Dear Friends of HUCE,
This email contains event listings for Thursday, November 29 through
Thursday, December 13, 2007. Please check the HUCE calendar on our website,
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/>
www.environment.harvard.edu, for the
most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions throughout the
semester.
If you would like to submit an event to the calendar or unsubscribe (!) from
this list, contact Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment:
<mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu> lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu.
Please distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues, and
anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the
community. We hope to see you soon and often.
Highlights:
*Monday, December 3: "
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86790938>
Climate Change: Is Economics the Source of the Problem or the Key to the
Solution?" with Harvard University Center for the Environment Visiting
Scholar Charles Kolstad, University of California, Santa Barbara.
*Wednesday, December 5: "Biodiversity and Global Change: Are we Yet a
Predictive Science?" with Peter Reich, whose recent research at the
University of Minnesota focuses on the impact of environmental change on
terrestrial ecosystems. The second lecture in the Biodiversity, Ecology, and
Global Change lecture series.
*Friday, December 7: The Commissioner for Energy of the European Union,
Andris Pielbags speaks about Europe's lead in climate change and energy
policy with respondent Manuel Pinho, the minister of Economy and Innovation
of Portugal, as part of the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century: European
and American Perspectives Series.
Calendar Listings:
Thursday 11/29/2007
4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539784> OEB
Seminar
"The role of phenotypic plasticity and selection in the colonization of a
novel environment". Speaker Trevor Price, University of Chicago
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact: Katie Parodi, <mailto:kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu>
kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, <http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm>
www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm
5:00p - 7:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86174050>
Science and Democracy Lecture Series: Why Environmentalism Needs History as
much as Science
"Saving Nature in Time" Speaker: William Cronon. In this lecture, drawn from
a forthcoming book of the same title, William Cronon will examine the key
cultural assumptions about humanity and nature that have characterized
modern American environmental thinking.
Science Center Lecture Hall A, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Lisa Matthews, <mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu>
lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883,
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/>
www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/
5:30p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86693001>
Arnold Arboretum: Landscape Institute Information Session
Attend an Information Session to learn about the academic programs offered
by the Landscape Institute.
29 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact: <mailto:landscape@arnarb.harvard.edu>
landscape(a)arnarb.harvard.edu, 617.495.8632
Friday 11/30/2007
8:30a - 9:30p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87446355>
Friday Chalktalk: "Insights into the Ecology of Environmental Microbial Fuel
Cells"
Speaker: Helen White, MSI Postdoctoral Fellow, OEB, Girguis Lab
Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., 1st floor Geological Museum, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Christy Herren, <mailto:herren@fas.harvard.edu>
herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495-8643,
<http://www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html>
www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html
10:00a
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86693005>
Arnold Arboretum: Landscape Institute Information Session
Attend an Information Session to learn about the academic programs offered
by the Landscape Institute.
29 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact: <mailto:landscape@arnarb.harvard.edu>
landscape(a)arnarb.harvard.edu, 617.495.8632,
<http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/programs/ld/ld.html>
www.arboretum.harvard.edu/programs/ld...
11:00a - 12:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=82935340>
Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series
Michael Bank - Harvard School of Public Health Mercury in the environment:
pattern and process
Harvard Forest Seminar Room, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, <mailto:aabarker@fas.harvard.edu>
aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, (978) 724-3302
12:00p - 1:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=85420905>
Harvard Ecology Discussion Group
Please check the Ecology Group website for topics of discussion.
Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 20 Oxford St., 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Mike Dietze, <mailto:mdietze@oeb.harvard.edu>
mdietze(a)oeb.harvard.edu, <http://hcs.harvard.edu/hedg>
hcs.harvard.edu/hedg
Saturday 12/1/2007
11:30p - 3:30p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87642944>
Ethics and International Affairs Conference
Featuring a workshop on environmental sustainability.
Bowie-Vernon Room (N262), CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge,
MA
Contact: <mailto:hyunjin@fas.harvard.edu> hyunjin(a)fas.harvard.edu
Monday 12/3/2007
12:00p - 1:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=81038269>
Harvard Energy Journal Club
Visit the HEJC website for current topics of discussion.
HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Kurt House, <mailto:khouse@fas.harvard.edu>
khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, <http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html>
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84889772>
Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia
Lectures take place at 4:00pm in Haller Hall. Refreshments to follow,
Hoffman 4th floor. Check seminar Web site for speaker information.
Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: <mailto:miller@eps.harvard.edu> miller(a)eps.harvard.edu,
<http://www.eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscolloque.php>
www.eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscollo...
4:00p - 5:30p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86790938>
Climate Change: Is Economics the Source of the Problem or the Key to the
Solution?
