Highlights:
Wednesday, February 9: Lester R. Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute, presents
"World on the Edge" in the HUCE Green Conversations lecture series with
discussants Noel Michele Holbrook (OEB), and Dan Schrag, (HUCE, EPS, SEAS).
Friday, February 11: “How Climate in South Asia is Becoming a Water Issue” with Adil
Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future
and Professor of International Relations and Geography & the Environment at Boston
University. A South Asia Initiative Water Seminar, co-sponsored by the Harvard University
Center for the Environment.
Wednesday, February 16: Biodiversity, Ecology & Global Change lecture featuring Paul
Moorcroft, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.
Calendar Listings:
February 4, 2011
8:30-9:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast
HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor, Room 310
“Repurposing lipoamide alters electron flow in two important metabolic pathways of E.
coli” with Morgan Feeney, HMS
Host: Jon Beckwith. Please join us for coffee/tea/pastries at 8:30 am.
Directions to 24 Oxford Street:
http://www.msi.harvard.edu/ov_dir.html
9:00am - 4:00pm Driver-facing Technologies to Improve Urban Mobility
New Media Lab, 6th Floor, MIT, Cambridge, MA
An MIT symposium on technology and research for smart roads and smart vehicles.A one-day
symposium will be held on Friday, February 4, 2011, at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology to address issues related to urban traffic congestion.
http://transportation.mit.edu/live/news/1355-driverfacing-technologies-to-i…...
congestion(a)mit.edu
February 5, 2011
2:00pm Great White Bear: A Natural & Unnatural History of the Polar Bear
Geological Museum Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Harvard Museum of Natural History Author talk and booksigning by Kieran Mulvaney. The
diminishing arctic sea ice is an enormous threat to the survival of the polar bear.
Through a blend of history, science, myth and personal observations, Kieran Mulvaney’s new
book, Great White Bear (Houghton Mifflin), provides a new lens for readers to appreciate
the polar bear, its unique biology, and its uncertain fate. Free with museum admission.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
February 7, 2011
12:00pm - 1:30pm ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building HKS, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA
“Towards a US Energy Policy," a talk featuring Daniel P. Schrag, Harvard University.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/events.html#top
12:00pm OEB Special Seminar
Main Lecture Hall, BioLabs Building, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA
Featuring Cassandra Extavour, Harvard University.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
12:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
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.
Contact Name: Dan Recht drecht(a)fas.harvard.edu
12:15pm STS Circle
124 Mt. Auburn St. Suite 100, Room 106 Cambridge, MA
"Britain Invents the Infrastructure State." Jo Guldi, Harvard Society of
Fellows.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/
4:00pm OEB Special Seminar
Main Lecture Hall, BioLabs Building, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA
Elizabeth Hadly, Stanford University.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
6:30pm - 8:30pm Restoring Hawaii’s Marvels of Evolution
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA
Robert Robichaux, University of Arizona
Evolving in splendid isolation over millions of years, Hawaii’s native plants exhibit
patterns of diversity that are unrivaled elsewhere on Earth. Especially striking are the
many examples of adaptive radiation, in which original immigrants to the islands evolved
into dazzling arrays of plants exhibiting great variation in form and habitat preference.
Yet Hawaii’s native plants face an uncertain future. Many native plants, such as the
exquisitely beautiful silverswords and lobeliads, now teeter on the edge of extinction.
Join botanist Robert Robichaux of the University of Arizona and the Hawaiian Silversword
Foundation as he discusses recent efforts to restore Hawaii’s marvels of plant evolution.
Register online at
https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/ or call 617.384.5277
http://arboretum.harvard.edu/news-events/directors-lecture-series/
February 8, 2011
4:00pm, refreshments at 3:45pm MIT Colloquium: Choanoflagellates, bacteria and the origin
of animal multcellularity
MIT 32-123
Dr. Nicole King, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California at
Berkeley
Host: David Page
February 9, 2011
11:00am OEB Weekly Seminar Series
Main Lecture Hall, BioLabs Building, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA
"Resource depletion, pollen limitation, and synchronous mast-seeding in a perennial
wildflower." Elizabeth Crone, Harvard Forest. Host: Losos Lab
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
2:00pm - 3:00pm "The Future of Energy Demand and Supply Possibilities: A Review of
BP’s Energy Outlook 2030"
Mugar 200, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, Medford, MA
A Tufts Center for International Environment & Natural Resource Policy lecture with
Paul Appleby, Head of Energy Economics, BP. Paul Appleby, who works in London, England
with BP as the Head of Energy Economics, will discuss the Energy Outlook 2030 report and
the key areas of focus such as energy intensity, growth of non-OECD countries, fuel
substitution, biofuels and global environmental policy.
