Dear HUCE Faculty and Friends,

Please refer to the Center website for complete details on these and other environmental events taking place at and near Harvard. If you would like to add an event to the calendar, or unsubscribe from this list, please contact Jenny MacGregor, jenny_macgregor@harvard.edu, 617-495-8883.

Highlights:

*10/1/06 – Environmental Society Annual Barbeque for Harvard students
*10/4/06 – Matthew Khan and Green Cities at KSG
*10/5/06 – The First Harvard Climate Seminar of the Fall Term

Calendar Listings:

Friday 9/29/2006

8:30a - 9:30p
Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday
Jon Clardy, Harvard University (HMS, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology) Research Focus: Microbial Chemical Biology
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street

12:30p - 1:45p
Susceptibility Factors to the Health Effects of Environmental Exposures: an Italian multi-city case-crossover analysis
Massimo Stafoggia, of the Department of Epidemiology, Local Health Authority, Rome, and student in the Department of Biostatistics in the Harvard School of Public Health
Environmental Statistics Seminar
School of Public Health, Building 2, Room 426, Boston

Saturday 9/30/2006

9:00a - 5:00p
Arthropods: Creatures that Rule - Exhibit public opening
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

Sunday 10/1/2006

5:00p - 8:00p Environment Society Annual Fall BBQ
Quincy House Senior Common Room & Garden, 58 Plympton St.

Monday 10/2/2006

10:00a - 11:00a
Rebuilding After Katrina
Part of its fall series - Human Rights at Home: America’s Response to Domestic Disaster.
The Carr Center in collaboration with The Joint Center for Housing Studies
Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219, 79 JFK Street, KSG

12:00p - 1:30p
Harvard Energy Journal Club (HEJC)
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street

4:00p - 5:00p
Magnetization of Martian Crust
Jafar Arkamni-Ahmed
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquia
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street

Tuesday 10/3/2006

3:00p - 4:00p
ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
Conference Room, Center for Climate and Atmosphere, Geological Museum Building, 24 Oxford Street, 4th Floor

4:30p - 5:45p
Scaling up HIV Testing and Counseling: Debates and Evidence
Dr. Carla Obermeyer
Sponsored by The Harvard Initiative for Global Health & Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
9 Bow St., Cambridge, MA

6:00p - 7:15p
The Making of the Fittest. Lecture and booksigning by Sean Carroll
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

Wednesday 10/4/2006

12:00p - 1:15p
Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment
Matthew Kahn, Professor of International Economics, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Taubman Center for State and Local Government Seminar
Fainsod Room, 324 Littauer Building, 79 John F. Kennedy Street

3:45p - 5:00p
Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions with a Wireless Sensor Network
Matt Welsh, Harvard University, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Initiative in Innovative Computing Seminar
60 Oxford Street, Room 330

4:00p - 5:30p
Is Clean Water Overrated?
Michael Kremer, Economics Department, Harvard University, et al.
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Public policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government

5:30p - 6:30p
Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) and the Three-Dimensional Mapping and Analysis of Deeply Buried Archaeological Sites
Lawrence Conyers, Denver University
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Thursday 10/5/2006

10:00a - 11:00a
Cyber-chat on Climate Change

12:00p - 1:00p
Ecological diversification and evolutionary patterns in desert lizard communities
Jane Melville, Herpetology Department Museum
OEB Seminars
MCZ 101, 26 Oxford Street

4:00p - 5:15p
A Modest Role for Atmospheric CO2 in the Progression of Ice Ages
Robbie Toggweiler, Researcher, Oceans and Climate Group, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA, Princeton University
Harvard Climate Seminar
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street

Friday 10/6/2006

8:30a - 9:30p
Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday
Howard Berg, Harvard University (FAS- Molecular and Cellular Biology)
Research Focus: Motility and Chemotaxis
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street

11:00a - 12:15p
Grasslands as biodiversity hotspots of the European cultural landscape: ecological aspects of conservation and restoration
Kai Jensen, Smith College and University of Hamburg
Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series
Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest - Petersham, MA

4:00p - 5:15p
Mathematical models of hurricanes, dust storms & similar natural phenomena
Grigory I. Barenblatt, Professor in Residence, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley
Pierce Hall 209, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge

Monday 10/9/2006

12:00p - 1:30p
Harvard Energy Journal Club (HEJC)
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street

Tuesday 10/10/2006

9:00a - 10:30a
Exploring the Role of the Private Sector in Addressing Climate Change
Craig Hart, PhD. Candidate, MIT
Energy Technology Innovation Project (ETIP) Seminar Coffee
Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, KSG

3:00p - 4:00p
ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
Conference Room, Center for Climate and Atmosphere, Geological Museum Building, 24 Oxford Street, 4th Floor

Wednesday 10/11/2006

4:00p - 5:30p
The Impact of Critical Habitat Designation on the California Housing Market
Jeffrey Zabel, Tufts University, and Robert Paterson, Industrial Economics
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Public policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government

6:00p - 7:15p
One World, One Health: Protecting the health of people, animals, and the planet
Dr. William Karesh, DVM, Director of Wildlife Conservation Society's Field Veterinary Program
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge