**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(a)harvard.edu
<mailto:jenny_macgregor@harvard.edu>, 617-495-8883.
*Note: *The China Project Seminar with Prof. WANG Tao originally
schedule for Tomorrow, 10/26, has been rescheduled for 11/30/06
*Highlights:*
*10/31/06 -- Information session at HUCE for Duke University's Nicholas
School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
*11/2/06 -- Harvard Climate Seminar The 'instability' of the West
Antarctic Ice Sheet: - at 2PM
*11/2, 11/3 and 11/4/06/ /-- Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth" at the
Science Center
*Calendar Listings:*
*Thursday 10/26/2006 *
Time for Action: A Midnight Ride for Peak Oil
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60679994>
2006 Boston World Oil Conference Co-Hosted by ASPO-USA and Boston
University Boston University; Boston, Massachusetts
All Day Event
12:00p
Biomass-Derived Transportation Fuels to Meet Sustainability and Security
Objectives
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59481783>
Lee Lynd, Professor of Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Biology,
Dartmouth College
Innovation in Transportation Seminar Series
Carr Center conference room, Rubenstein 219, JFK School of Government
12:30p - 1:30p
Exciting Geospacial Dimensions of Public Health Research: New Challenges
and Mapping Health Inequalities
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60710634>
Chuck Croner, geographer and survey statistician, CDC
KSG 708
This event is open to the Harvard/Longwood community only
6:00p - 7:00p
Alternatives to Oil: Dream or Reality?
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60498910>
The Third Annual Everett-Moomaw Debate
TUFTS - ASEAN Auditorium
*Friday 10/27/2006 *
Time for Action: A Midnight Ride for Peak Oil
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60679994>
2006 Boston World Oil Conference Co-Hosted by ASPO-USA and Boston
University Boston University; Boston, Massachusetts
All Day Event
8:30a - 9:30p
Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59180735>
Johan Paulsson, Harvard University, HMS, Systems Biology Research Focus:
Modeling Gene Networks
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
11:00a - 12:00p
Land-use history and patterns of biodiversity in Southern Appalachian
forests
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60108038>
Scott Pearson, Mars Hill College and Harvard Bullard Fellow
Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series
Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest - Petersham, MA
12:30p - 1:30p
Methods to adjust for bias due to exposure measurement error in
environmental and occupational epidemiology
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60649738>
Dr. Donna Spiegelman, Professor of Epidemiologic Methods, Departments of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public
Health Environmental Statistics seminar
Harvard School of Public Health, Building 2, Room 426
2:00p - 5:30p
The Green Living Program Waste Audit
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60710653>
175 North Harvard Street, Cambridge
2:30p - 3:30p
Satellite-Observed US Powerplant NOx Emission Reductions and Their
Impact on Air Quality
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59669520>
Gregory J. Frost, NOAA
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge
*Sunday 10/29/2006*
3:00p - 5:00p
Henry David Thoreau Speaking For Nature
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60649764>
Dick Walton and John Huehnergard
Concord Art Association, 37 Lexington Road, Concord
7:30p - 8:30p
Global Warming and its Effects on New England
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60348362>
Kevin Knobloch, President, Union of Concerned Scientists
Cary Memorial Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA
*Monday 10/30/2006 *
4:00p - 5:00p
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60710701>
Brian Mapes, University of Miami
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford
*Tuesday 10/31/2006 *
12:00p - 2:30p
Information Session: Duke Nicholas School
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=58982205>
Harvard Center for Environment seminar room, 3rd floor, Geological
Museum Building, 24 Oxford St
4:00p - 5:00p
Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar Series
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60529259>
Felisa Wolfe-Simon Arizona State University
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
*
Wednesday 11/1/2006*
4:00p - 5:30p
Does Electricity Restructuring Benefit the Environment? A Structural,
Empirical Analysis of Intertemporal Emission Trading in the U.S. SO2
Allowance Market
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=58981890>
Fan Zhang, Harvard University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University
6:00p - 7:00p
Is the WTO Accountable?
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60529270>
Pascal Lamy, director-general, WTO, former European Commissioner for
Trade, 1999-2004 2006
Wiener Lecture on International Political Economy
John F. Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
*Thursday 11/2/2006*
8:30a - 5:00p
The 2nd Annual Conference on Clean Energy: Financing and Partnering for
Emerging Technologies
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=58982201>
Hynes Convention Center, Boston
2:00p - 4:15p
The 'instability' of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: for too long a
hypothesis?
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59209223>
Duncan Wingham, Director, Centre for Polar Observational Modelling,
Professor of Climate Physics, University College London
Harvard Climate Seminar
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford
7:30p
Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth"
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60559118>
Sponsored by the Harvard Environmental Action Committee Climate Change
Initiative
Science Center Lecture Hall D, Harvard
*Friday 11/3/2006 *
8:30a - 9:30p
Bacterial natural product assembly lines- Microbial Sciences Initiative
(MSI) Friday
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59180738>
Christopher T. Walsh, Harvard University (HMS, Biological Chemistry and
Molecular Pharmacology)
Research Focus: Enzymology
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
7:30p
Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth"
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60559119>
Sponsored by the Harvard Environmental Action Committee Climate Change
Initiative
Science Center Lecture Hall D, Harvard
*Saturday 11/4/2006 * **
7:30p
Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth"
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60559119>
Sponsored by the Harvard Environmental Action Committee Climate Change
Initiative
Science Center Lecture Hall D, Harvard
*Monday 11/6/2006 * **
4:00p - 5:00p
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60710702>
Dan Harlov, Experimental Geochemistry and Mineral Physics,
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
*Tuesday 11/7/2006 *
9:00a - 10:30p
Poverty Alleviation and the Environment in China
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59481789>
Zhang Shiqiu, Professor of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China
Energy Technology Innovation Project (ETIP) Seminar
Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, KSG
4:00p - 5:00p
Controlling Mercury Emissions at China's Coal-Fired Electricity Plants:
An Economic Analysis
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60680126>
ZHANG Shiqiu, Professor, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking
University
Harvard China Project Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St.,
*Wednesday 11/8/2006 *
8:00a - 9:15a
Genome Sequence Variation and the Inherited Basis of Disease
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60528868>
David Altshuler, MD, Ph.D, Director Program in Medical Population
Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Center for the Environment Genetics & Environmental Health Series
Kresge Room 110, HSPH, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
4:00p - 5:30p
Evaluating Policy Impacts on Tropical Deforestation
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=58981891>
Alexander Pfaff and Juan Andres Robalino, Columbia University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard
4:30p - 5:30p
Genesis: the Scientific Quest for Life's Origins
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60318004>
Robert Hazen, Carnegie
Part of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative Inaugural Symposium
Gutman Conference Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education
*Thursday 11/9/2006 *
3:30p - 4:30p
Disease process models: A way to link exposure and outcomes in
epidemiology
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=58363766>
Tom Smith
Colloquium in Environmental Health
Kresge G-2, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
7:30p
Religion and Climate Change
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60559125>
Boylston Hall Room 110, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Campus