Contact Name: Jacqueline M Deelstra Jacqueline.Deelstra(a)tufts.edu
3:00pm - 4:30pm "Plenitude: How and why millions of Americans are creating a
time-rich, ecologically-light, small-scale, high-satisfaction economy"
Cabot 702, The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Tufts University, Medford, MA
A Tufts Global Development and Environment Institute Lecture with Juliet Schor, Professor
of Sociology at Boston College.
Contact Name: Lauren Denizard lauren.denizard(a)tufts.edu 617-627-3530
http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/
4:00pm Green Conversations: "World on the Edge" with Lester R. Brown
Science Center D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Lester R. Brown is the founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute and founder of
the Worldwatch Institute. He is the recipient of numerous prizes, including a MacArthur
Fellowship, the United Nations Environment Prize, Japan's Blue Planet Prize, and
twenty-five honorary degrees. He is the author or co-author of 50 books, most recently,
"World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse."
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews matthew(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-495-8883
5:00-6:00pm MIT Energy Club Event: Liquid Metal Batteries: a new approach to large-scale
energy storage for the grid
MIT 4-231
Speaker: Dr. David Bradwell, MIT
http://www.mitenergyclub.org/events-and-programs/lecture-series/liquid-meta…
Contact Name: energyclub(a)mit.edu
6:00pm Neandertals and Modern Humans: The Genetic Evidence for Interbreeding
Geological Museum Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA
Neandertals, our closest evolutionary relative, lived in parts of Europe and western Asia
before disappearing 30,000 years ago. The great questions have always been, did they
interbreed with our Homo sapiens ancestors and is there evidence of Neandertal genes in
present-day humans? David Reich, Associate Professor of Genetics at Harvard, will address
these issues with comparisons of the Neandertal genome to the genomes of present-day
humans.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
8:00-9:00pm Environmental Action Committee Meeting
Quincy House, Spindell Room, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a
difference for the environment is welcome.
Contact Name: Jackson Salovaara jsalov(a)fas.harvard.edu
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/
February 10, 2011
11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club
HUCE Meeting Room 318, 24 Oxford St. 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA
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
5:30pm reception, 6:00pm seminar MSI Thursday Seminar
HUCE, 24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor, Room 310
“Redox-active antibiotics control gene expression and community behavior in divergent
bacteria” with Lars Dietrich (Columbia University)
Host: Rich Losick
February 11, 2011
12:30pm - 2:00pm How Climate in South Asia is Becoming a Water Issue
CGIS Knafel Building, K262, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
A South Asia Initiative Water Seminar, co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for
the Environment
Speaker: Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the
Longer-Range Future; Professor of International Relations and Geography & the
Environment at Boston University
Contact Name: Megan Rajbanshi mrajbans(a)fas.harvard.edu (617) 496-4862
9:00-11:00am MIT Energy Club Event: Tour of the EnerNOC Facility
Boston, MA
EnerNOC is a world class energy management service company that assists
commercial, institutional and industrial organizations use energy more
intelligently and cost effectively while generating cash flow that benefits
the bottom line. To sign up, use the following link:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGVaQnltVGJCclFN…
Contact Name: Daniel Apo djapo(a)mit.edu
February 12, 2011
All day Gallery Opening: Twelve Animals of the Chinese Zodiac
HMNH 26 Oxford St Cambridge, MA
-Through February 28-
Experience the museum as we launch the Year of the Rabbit by discovering
the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, each linked to a specimen in the
galleries. Learn about the cultural significance and natural history of
these animals and try your hand at drawing the animal assigned to the
year of your birth. Free with museum admission.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
February 14, 2011
12:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
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.
Contact Name: Dan Recht drecht(a)fas.harvard.edu
February 16, 2011
4:00-5:00pm Origins Forum
Geo Museum, Haller Hall (Room 102), 24 Oxford Street
Title: TBA
Speaker: John Mustard (Brown University)
5:00pm Biodiversity, Ecology & Global Change: Paul Moorcroft
Biolabs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge
Paul Moorcroft, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University,
investigates the ecological dynamics of terrestrial plant communities and ecosystems,
biosphere-atmosphere interactions, and mechanistic models of animal movement.
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883
8:00-9:00pm Environmental Action Committee Meeting
Quincy House Spindell Room Harvard University Cambridge, MA
Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a
difference for the environment is welcome.
Contact Name: Jackson Salovaara jsalov(a)fas.harvard.edu
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/
February 17, 2011
11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club
HUCE Meeting Room, 318 24 Oxford St. 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
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.
Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm
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