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 Lisa Matthews at the Center
for the Environment: lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu. Feel free to
distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues,
and anyone else who may be interested in environmental
events around the community.
Highlights
February 15: Tomorrow, Chris Llewellyn-Smith, Chairman, ITER Council, describes how fusion
works, its characteristics as an energy source, the remaining outstanding challenges, a
timetable for developing fusion power, and the role that it could play in the future
energy mix in "The Path to Fusion Power."
February 22: The HUCE Green Conversations series welcomes Lester Brown, author of
"Plan B 3.0", a call for worldwide mobilization to raise energy efficiency in
every sector of the economy, including buildings, lighting, heating and cooling, and
transportation. Plan B calls for harnessing the earth's renewable sources of energy
through ambitiously exploiting the earth's solar, wind, and geothermal energy
sources-and shows it is doable with existing technologies. Harvard faculty Michael McElroy
(EPS) and Daniel Schrag (HUCE, EPS) will feature as panelists in the conversation.
Calendar Listings:
Thursday 2/14/2008
6:00p
Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"Genome dynamics and the evolution of bacterial pathogens" with speaker Julian
Parkhill, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK. Host: Ashlee Earl (Kolter Lab,
MMG-HMS).
Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617 495 8643 ,
www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html
6:00p HMNH: Evolution Matters Lecture Series
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Why We Cook: Food and Pairbonds in Human Evolution" lecture by Richard
Wrangham.
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045,
www.hmnh.harvard.edu
Friday 2/15/2008
10:00a - 3:00p
All Ivy Environmental Career Fair
(Low Library, Columbia University, New York, NY)
All undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree students from all the Ivy League
schools are invited to attend and discuss internships and permanent (full-time) career
opportunities.
Contact: Anthony Arcieri (contact for Harvard students), arcieri(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.earth.columbia.edu/education/ivy_...
11:00a
Harvard Forest Seminar Series
(Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA)
"Understanding the sources and atmospheric trends in CO2 and other greenhouse
gases" with speaker Steven Wofsy, Harvard University, Department of Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences.
Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268,
harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
12:00p Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
(Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA)
"Observational Constraints on the Transport and Partitioning of Reactive Nitrogen in
the Free Troposphere" with Timothy Bertram, University of Washington.
Contact: Brenda Mathieu, bmathieu(a)seas.harvard.edu ,
www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html
12:00p - 1:30p
Regulation and Global Climate Change Seminar
(Bell Hall (5th Floor, Belfer Building), Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St.,
Cambridge, MA)
"Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: Emission Leakage and the Effectiveness of
Interstate Border Adjustments" with Professor Sue Wing.
Contact: rpp(a)ksg.harvard.edu, 617.384.7325,
www.ksg.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/rpp/semina...
12:30p - 1:30p
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds
(Kresge G2, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA)
"Occupational Health Issues and Considerations for Laboratories Handling Pathogens
(Biosafety Levels I-IV)" Presenter: Kenneth R. Spaeth.
Contact: Ann Backus, MS, abackus(a)hsph.harvard.edu, 617/432-3327
1:00p
The Path to Fusion Power
(Room 250, Jefferson, 17 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
Chris Llewellyn-Smith, Director UKAEA Culham Division, Chairman, ITER Council, and
Chairman Consultative Committee for Euratom on Fusion.
Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883
Saturday 2/16/2008
2:00a Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series
(Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA)
"Native Ferns, Moss & Grasses," authors Talk with William Cullina.
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045,
www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe...
Sunday 2/17/2008
1:00p - 4:00p
From Global Warming to Global Arming
(MIT
Building 4, Room 153, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear) , Cambridge, MA)
"How Energy and Environmental Concerns Impact International Security" Half Day
Conference. A
Contact: Sharlissa Moore , smoore(a)spusa.org , 202-429-8900,
www.spusa.org/events/
Monday 2/18/2008
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(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
12:30p - 1:30p
Seminar in Occupational and Environmental Health Research
(FXB G12, 651 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA)
"Association of Black Carbon with Cognition among Children in a Prospective Birth
Cohort Study" with speaker Shakira Franco Suglia, ScD, Research Fellow, Department of
Environmental Health.
