Highlights: Monday, October 3: The next Energy Policy Seminar features HUCE faculty associate and Harvard Business School professor George Baker for a talk on "Renewable Energy on the Coast of Maine and Beyond.” Tuesday, October 11: The HUCE Biodiveristy, Ecology, & Global Change series welcomes Joshua Tewksbury, Walker Professor of Natural History, Department of Biology, University of Washington. His talk, “Catchers in the Rye: Ecology, Society, and Climate Change,” explores the impacts of climate change and how ecology plays a role in our response to environmental issues. Thursday, October 13: The HUCE Future of Energy lecture series kicks off with Chris Somerville, Director of the Energy Biosciences Institute, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Visiting Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on producing fuels through biochemical innovation. Calendar Listings: September 30, 2011 8:45am - 9:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor, Cambridge “Bacteria pumping iron in the sun - photoferrotrophy in Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1” featuring Arpita Bose (FAS-OEB) Host: Peter Girguis 12:00pm “Non-local Influences on U.S. Air Quality: Asian Pollution, Stratospheric Exchange, and Climate Change” 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge Arlene Fiore, Columbia University, “Non-local Influences on U.S. Air Quality: Asian Pollution, Stratospheric Exchange, and Climate Change” Host: Emily Fischer 4:00pm - 5:00pm MIT EAPS Lecture MIT Building 54, Room 915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge "How LIPs Talk to Us: Origins, Evolution, and Environmental Impact of Large Igneous Provinces" With Clive R. Neal, University of Notre Dame http://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/dls.html October 2, 2011 9:00am Identifying the 25 Most Common Trees in Boston Hunnewell Building 125 Arborway, Boston With Kyle Port, Manager of Plant Records, Arnold Arboretum http://arboretum.harvard.edu/ October 3, 2011 11:45 – 12:45pm Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge Facilitating discussion and furthering our understanding of the technical details of energy technology and science. Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Contact Name: Dan Recht drecht(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:00pm - 1:30pm Energy Policy Seminar Fainsod Room, Room 324, Littauer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge "Renewable Energy on the Coast of Maine and Beyond” with George Baker, Harvard Business School. Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu 12:15pm - 1:15pm Arnold Arboretum Seminar Weld Hill Lecture Hall, Arnold Arboretum, 1300 Centre Street, Boston “Microevolution and development of Mimulus: monkeying with meristem dynamics and heterochrony explains intraspecific changes in shoot architecture and life history” with Rob Baker, University of Colorado, Boulder http://arboretum.harvard.edu/research/research-talks/ 12:30pm - 1:45pm Energy and Climate Policy Research Seminar Crowe Room (G310), The Fletcher School, Tufts University, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford “Understanding Climate Mitigation Responses in the United States and China from the Strategic and Institutional Perspective” with Xingshu Zhao, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP), The Fletcher School 12:55pm - 2:00pm STS Circle Lecture 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106, Cambridge With Daniel Barber (Barnard College), "Phase-Change: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Solar Energy, 1946-" Please RSVP to sts(a)hks.harvard.edu by the Thursday before. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts 4:00pm EPS Colloquium Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge Featuring Paul Falkowski, Rutgers University. Hosted by David Johnston. Contact Name: Sabinna Cappo scappo(a)fas.harvard.edu 6:00pm Harvard College Global Energy Initiative Panel Discussion Location TBD "Igniting U.S.-India Renewable Energy Collaboration and Innovation" panel discussion featuring Professor Venkatesh Narayanamurti, SEAS & HKS; Probir Ghosh, CEO of InvVest; Vinod Kumar, InvVest Ambassador https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEpSQkZYUDFTZ3RfcEVBZ2… 7:00pm Science on Screen Movie: The Little Shop of Horrors Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline A special showing of B-movie maestro Roger Corman’s 1960 horticultural cult classic The Little Shop of Horrors paired with a pre-screening talk on carnivorous plants by Aaron Ellison, Senior Research Fellow in Ecology at Harvard Forest. http://www.coolidge.org/science October 4 - October 7, 2011 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo Metro Toronto Convention Center, Toronto, Canada Join the community at the world's largest conference and expo dedicated to green building. Greenbuild NEXT is first time the U.S. Green Building Council is hosting Greenbuild outside the United States. http://www.greenbuildexpo.org/Home.aspx October 4, 2011 9:00am - 6:00pm Climate Change 2011: When Policymakers Fail MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building Atrium level, 20 Ames Street Building E15, Cambridge Some of America's top scientists discuss their frustration with the lack of progress on the pressing problem of climate change, and talk about their ideas for what scientists and citizens can do while policymakers fail to act. Registration is required. http://web.mit.edu/knight-science/seminars/current.html Contact Name: knight-info(a)mit.edu 3:00pm ClimaTea HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor, Cambridge Visit the ClimaTea website for a list of speakers and topics. http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html October 5, 2011 4:10pm - 5:30pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge “How Do Consumers Respond to Gasoline Price Changes? Heterogeneity in Vehicle Choice and Driving Behavior" http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k82245&pageid=icb.page4438… Contact Name: Jason Chapman 617-496-8054 8:00pm - 9:00pm Environmental Action Committee Meeting Quincy House, Spindell Room, Harvard University, Cambridge Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a difference for the environment is welcome. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/ Contact Name: Jackson Salovaara jsalov(a)fas.harvard.edu October 6, 2011 11:30am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 310, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor, Cambridge Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. Visit the website for topics of discussion. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu October 7, 2011 3:00pm - 5:00pm After Fukushima, Nuclear Energy 2.0: Environmental Benefits and Risks MIT 4-163, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge This presentation will discuss a new paradigm in which (i) nuclear energy can be used to displace large amounts of fossil fuels (and their related CO2 emissions) from the transportation sector, and (ii) nuclear can be combined with and stabilize renewable energy sources (such as wind and solar) to enable their expansion. Featuring Jacopo Buongiorno, Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT; Dr. Charles Forsberg, Executive Director, MIT Nuclear Fuel Cycle Study; Jacquelyn Yanch, Peer Review Committee for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's State-of-the-Art Reactor Consequence Analysis project. October 9, 2011 2:00pm Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge Author and naturalist Michael Wojtech will explain how to identify trees by their bark—the one tree characteristic that’s visible all year round. Learn about the structure and ecology of tree bark and how its different traits evolved. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php October 10, 2011 11:45am - 12:45pm Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge Facilitating discussion and furthering our understanding of the technical details of energy technology and science. Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Contact Name: Dan Recht drecht(a)fas.harvard.edu October 11, 2011 3:00pm ClimaTea HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor, Cambridge Visit the ClimaTea website for a list of speakers and topics. http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html 5:00pm Biodiversity, Ecology, & Global Change Biolabs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge “Catchers in the Rye: Ecology, Society, and Climate Change” featuring Josh Tewksbury, Walker Professor of Natural History, Department of Biology, University of Washington Contact Name: Lisa Matthews matthew(a)fas.harvard.edu October 12, 2011 1:00pm - 5:00pm National Fossil Day Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge Explore the amazing prehistoric world of fossils including trilobites, dinosaurs, Ice Age mammals, and other creatures. Discover how fossils form and investigate fossilized bones, teeth, claws, and footprints. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php 4:10pm - 5:30pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge “On Welfare Frameworks and Catastrophic Climate Risks” http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k82245&pageid=icb.page4438… Contact Name: Jason Chapman 617-496-8054 6:00pm Life in the Extreme Deep Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge Peter Girguis, HUCE faculty associate and Loeb Associate Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard, will discuss how biologists are working with environmental and industry officials to understand how natural “oil-eating” microbes are able to aid in oil spill cleanup. Pre-registration recommended. RSVP to members(a)oeb.harvard.edu or 617.496.6972. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php 8:00pm - 9:00pm Environmental Action Committee Meeting Quincy House, Spindell Room, Harvard University, Cambridge Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a difference for the environment is welcome. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/ Contact Name: Jackson Salovaara jsalov(a)fas.harvard.edu October 13, 2011 11:30am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 310 24 Oxford St. 3rd Floor Cambridge Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. Visit the website for topics of discussion. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu 5:00pm Future of Energy Science Center D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge "The Development of Liquid Fuels from Lignocellulose" featuring Chris Somerville, Director of the Energy Biosciences Institute, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Visiting Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. http://environment.harvard.edu/events/future/video Contact Name: Brenda Hugot bhugot(a)fas.harvard.edu --- 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. 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