Speaker: Charles Kolstad, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Visiting Scholar from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, Belfer Center, 79 JFK St.,
Cambridge, MA
Contact: Jennifer Shultis, <mailto:jennifer_shultis@harvard.edu>
jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu, 617-496-8054
Tuesday 12/4/2007
9:30a - 11:00a
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=79422766> The
Role of Scientists in the Science and Technology Policymaking in China
Energy Technology Innovation Policy seminar series. Speaker: Peng Ru, ETIP
Fellow.
L-369, Belfer Center Library, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of
Government
Contact: ETIP Coordinator, <mailto:sam_milton@harvard.edu>
sam_milton(a)harvard.edu, (617) 496-5584,
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.energytechnologypolicy.org>
www.energytechnologypolicy.org
12:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84215041>
Biological Anthropology Seminar: Social learning and traditions in wild
capuchin monkeys
Speaker: Dr. Susan Perry, Department of Anthropolgy, UCLA
HUCE Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Meg Lynch, <mailto:mlynch@fas.harvard.edu> mlynch(a)fas.harvard.edu
12:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539857>
Herbaria Seminar Series
Rare, endangered, and improbable plants of New Jersey with Jean Marie
Hartman, Rutgers University.
Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact: <http://www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/>
www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
3:00p - 4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84667706>
ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current
speakers.
Geological Museum, Room 418, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge
Contact: Kate Dennis and Martin Tingley,
<http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html>
www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=82838200>
Earth History and Paleobiology seminar: "The Preservation of Burgess Shale
fossils"
Speaker: Dr. Andrea Grottoli, Ohio State University. "Stable Carbon Isotopes
in Corals and Sclerosponges: Implications for Paleoceanography and Biology."
Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Phoebe Cohen or Jon Wilson,
<mailto:pacohen@fas.harvard.edu,%20jpwilson@fas.harvard.edu>
pacohen(a)fas.harvard.edu, jpwilson(a)fas.harvard.edu
6:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86859319>
Institute of Politics Forum: Overcoming Nuclear Danger
A 2007 Albert H. Gordon lecture by Mikhail Gorbachev, President, Soviet
Union (1990-1991)
Institute of Politics, JFK School, Harvard University, 79 JFK St.,
Cambridge, MA
Contact: 617 496 3864,
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.iop.harvard.edu>
www.iop.harvard.edu
CORRECTION (previously listed on 12/5/07)
7:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86301723>
Screening: King Corn
A new documentary about the state of agriculture and food systems in America
today.
Hilles Cinema, 59 Shepard Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact: Jessica Zdeb, <mailto:jessica_zdeb@harvard.edu>
jessica_zdeb(a)harvard.edu, 617.496.6201
7:30p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84215056>
Center for Astrophysics: Author Night
"Planets, Stars, and Galaxies," with David Aguilar, Center for Astrophysics.
60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: <mailto:pubaffairs@cfa.harvard.edu> pubaffairs(a)cfa.harvard.edu,
(617) 495-7461, <http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/public_events.html>
www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/public_eve...
Wednesday 12/5/2007
12:00p - 1:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87642945>
Harvard Ecology Discussion Group
Peter Reich, F.B. Hubacheck, Sr. Chair in Forest Ecology and Tree
Physiology, University of Minnesota.
HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Mike Dietze, <mailto:mdietze@oeb.harvard.edu>
mdietze(a)oeb.harvard.edu
4:15p - 5:30p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=79116312>
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Charles Kolstad and Nicholas Burger, University of California, Santa
Barbara. "Voluntary Public Goods Provision, Coalition Formation, and
Uncertainty"
L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Jennifer Shultis, <mailto:jennifer_shultis@harvard.edu>
jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu, (617) 496-8054
5:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84995264>
Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change
"Biodiversity and Global Change: are we yet a Predictive Science?" Speaker:
Peter Reich, F.B. Hubacheck, Sr. Chair in Forest Ecology and Tree
Physiology, University of Minnesota.
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Lisa Matthews, <mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu>
lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883
Thursday 12/6/2007
8:00a - 10:00a
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87318796>
Harvard Recycling Appreciation Breakfast
Join recyclers from across the University as we celebrate recycling 50% of
campus refuse.
Holyoke Events and Information Center, 1350 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Rob Gogan, <mailto:rob_gogan@harvard.edu> rob_gogan(a)harvard.edu,
617-495-3042
2:00p - 6:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87544606>
NEXUS Exhibitor Showcase: Green is Affordable
Ttour the NEXUS Green Building Resource Center Exhibit Hall and speak with
vendor representatives.
NEXUS Green Building Resource Center, 38 Chauncy St., 7th Floor, Boston, MA
Contact: Aaron Desatnik , <mailto:aaron@greenroundtable.org>
aaron(a)greenroundtable.org, 617-374-3740 x.127
4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86692940> OEB
Seminar Series
"Putting real adaptation into comparative tests of adaptive hypotheses: the
way forward?"
