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.
*Highlights:*
TODAY -- Harvard's *Paul Moorcroft* in a special
12/14/06 -- 'Future of Energy' Lecture with Professor *John Holdren *--
Meeting the Energy-Environment Challenge...and how Harvard can help
The first 'Future of Energy' presentation by *Mark Little *is now
available for viewing on the Center's website
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/video/future_of_energy/little/presentation.html>.
Please note that you will need the latest version of Real Player to view
this and other presentations on our site. Click here
<http://www.real.com/> for free download.
*Calendar Listings:**
Thursday 12/7/2006 *
4:00p - 5:00p
How close are we to a predictive science of the biosphere?
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61945473>
Dr. Paul Moorcroft, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
Harvard University
OEB Special Seminar
Main Lecture Hall, BioLabs Building
*Friday 12/8/2006*
ONGOING
Cambridge Science Festival, Call for Entries
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61569623>
8:30a - 9:30p
Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59180746>
David Weitz, Harvard University (FAS- Dept Engineering and Applied
Sciences)
Research Focus: Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Physics
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor,
Hoffman Laboratories, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge
11:00a - 12:00p
Chelonian conservation in Massachusetts: a tale of three turtles
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61818536>
Paul Sievert - University of Massachusetts
Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series
Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
12:30p - 1:30p
On the Small Area Estimation
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61945481>
Dr. Tapabrata Maiti, the Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology at
Iowa State University
SPH2-426, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
*Saturday 12/9/2006 *
2:00p - 4:00p
An afternoon with Ramachandra Guha
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61754969>
Taubman Building, Room 301, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street,
Cambridge
*Monday 12/11/2006*
11:30a - 0:30a
Evolution of development and the origin of adaptation
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61818483>
Alex Badyaev, University of Arizona
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Special Seminar
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge
*Tuesday 12/12/2006 *
12:30p - 2:00p
Japan and East Asia's Energy Security
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61945142>
Peter C. Evans Director, Global Oil, and Research Director, Global
Energy Forum, Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
*Wednesday 12/13/2006*
8:00a - 9:15a
Molecular Epidemiology of Dioxin Toxicity in Seveso
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60257926>
Andrea Baccarelli, MD, Ph.D., Visiting Scientist, Department of
Environmental Health, HSPH
Genetics and Environmental Health Series
Kresge Building, Room 110, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, HSPH
10:00a - 11:30a
Outcome Mapping: A Tool for Measuring the Results of Development
Interventions and Innovations
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61849883>
Fred Carden, Evaluation Unit, International Development Research Centre,
Canada
Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series
Center for International Development, Perkins Room -- Rubenstein Bldg,
Room 415, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
12:00p - 1:30p
Review and Prospects of the Development of Clean Vehicles in China
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=62040578>
Zhang Xin, MIT
Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series Brown Bag Lunch
BCSIA Library, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
12:00p - 1:00p
Taxonomic intelligence and the Encyclopedia of Life: using taxonomic
principles to manage information about organisms on the internet
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61818450>
David Patterson, Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Special Seminar
*Thursday 12/14/2006 *
12:00p
Making Emissions Trading Work for Transportation
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59481828>
Mark Proegler, Director of Emissions Markets, BP Group
Innovation in Transportation Seminar Series
Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219, 79 JFK Street, KSG
1:00p - 2:30p
Property Rights for a Small Planet: Role of Common Property in a
Sustainable Future
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61849894>
Margaret McKean, Department of Political Science and Nicholas School of
Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University Frontiers in Sustainable
Development Speaker Series
Center for International Development, Perkins Room -- Rubenstein Bldg,
Room 415, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
4:00p - 5:00p
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61818488>
Andreas Wagner, University of New Mexico
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge
5:00p - 6:15p
The Future of Energy Lecture Series - Meeting the Energy-Environment
Challenge ...and How Harvard Can Help
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60710706>
John P. Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental
Policy, Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Environmental
Science and Policy, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Director, The Woods Hole Institute
6:00p - 7:00p
The Puzzle of Uncultured Bacteria
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61538997>
Geoff McFadden, Northeastern University, Dept of Biology
Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
*Friday 12/15/2006 *
4:00p - 5:15p
Photovoltaics to meet the Terawatt Challenge
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=62040655>
Harry Atwater, Director, Caltech Center for Sustainable Energy Research;
Director, Caltech Center for Science and Engineering of Materials;
Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute
of Technology
Pierce 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge Calendar: Center for the
Environment
*Saturday 12/16/2006 *
10:00a - 11:00a
Science by Candlelight: A Holiday Lecture for Children and Their Parents
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61787142>
Harvard Science Center, Lecture Hall B, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge
Recommended for ages 7 and up
*Wednesday 12/20/2006 *
7:00a - 8:00a
Looking for Life Without a Known Chemical Core
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=62040223>
Professor Neville Woolf, University of Arizona
The Origins Forum
Main Lecture Hall, BioLabs Building
*Thursday 12/21/2006 *
12:30p - 2:00p
AIDS Research in Africa: Solutions to the Global Pandemic
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61570198>
Saidi Kapiga, associate professor of reproductive health, Department of
Population and International Health; Phyllis Kanki, professor of
Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Immunology and
Infectious Diseases
Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative
Building FXB G-12, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
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Jenny MacGregor
Events and Publications Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
ph: 617-495-8883