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:* *11/9/06 -- Climate Seminar - The Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Model (OLAM): A new generation of Earth System Model *11/16/06 -- The Future of Energy Lecture Series begins with *Mark Little*, Director of Global Research at GE. Other Future of Energy Speakers include: 12/14/06 - *John P. Holdren*, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University and Director, the Woods Hole Research Center and Co-Chair, National Commission on Energy Policy, and President, American Association for the Advancement of Science 1/31/06 - *Abdallah S. Jum'ah*, President and Chief Executive Officer, Saudi Aramco 2/5/06 - *Dan E. Arvizu*, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory 3/22/06 - *Andrew Gould*, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Schlumberger Limited 4/21/06 - *Vaclav Smil*, Distinguished Professor, University of Manitoba Author of Energy: A Beginner's Guide and Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovation and Their Consequences *Calendar Listings:* *Friday 11/3/2006 * 8:30a - 9:30p Bacterial natural product assembly lines- Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59180738> Christopher T. Walsh, Harvard University (HMS, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology) Research Focus: Enzymology Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 1:00p The Environment or the Enemy Within? Cellular Mechanisms to Offset Genotoxic Threats <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60710639> Ninth Annual JBL Symposium Harvard School of Public Health/677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Kresge - G1 7:30p Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth" <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60922317> Science Center Lecture Hall D, Harvard *Saturday 11/4/2006 * 1:00p The Environment or the Enemy Within? Cellular Mechanisms to Offset Genotoxic Threats <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60710642> Ninth Annual JBL Symposium Harvard School of Public Health/677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Kresge - G1 7:30p Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth" <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60922319> Science Center Lecture Hall D, Harvard *Monday 11/6/2006* 4:00p - 5:00p Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60710702> Dan Harlov, Experimental Geochemistry and Mineral Physics, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford *Tuesday 11/7/2006 * 9:00a - 10:30p Poverty Alleviation and the Environment in China <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59481789> Zhang Shiqiu, Professor of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China Energy Technology Innovation Project (ETIP) Seminar Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, KSG 12:30p - 2:00p Public Bads and Civic Deficits: Siting Controversial Facilities in Advanced Industrial Democracies <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60983426> Daniel P. Aldrich Assistant Professor of Political Science, Tulane University, and Advanced Research Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar Bowie-Vernon Room (N262), CGIS Knafel Building, Cambridge, MA 4:00p - 5:00p Controlling Mercury Emissions at China's Coal-Fired Electricity Plants: An Economic Analysis <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60680126> ZHANG Shiqiu, Professor, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University Harvard China Project Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge *Wednesday 11/8/2006* 8:00a - 9:15a Genome Sequence Variation and the Inherited Basis of Disease <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60528868> David Altshuler, MD, Ph.D, Director Program in Medical Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT Center for the Environment GENETICS & ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERIES Kresge Room 110, HSPH, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston 4:00p - 5:30p Evaluating Policy Impacts on Tropical Deforestation <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=58981891> Alexander Pfaff and Juan Andres Robalino, Columbia University Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard 4:30p - 5:30p Genesis: the Scientific Quest for Life's Origins <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60318004> Robert Hazen, Carnegie Part of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative Inaugural Symposium Gutman Conference Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education 4:45p - 6:00p Global Warming Goes to the Supreme Court <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60983585> Harvard Law School TBD *Thursday 11/9/2006 * 3:30p - 4:30p The Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Model (OLAM): A new generation of Earth System Model <http://www.deas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climateseminar.html> Robert Walko and Roni Avissar, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University Harvard Climate Seminar Series Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 3:30p - 4:30p Disease process models: A way to link exposure and outcomes in epidemiology <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=58363766> Tom Smith, Professor of industrial hygiene, Environmental Science and Engineering Program Colloquium in Environmental Health Kresge G-2, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 4:00p - 5:00p Right and Left: Mineral Surfaces and the Origins of Biological Homochirality <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60983438> Dr. Robert Hazen, Carnegie Institute Special Origins Seminar Pierce Hall 307, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p Phytochrome evolution in land plants: red light sensing meets the challenges of changing light environments <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60983679> Sarah Mathews, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University Oganismic and Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series Main Lecture Hall, BioLabs Building Host: Kramer Lab 4:15p - 6:00p Empire and Environment: New Work at the Crossroads of French Imperial and Environmental History <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60983629> Caroline Ford, UCLA; Eric Jennings, Professor of History, University of Toronto Center for European Studies Seminar Cabot Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge *Friday 11/10/2006* 7:30p Screening of "Design E2" PBS series: green design/the economics of climate change <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60559128> Sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee Boylston Hall Room 110, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Campus *Saturday 11/11/2006 * 7:30p Screening of "Design E2" PBS series: green design/the economics of climate change <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60559128> Sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee Boylston Hall Room 110, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Campus *Monday 11/13/2006 * 4:00p - 5:00p Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60710703> Simone Kaseman, Grant Institute of Earth Science, Ion Microprobe Unit, The University of Edinburgh Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Tuesday 11/14/2006* 8:00p Climate Change Debate between the Harvard Dems and the Harvard GOP <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60559131> TBA Sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee *Wednesday 11/15/2006* 11:30a - 12:30p Time to Abandon Darwin? Lessons from the Dover "Intelligent Design" Trial <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60983656> Kenneth Miller, Brown University PEGG Seminar Series Sherman Fairchild, Room 102 4:00p - 5:30p Non-Linear Effects of Weather on Crop Yields: Implications for Climate Change <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=58981892> Wolfram Schlenker and Michael Roberts, Columbia University Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 4:00p - 5:00p The First Billion Years on Earth: When Did It Become Hospitable to Life? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60983459> Professor John Valley, University of Wisconsin Origins Forum Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 4:00p - 5:00p Your Visual Representations of Science: Are They Lost in Translation? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60983682> Felice Frankel, Senior Research Fellow Initiative in Innovative Computing, Harvard University Initiative in Innovative Computing Seminar 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 6:00p - 7:30p Writing the Life of Jane Goodall <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60983630> Lecture and book signing by Dale Peterson Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Thursday 11/16/2006* 5:00p - 6:00p The Future of Energy Lecture Series - Green is Green <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60318051> Mark Little, PhD, Senior Vice President and Director of GE Global Research Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge 6:00p - 8:00p Justice & Policy on Indian Lands: Reforming the US Government's Management of Trust Assets <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60983624> Austin Hall North, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School 7:30p Religion and Climate Change <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60559125> Sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee and the Interfaith Council Boylston Hall Room 110, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Campus