )
Harvard OCS Bus transportation provided with seats on a first come first serve basis.
Contact: Jill Abruzese, jabruzes(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.earth.columbia.edu/education/ivy_...
11:00a - 12:00p Harvard Forest Seminar Series
(Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA)
"Spatial and temporal drivers of West Nile virus ecology in North America."
Shannon LeDeau, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies.
Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268,
harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
1:00p - 5:00p Sandia-MIT Workshops
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA)
Two concurrent workshops: "'Right-Sized' Nuclear Reactors" and
"SmartGrid: Challenges and Opportunities."
Contact: edo(a)mit.edu
2:15p - 3:15p MIT Energy Conference
(Kendall Square Marriot Hotel, Cambridge, MA)
"Accelerating Change in Global Energy." The MIT Energy Conference brings
together leaders in the fields of technology, policy, industry, finance, and
entrepreneurship.
Contact: www.mitenergyconference.com
Saturday 3/7/2009
2:15p - 3:15p MIT Energy Conference
(Kendall Square Marriot Hotel, Cambridge, MA)
"Accelerating Change in Global Energy."
Contact: www.mitenergyconference.com
Monday 3/9/2009
11:30a Harvard Energy Journal Club
(HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion.
Contact: Mark Winkler, mwinkler(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
Tuesday 3/10/2009
9:30a - 11:00a Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series
(Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK St., Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA)
"Public Policy for Private Sector Innovation." Charles Jones, ETIP Research
Fellow.
Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton(a)harvard.edu, (617) 496-5584, www.belfercenter.org/energy
12:00p - 1:00p Herbaria Seminar Series
(Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA)
"Phenological Interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana--Natural Variation and Natural
Selection." George Chiang, Donohue/Kramer Lab.
Contact: Margaret Richards, prichards(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 496-8062
3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
(Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA)
isit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics
of discussion.
Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-384-8398,
www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
4:15p MIT Energy Initiative Seminar Series
(MIT Building 66, Room 110, Cambridge, MA)
"Sunlight-driven Hydrogen Formation by Membrane-Supported Photoelectrochemical Water
Splitting." Nate Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, California
Institute of Technology.
Contact: web.mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars/
6:30p - 11:45a HighWaterLine: Visualizing the Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Our Cities
(Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA)
A presentation by artist Eve Mosher of her project, "High Water Line" which
visualizes the impact of climate change on coastal cities.
Contact: Ilana Cohen, icilana(a)gmail.com
Wednesday 3/11/2009
10:30a - 12:00p Geopolitics of Energy Seminar Series
(Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, HKS, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA)
"The United States." Amy Myers Jaffe, Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies at the
Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University.
Contact: bcsia_ksg(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-1400, belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/3...
12:15p Regional Integration in the GCC: Energy as the Driving Force
(Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK St., JFK School of Government, Cambridge,
MA)
Contact: dubai_initiative(a)ksg.harvard.edu
4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
(Littaur-382, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
"Equilibrium Selection in Counterfactual Simulations: The U.S. Corporate Average Fuel
Economy Standards." Hunt Allcott and Erich Muehlegger, Harvard University.
Contact: Jason Chapman, Jason_Chapman(a)ksg.harvard.edu, 617-496-8054
5:00p - 7:00p Science and Democracy Lecture Series
(Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA)
"Connected Publics: Power and Politics in a Networked Age." A panel discussion
between: Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School), Antoine Picon (Harvard Graduate School of
Design), Lucy Suchman (Sociology, Lancaster University & MIT [visiting]), and Sherry
Turkle (STS, MIT).
Contact: www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/
8:00p Environmental Action Committee Meeting
(Spindell Room, Quincy House, 58 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA)
Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a
difference for the environment is welcome.
Contact: Caitlin Rotman, caitlin.rotman(a)gmail.com
Thursday 3/12/2009
3:30p China Project Seminar
(Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"The Allocation of Pollutant Emission Reductions in China's Five Year
Plans." Dr. ZHU Xufeng, Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute.
Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu
6:00p Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"Proteogenomics as an approach for the study of natural microbial communities."
Jill Banfield (Host: Helen White).
Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495 8643,
www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html
6:30p - 8:30p Housing Cities Symposium 2009: Opening Event
(MIT Stata Center, R&D Commons, 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA)
A conversation with Sandra Henriquez, Administrator and CEO of the Boston Housing
Authority.
Contact: www.housingcities2009.com/
6:30p - 9:00p How to Get into the Energy Business? Volunteer!
(Offices of Holland & Knight 10 St. James Avenue 11th Floor Boston, MA)
Keynote speaker: Nick d'Arbeloff, President, New England Clean Energy Council
(NECEC).
Contact: Andrew Becker, andrew.becker(a)ypenergy.org, (617) 429-8314,
www.ypenergy.org/en/cev/223
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