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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 Highlights: Monday, April 21: Representative Edward Markey, 7th Congressional District (D-Mass), Chairman, House Select Committee on Energy Tuesday, April 22: Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick discusses his vision for the future of clean energy in the Commonwealth. Wednesday, April 30: "Covering a Climate Change" focuses on the role of the media in covering climate issues, how it can be most effective and the challenges of keeping pace with the science of a changing environment. Calendar Listings: Thursday 4/17/2008 12:00p - 1:30p Regulation and Global Climate Change Seminar (Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, 79 JFK St., Cambridge) "An Analysis of U.S. Carbon Pricing Legislation" with Gilbert E. Metcalf, Professor of Economics, Tufts University Contact: rpp@ksg.harvard.edu, 617.384.7325, www.ksg.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/rpp/contac... 2:00p EPS Special Lecture (Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 20 Oxford St., 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA) "Sulfur Isotope Geobiology" with David Johnston, Microbial Science Initiative Fellow, Harvard University Contact: Sarah Colgan, colgan@eps.harvard.edu 2:00p - 4:00p Reconciling China's Economic Growth with Control of Air Pollution and Carbon Emissions (Note TIME and ROOM Change: Room N-262, CGIS Knafel North Bldg, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA) Speakers: Chris Nielsen, Executive Director, China Project; WANG Yuxuan, Research Associate in Atmospheric Chemistry, HSEAS; and Mun HO, Visiting Fellow in Economics, Harvard Institute for Quantita... Contact: Jennifer Downing, hcf@fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-9774 4:00p OEB Seminar (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge) "Niche Conservatism, Evolution, and Applied Ecology: Challenges and Opportunities" with Dr. Robert D. Holt, University of Florida. Contact: Heather Ehlers, hehlers@oeb.harvard.edu 5:00p - 6:00p Spring Tea with the 2007-2008 science fellows at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Greenleaf House, 76 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA) Meet the 2007-2008 Radcliffe Science Fellows Contact: Becki Smith, science@radcliffe.edu , 617.496.5545 7:00p Center for Astrophysics Monthly Observatory Nights (Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) "The Search for Stellar Origins," with Charles Lada, Center for Astrophysics. Contact: pubaffairs@cfa.harvard.edu, (617) 495-7461, www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/mon.html Friday 4/18/2008 11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) Speaker: Erik Hobbie - Complex Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire. Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker@fas.harvard.edu, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 12:00p OEB Special Seminar (MCZ 101, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Skull development in caecilian amphibians: systematic and evolutionary implications" with Hendrik Mueller, University of Jena, Germany, Host: Hanken Lab. Contact: Emily Becker, ebecker@oeb.harvard.edu 2:30p Gender and the Environment: Women's Role in Environmental Leadership (Taubman 5th Floor, Allison Dining Room, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) Contact: Amanda Swanson, amanda_swanson@harvard.edu 3:00p EPS Special Lecture (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "Tracking Precambrian O2" with David Johnston, Microbial Science Initiative Fellow, Harvard University Contact: Sarah Colgan, colgan@eps.harvard.edu 4:00p SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium (Pierce Hall, Room 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Electronics on plastic: A solution to the energy challenge, or just a pipe dream?" with Stephen Forrest, University of Michigan Saturday 4/19/2008 1:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series (HMNH, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "The Earth from Space: Satellite Measurements of Pollution and Solar Radiation" lecture by Kelly Chance. Contact: www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... 2:00p - 12:45p Harvard Museum of Natural History DVD Screening (HMNH, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Dimming the Sun" This 55-minute NOVA documentary investigates the discovery that the pollution may be causing less sunlight to reach Earth over time. Contact: www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... Monday 4/21/2008 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion. Contact: Kurt House, khouse@fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 12:00p - 2:00p Science, Technology, and Society Circle (124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106, Cambridege, MA) "Working Levels, Working Knowledge: Indoor Radon and the Environmental Protection Agency" with Ellen Bales (History of Science and Technology, UC Berkeley). Contact: Sang-Hyun Kim, sang-hyun_kim@ksg.harvard.edu, www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/ 4:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Eric Geist, United States Geological Survey. Seminar titles are posted one week in advance of each talk. Contact: miller@eps.harvard.edu, www-eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscollo... 5:00p Future of Energy (Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA) Rep. Edward J. Markey, Chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, 7th Congressional District, (D-Mass.) "Reclaiming U.S. Leadership on Global Warming" Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews@harvard.edu, (617) 495-8883, www.environment.harvard.edu Tuesday 4/22/2008 9:30a - 11:00a Energy Policy Seminar Series (Littauer-324, Fainsod Room, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) "Optimal Environmental Policy under Economic Fluctuations" with speaker Garth Heutel, HUCE Fellow. Contact: Louisa Lund, louisa_lund@harvard.edu, (617) 495-8693 11:30a 11:00a EPS Special Lecture (Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 20 Oxford St., 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA) "The Neoproterozoic & Cambrian of Mongolia: foredeeps, phosphorites, and the formation of central Asia" with Francis Macdonald, Harvard University Contact: Sarah Colgan, colgan@eps.harvard.edu 6:00p - 7:00p Ross Gelbspan to Speak on Climate Change (2nd floor Amphitheater at Lesley University located in University Hall at 1815 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA) Contact: Sarah Jones, studentactivities@lesley.edu , 617/349-8565 Friday 4/25/2008 8:00a - 5:00p Earth History and Paleobiology Special Symposium (Hoffman Laboratories, 4th Floor, 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "A world in transition: Geobiology of the Proterozoic-Cambrian II" a symposium featuring the research of young scientists on old rocks. Contact: Francis Macdonald, fmacdon@fas.harvard.edu, www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~knollgrp/... 