Highlights:
October 13: Michael Skelly, the founder and CEO of Clean Line Energy Partners and the
former head of development for Horizon Wind Energy, discusses the challenges of massive
renewables deployment in the United States from a policy, finance and infrastructure
perspective in this second Future of Energy lecture this fall.
October 14: Mark McPeek, Professor of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth College, reviews
evidence for the various roles that past climate events have played in the adaptation and
diversification of fauna in North America and suggest ways in which our concepts of
ecology and evolution may need to be altered to account for these effects in this lecture
in the Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change series.
October 17: Register now for the Harvard Business School Energy Club Fall Symposium.
Keynote speakers from American Council on Renewable Energy, Peabody Energy, and Duke
Energy.
Calendar Listings:
Thursday 10/8/2009
6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"How Apes and Monkeys May Help Us Understand the Economic Crisis." Lecture by
Marc Hauser.
Contact:
www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe...
6:00p Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"The Long Tail of the Human Microbiome and Other Short Stories." Doyle Ward, The
Broad Institute.
Contact:
www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html
7:30p Boston Area Solar Energy Association Forum
(The First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist 3 Church Street Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA)
"The New Economy of Energy and Climate." Dr. Rachel Cleetus, Climate Economist,
Union of Concerned Scientists.
Contact: info(a)basea.org,
www.basea.org
Friday 10/9/2009
Earth Days
(Kendall Square Cinema, One Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA)
the documentary looks back to the dawn of the modern environmental movement. Showing
through October 15.
Contact: 617-499-1996,
www.landmarktheatres.com/market/Bosto...
8th Annual Global Voices Film Festival
(The Harvard Film Archive, Brattle Theatre, and Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA)
Global Voices has multiple thematic sessions, with each session comprised of a documentary
screening and an associated event to place the topic in a broader context: Through Sunday,
October 11.
Contact: lisa.unangst(a)unagb.org, (617) 482-4587,
www.bostonfilms.org/
11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar
(Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main St., Petersham, MA)
"Soil properties and vegetation studies in Ituri Forest, Democratic Republic of
Congo." Nsalambi Nkongolo, Bullard Fellow & Lincoln University.
Contact:
harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
3:00p Program for Evolutionary Dynamics Lecture
(Science Center, Lecture Hall A, One Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Stability and complexity in model banking systems." Professor Lord (Robert) May
of Oxford.
Contact: lydia_liu(a)harvard.edu,
www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/
Monday 10/12/2009
11:45a - 12:45p Harvard Energy Journal Club
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion.
Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/
Tuesday 10/13/2009
12:00p Harvard Herbaria Seminar
(HUH Seminar Room, 20 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA)
"Quantitative tools for investigating leaf vein patterning." Anne-Gaelle
Rolland, Univ. of Ottawa.
Contact:
www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
5:00p The Future of Energy
(Science Center, Lecture Hall D, One Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Promise and Challenges of Renewable Energy." Michael Skelly, CEO, Clean Line
Energy Partners and former head of development, Horizon Wind Energy.
Contact: Lisa Matthews, 617-495-8883
5:30p Exploring Careers in Science: Beyond the Bench
(Maxwell Dworkin Room 319, Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
Hear advice and stories from engineers and scientists who have ventured beyond the bench
into a wide variety of careers such as patent law, consulting, government, policy, and
business.
Contact: ocsrsvp(a)fas.harvard.edu
Wednesday 10/14/2009
12:00p Sprawl, Cars and Greenhouse Gases
(Taubman Building, 5th Floor, Allison Dining Room, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street,
Cambridge, MA)
José Gómez-Ibáñez, Derek C. Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Harvard
Kennedy School. Many urban planners and env...
Contact: Erin Dea, Erin_Dea(a)hks.harvard.edu, (617) 495-5140
12:30p - 1:30p Towards Zero Campus Waste: How Harvard can be a Zero Waste/Full Value
Campus
(Graduate School of Design, Room 112/Stubbins room, Gund Hall, 46 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA)
Speaker: Rob Gogan, who oversees recycling, surplus and trash for Harvard Facilities
Maintenance Operations. What's in Harvard's trash, and where does it go when it
leaves the building?
