Dear Friends of HUCE, We are pleased to announce three Future of Energy lecture series dates for this spring. Be sure to add these events to your calendar. As always, 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. The Future of Energy - Spring 2009 Tuesday, February 3, 2009 Steven Leer. Chairman and CEO, Arch Coal, Inc. Location: Science Center Lecture Hall C, Cambridge - 5:00 pm Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Saul Griffith, President and Chief Scientist, Makani Power Location: Science Center Lecture Hall D, Cambridge - 5:00 pm Wednesday, April 15, 2009 Richard Garwin, IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center Location: Science Center Lecture Hall D, Cambridge - 5:00 pm Calendar Listings: Friday 1/16/2009 12:30p - 1:15p Seminar in Occupational and Environmental Health Research (Kresge 502, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) "An Evaluation of the Israeli Navy's Contaminated Water Diving Program for Possible Application to U.S. Navy Requirements" and "Beryllium Sensitization and Lung Function Among Former Workers at the Nevada Test Site." Contact: Ann Backus, MS, abackus(a)hsph.harvard.edu, 617/384-5404 Saturday 1/17/2009 2:00p HMNH: Author Talk and Booksigning (HMNH, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Ivory's Ghosts: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants." Speaker, John Frederick Walker. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_classes... Monday 1/19/2009 11:30a 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: Mark Winkler, mwinkler(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html Wednesday 1/21/2009 5:00p - 6:00p Wind Policy and the New Administration (Muddy Charles Pub, Walker Memorial, Bldg 50, 142 Memorial Dr., Cambridge, MA) Informal discussion surrounding thoughts on what will happen with wind policy in the new administration. Contact: Katherine Dykes, dykesk(a)mit.edu Thursday 1/22/2009 3:30p China Project Seminar (Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Emissions of Anthropogenic Primary Particulate Matter in China: A Technology-Based Analysis." Dr. LEI Yu, postdoctoral researcher, Harvard China Project. Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-2378, chinaproject.harvard.edu/ 4:00p EPS Dissertation Defense (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "Neoproterozoic stratigraphy of Alaska and Mongolia." Francis Macdonald. Refreshments to follow in Hoffman Student Lounge. Contact: Sarah Colgan, colgan(a)eps.harvard.edu 6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Sea Creatures in Glass and Glass in Sea Creatures." Johanna Aizenberg, McKay Professor of Materials Science in Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_classes... Friday 1/23/2009 11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) "Tri-trophic dynamics in an insect protection mutualism." Manuel Morales, Williams College. The Harvard Forest is located approximately one hour west of Cambridge in Petersham, MA. Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268 Monday 1/26/2009 11:30a 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: Mark Winkler, mwinkler(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html Tuesday 1/27/2009 9:30a - 11:00a Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series (Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK St., JFK School of Government, Cambridge, MA) "International Climate Policy for a Post-Kyoto World: Understanding Sectoral Approaches." Speakers: Jonas Meckling, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy; and Gu Yoon Chung, MPA candidate, Harvard Kennedy School. Contact: etip(a)ksg.harvard.edu, 617-496-5584 Thursday 1/29/2009 11:00a Harvard Forest Special Three Part Series on Soil Warming (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) 1) Masahiro Nakamura, Hokkaido University (Japan). "Soil warming influences herbivory of canopy foliage." 2) Onno Muller, Tohoku University (Japan). "The effect of soil and branch warming on leaf traits and reproduction in 200 year old oaks." Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 4:00p - 5:00p Climate Seminar (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Hajo Eicken from the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Title TBA. Contact: Shuting Jin , shuting(a)eps.harvard.edu, 617-384-9005, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminar... 4:00p OEB Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge) "The challenge of diversity presents a diversity of challenges: new research directions in computational biology." Allen Rodrigo, the Bioinformatics Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-5891 , www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin... 6:00p - 7:00p Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "How Bacteria Breathe Rust: New Insights into the Molecular Mechanism of Bacterial Metal Respiration." Thomas DiChristina, School of Biology, Georgia Tech. Contact: Runal Mehta, runal_mehta(a)harvard.edu, (617) 495 8643 , www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html 6:30p HMNH: Nature and the Written Word: A Roundtable on Natural History Writing (Harvard Center for the Humanities, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge) How can writers best engage and inspire public concern for wildlife, nature, and conservation? Join us for a round table discussion with four of New England's most prominent natural history authors. 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