Dear Friends of HUCE,

This email contains event listings for Thursday, October 25 through Wednesday, November 7, 2007. Please check the HUCE calendar on our Web site, www.environment.harvard.edu, for the most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions throughout the semester.

If you would like to submit an event to the calendar or unsubscribe (!) from this list, contact Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment: lisa_matthews@harvard.edu.

Please distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues, and anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the community. We hope to see you soon and often.

Highlights:

*Monday, October 29: The Canada Program presents a special seminar with Peter Irniqu, Inuit, activist and former Commissioner of the Territory of Nunavut, “An Inuit Perspective on Climate Change”

*Monday, October 29: “The Changing Carbon Cycle: How Fast Will Atmospheric CO2 Increase?”, with Inez Fung, professor of atmospheric sciences, co-director, Berkeley Institute of the Environment, University of California Berkeley.

*Thursday, November 1: Family Friendly Nights at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics presents "Our Place in Space," with Meredith Hughes.

Calendar Listings:

Thursday 10/25/2007

4:00p

OEB Seminar: The origins of complexity: Mechanisms of functional evolution in the steroid human receptors
Joe Thornton, University of Oregon
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu

6:00p - 7:00p
Student Speaker Series: Rural Community Water Systems in India: Opportunities and Challenges for Public Private Partnerships
Anjalli Ravi Kumar, KSG student, will be presenting, followed by a discussion
Belfer Center Library, 3rd floor Littauer, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA

7:00p
Center for Astrophysics: Family Friendly Nights
"Our Place in Space," with speaker Meredith Hughes
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
Contact: pubaffairs@cfa, 617-495-7461

7:30p
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Monthly Observatory Nights
"Mars Phoenix: Following the Water," with Rebecca Siddons & Michael Krushinsky
60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: pubaffairs@cfa.harvard.edu, 617-495-7461

Friday 10/26/2007

8:30a - 9:30a
Friday Chalktalk: "Harnessing Environmental Diversity for Improving Microbial Biofuel Production"
Speaker: Dr. Gautam Dantas, The Church Lab, Harvard Medical School, Mass General Hospital
HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Christy Herren, herren@fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-8643

12:30p - 1:30a
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds
"Considerations of Acute and Chronic effects of Chlorine Gas Exposure." Kenneth R. Spaeth

Kresge 502, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
Contact: Ann Backus, abackus@hohp.harvard.edu, 617-432-3327

Sunday 10/28/2007

7:00p
Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast
Featuring Dr. Peter C. Frumhoff, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Will Brownsberger, State Representative
Belmont High School, 221 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA
Contact: sustainablebelmont@gmail.com

Monday 10/29/2007

11:30a
Canada Program Special Seminar: An Inuit Perspective on Climate Change
Peter Irniq, Inuit, activist, and former Commissioner of the Territory of Nunavut
RSVP: canada@wcfia.harvard.edu, 617 495-3671

12:00p - 1:00p
Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Kurt House, khouse@fas.harvard.edu

12:30p - 1:30p
Presentation: Graduate Environmental Professional Studies at Duke University
Lisa Rattray, MEM, Admissions Officer, Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences
HUCE Meeting Room 318, 3rd floor, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Lisa Blumenthal Rattray, lisa.rattray@duke.edu

4:00p
Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia
Check seminar Web site for speaker information.
Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Jason Miller, miller@eps.harvard.edu

4:15p
Lectures in the Sciences: The Changing Carbon Cycle
Inez Fung, professor of atmospheric sciences, co-director, Berkeley Institute of the Environment
Lecture Hall A, Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA.
Contact: 617-495-8600

6:30p
Convergence of Climate Change, Energy Policy, and National Security
A conversation with Mr. Theodore Roosevelt IV, hosted by Lehman Brothers
The Charles Hotel, Longfellow Room, 1 Bennett St., Cambridge, MA.
RSVP required: Carey Starno, carey.starno@lehman.com