5:00p Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change
(Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall 7 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA)
"Climate Change and How We Got the Fauna We Have Today." Mark McPeek, David T.
McLaughlin Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College.
Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883
7:00p Science in the News Seminar
(Armenise Ampitheatre at Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA)
"Green-lighting Green Cars: The Future of the Automobile."
Contact:
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/
7:00p Screening of King Corn with filmmaker Curt Ellis
( Kendall Square Cinema 1 Kendall Sq Cambridge, MA )
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized
crop that drives our fast-food nation.
Contact:
www.ecologic.org/greenag/events
8:00p - 9:00p Enviromental Action Committee Meeting
(Spindell Room, Quincy House, 58 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA)
Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a
difference for the environment is welcome.
Contact:
www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/
Thursday 10/15/2009
11:45a Ecology Journal Club
(HUCE, Meeting Room 318, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
Weekly discussions on an ecology-related paper; all interested researchers welcome, and
papers on website.
Contact: Primrose Boynton, pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu ,
www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/j...
12:00p - 1:30p Business and Government Luncheon Seminar
(Bell Hall (5th Floor, Belfer Building) Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge,
MA)
"The European CO2 Emissions Trading System." Denny Ellerman, Senior Lecturer,
Retired, Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Contact: mrcbg(a)ksg.harvard.edu,
www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/events.htm.
1:15p Solid Earth Physics Seminar
( 4th Floor Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Scaling of Earthquake Rupture Growth in Parkfield Area." Takahiko Uchide,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Univ. Calif. San Diego.
Contact:
esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM...
4:00p Climate Seminar
(Haller Hall, 102 Geological Museum Building, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
Dennis Hartmann, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington. Title TBA.
Contact: Shuting Jin, jin(a)fas.harvard.edu
6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"This Brick Ark: Celebrating the Museum of Comparative Zoology's First 150 Years
and the Beginning of the Next 150." Lecture by James Hanken, Professor of Biology,
Zoology.
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045
6:30p - 9:00p Energy Buyers, Sellers, Equipment Makers and Policy: A Global View from Here
at Home
(Microsoft, One Memorial Drive, 1st Floor Conference Center, Cambridge, MA)
Contact: Elaine Reiter, ereiter(a)mit.edu, 617-253-2568,
www.ignitecleanenergy.com/node/828
Friday 10/16/2009
8:30a Microbial Sciences Initiative Chalktalk
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"Biodiversity in Bogs: competition and dispersal limitation in pitcher plant
yeasts." Primrose Boynton, PhD Candidate in Pringle Lab.
Contact: Karen L. Lachmayr, PhD, klachmay(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html
5:30p - 8:30p MIT Energy Night 2009
(MIT Museum, N51, 265 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA) The MIT Energy Night is the MIT
Energy Club's flagship event for the fall and it seeks to showcase the most exciting
energy research, education, and entrepreneurship at MIT. The event will be h...
Contact: Asbjorg Kristinsdottir and Anil Rachakonda, energynight(a)mit.edu,
web.mit.edu/mit_energy/programs/energ...
Saturday 10/17/2009
7:15a - 6:30p Annual Harvard Business School Energy Symposium
(Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field, Boston, MA)
"Accelerating the Future of Energy." Keynote speakers: Mike Eckhart, President
American Council on Renewable Energy; Frederick Palmer, Senior Vice President, Peabody
Energy; and Jim Rogers, Chief Executive Officer, Duke Energy.
Contact:
www.harvardenergyclub.org/
Sunday 10/18/2009
2:00p - 3:30p Climate Convocation
(The Memorial Church, Harvard University. 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA) Bill McKibben
will speak about the spectrum of global and local efforts to raise awareness about climate
change and its impacts. His remarks will also focus on the necessary individual,
institution...
