Highlights: Wednesday, January 27: Harvard biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham discusses the bold theory that our ancestors tamed fire and began cooking 1.8 million years ago, much earlier than conventionally believed in the opening event of the HMNH "Food for Thought" series. Thursday, January 28: Robert Stavins, Harvard Kennedy School, discusses "Climate Change Policy after Copenhagen" in the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Luncheon Seminar. Thursday, February 4: Stephen Long, Professor in Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois, presents "Bioenergy, Biodiversity, Food and Global Change Mitigation - Can we have it all?" at the first lecture in the spring HUCE Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change series. Calendar Listings: Today: 3:30pm China Project Seminar Maxwell Dworkin 119 33 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "Present and Future Contributions of Sulfate, Black and Organic Carbon Aerosols from China to Global Air Quality, Premature Mortality, and Radiative Forcing." Denise Mauzerall, associate professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. http://chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminar%20folder/seminar/Mauzerall100121 Chris Nielsen nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu 6:00pm HBS Association of Boston - Solving the Global Climate Change Puzzle: Private Innovation and Government Regulation HBS Aldrich 112 on the HBS campus Allston, MA Come hear what one of the eminent researchers on innovation, HBS' own Rebecca Henderson and one of the major players in the clean energy space, Daniel Goldman, think about the future of climate change, and participate in what promises to be a lively exchange of views. Registration and fee. http://www.hbsab.org/article.html?aid=312 January 22, 2010 8:00am - 9:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA "Anti-social behavior in B. subtilis." Rich Losick, Harvard Molecular and Cellular Biology. Host: Colleen Cavanaugh. Please join us for coffee/tea/pastries at 8:30 am MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu 10:30am - 12:00pm Special Presentation: Research topics in smart electricity distribution grids MIT 51-145 Cambridge, MA Prof. Tomás Gómez, Institute for Research in Technology, Comillas University, Madrid, Spain; visiting researcher at the Energy Analysis Department of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Sponsored by: MIT-Spain, MIT Engineering Systems Division. Prof. Ignacio Perez-Arriaga Ipa(a)mit.edu 11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA "Collecting scientific provenance data via the definition and execution of scientific processes." Barbara Lerner, Mount Holyoke College. Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu 4:00pm - 5:30pm MIT Energy Club Event MIT 3-133 Cambridge, MA Discussion with Henry Kelly, Department of Energy Initiatives on Renewables and Efficiency. Free and open to the public. http://www.mitenergyclub.org Rebecca Walsh Dell rwdell(a)mit.edu 4:00pm HMNH Opening Exhibit - Domesticated: Modern Dioramas of Our New Natural History, photographs by Amy Stein Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA In Domesticated, New York visual artist Amy Stein explores the tenuous relationship between humans and animals through staged scenes inspired by true events in rural Pennsylvania. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/images/stories/documents/stein_release2.pdf January 23, 2010 8:30am - 3:00pm Cambridge Climate Congress Cambridge City Hall, Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA The Climate Congress will recommend actions to the Cambridge City Council for reducing the City of Cambridge’s carbon footprint. http://www.cambridgema.gov/deptann.cfm?story_id=2450 617-349-4321 January 25, 2010 11:45am Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of dicussion. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu 6:00pm - 8:45pm MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge - From Inside and Out: Energy Efficient Buildings Microsoft New England Research & Development Center One Memorial Drive Suite 100 Cambridge, MA 02142 Join us as we explore green building and interact with some of the thought leaders in the space already “making it happen”. Registration required. http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/EnergySIG/ESIG.html January 26, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm Harvard Herbaria Seminar Harvard Herbaria Seminar Room 22 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA "Young and old small RNAs in land plants: Evolution, biogenesis, and functions." Michael Axtell, Penn State University. Erin Ciccone (617) 495-7504 January 27, 2010 11:45am - 12:45pm Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/calendars/applied_physical_sciences…... Pierce Hall 114 29 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA Speaker Soeren Zorn. Hosted by Professor Scot Martin. Norma Stewart nstewart(a)seas.harvard.edu 7:30pm HMNH: Food for Thought Program Series and Booksigning Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human." Author Richard Wrangham discusses the theory that our Paleolithic Homo ancestors tamed fire and began cooking 1.8 million years ago, much earlier than conventionally believed. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/kids-and-families/google-calendar.html hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu January 28, 2010 11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Meeting Room 318 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided. Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:00pm - 1:30pm Business and Government Luncheon Seminar Bell Hall 5th Floor Belfer Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA "Climate Change Policy After Copenhagen." Robert Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. RSVP required. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/events.htm mrcbg(a)ksg.harvard.edu 1:00pm Cambridge Forum: A Mini Conference on Global Climate Change First Parish Church 3 Church St. Cambridge, MA Scientists explore the impact of atmospheric methane on the earth's temperature, as well as the impact that climate change will have on human health, environmental migration, agricultural production, and sea level. http://www.cambridgeforum.org 5:30pm - 6:45pm Controlling Climate Change after Copenhagen: A European Perspective The Crowe Room (Goddard 310) Tufts University Medford, MA A presentation by Dr. Bert Metz, a Dutch scientist, who was the co-chair of IPCC Working Group III for the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports, and a senior researcher and climate division head for the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. Jacqueline Deelstra Jacqueline.Deelstra(a)tufts.edu January 29, 2010 11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA "Exploring historical hydrologic change across the Northeastern United States." Mark Green, Plymouth State University. http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu February 1, 2010 11:45am Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of dicussion. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu February 2, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm Herbaria Seminar Series 22 Divinity Ave, Seminar Room Harvard University Herbaria Cambridge, MA "Consequences of an altered fire regime on climate and carbon storage in arctic tundra." Adrian Rocha, Marine Biological Laboratory. http://www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/ Erin Ciccone (617) 495-7504 4:15pm MIT Energy Seminar MIT 66-110 (Landau Building, 25 Ames Street) Cambridge, MA "Why is Modernizing Our Energy Technologies So Darn Hard, But Worth the Effort?" Susan Tierney, Managing Principal at Analysis Group in Boston. Reception to follow. February 3, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm OEB Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Christopher Marx, Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University. Title TBA. February 4, 2010 11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Meeting Room 318 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided. Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu 5:00pm Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change Biolabs Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave "Bioenergy, Biodiversity, Food and Global Change Mitigation - Can we have it all?" Stephen Long, Professor of Crop Sciences, Robert Emerson Professor, and Resident Scientist for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 --- 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(a)harvard.edu. You are receiving this email because you indicated interest in Harvard University Center for the Environment events. [55]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. 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