Highlights:
Wednesday, March 9: Michael Bromwich, the Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,
Regulation and Enforcement, discusses "Responsible Stewardship of U.S. Offshore Oil
and Natural Gas Development "in the upcoming Future of Energy lecture.
Thursdays: Join IOP Fellow Bob Inglis, who served on the House Science and Technology
Committee, was the Ranking Republican Member of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee,
and co-chaired the House Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Caucus, at his weekly study group -
"Energy Policy: Can We Bring America Together?"
Environment@Harvard is hot off the press. Check out the current issue here.
Calendar Listings:
Today
4:00pm - 5:30pm IOP Study Group
Faculty Dining Room Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA
Study with IOP fellow and Former U.S. Representative for South Carolina’s 4th District Bob
Inglis. discussing energy and environmental policy.
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Spring-2011-Study-…...
4:00pm Climate Seminar
Haller Hall Geo Museum 102 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA
Peter deMenocal, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University. "What caused
the late Pliocene aridification of East Africa?"
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climateseminar.html
6:00pm - 7:00pm Climate Change, International Development, and Global Security
CGIS K262 1730 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA
A dinner discussion on Climate Change and its effect on International Development and
Global Security with Lyle Hopkins, Former Captain in the US Air Force and current Climate
Change Specialist at the Civil Society Institute.
Contact Name: Jennifer McKee 617.455.7962
March 4, 2011 - 12:00am - March 5, 2011 - 12:00am
MIT Energy Conference: Confronting Limits with Fact-Based Analysis
Westin Copley Place Boston, MA
This year’s conference theme "Confronting Limits with Fact-based Analysis"
leverages MIT’s core strengths to explore the limits of specific technologies, funding
mechanisms, and other proposed energy system transformations.
http://www.mitenergyconference.com/index.php
510-759-1174
March 4, 2011
8:45am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast
HUCE Seminar Room 310 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA
"Growth, cell cycle and chromosome dynamics of bacteria at the single-cell level --
for hundreds of generations!" Suckjoon Jun, FAS, Center for Systems Biology. Host:
Michael Desai.
MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu
March 4, 2011
10:00am - 3:00pm All Ivy Environmental and Sustainable Development Fair
Columbia University Low Memorial Library New York, New York
The eight Ivy League schools have teamed up again this year to provide representatives
from public agencies, consulting firms, nonprofit organizations and business and industry
an opportunity to connect with top undergraduate and graduate students interested in
careers in energy, environment, or sustainability.
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/education/ivy_career_fair/.
Contact Name: Anthony Arcieri arcieri(a)fas.harvard.edu
11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar
Harvard Forest Seminar Room Petersham, MA
"Sustainable mortality limits for seabirds." Peter Dillingham. University of
Otago, New Zealand
http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php
March 5, 2011
Bio-inspired Robots at Insect Day
Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford St Cambridge, MA
The event at the museum will focus on exploring the amazing world of insects in a
family-friendly manner, and the SEAS labs will be showing off their work on
biologically-inspired robotics.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
March 5, 2011
2:00pm HMNH Movie Screening
"Vanishing of the Bees" A documentary about colony collapse disorder, looking at
how the issue affected a pair of commercial beekeepers . Free with a Harvard ID.
For more info on the documentary
http://www.vanishingbees.com/
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php#special
tscanlon(a)oeb.harvard.edu 617-495-2773
March 7, 2011
12:00pm Climate, Hazards, Economy and Society: A System of Systems
Taubman 301 Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Dean,
Schmid College of Science, Vice Chancellor for Special Projects, Chapman University,
Orange, CA.
Contact Name: Christopher Kim cskim(a)chapman.edu
12:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Facilitating discussion and furthering our understanding of the technical details of
energy technology and science. Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of
discussion.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/
Contact Name: Dan Recht drecht(a)fas.harvard.edu
12:00pm - 1:30pm Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research
Energy Policy Seminar Series
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
Greg Nemet, Visiting Scholar. "Where do new energy technologies come from? Using
patent data to identify the importance and sources of knowledge flows from other
industries."
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/events.html
Contact Name: Louisa Lund Louisa_Lund(a)harvard.edu
4:00pm EPS Colloquium
Haller Hall Geo Museum 102 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA
Tom Jordan (USC).
http://www.eps.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k58621&pageid=icb.page298…
4:00pm OEB Special Seminar
Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA
Michael Foote, University of Chicago. "The evolution of geographic range within
species and general."
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
5:30pm - 7:30pm The Atlantic Herring Fishery and the Threat of Industrial Midwater
Trawling
Pound Hall, Room 332, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Greg Wells of the Pew Environmental Group and the Herring Alliance will be discussing his
work to protect and restore ocean wildlife and ecosystems in the northeast United States,
from Virginia to Maine, by reforming the Atlantic herring fishery.