11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) Speaker: Andrew Altieri – Brown University. "Agents of environmental change: ecological interactions along stress gradients" Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker@fas.harvard.edu, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 12:00p Atmospheric Sciences Seminar (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "3-D Virtual Reality Visualization of Wind in the Amazon Forest: Atmospheric-Biosphere Interactions at Local and Regional Scales" with Gil Bohrer and Marcos Longo, Harvard University. Hos... Contact: Brenda Mathieu, bmathieu@seas.harvard.edu , www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html Saturday 4/26/2008 11:00a - 3:00p Environmental Action Committee's Earth Day Celebration (MAC Quad, Harvard Campus, Cambridge) Come to the MAC quad for free local ice cream, live music, and games. Learn about a variety of green topics from student groups and get involved in the environmental movement at Harvard and beyond. Contact: Alexandra A. Mushegian, amusheg@fas.harvard.edu 12:00p - 7:00p EPS Day (Hoffman Labs, 4th Floor, 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) An annual symposium of short presentations and posters by postdoctoral fellows and senior graduate students in the Earth and Planetary Science Department. There will be 8 speakers (several of whom ... Contact: Jenny Fisher, jafisher@fas.harvard.edu, www.eps.harvard.edu/eps_%20day_%20200... Monday 4/28/2008 Science, Technology, and Society Workshop (TBA) Beyond the Creation-Evolution Controversy: Science and Religion in Public Life: Janet Browne (Department of the History of Science, Harvard University) Contact: Sang-Hyun Kim, sang-hyun_kim@ksg.harvard.edu, www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/ 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html 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) Speaker: Rod Ewing, University of Michigan. Seminar titles are posted one week in advance of each talk. Refreshments to follow, Hoffman 4th floor. Contact: miller@eps.harvard.edu, www-eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscollo... 5:30p Oil Shockwave: Oil Crisis Executive Simulation (JFK Forum, Littauer Building, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) Please join us on April 28, 2008 at Harvard's John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum as a group of former White House advisors and senior government officials contends with a simulated oil crisis. The participa... Contact: belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/oilforum... Tuesday 4/29/2008 9:30a Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series (Belfer Center Library (L-369), Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA) "Coal Assessment and Extraction in India: Issues and Prospects" with speaker Ananth Chikkatur, ETIP Research Fellow. Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton@harvard.edu, www.energytechnologypolicy.org 11:30a Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series (Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street) "Self-healing shear rupture pulse driven by thermal pressurization of pore fluid" with Dmitry Garagash, Department of Civil and Resource Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, C... Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM... 12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series (Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA) "Revisionary Systematics of the Tuberaceae and phylogenetic placement of unidentified Tuber mycorrhiza" with speaker Greg Bonito (Duke University) 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: Itay Halevy , ihalevy@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) "Dinoflagellates and the evolution of plastids" with Dr. Chuck Delwiche University of Maryland Contact: Phoebe Cohen, pacohen@fas.harvard.edu , www.eps.harvard.edu/seminars/ehapcoll... 4:00p - 5:30p Politics of the Environment: IOP Study Group (IOP First Floor Conference Room, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA ) Host: David Zwick, founder and former President of Clean Water Action, is a ground breaking expert in grassroots politics and organizing and has been a national environmental leader for more than t... Contact: jmckee@fas.harvard.edu, www.iop.harvard.edu/extcal/calendar.php# 6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Thinking Outside the Fossil Record: Explanations for the Cambrian Explosion of Animals" lecture by Harvard Professor Charles Marshall Contact: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... Wednesday 4/30/2008 4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy (Littauer-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) Speaker: Ian Parry, Resources for the Future. "Should Urban Transit Subsidies Be Reduced?" Contact: jason Chapman, jason_chapman@ksg.harvard.edu, isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword... 4:00p - 6:00p Covering a Changing Climate: The Media Challenge (Barker Center for the Humanities, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, The Thompson Room (Room 110), Cambridge, MA) A public lecture co-sponsored by The Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and The Society of Environmental Journalists featuring noted editors and journalists incl... Contact: Emily Huhn , Emily_Huhn@hms.harvard.edu , 617-384-8739, chge.med.harvard.edu/ 5:00p - 6:00p McKinsey & Company Global Energy and Materials (MIT, 66-110, Cambridge, MA) "Perspectives on Climate Change". Consensus is growing that a concerted economy-wide effort is needed to address rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but there are a lot of questions ar... Contact: Contact Steven Peters, energy-events@mit.edu Thursday 5/1/2008 4:00p - 5:00p Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Chris Amemiya, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle. Title: TBA. Hosted by the Edwards Lab. Contact: Deborah Smiley, (617) 384-5062 4:00p - 5:00p Climate Seminar (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Isaac Held, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University Contact: Sarah Colgan, colgan@eps.harvard.edu, 617-496-9770, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... |
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