Tuesday 10/30/2007

9:00a - 4:00p
Tipping Point grassroots training day
Appalachian Mountain Club, Cabot Auditorium, 5 Joy St., Boston, MA
Contact: Alana Miller, amiller@smith.edu, 858 405-5613

12:00p
Herbaria Seminar Series
Carol Shearer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact: www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/

6:00p
Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series
"Ethnobotany: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Medicine" with Dr. Michael Balick, Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu

Thursday 11/1/2007

12:00p
Biological Anthropology Seminar: Social learning and traditions in wild capuchin monkeys
Speaker: Dr. Susan Perry, Department of Anthropolgy, UCLA
HUCE Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm

4:00p
OEB Seminar: Reproductive conflict, demography, and the evolution of menopause
Speaker Dr. Michael Cant, Department of Zoology, Cambridge University
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu

7:00p
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Family Friendly Nights
"Our Place in Space," with Meredith Hughes
60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

Contact: pubaffairs@cfa.edu, 617 495-7461

Friday 11/2/2007

11:30a - 12:30p
Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series
Dominik Kulakowski – Clark University
Harvard Forest Seminar Room, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, aabarker@fas.harvard.edu, 978 724-3302

12:00p
Atmospheric Seminar Series
Jennifer Harden, United States Geological Survey
Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Contact: Nicole Smith-Downey, nsdowney@fas.harvard.edu

Saturday 11/3/2007

8:00a
Real Food Summit: Students Mobilizing for Just and Sustainable Food
Contact: Marissa Grossman, mgrossman@thefoodproject.org, 617 442-1322 x19

Sunday 11/4/2007

2:00p - 3:00p
Sunday Family Program: ¡Descubriendo la Biodiversidad! Learning about Biodiversity!
Speakers Brian Farrell and Irina Ferreras
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Contact: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045

4:00p - 5:00p
Transcriptional Control of Energy Homeostasis
Bruce M. Spiegelman, Professor of Cell Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
KSG G-2, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA.
Contact: Janice Stenger , jstenger@hsph.harvrd.edu, 617-432-4822

Monday 11/5/2007

12:00p - 1:00p
Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Kurt House, khouse@fas.harvard.edu

12:00p
CSRI New Directions in Regulation Seminar Series
Robert Stavins, Kennedy School of Government: "Proposal for a U.S. Cap-and-Trade System to Address Global Climate Change."
Bell Hall, 5th floor, Belfer Building, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Jennifer Nash, 617 384-7325

12:15p - 1:30p
Cell Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Michael Skinner, Director & Professor Center for Reproductive Biology, Washington State University Pullman
Cannon Room, Building C, Rm. 114, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Contact: Joan Ruderman , 617-432-1104

4:00p
Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia
Check seminar Web site for speaker information.
Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: miller@eps.harvard.edu

Tuesday 11/6/2007

9:30a - 11:00a
Continental Scale Wind Power: Resources and Variations in Production
Speaker: Juha Kiviluoma, ETIP Fellow
L-369, Belfer Center Library, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of Government
Contact: ETIP Coordinator, sam_milton@harvard.edu, 617 496-5584, www.energytechnologypolicy.org

12:00p
Herbaria Seminar Series
Kyra N. Krakos, Washington Univ., St. Louis

Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact: www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/

3:30p
Carl Linnaeus: A 300-Year Legacy, Systema Naturae Display
One day exhibit of Systema Naturae
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Contact: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu, 617 495-3045

Wednesday 11/7/2007

4:15p - 5:30p
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Kate Emans Sims, Harvard University. “The Effects of Protected Areas on Land Use and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Northern Thailand.”
L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis@harvard.edu, 617 496-8054

7:00p
Harvard Climate Change Colloquium: “God and the Climate: Reaching Out to Evangelicals”
Richard Cizik, Vice President for Governmental Affairs, National Association of Evangelicals
Institute of Politics Conference Room, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: www.greencrimson.com

Lisa Matthews

Events Coordinator

Harvard University Center for the Environment

24 Oxford Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

lisa_matthews@harvard.edu

p. 617-495-8883

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