Dear HUCE Faculty and Friends, A Happy New Year to All! 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, Good Jobs and Clean Energy @ Radcliffe 1/31/07 -- Future of Energy with Saudi Aramco President and CEO, Abdallah Jum'ah 2/1/07 -- Climate Seminar -- Atmospheric Chemistry with Paul Wennberg, Caltech *Looking Forward to February (*/see Center online calendar for details/*):* 2/5/07 - Future of Energy with Dan Arvizu, Director of Nation Renewable Energy Laboratory 2/7/06 -- Bioenergy in a Globalizing World with Corrado Clini, Director General of Italy's Ministry of Land and Sea and Chairman of the Global Bioenergy Partnership 2/16/07 -- Remote Sensing Technology and Applications Workshop 2/26/07 -- Shorebird Distribution and Abundance on the Artic Refuge Coastal Plain with Stephen Brown of the Manomet Center for Conservation Studies *New Environmental Courses at Harvard:* /STAT155/BIST284: Spatial Statistics for Social Inquiry and Health Research/ Chris Paciorek, Rima Izem, Louise Ryan Spring T/Th 10:30-12 Introduction to spatial statistics with application to social science and public health research. Emphasizes methods for the analysis and visualization of three basic types of spatial data: areal data, point (geostatistical) data, and point processes. Heavy emphasis on real applied problems through case studies, guest lectures, and student projects. Basic GIS skills will be covered in a short module. Note that prerequisites are guidelines and students are encouraged to consult the instructors. */OEB 122b. Field Research in Ecology and Conservation /* /D. R. Foster, K. Donohue, and N. M. Holbrook Spring TBA// //Field Methods course in ecology and conservation biology that help students reach research objectives. In small group seminars, workshops and field trips, students will work directly with faculty, discover new research opportunities and develop the skills needed at all stages of independent and collaborative research. Enrollment limited/ *Calendar Listings:*** *TODAY 1/18/2007 * 4:00p - 6:00p The Apollo Alliance: Good Jobs and Clean Energy <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63375672> Radcliffe Gymnasium, 18 Mason St., Cambridge -- Radcliffe Yard *Friday 1/19/2007* 11:00a - 12:00p Movement underfoot and the dynamics of plant communities: the role of soil microbes in plant ecology <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63375856> Jim Bever, Indiana University and Harvard Bullard Fellow Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2007 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA *Sunday 1/21/2007* 2:00p - 3:00p Taking a Closer Look at Everyday Life: From Flowers and Flags to Fishes and Flytraps <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63375850> Professor L. Mahadevan, Harvard Harvard Museum of Natural History Family Program Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Tuesday 1/23/2007 * 7:00p - 9:00p Overcoming Public Complacency About Climate Change; Systems Thinking for Complex Policy Challenges <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63056494> John Sterman, the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management and Director of the Systems Dynamics Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition Lecture LEXINGTON, MA - Cary Memorial Library *Friday 1/26/2007* 8:30a - 9:30a Leech Symbiont and Mouse Pathogen, Aeromonas veronii, a Beneficial Microbe with a Dark Side <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63311662> Prof. Joerg Graf, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut Storrs Microbial Sciences Initiative Chalktalk Breakfast Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 11:00a - 12:00p Population strucuture of Armillaria spp. in a temperate, old-growth rainforest, Olympic Peninsula, Washington <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63375857> Nicholas Brazee -- Dept. of Plant, Soil, & Insect Sciences, University of Massachusetts Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2007 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA *Saturday 1/27/2007* 8:45a - 4:00p Gene-Environment Interaction Symposium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63056633> MIT - Strata Center 32-141 Sponsored by the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences * Wednesday 1/31/2007* 5:00p - 6:00p The Future of Energy Lecture Series - A Candid Assessment of the US and World Energy Future <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184586> Abdallah S. Jum'ah, President and Chief Executive Officer, Saudi Aramco Science Center Lecture Hall C, Harvard *Thursday 2/1/2007 * 12:15p - 1:00p Climate Change 101 -- Causes, Effects and Cures <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184552> Melissa Cary, Climate Change Policy Specialist, Environmental Defense Part of Loeb Action on Climate Change Symposium Stubbins Room 112, Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p Measurements of the column distribution of CO2: a new constraint for understanding surface exchange <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184551> Paul Wennberg, R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech Harvard Climate Seminar Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 4:00p - 5:00p What Cities Are Doing <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184569> Sadhu Johnston, Commissioner, the City of Chicago Department of the Environment Part of Loeb Action on Climate Change Symposium Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge 5:00p - 7:30p Free screeing of "An Inconvenient Truth" <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63375847> Harvard School of Public Health, Longwood Campus,, HMS NRB (New Research Building), Amphitheater, 77 Louis Pasteur Ave, Boston 6:00p - 7:00p Living on a Shrinking Planet: Challenges for a Sustainable Future <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63184553> Dr. Jonathan Foley, Director of the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, Univ. of Wisconsin Part of Loeb Action on Climate Change Symposium Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883