Speaker: Dr. Steve Orzack, The Fresh Pond Research Institute. Bio Labs
Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact: <http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm>
www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm
6:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86682040>
Carpenter Center Lecture: Understanding Anthropogeomorphology
Speaker: Matt Coolidge, the director of the Center for Land Use
Interpretation (CLUI).
Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: 617.495.3251, <http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/coolidgematt.html>
www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/coolidgematt....
7:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84215033>
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Family Friendly Nights
A Star is Born, with Meredith Hughes. How are stars made, and what happens
when their lives are over?
60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: <mailto:pubaffairs@cfa.edu> pubaffairs(a)cfa.edu, (617) 495-7461,
<http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/ffn.html>
www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/ffn.html
Friday 12/7/2007
8:30a - 9:30a
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84638687>
Friday Chalktalk: "Genes, Proteins and Organelles Responsible for
Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence and the Mechanism of the Regulation of
Flashing"
Dr. Woody Hastings, Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, 1st floor Geological Museum, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Christy Herren, <mailto:herren@fas.harvard.edu>
herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-8643,
<http://www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html>
www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html
11:00a - 12:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=82935342>
Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series
Scott Ollinger - Complex Research Systems Center, University of New
Hampshire Canopy nitrogen, carbon assimilation and energy exchange in forest
ecosystems.
Harvard Forest Seminar Room, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, <mailto:aabarker@fas.harvard.edu>
aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, (978) 724-3302
12:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86682052>
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
Speaker: Jintai Lin, Univ. of Illinois, with hosts Michael McElroy & Yuxuan
Wang.
Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: <mailto:bmathieu@seas.harvard.edu> bmathieu(a)seas.harvard.edu ,
<http://www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html>
www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html
12:30p - 2:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=80808296>
Environmental Statistics Seminar: "Topics in Environmental Health"
Tom Webster, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health,
Boston University School of Public Health
HSPH Building 2, Room 426, Boston, MA
Contact:
<http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostats/events/seminars/env_stat.html>
www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostats/events/...
2:15p - 4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=81454152>
Challenges of the Twenty-first Century: European and American Perspectives
Series
"Climate Change and Energy; Europe Takes the Lead" with speaker Andris
Pielbags, Commissioner for Energy, Commission of the European Union.
Lower Level Conference Room, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Renee Haferkamp, <mailto:haferkam@fas.harvard.edu>
haferkam(a)fas.harvard.edu
Sunday 12/9/2007
2:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539756>
Sunday Family Program: Mammals in Winter: Survival and Adaptation
When the ground is covered with snow and the trees are bare, just how do
mammals survive?
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: <mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu> hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-3045
Monday 12/10/2007
12:00p - 1:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=81038270>
Harvard Energy Journal Club
Visit
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of
discussion.
HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Kurt House, <mailto:khouse@fas.harvard.edu>
khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, <http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html>
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
7:30p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539760>
Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series
Raising Tomorrow's Naturalists: Film screening and conversation with E. O.
Wilson and T. Berry Brazelton.
Science Center, One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: <mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu> hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-3045
Tuesday 12/11/2007
3:00p - 4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84667707>
ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current
speakers and topics of discussion.
Geological Museum, Room 418, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge
Contact: Kate Dennis and Martin Tingley,
<http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html>
www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
7:30p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87672486>
Cambridge Entomological Club Meeting
"Interactions between invasive species: woolly adelgid, elongate scale, and
the fate of New England's hemlock forests" with Evan Preisser, University of
Rhode Island
Museum of Comparative Zoology, 101, 26 Oxford Street, Harvard University
Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: <mailto:entclub@entclub.org> entclub(a)entclub.org,
<http://entclub.org/>
entclub.org/
Wednesday 12/12/2007
4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87672478>
Origins of Life Initiative Forum
Microbial Population Structure of the World's Oceans: An Underexplored "Rare
Biosphere" with speaker Mitchell L. Sogin Marine Biological Laboratory in
Woods Hole & Brown University
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Carol Knell, <mailto:cknell@cfa.harvard.edu>
cknell(a)cfa.harvard.edu, <http://origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html>
origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html
Thursday 12/13/2007
4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87672481>
HUCE Green Conversations Series
Join us for a conversation with three representatives from GridPoint
technolgies.
Pierce Hall, Room 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Lisa Matthews, <mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu>
lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883
4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539802> OEB
Seminar: Evolutionary Biorobotics: Navigating Simulated Selection
Environments to Test Adaptation Hypotheses
Speaker Dr. John Lang, Vassar College
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact: Katie Parodi, <mailto:kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu>
kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, <http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm>
www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm
Lisa Matthews
Events Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
24 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu
p. 617-495-8883
f. 617-496-0425