Dear Friends of HUCE,
Please be sure to 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 Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment: lisa_matthews@harvard.edu. Feel free to distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues, and anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the community.
Highlights:
Monday, November 3: Join Professors Graham Allison (HKS) and Daniel Schrag (EPS, SEAS) in a discussion with Carol Dumaine, Deputy Director for Energy and Environmental Security, Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, U.S. Department of Energy at this third "Green Conversations" event of the fall semester.
Thursday, November 6: China Project Seminar speaker Professor Liu Jianguo, Michigan State University, discusses the accelerating rate of resource consumption despite population decline in China.
Wednesday, November 12: Ulrich Beck, Professor of Sociology and director of the Institute for Sociology of Munich University, and the British Journal of Sociology Professor at the London School of Economics, presents "Risk Society's Cosmopolitan Moment: Climate change and the opportunity for a new world order."
Calendar Listings:
Thursday 10/30/2008
4:00p OEB Seminar Series
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"Southeast Asian Biodiversity in Crisis." Navjot Sodhi, Hrdy Fellow in Conservation Biology.
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu, www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin...
Friday 10/31/2008
8:30a - 9:30a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"What yeast talk about when they talk about love." Andrew Murray, FAS - Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Contact: Christy Herren, herren@fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495 8643, www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html
10:00a - 5:00p Postcolonial Wars: Current Perspectives on the Deferred Violence of Decolonization
(Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden St., Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA)
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Conference.
11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series
(Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA)
"A keystone mutualist shapes the distribution and dispersal of North American myrmecochores." Joshua Ness, Skidmore College
Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker@fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
2:00p - 6:15p History and Sustainability
(Robinson Hall, Lower Level Library, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
Prominent historians discuss the history of sustainability and environmental policy at this afternoon meeting.
Contact: www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/histsust/
Sunday 11/2/2008
2:00p Sustenance & Sustainability: Where Our Food Comes From
(Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway Boston, MA 02130-3500)
A conversation with world-renowned ethnobiologist and conservationist Gary Nabhan.
Contact: 617.384.5251, www.slowfoodboston.com
Monday 11/3/2008
12:00p - 1:00p 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: Kurt House, khouse@fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
4:00p EPS Fall Colloquium
(Haller Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Rheology of Lithospheric Shear Zones." Uli Faul, Boston University.
Contact: Ganna Savostyanova, annasavostyanova@gmail.com
5:00p Green Conversations with Carol Dumaine
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
Carol Dumiane, Deputy Director for Energy and Environmental Security, Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, U.S. Department of Energy Joined by Harvard Faculty Graham Allison (HKS) and Daniel Schrag (EPS, SEAS).
Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews@harvard.edu
Tuesday 11/4/2008
11:30a Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series
(Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 20 Oxford St., 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"True Triaxial Testing of Rock." John W. Rudnicki, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM...
12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series
(Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA)
"Phylogeny and Floral Development in Garcinia (Clusiaceae)." Patrick Sweeney, Yale, Peabody Museum.
Contact: www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
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...
4:00p Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar
(Haller Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Hits and Misses: Why Some Impacts and LIPs Cause Mass Extinctions and Others Do Not." Mike Arthur, Pennsylvania State University
Contact: ehap.seminar@gmail.com
Wednesday 11/5/2008
1:30p - 3:30p Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series
(The Landmark Center, 414A, Boston, MA)
Two talks on tthe health risks of mercury exposures.
Contact: Katherine von Stackelberg, Sc.D., kvon@hsph.harvard.edu, 617.998.1037
4:00p - 6:00p Power to the People: Lowering the Barriers to Building more Clean Energy in the US
(Boston University School of Management, Room 208, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA)
Speaker: Huck Lewin, a leader in both the business and non-profit worlds for more than twenty-five years.
Contact: people.bu.edu/buenergy/announce.htm
6:00p - 7:00p Wind Sub-Community Lecture Series: Developing a Wind Project
(MIT, 4-159, Cambridge, MA)
Speakers: Justin Dawe, formerly of Horizon Wind and Noah Bullock, Deerpath Energy
Contact: Katherine Dykes, dykesk@mit.edu
7:00p - 9:00p Science in the News Seminar Series
(Armenise amphitheater, Harvard Medical School, Longwood Campus, Boston, MA)
Visit the Science in the News website for the schedule of topics.
