Highlights:
Thursday, January 21: Denise Mauzerall, associate professor, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs, Princeton University, presents a lecture on air quality at the first China
Project Seminar of the spring semester.
Wednesday, January 27: Harvard biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham discusses the
bold theory that our ancestors tamed fire and began cooking 1.8 million years ago, much
earlier than conventionally believed in the opening event of the HMNH "Food for
Thought" series.
Save the Dates! Be sure to mark your calendar for the spring Biodiversity, Ecology, and
Global Change lecture series events, listed at the end of this email.
Calendar Listings:
January 14, 2010
6:00pm MSI Thursday Evening Seminar
HUCE Seminar Room, 3rd Floor 24 Oxford St, Harvard University Cambridge, MA
"Protein misfolding done right: The function and biogenesis of bacterial
amyloids." Matthew Chapman, University of Michigan; Dept. of Molecular, Cellular, and
Developmental Biology.
Please join us for a wine and cheese reception at 5:30 pm
http://www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html
7:30pm Boston Area Solar Energy Association Forum
First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist 3 Church Street Harvard Square Cambridge,
MA
John Miller, UMass Dartmouth, Marine Renewable Energy Center, will talk about ocean energy
sources, discussing technologies for wind, wave, tidal and current energy.
info(a)basea.org
January 15, 2010
9:00am - 12:00pm Social Determinants of Global Population Health
Charles Hotel One Bennett Street Cambridge, MA
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies conference on addressing health
disparities.
RSVP's are required: Emily O'Donnell eodonnel(a)hsph.harvard.edu 617-495-3008
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/event…...
11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar
Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA
"Correlates and causes of plant species richness gradients in forests of the
Northeast." Jesse Bellemare, Smith College.
Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu
1:00pm - 3:00pm Low Carbon Emission Electricity Generating Technology Options
MIT 66-110 Cambridge, MA
Speaker János M. Béer. State of the art technology options and those in R&D and
Demonstration stages are discussed together with their timeline and the
possibility of speeding up their deployment.
http://web.mit.edu/mitei/iap10
January 18, 2010
11:45am Harvard Energy Journal Club
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Visit the Energy Journal website for updates.
Contact: Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu
January 19, 2010
2:00pm - 4:00pm Climate Change 101: Introduction to Climate Change Economics and Policy
MIT E51-335 Cambridge, MA
Concerned about climate change, but unsure how our policy options stack up? Come learn
enough to hold your own at a cocktail party on current climate policy topics! Joint
Program/Science and Policy of Global Change.
http://student.mit.edu/iap/nsglobalchange.html
Contact: Tony Tran tones(a)mit.edu (617) 253-7492
January 20, 2010
7:30am - 12:00pm Environmental Business Council Energy Summit: New England Smart Grid
Pilot Programs
Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag LLP Bay Colony Corporate Center 1000 Winter
Street Suite 4000, North Entrance Waltham, MA 02451
An update on the emerging developments with regional Smart Grid Pilot Programs by the
leaders of National Grid, NSTAR and Western Mass. Electric Company Smart Grid Programs.
Registration and fee.
http://www.ebcne.org/index.php?id=77&no_cache=1&tx_ciceventscalenda…[sinuid]...
2:00pm - 4:00pm Climate Change 102: Recent Developments in U.S. Climate Policy
Legislation
MIT E51-335 Cambridge, MA
Speaker: Jennifer Morris. Come learn about the substance and potential impacts of recent
developments in U.S. climate policy.
http://student.mit.edu/iap/nsglobalchange.html
Contact: Tony Tran tones(a)mit.edu (617) 253-7492
January 21, 2010
11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club
HUCE Meeting Room 318 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. All interested researchers are
welcome and lunch is provided.
Contact: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu
2:00pm - 4:00pm Climate Change 103: Issues in Climate Policy- Technological Change and
Biofuels
MIT E51-149 Cambridge, MA
Speakers Nidhi Santen and Suhail Ahmad. "Climate Policy-Induced R&D and
Technological Change in the Energy Industry" and "Review of US Biofuels Policies
and their Implications."
Contact: Tony Tran tones(a)mit.edu (617) 253-7492
3:30pm China Project Seminar
Maxwell Dworkin 119 33 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
"Present and Future Contributions of Sulfate, Black and Organic Carbon Aerosols from
China to Global Air Quality, Premature Mortality, and Radiative Forcing." Denise
Mauzerall, associate professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
http://chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminar%20folder/seminar/Mauzerall100121
Contact: Chris Nielsen nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu
6:00pm HBS Association of Boston - Solving the Global Climate Change Puzzle: Private
Innovation and Government Regulation
HBS Aldrich 112 on the HBS campus Allston, MA
Come hear what one of the eminent researchers on innovation, HBS' own Rebecca
Henderson and one of the major players in the clean energy space, Daniel Goldman, think
about the future of climate change, and participate in what promises to be a lively
exchange of views. Registration and fee.
http://www.hbsab.org/article.html?aid=312
January 22, 2010
11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar
Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA
"Collecting scientific provenance data via the definition and execution of scientific
processes."
Barbara Lerner, Mount Holyoke College.
Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu
January 23, 2010
8:30am - 3:00pm Cambridge Climate Congress
Cambridge City Hall, Cambridge, MA
Approximately 100 delegates from Cambridge community groups, businesses, institutions and
faith-based organizations will be participating in the Congress.
http://www.cambridgema.gov/deptann.cfm?story_id=2450
617-349-4321
January 25, 2010
11:45am Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Visit the Energy Journal website for updates.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/
Contact: Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu
6:00pm - 8:45pm MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge - From Inside and Out: Energy Efficient
Buildings
Microsoft New England Research & Development Center One Memorial Drive Suite 100
Cambridge, MA 02142
Explore green building and interact with some of the thought leaders in the space already
"making it happen". Registration required.
http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/EnergySIG/ESIG.html
January 27, 2010
11:45am - 12:45pm Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Pierce Hall 114 29 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
Speaker Soeren Zorn. Hosted by Professor Scot Martin.
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/calendars/applied_physical_sciences…...
Contact: Norma Stewart nstewart(a)seas.harvard.edu
7:30pm HMNH: Food for Thought Program Series and Booksigning
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human." Author Richard Wrangham. Free and
open to the public.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/kids-and-families/google-calendar.html
hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu
January 28, 2010
11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club
HUCE Meeting Room 318 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. All interested researchers are
welcome and lunch is provided.
Contact: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu
Ecological studies are the bridge that link biodiversity and global change issues. Please
join us at the Spring 2010 lectures in the Harvard University Center for the Environment
and Bank of America series on
Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change
Thursday, February 4
Stephen Long, Professor of Crop Sciences, Robert Emerson Professor, and Resident Scientist
for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
5:00 pm - Biolabs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave
Wednesday, March 3
Bryan Grenfell, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Woodrow
Wilson School, Princeton University
5:00 pm - Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, 7 Divinity Ave
Monday, April 12
Mercedes Pascual, Rosemary Grant Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
University of Michigan
5:00 pm - Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, 7 Divinity Ave, Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA
Thursday, April 22
Mary Power, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley
5:00 pm - Biolabs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave
The Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change lecture series is sponsored by the Harvard
University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America. All of
the lectures are free and open to the public. Each lecture will be followed by a
reception.
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