Friday, March 5, 2010: The Harvard Office of Career services “Environmental, Energy, and Clean Tech Expo” helps students explore where future jobs and internships will be in these sectors.
Wednesday, March 10: The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for the Environment present a special event on the “Promises and Challenges of Development and Conservation in the Amazon.”
Save the dates! Mark your calendar for the three Future of Energy lectures in April, details below.
Biological Laboratories Main Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave.Cambridge, MA
"Good food and conservation: Molecular approaches to understanding the physiology of the squid-vibrio symbiosis." Ned Ruby, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Hosted by the Girguis Lab.
Faculty Dining Room (FDR) HarvardKennedySchool 79 JFK St.Cambridge, MA
Led by IOP Fellow Greg Nickels, Mayor of Seattle (2002-09), President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (2009), and Founder of the US Mayors Climate Protection agreement.
Littauer 166 HarvardKennedySchool. 79 JFK St.Cambridge, MA
Speaker: Dr. Robert Lichter, director of the Center for Media and Public Affairs at GeorgeMasonUniversity and Professor of Communications. His presentation and discussion will focus on issues of media bias and will include how global warming is portrayed. http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Spring-2010-Study-Group...
Coolidge Room Ballou Hall, TuftsUniversityMedford, MA
Discussion Moderated by Professor Kelly Sims Gallagher, Energy and Environmental Policy, The FletcherSchool. Contact Name: Jacqueline Deelstra Jacqueline.Deelstra@tufts.edu
HarvardBusinessSchool Aldrich 110 Soldiers Field RoadBoston, MA02131
Dr. Ory Zik, Co-Founder of HelioFocus Ltd., and Mr. Shi Chuliang, Chief Engineer and Head of Advanced R&D at China's Sanhua Holding Group, will discuss the prospects for U.S.-Israel-China cooperation in clean technology. RSVP required. http://www.meetup.com/boston-israel/calendar/12439606/
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
"Getting a charge out of the deep subsurface: A story of extracellular electron transport and hydrothermal vents." Mark Nielsen, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology. Host: Peter Girguis.
Nye Conference Room A, TaubmanBuilding, 5th FloorHarvardKennedySchool 79 JFK St.Cambridge, MA
"Climate policy after Copenhagen: the way forward for Europe and the world." Nancy Kontou, Former Head of Cabinet to the Commissioner for Environment, European Commission.
Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main StreetPetersham, MA
"The YatirPineForest semi-arid flux site – overview with details on tree water use and LAI." Shabtai Cohen, Institute of Soil, Water & Environmental Sciences (Israel), and Harvard Bullard Fellow.
GraduateSchool of Design Gund Hall, Room 111 46 Quincy St.Cambridge, MA
Discussion on Green Roofs with Christian Werthmann, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, GSD. Werthmann directs the Green Roof Initiative at the Graduate School of School of Design and will discuss contemporary design and management practices.
Haller Hall - Geo Museum 102 24 Oxford St.Cambridge, MA
"High-precision U-Pb geochronology and the two biggest extinctions in earth history." Samuel Bowring, MIT. Contact Name: Ganna Savostyanova ganna@eps.harvard.edu
HarvardCenter for Population and Development Studies 9 Bow StreetCambridge, MA
"Social Networks and Migration: A Modeling Approach" presented by Barbara Entwisle, Director of the Carolina Population Center, and Kenan Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 FrancisAvenueHarvardDivinitySchoolCambridge, MA
"Reality Check: How the Facts of Life on a Tough New Planet Shape Our Choices"
A presentation by Bill McKibben, scholar in residence at MiddleburyCollege and American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. A response will be given by Daniel Schrag, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Director of the HarvardUniversityCenter for the Environment.
"Who Killed the Electric Car?" is a 2006 documentary film that explores the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the early 1990s.
HarvardSchool of PublicHealthLandmarkCenter, Room 414A 401 Park DriveBoston, MA
"Linking GIS and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to Support Environmental Decision-Making: DECERNS WebSDSS." Boris Yatsalo, Ph.D., ObninskStateTechnicalUniversity (IATE), Obninsk, Russia.
ScienceCenter, Lecture Hall D HarvardUniversity 1 Oxford Street, CambridgeMA
Presentation and Commentary by: Arnóbio “Binho” Marques, Governor of the State of Acre, Brazil; Jorge Viana, Former Governor of the State of Acre, Brazil; Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School and former Minister of Strategic Affairs for the Brazilian government; and John Briscoe, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering at Harvard University and former World Bank Country Director for Brazil. http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil
MIT Lincoln Lab Cafeteria 244 Wood StreetLexington, MA
“Smart Grid Entrepreneur-ing”, the second session in the Series.
Smart Grid Entrepreneur-ing will address the Smart Grid as a business opportunity for Spin-offs, Spin-outs, Carve-outs, or just plain Start-ups. The evening will offer several diverse business and finance perspectives:
Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. Visit the website for topics of disucsion. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided.
"Modeling Private Car Ownership in China: Investigating the Impact of Urban Form across Mega-cities." LI Jieping, Transportation Planner, Central Transportation Planning Staff, Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization; former visiting scholar, Harvard China Project.
Faculty Dining Room (FDR) HarvardKennedySchool 79 JFK St.Cambridge, MA
Led by IOP Fellow Greg Nickels, Mayor of Seattle (2002-09), President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (2009), and Founder of the US Mayors Climate Protection agreement.
Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main StreetPetersham, MA
"Deforestation, climate and the future of the Amazon." Christopher Neill, the EcosystemsCenter, Marine Biological Laboratory and Harvard Bullard Fello.
CambridgeSchool of Culinary Arts 2020 Massachusetts Ave.Cambridge, MA02138
Rreview the unknown truths in today's food world and will move forward to the kitchen to prepare a seasonal luncheon that is both healthy, delicious and proudly green. Cost is $80.
A panel of experts discuss considerations that project developers need to make in today’s market, including various sources of capital, financial incentives and debt and equity structures.
Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. Visit the website for topics of discussion. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided.
Faculty Dining Room (FDR) HarvardKennedySchool 79 JFK St.Cambridge, MA
Led by IOP Fellow Greg Nickels, Mayor of Seattle (2002-09), President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (2009), and Founder of the US Mayors Climate Protection agreement.
--- Finding secure, safe and reliable sources of energy to power world economic growth will be one of the great challenges of this century. TheHarvardUniversityCenterfor the Environment invites the Harvard community to take up the challenge by participating in this ongoing series of discussions. THE FUTURE OF ENERGY Spring 2010 David MacKay Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and ClimateChange,UK Friday, April 2 Northwest Labs B103 – 4:00 pm [*please note change of location and time]
Kristina M. Johnson UnderSecretary of Energy,USDepartment of Energy Tuesday, April 13 Northwest Labs B103 – 4:00 pm
Marvin E. Odum President, Shell Oil Company and Managing Director for UpstreamAmericas Tuesday, April 27 ScienceCenterD - 4:00 pm
The Future of Energy lecture series is sponsored by theHarvardUniversityCenterfor the Environment with generous support from Bank of America. All of the lectures are free and open to the public. View detailed lecture information atwww.environment.harvard.edu. --- 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. Be sure to sign up to receive the HUCE newsletter.