Contact: sitnboston@yahoo.com, www.hms.harvard.edu/sitn/
Thursday 11/6/2008
2:15p - 4:00p Challenges of the 21st Century Lecture Series
(Lower Level Conference Room, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
"Challenges Surrounding Public Health" with speaker Mrs. Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Environment.
Contact: Sarah Delude, sadelude@fas.harvard.edu
3:30p China Project Seminar
(Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Accelerating Resource Consumption despite Decelerating Population Growth: The Hidden Role of Household Proliferation in China." Professor LIU Jianguo, Michigan State University.
Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2@fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-2378, chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminar%20fo...
4:00p OEB Seminar Series
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"Phylogenies from Morphometrics." Benjamin de Bivort, Harvard University. Host: Giribet Lab.
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu, www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin...
4:00p Climate Seminar
(Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Climate sensitivity to forcing location and type and implications for 20th century climate change." Drew Shindell, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Contact: Shuting Jin , jin@fas.harvard.edu, 617.384.9005 , www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
6:30p - 8:30p Arnold Arboretum Adult Education
(Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway Boston, MA 02130-3500)
"Brave New Ecology: Nature in a Changing World". Peter Del Tredici, Senior Research Scientist, Arnold Arboretum and Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School ...
Contact: landscape@arnarb.harvard.edu, 617.524.1718, calendar.arboretum.harvard.edu/index....
Friday 11/7/2008
7:30a - 12:00p EBC Environmental-Energy-Climate Change Business Summit
(Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag Bay Colony Corporate Center, 1000 Winter St., Suite 4000, North Entrance, Waltham, MA)
Contact: ebc.terranovum.com/index.php?id=77&am...
8:30a - 9:30a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"Chasing pathogens in live cells by cutting edge fluorescence microscopy." Boerries Brandenburg, Postdoctoral Fellow, FAS - Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Contact: Christy Herren, herren@fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495 8643, www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html
11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series
(Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA)
"Biological invasions, global climate change and species distribution models: an investigation of species-climate relationships across space and time." Matt Fitzpatrick, University of Rhode Island.
Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker@fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
Monday 11/10/2008
12:00p - 1:00p 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: Kurt House, khouse@fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
12:00p Can Cities Shrink to Greatness? Sustainable Design and (Un)Development in Cities
(Taubman 275, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
Assistant Professor Justin Hollander introduces a new model for local governments to manage economic decline through physical design and planning.
Contact: Erin Dea, Erin_Dea@ksg.harvard.edu, www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/event...
Tuesday 11/11/2008
7:30p - 12:00p Cambridge Entomological Club Meeting
(Museum of Comparative Zoology, 101, 26 Oxford Street, Harvard University Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"Coevolution between insects and autumn colors." Marco Archetti, Oxford University.
Contact: entclub.org/
Wednesday 11/12/2008
4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
(Littaur-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
"Impacts of State-Level Limits on Greenhouse Gases Per Mile in the Presence of the National CAFE Standard." Mark Jacobsen, University of California, San Diego
Contact: Jason Chapman, Jason_Chapman@ksg.harvard.edu, 617-496-8054, www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/heep/event...
5:00p - 7:00p Science and Democracy Lecture Series
(Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA)
"Risk Society's Cosmopolitan Moment: Climate change and the opportunity for a new world order." Ulrich Beck, Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich, and the British Journal of Sociology Professor at the London School of Economics and Sciences.
Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews@harvard.edu, 617-495-8883
7:00p - 9:00p Science in the News Seminar Series
(Armenise amphitheater, Harvard Medical School, Longwood Campus, Boston, MA)
Visit the Science in the News website for the schedule of topics.
Contact: sitnboston@yahoo.com, www.hms.harvard.edu/sitn/
Thursday 11/13/2008
3:30p Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series
"Dynamic Stress Drop and Rupture Velocity for Mining Induced Seismicity." Wojciech Debski, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM...
4:00p OEB Seminar Series
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"The Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis." Rowan Sage, University Of Toronto. Host: Holbrook Lab
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu, www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin...
6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History: Earth Matters
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Earth and Human: A Planetary Perspective." Charles Langmuir, Higgins Professor of Geochemistry
Contact: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045 , www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe...
6:00p Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
Speaker: Karen Casciotti (WHOI), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Research Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry.
Contact: Christy Herren, herren@fas.harvard.edu, www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html
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