Dear Friends of HUCE,
Be sure to 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.
Highlights:
Tuesday, December 9: Catherine Badgley from the University of Michigan department of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology discusses the "Effects of Climate on Mammalian
Diversity" in the Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar.
Thursday, December 11: Director of the Harvard Center for the Environment Daniel Schrag
presents "Confronting the Energy-Climate Challenge" with comments by Kelly Sims
Gallagher (HKS) at the Harvard Museum of Natural History's "Earth Matters"
lecture series.
Saturday, December 13: The School of Engineering and Applied Scienes presents two sessions
of, "From Bean to Bar: The Sweet Science of Chocolate," a special holiday
lecture for children ages 7 and up.
Calendar Listings:
Thursday 12/4/2008
4:00p OEB Seminar Series
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"Chemical communication among plants and insects." Consuelo de Moraes,
Pennsylvania State University.
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu,
www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin...
4:00p Climate Seminar
(Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Restoring Balance to the Archean/Paleoproterozoic Carbon Cycle: From Louis Pasteur
to the Lomagundi-Jatuli Carbon Isotope Event." Joseph Kirschvink, Div. of Geological
and Planetary Science, Caltech.
Contact: Shuting Jin , jin(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
6:00p Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"D-amino acids regulate the composition, structure, amount, and strength of
peptidoglycan." Matt Waldor, Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, Harvard Medical
School
Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html
6:30p The Future of Transportation: Ending our Dependence on Oil
(JFK Forum, Littauer Building, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
Speaker: Shai Agassi, an Israeli-born entrepreneur who is taking the auto industry by
storm with a revolutionary new electric car infrastructure.
Contact: Allison Shapira , allison_shapira(a)ksg.harvard.edu ,
www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=25vhyh...
Friday 12/5/2008
8:00a - 5:00p The Science of the Human Past: An Invitation to a Symposium on the
Scientific Study of the Human Past
(Broad Institute, NE30-1154, the Auditorium, 7 Cambridge Ctr., Cambridge, MA)
Speakers include Michael Hammer, Pardis Sabeti, Noreen Tuross, and many others. Open to
the public; registration required.
Contact:
www.broad.mit.edu/registration/
8:30a Restructuring Roundtable
(Foley Hoag, 155 Seaport Blvd, Boston, MA)
Two panel discussions: "National Priorities for Climate and Energy Policy" and
"Regional Climate Initiatives: RGGI and WCI."
Contact:
www.raabassociates.org/main/roundtabl...
9:00a - 5:00p Stockholm Environmental Institute: US Symposium
(Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall Tufts University, Medford, MA)
"Taking Climate Change Seriously: Research and Policy Directions for the Next US
Administration"
Contact:
www.sei-us.org/symposium2008.html
11:30a Harvard Forest Seminar Series
(Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA)
"Plant responses to different environmental stresses in the high tropical Andes
." Fermin Rada - Universidad de Los Andes and Harvard Bullard Fellow.
Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268,
harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
2:30p - 4:30p MIT Seminar on Environmetnal and Agricultural History
(Building E51, Room 095, MIT, Cambridge, MA)
"Neolithic Emergence: the Origin of Agriculture in the Near East." Steven
Mithen, Professor of Archaeology, Reading University.
Contact: Margo Collett, mcollett(a)mit.edu
6:00p - 8:00p Movie and Guest Speaker from Silent Spring Institute
(Emerson Hall 210, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
Sarah Dunagan will talk briefly about the Silent Spring Institute followed by the movie
"Toxic Bust."
Contact: whxchan(a)yahoo.com
6:45p New England Botanical Club Meeting
(Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA )
"The Ends of Earth: Plant Conservation in Some of the Last Shangri- Las of the
World." Dr. Kamaljit Bawa, Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, University
of Massachusetts-Boston
Contact:
www.rhodora.org/Meetings.html
7:30p Crafting A Sensible National Security Policy
(St. Paul Parish, 29 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA)
Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston University. Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
Monday 12/8/2008
8:30a - 5:30p The Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future Conference
(The Rafik Hariri Building (Boston University School of Management), 4th Floor, 595
Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA)
"Three Decades of Reform and Opening: Where is China Headed?" RSVP required.
Contact: pardee(a)bu.edu,
www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept...
12:00p - 1:00p 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
4:00p - 5:30p Energy Policy Research Seminar
(Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
"The Carbonomics of Kissinger's Cartel, Double Dividends, and Global
Fairness." Steven Stoft, author, Power System Economics (2002) and Carbonomics
(forthcoming)
Contact: Louisa Lund, louisa_lund(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8693
Tuesday 12/9/2008
12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series
(Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA)
"Phylogenetic informativeness." Jeffrey Townsend, Yale University.
Contact:
www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
(Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics
of discussion.
Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
4:00p Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar
(Haller Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Effects of Climate on Mammalian Diversity." Catherine Badgley, University of
Michigan, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Contact: ehap.seminar(a)gmail.com
5:15p Boston Environmental History Seminar
(Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston, MA )
"'Gold! Gold!! Gold!!!': Mining and Environmental Change in the
19th-Century West." George H. Vrtis, Carleton College.
Contact: Jane Becker, jbecker(a)masshist.org, 617-646-0518
Wednesday 12/10/2008
4:00p - 5:00p Origins of Life Initiative Forum
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"Marine Microbial Mats and the Search for Life in Deep Time and Space." David J.
Des Marais, NASA - Ames.
Contact: Sharmon G. Davis, sdavis(a)cfa.harvard.edu, 617.496.1451,
origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html
Thursday 12/11/2008
4:00p - 5:30p The Potential for Advanced Leadership: Can the Boomer Generation Help Save
the World?
(Aldrich 112, Harvard Business Scool, Boston, MA)
Faculty Seminar sponsored by the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative in
collaboration with the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative and the Harvard
Kennedy School.
Contact: nbaker(a)hbs.edu,
www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/
4:00p OEB Seminar Series
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"The white-throated sparrow: A natural model uniting genetics, neuroendocrinology,
and social behavior." Donna Maney, Emory University.
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu,
www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin...
6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History: Earth Matters
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Confronting the Energy-Climate Challenge." A presentation by Dan Schrag (HUCE,
EPS/SEAS), with remarks by Kelly Gallagher (HKS).
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045,
www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe...
Friday 12/12/2008
8:30a - 9:30a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"Genomics on 700 Microbes: An early look at a global analysis of how microbes make
and break down small molecules." Michael Fischbach, Department of Molecular Biology,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495-8643 ,
www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html
11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series
(Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA)
"Do ecologists have GUTS?" Samuel Scheiner, Program Director, National Science
Foundation Population & Evolutionary Processes.
Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268,
harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
Saturday 12/13/2008
10:00a From Bean to Bar: The Sweet Science of Chocolate
(Science Center B, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
Family-friendly holiday lecture with Howard Stone, SEAS, and Amy Rowat, Harvard
University. Live experiments and demonstrations; appropriate for ages 7 and up. Repeat
session at 1 pm.
Contact: ciencetix(a)seas.harvard.edu,
www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
Monday 12/15/2008
12:00p - 1:00p 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 12/16/2008
12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series
(Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA)
"Sexual dimorphism and floral polymorphism across an island archipelago: hummingbirds
and heliconias of the Lesser Antilles." Ethan Temeles, Amherst College.
Contact:
www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
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