Contact: Ann Backus, MS, abackus(a)hsph.harvard.edu, 617-432-3327
Tuesday 2/19/2008
9:30a
Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series
(Belfer Center Library (L-369), Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA)
Lifeng Zhao, ETIP Research Fellow: "An Economic Assessment of Deploying Advanced Coal
Power Technologies in the Chinese Context"
Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton(a)harvard.edu,
www.energytechnologypolicy.org
11:30a
Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series
(Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA)
"Surface Cracks as a Long-term Record of Seismic Segmentation along the Andean
Margin" with speaker Jack Loveless, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Harvard University.
Contact:
esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM...
12:00p
Herbaria Seminar Series
(Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA)
"How Soil Fungi Respond to Anthropogenic Disturbance and the Ecosystem
Consequences" with Serita Frey (University of New Hampshire)
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: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
Wednesday 2/20/2008
4:00p Origins of Life Initiative Forum
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"Overcoming Limits on Design and Evolution of Synthetic Life" with speaker
George Church (Harvard Medical School).
Contact:
origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html
9:00p Total Lunar Eclipse
(CfA, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA)
The moon will enter Earths shadow, dim, and turn copper-red. This will be the last total
lunar eclipse until 2010.
Contact: (617) 495-7461,
www.cfa.harvard.edu
Thursday 2/21/2008
4:00p
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
Plant Biology Search
Contact:
www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin...
7:00p
Center for Astrophysics Monthly Observatory Nights
(Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA)
"Here Comes the Sun," with Kelly Korreck, Center for Astrophysics.
Contact: pubaffairs(a)cfa.harvard.edu, (617) 495-7461 ,
www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/mon.html
Friday 2/22/2008
8:30a - 9:30a
Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
Speaker: Prof. Cammie Lesser, Mass General Hospital, Dept of Medicine. "Modeling
mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis in yeast"
Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-495 8643,
www.msi.harvard.edu/events.html
11:00a
Harvard Forest Seminar Series
(Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA)
"Using analytic webs to guide the processing of scientific datasets and document
their provenance" with speaker Leon Osterweil, University of Massachusetts,
Department of Computer Science...
Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268,
harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
3:00p
HUCE Green Conversations Series with Lester Brown
(Maxwell/Dworkin Lessin Room, G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA)
Founder of the Earth Policy Institute and author of "Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save
Civilization" discusses his work and joins panelists Michael McElroy (EPS) and Daniel
Schrag (HUCE, EPS) in a discussion about the future of humanity and the earth.
Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883
Sunday 2/24/2008
7:30p
Lester Brown to Speak in Lexington
(Cary Memorial Hall, 1605 Mass. Ave., Lexington, MA)
Lester Brown, the world's foremost environmental economist will present his bold new
plan to stop global warming and achieve world sustainability.
Contact: info(a)LexGWAC.org,
www.lexgwac.org
Monday 2/25/2008
12:00p - 2:00p
Science, Technology, and Society Circle
(124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106, Cambridege, MA)
"The Neuroscience of Psychopathy: A Mundane Revolution?" with Martyn Pickersgill
(Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham).
Contact: Sang-Hyun Kim, sang-hyun_kim(a)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(a)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: David Raymond, New
Mexico Tech. Seminar titles are posted one week in advance of each talk. Refreshments to
follow, Hoffman 4th floor.
Contact: miller(a)eps.harvard.edu,
www-eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscollo...
Tuesday 2/26/2008
12:00p
Herbaria Seminar Series
(Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA)
"Architecture and demonstration of author-friendly, web-accessible, database-backed,
localizable Electronic Field Guides" with Robert Morris (UMass-Boston)
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: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
Wednesday 2/27/2008
4:00p - 5:30p
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
(Littauer-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
Speaker: David Rapson, Boston University. Consumer Durable Goods and the Long-Run Demand
for Electricity
Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu, 617-496-8054,
isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword...
Thursday 2/28/2008
4:00p - 5:00p
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
Speaker: Dr. Ben Sheldon, Oxford-Edward Grey Institute for Ornithology. Title: TBA. Hosted
by Edwards Lab.
Contact: Deborah Smiley, (617) 384-5062
4:00p Center for Astrophysics Colloquium
(Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA)
"Dark Matter and Dark Energy: New Physics or Cosmic Epicycles?" with speaker
Rocky Kolb, U. Chicago, KICP.
Contact:
www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia/
6:00p HMNH: Evolution Matters Lecture Series
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Five Rules for Evolutionary Cooperation" lecture by Martin Nowak. Is evolution
just about competition and survival of the fittest?
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045,
www.hmnh.harvard.edu
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