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:* Today -- E.O. Wilson discusses his latest book, /The Creation /2/12/07 - George Atkinson, Science & Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State 2/16/07 -- Remote Sensing and GIS workshop -- Harvard's resources and new technology *Calendar Listings:*** *Thursday 2/8/2007 * 5:00p - 6:15p The Creation <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63830322> Edward O. Wilson, professor emeritus, honorary curator in entomology, Harvard University Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School *Friday 2/9/2007* 11:00a Accounting for biodiversity: estimating the functional significance of biodiversity in the fact of local extinction <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64154669> Shahid Naeem, Columbia University Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2007 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA 12:00p - 1:00p University of Houston Field Campaign Activities in Support of TexAQS-II in 2006 <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63961092> Bernhard Rappenglueck, University of Houston Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge 12:30p - 1:30p Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Mortality in Diesel-Exhaust Exposed Railroad Workers <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63994202> Jaime Hart, MS, Doctoral student, Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Dept of Environmental Health, HSPH, Project Coordinator, Channing Laboratory Research Seminars in Occupational and Environmental Health Kresge 502, HSPH, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston 2:00p - 3:00p How Animal are Humans? Making Sense of Man's Place in Nature <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64154690> Sara Tjossem, Columbia University Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2007 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA *Saturday 2/10/2007 * 2:00p - 3:00p Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure -- Movie Screening <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63829782> Harvard Museum of Natural History 3:00p - 4:00p The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63830325> Lecture and book signing with Kelly Tyler-Lewis, historian and author Harvard Museum of Natural History *Sunday 2/11/2007 * 2:00p - 3:00p Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure -- Movie Screening <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63829784> Harvard Museum of Natural History *Monday 2/12/2007 * 3:30p - 4:30p Science and Technology in Global Policy <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63830287> George Atkinson, Science & Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State 53 Church St, Harvard Square, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p Prolonged Deglaciation of Marinoan Snowball Earth <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64091850> Tim Raub, Yale University Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquium Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 4:00p - 5:00p The evolution of species' distributions <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64154684> Amy Angert, University of Arizona Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge *Tuesday 2/13/2007* 9:30a - 11:00a Progress and Development of Advanced Coal Technology in China <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63829856> Lifeng Zhao, ETIP Fellow Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series Belfer Center Library, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA 4:00p - 5:00p Paleoecological and isotopic consequences of global warming during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64091825> Francesca Smith, Northwestern University Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar Series Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Wednesday 2/14/2007 * 4:00p - 5:30p Voluntary Provision of Public Goods for Bads: A Theory of Environmental Offsets <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63056662> Matthew Kotchen, University of California, Santa Barbara Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University *Friday 2/16/2007* 8:30a - 9:30a Metazoan influence on microbial processes: The biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico hydrocarbon seeps <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63961320> Dr. Erik Cordes, Dept of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University MSI Chalktalk Breakfast Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 1:00p - 6:00p Remote Sensing Technology and Applications Workshop <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61755077> CGIS South Building, Room 010, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 1:30p - 3:00p Paying for Permanence: Public Preferences for Life-Saving <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64154730> Anna Alberini, Ph.D., AREC, University of Maryland Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series Landmark 414A, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 3:15p - 4:15p Chemistry of Organic Aerosol Particles in Indoor and Outdoor Air <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63375826> Sergey Nizkorodov, UC Irvine Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge *Tuesday 2/20/2007* 4:00p - 5:00p A Burgess Shale Renaissance <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64091846> Jean-Bernard Caron, University of Toronto Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar Series Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 6:00p - 7:30p The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63829787> Lecture and book signing by Scott Kraus and Rosalind Rolland Haller Hall 102, Geological Museum Building, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Wednesday 2/21/2007 * 2:15p - 4:00p Climate Change and Iceland's Role in North Atlantic Security <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63829863> Björn Bjarnason, Minister of Justice, Iceland Belfer Center, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA *Thursday 2/22/2007* 12:30p - 2:00p Perspectives on Global Health <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64154653> Tadataka Yamada, president, Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Armenise Building, Amphitheater, Longwood Campus, Harvard Medical School, Boston 4:00p - 5:00p Gender Differences in Travel Behavior of Low-Income Residents: Case Studies in Chengdu (China) and Chennai (India) <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64058304> Dr. Sumeeta Srinivasan, Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, China Project China Project Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p Aquilegia as a new model system for the study of floral evolution <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64154689> Elena Kramer, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Special Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883