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: Energy Autonomy: The economic, social, and technological case for
renewable energy with Hermann Scheer -- Maxwell Dworkin
2/26/07 -- Migration on the shrinking Arctic Refuge Coastal plain --
Stephen Brown, PhD
3/6/07 -- Oceans, Climate, Biodiversity and Human Health with Rita Colwell
*Calendar Listings:***
*Thursday 2/22/2007 *
5:00p - 6:00p
Energy Autonomy: The economic, social and technological case for
renewable energy
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64429513>
Dr. Hermann Scheer, member of the German Parliament, President of
EUROSOLAR, the European Association for Renewable Energy, and General
Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy
Maxwell-Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
6:00p - 7:00p
Science and Leadership: The Imperative
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64429394>
Shirley Ann Jackson, president, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(1999-present); chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1995-1999)
The 2007 Gustav Pollak Lecture
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
*Friday 2/23/2007 *
8:30a - 9:30a
Chromosome Motion and Position in Escherichia coli
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63961304>
Prof. Nancy Kleckner, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology (Harvard
University)
MSI Chalktalk Breakfast
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
12:00p - 1:00p
Lifetimes and Time Scales in Atmospheric Chemistry
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64154665>
Michael Prather, UC Irvine
Atmospheric Sciences Seminars
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge
*Saturday 2/24/2007 *
2:00p - 3:00p
ScheerEnergy Autonomy: The economic, social and technological case for
renewable energy
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64296769>
Dr. Hermann Scheer, member of the German Parliament, President of
EUROSOLAR, the European Association for Renewable Energy, and General
Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy
Tufts University, 008 Barnum Hall Medford, Massachusetts
8:00p - 9:30p
Cello Concert and Environmental Presentation
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64296861>
Cellist and Environmentalist Reinmar Seidler presents a cello
recital//powerpoint presentation on his work with community based
conservation efforts in India
Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
*Sunday 2/25/2007*
2:00p - 3:30p
Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64154674>
Stephen Brown, Director, Shorebird COnservation Research Program,
Manomet Center for Conservation Studies
Harvard Museum of Natural History Family Program
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Streett
*Monday 2/26/2007 *
2:00p - 3:00p
Source estimation of aerosol precursors using 4-dimensional variational
data assimilation
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64429371>
Daven Henze, Caltech
SPECIAL Applied Mechanics Colloquium
Maxwell-Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
4:00p - 5:00p
Tropical forests' large role in the global carbon cycle: changed
paradigms, critical uncertainties & an agenda for moving forward
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64154629>
Deborah Clark, University of Missouri, St Louis
Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
5:00p - 6:00p
Shorebird Distribution and Abundance on the Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64154661>
Stephen Brown, PhD, Director, Shorebird Conservation Research Program,
Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences
Maxwell-Dworkin G125 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
6:00p - 7:00p
A Decision Oriented Approach to Stormwater Management Using Land Use
Planning
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64630328>
Professor Richard Vogel and Ph.D. candidate Jim Limbrunner from Tufts
University's Engineering Department
Gund Hall, Room 109, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Quincy Street
*Tuesday 2/27/2007 *
9:30a - 11:00a
Passenger Vehicle Emissions in China, and an Analysis of Possible
Mitigating Policy Options
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63829789>
Hongyan Oliver, ETIP Fellow
Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series
Belfer Center Library, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA
12:00p - 1:00p
Regeneration dynamics in large forest gaps
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64462541>
Michael Dietze, Harvard University Herbarium
Harvard Herbaria Seminar
Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
*Wednesday 2/28/2007 *
8:00a - 9:15p
How to Study Genes when Environment is Everything
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64563663>
Heather Nelson, Ph.D. and Karl Kelsey,M.D., Harvard School of Public Health
Genetics & Environmental Health Breakfast
Kresge 110, HSPH, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston
4:00p - 5:30p
Coming Clean and Cleaning Up? Examining the Effects of Self-Policing
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63056667>
Michael Toffel, Harvard Business School, and Jodi Short, University of
California, Berkeley
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University
*Saturday 3/3/2007 *
7:30p - 8:30p
Arctic Climate Change - Why It Should Concern Us
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64395863>
Professor James McCarthy, Harvard University
LEXINGTON, MA - Cary Memorial Library
*Monday 3/5/2007*
3:30p - 5:00p
Global Cycling of Mercury in the Atmosphere and Oceans: Implications for
Exposure in the United States
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64429390>
Elsie M. Sunderland, Ph.D., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office
of Research and Development
Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series
Landmark 414A, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
4:00p - 5:00p
Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64154632>
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
*Tuesday 3/6/2007*
12:00p - 1:00p
The effects of global change on tropical forest structure and dynamics
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64462542>
Ken Feeley, Harvard University Herbarium
Harvard Herbarium Seminar
Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
4:00p - 5:00p
Oceans, Climate, Biodiversity, and Human Health: The Cholera Paradigm
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59209202>
Rita Colwell, distinguished university professor, University of Maryland
College Park; adjunct professor of environmental health sciences, Johns
Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Radcliffe Gymnasium, Radcliffe Yard
*Wednesday 3/7/2007*
4:00p - 5:30p
Unintended Biological Invasions: Does Risk Vary by Trading Partner?
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63056649>
Andrew Solow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, et al.
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University
*Thursday 3/8/2007*
4:00p - 5:00p
Modeling of Travel Behavior in Chengdu, China
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64462536>
Prof. Joan Walker, Center for Transportation Studies, Department of
Geography and Environment, Boston University
China Project Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge
5:30p - 7:00p
Species composition, structure and function of a cyanobacterial mat
community inhabiting a Yellowstone hot spring
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63961322>
Prof. Dave Ward, Montana State University (Boseman)
MSI Thursday Evening Seminar Series
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24
Oxford St, Cambridge
--
Jenny MacGregor
Events and Publications Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
ph: 617-495-8883