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.
Please note that some previously advertised events have been canceled:
2/16 - David Miliband at MIT
2/21 - Björn Bjarnason at KSG
*Highlights:*
2/22/07 - Hermann Scheer - Energy Autonomy
2/26/07 - Stephen Brown - Arctic Migration patterns and the loss of
habitat for migrating birds
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Calendar Listings:***
*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
2:00p - 3:30p
CANCELED - Global warming: turning the corner in 2007
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64296752>
Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs, UNITED KINGDOM
MIT, Wong Auditorium, Building E51 Tang Center
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*
3:00p - 4:00p
Gas Markets development, Algeria's Role
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64296871>
H.E Dr. Chakib Khelil, Algeria's Minister for Energy and Mines
Aldrich 10, Harvard Business School
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
4:30p - 5:30p
Updated Projections of Mortality and Burden of Disease from 2002 to
2030: A Review of Methods and Implications for Future Work
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64296864>
Dr. Colin Mathers, Measurement and Health Information Department, World
Health Organization, Geneva
104 Mt. Auburn Street, 3rd Floor
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 booksigning by Scott Kraus and Rosalind Rolland
Harvard Museum of Natural History
*Wednesday 2/21/2007*
2:15p - 4:00p
CANCELED - 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
4:00p - 5:00p
Mineral Mediated Reactions: A Constraint on Emergent Biochemistry
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64429461>
George Cody, Carnegie Institution of Washington Harvard
Origins of Life Initiative
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge
*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
This event is part of the World Health Forum Series
Armenise Building, Amphitheater, Longwood Campus, Harvard Medical
School, Boston
3:30p - 4:30p
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
5:00p -- 6:00p
Energy Autonomy: The economic, social and technological case for
renewable energy
<http://my.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=myharvard&panel=icb.pagecontent25659%3Arlistview%3Fcal%3D103161&pageid=icb.page9382&pageContentId=icb.pagecontent25659&view=edit_event_form&viewParam_event_id=64429513&state=maximize#a_icb_pagecontent25659>
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; Former
chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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
Energy 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 Street
*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
Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium
<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
*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
*Wednesday 2/28/2007*
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
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Jenny MacGregor
Events and Publications Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
ph: 617-495-8883