Contact Name: Derek Brain derekjbrain(a)gmail.com
March 8, 2011
12:00pm OEB Special Seminar
Haller Hall Geological Museum 102 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA
"Evolutionary dynamics of genus size-frequency distributions." Michael Foote,
University of Chicago.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
5:00pm - 7:30pm "Towards a New Economics of Climate Change"
Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall, Medford Campus, Tufts University
The 2011 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/events.html
Contact Name: Lauren Denizard Lauren.Denizard(a)tufts.edu 617-627-3530
March 9, 2011
11:00am OEB Weekly Seminar Series
Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA
"Genomic architecture of ecological speciation." Patrik Nosil, University of
Colorado.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
3:30pm - 5:00pm "The Science and Technology of the Deepwater Horizon Incident"
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5389
Contact Name: Amanda Swanson amanda_swanson(a)harvard.edu 617-495-1351
Belfer Center Library (3rd Floor, Littauer Building) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St.
Cambridge, MA
Join members of the BP's Deepwater Production and Gulf Coast Restoration teams for a
discussion on the technical and scientific issues of oil production in deep water systems
such as those in the Gulf of Mexico, including responding to and remediating oil spills.
4:00pm 2011 Science, Technology and Policy Crossroads Symposium
5 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA
A student led symposium exploring the intersection of science, technology and policy. This
year’s symposium will comprise an introductory address by a DC senior policy practitioner,
a panel discussion by senior faculty members in the field of science and technology policy
from both MIT and Harvard, break-out sessions on a variety of policy questions, and a
reception with time for socializing and networking.
http://stpcrossroads.org/
4:10pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/events.htm
L-382 Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA
David HerberichUniversity of Chicago "How Many Economists Does it Take to Change a
Light Bulb? A Natural Field Experiment on Technology Adoption"
5:00pm - 6:00pm Future of Energy: "Responsible Stewardship of U.S. Offshore Oil and
Natural Gas Development"
Northwest Building B103, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Michael R. Bromwich, Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and
Enforcement
"Responsible Stewardship of U.S. Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Development"
http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Michael_R._Bromwich
Contact Name: Brenda Hugot bhugot(a)fas.harvard.edu
6:00pm There and Back Again: Deep-Sea Exploration to the Earth's Most Extreme
Habitats
Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA
Harvard biologist Peter Girguis, Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences at
Harvard, will highlight amazing deep-sea explorations and discuss current research,
including the role of deep-sea microbes in mitigating oil spill disasters. Free and open
to the public.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
8:00pm - 9:00pm Environmental Action Committee Meeting
Quincy House Spindell Room Harvard University Cambridge, MA
Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a
difference for the environment is welcome.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/
Contact Name: Jackson Salovaara jsalov(a)fas.harvard.edu
March 10, 2011
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. Visit the website for topics of
discussion. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm
Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:00pm - 5:30pm IOP Study Group
Faculty Dining Room Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA
Study with IOP fellow and Former U.S. Representative for South Carolina’s 4th District Bob
Inglis. discussing ENERGY and ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY.
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Spring-2011-Study-…...
6:00pm MSI Seminar
HUCE Seminar Room 310 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA
"The discovery of anaerobic ammonium oxidation (Anammox) and beyond." Gijs
Kuenen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands). Host: Colleen Cavanaugh.
Wine & cheese reception at 5:30, seminar at 6:00 PM.
MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu
March 12, 2011
9:00am - 5:30pm Environmental Action 2011 Conference
Bentley University Waltham, MA
The conference brings together community activists, organizers, and scientific experts to
network, collaborate, and strategize about hot environmental issues. Registration and
fee.
http://www.ace-ej.org/environmental_action_2011_conference_0
(617) 256-9834
2:00pm The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle
HMNH Author talk and booksigning by Sara Wheeler.
Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer
across the tundra with Lapps, and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with
truckers—author Sara Wheeler will discuss her adventures in the beautiful and brutal
Arctic. Free with museum admission.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
March 14, 2011
12:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Facilitating discussion and furthering our understanding of the technical details of
energy technology and science. Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of
discussion.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/
Contact Name: Dan Recht drecht(a)fas.harvard.edu
March 15, 2011
6:30pm - 9:00pm The City of Cambridge: Retrofitting for the Future, Setting an Example for
All
UK Trade & Investment One Broadway Cambridge, MA 02142
MIT Enterprise Forum, focusing on retrofits in the business sector, including hospitality,
education, healthcare, housing, and universities. Registration required. Students $5.
http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/events/energy-sig/
Contact Name: Walter Frick wfrick(a)cleanenergycouncil.org
March 17, 2011
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. Visit the website for topics of
discussion. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm
Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu
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