Dear HUCE Faculty and Friends, 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:* 12/5/06 -- The Politics of the Environment with Christine Todd Whitman 12/9/06 -- An afternoon with Ramachandra Guha 12/14/06 -- Future of Energy Lecture with John Holdren *Calendar Listings:*** *Friday 12/1/2006 * 6:00p -- 8:00p Constructing the Swiss Landscape <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61415069> Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge Ongoing Cambridge Science Festival, Call for Entries <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61569622> 8:30a - 9:30p Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59180743> Roy Kishony, Harvard University (HMS, Systems Biology) Research Focus: Microbial Epistasis Networks Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 11:00a - 12:00p The webs beneath our feet: disturbance, agriculture and restoration ecology of mycorrhizas <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61818513> Chris Picone - Fitchburg State University Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA 12:00p - 1:00p Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions and Their Importance in the Global Mercury Cycle <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61570190> Robert P. Mason, University of Connecticut Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge *Saturday 12/2/2006* 9:30p -- 5:30p Constructing the Swiss Landscape <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61415070> *Sunday 12/3/2006* 2:00p - 4:00p What's Up with the North Pole? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61754991> Andy Revkin, New York Times science reporter and author of /The North Pole Was Here/ Harvard Museum of Natural History Family Program Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Monday 12/4/2006* 11:30a - 12:30p Fast movements and acoustic defenses: evolutionary physiology in the marine environment <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61570201> Sheila Patek, University of California, Berkeley OEB Special Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge 2:00p - 3:00p Carbonate Mysteries Revisited: What do foram proxies tell us about seawater history and what do they tell us about forams? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61570172> Harry Elderfield, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge Harvard Climate Seminar Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p The past, present and future of methane on Titan <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61570170> Jonathan Lunine, Lunar and Planetary Lab, University of Arizona Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge * Tuesday 12/5/2006* 9:00a - 10:30a Industrial Organization and the Prospects for Carbon Capture and Storage in Deep Sea Sediment <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60468888> Jeff Bielicki, ETIP Fellow Harvard Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, KSG 12:00p - 1:00p Grassroots Conservation: Lessons from an Innovations Award Winner <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61818592> Greg Neudecker, Assistant State Coordinator, Montana Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program and Jim Stone, The Blackfoot Challenge Taubman 301, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge 3:30p - 4:30p Obesity and asthma: Lessons from animal models <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=58363767> Stephanie Shore Colloquium in Environmental Health Kresge G-2, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 4:00p - 5:00p Acoustic Tomography of Ocean Climate (1982-2000): How a Group of Distinguished Cold War Oceanographers Tried (and Failed) to Become Environmental Scientists who Would Definitively Answer the Question of Global Warming <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59892996> Naomi Oreskes, Department of History/Program in Science Studies, UCSD Department of the History of Science Colloquia Science Center Room 469, 1 Oxford St. 6:00p - 7:15p The Politics of the Environment <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61787159> Christine Todd Whitman, administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency (2001-2003); governor, New Jersey (1994-2001); Institute of politics visiting fellow (Fall 2006) John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge *Wednesday 12/6/2006* 12:00p - 1:00p Insect flight beyond the laboratory: Complex aerial behaviors in an unpredictable environment <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61818474> Stacey A. Combes, Miller Research Fellow University of California, Berkeley Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge 6:00p - 7:00p Friend or Foe? The Complex Relationships of Caterpillars and Ants <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61570217> Lecture by Naomi Pierce in conjunction with the HMNH's new exhibition, Arthropods: Creatures that Rule Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Thursday 12/7/2006 * 1:00p - 2:00p Eight cells and beyond: The demographic trajectory of the human sex ratio <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61818445> Steven Orzack, The Fresh Pond Research Institute, Cambridge, MA Population and Evolutionary Genetics / Genomics Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge *Friday 12/8/2006* Ongoing Cambridge Science Festival, Call for Entries <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61569623> 8:30a - 9:30p Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59180746> David Weitz, Harvard University (FAS- Dept Engineering and Applied Sciences) Research Focus: Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Physics Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 11:00a - 12:00p Chelonian conservation in Massachusetts: a tale of three turtles <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61818536> Paul Sievert - University of Massachusetts Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA *Saturday 12/9/06* 2:00p - 4:00p An afternoon with Ramachandra Guha <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61754969> Ramachandra Guha, distinguished environmental, social, and cultural historian RSVP only: peter_alagona(a)ksg.harvard.edu Tubman Building, Room 301, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge* * *Monday 12/11/2006 * 11:30a - 0:30a Evolution of development and the origin of adaptation <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61818483> Alex Badyaev, University of Arizona Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Special Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge *Wednesday 12/13/2006* 8:00a - 9:15a Molecular Epidemiology of Dioxin Toxicity in Seveso <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60257926> Andrea Baccarelli, MD, Ph.D., Visiting Scientist, Department of Environmental Health, HSPH Genetics and Environmental Health Series Kresge Building, Room 110, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, HSPH 12:00p - 1:00p Taxonomic intelligence and the Encyclopedia of Life: using taxonomic principles to manage information about organisms on the internet <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61818450> David Patterson, Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Special Seminar Agassiz Conference Room, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge **Thursday 12/14/2006* 12:00p Making Emissions Trading Work for Transportation <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59481828> Mark Proegler, Director of Emissions Markets, BP Group Innovation in Transportation Seminar Series Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219, 79 JFK Street, KSG 4:00p - 5:00p Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61818488> Andreas Wagner, University of New Mexico Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge 5:00p - 6:15p The Future of Energy Lecture Series - Meeting the Energy-Environment Challenge ...and How Harvard Can Help <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60710706> John P. Holdren, Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard and Director of The Woods Hole Research Institute Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge 6:00p - 7:00p The Puzzle of Uncultured Bacteria <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61538997> Geoff McFadden, Northeastern University, Dept of Biology Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883