Contact: lgbrown(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.350.org/
Monday 10/19/2009
11:45a - 12:45p Harvard Energy Journal Club
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion.
Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/
12:15p - 2:00p Science, Technology, and Society Circle
(124 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA)
"Anomalies in the Classification of Technology: Illustrations from the
Military/Non-Military Divide." Samuel Evans, STS Program, HKS.
Contact:
www.hks.harvard.edu/sts
1:00p - 2:30p Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research
Seminar Series
(Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
"Smarter Pricing for a Smarter Grid: A Locational Model for Operating
Reserves."
Contact: Louisa Lund, Louisa_Lund(a)harvard.edu,
www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/event...
2:00p - 4:00p Transatlantic Perspectives of Climate Governance
(Lower Level Conference Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge,
MA)
Speakers: Claus Leggewie, director of the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (KWI) and a
member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the German Federal Government on Global
Environmental Changes.
Contact: Jason Beerman, beerman(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:00p EPS Fall Colloquium
(Haller Hall, 102 Geological Museum Building, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Oceans and snowfalls in planetary interiors inferred from material properties under
high pressure." Jie Li, University of Illinois.
Contact: Ganna Savostyanova, ganna(a)eps.harvard.edu
Tuesday 10/20/2009
-- Transportation @ MIT Seminar
(MIT 32-124, Cambridge, MA)
"Mobility on Demand: Future of Transportation in Cities." Bill Mitchell, Media
Lab, Smart Cities, Design Laboratory.
Contact:
transportation.mit.edu/events.php
12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series
(Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA)
"Lichens of the Santa Monica Mountains: Hasse and the Farlow." Kerry Knudsen (UC
Riverside).
Contact:
www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
1:15p Solid Earth Physics Seminar
(4th Floor Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Interaction of Earthquakes and Slow Slip: Insights from Fault Models Governed by
Lab-Derived Friction Laws." Nadia Lapusta, Divisions of Engineering and Applied
Science.
Contact:
esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM...
4:00p - 5:00p OEB Special Seminar
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA)
"Symbioses and Early Prokaryotic Evolution." Jim Lake, Distinguished Professor
of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology and of Human Genetics, University of
California, Los Angeles.
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-5891
5:00p - 6:00p Radcliffe Autumn Science Tea
(Fay House, Sheerr Room 10 Garden St., Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA)
Meet with this year's Radcliffe Science Fellows, and mingle with faculty, students,
and your classmates.
Contact: Radcliffe Science, science(a)radcliffe.edu
Wednesday 10/21/2009
4:00p - 5:00p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
(Room L-382, HKS, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA)
"Climate Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century."
Melissa Dell, Benjamin Olken, MIT, Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University.
Contact: Jason Chapman, 617-496-8054,
isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword...
6:00p - 7:00p Climate 2030: A National Blueprint for a Clean Energy Economy
(TBA)
Rachel Cleetus and John Rogers of the Union of Concerned Scientists will speak about the
UCS's recent report on a clean energy economy.
Contact: Elsa Olivetti, elsao(a)mit.edu,
events.mit.edu/scripts/event_ext.pl?e...
8:00p - 9:00p Enviromental Action Committee Meeting
(Spindell Room, Quincy House, 58 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA)
Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a
difference for the environment is welcome.
Contact:
www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/
Thursday 10/22/2009
11:45a Ecology Journal Club
(HUCE, Meeting Room 318, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
Weekly discussions on an ecology-related paper; all interested researchers welcome, and
papers on website.
Contact: Primrose Boynton, pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu ,
www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/j...
4:00p - 5:00p OEB Departmental Seminar
(Biological Laboratories Main Lecture Hall, Room 1068, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA)
"On the diversity and dynamics of tropical forests: Results from a global network of
large-scale forest plots." Stuart Davies, Arnold Arboretum, CTFS Harvard University.
Contact: Katharine Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-5891
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