Dear Friends of HUCE,
Please be sure to check the HUCE calendar on our website,
www.environment.harvard.edu, for
the most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions. If you would like to submit
an event to the calendar, contact Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment:
lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu. Feel free to distribute this email to your students, faculty,
colleagues, and anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the
community.
Highlights:
Wednesday, November 19: In "Energy, Security, and the Long War of the 21st
Century", R. James Woolsey speaks about the potential transformations from
innovations in energy and the impact of these developments on national security in the
second HUCE Future of Energy lecture series of the Fall semester.
Thursday, November 20: Isaac Berzin, the founder of Cambridge-based GreenFuel
Technologies, a venture-backed developer of algae-based biofuels, and the founding
director of the Institute for Alternative Energy Policy at the Interdisciplinary Center,
Israel, visits the Harvard Business School to present, "Biofuels: The Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly."
Calendar Listings:
Today 11/13/2008
3:00p - 4:15p Belfer Center Directors' Seminar
(Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK St., JFK School of Government, Cambridge,
MA)
"Back to the Future: EPA Revisited" with Mary Gade, Gade Environmental Group.
RSVP required.
Contact:
belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/g...
3:30p Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series
(Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Dynamic Stress Drop and Rupture Velocity for Mining Induced Seismicity."
Wojciech Debski, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Contact:
esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM...
4:00p OEB Seminar Series
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"The Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis." Rowan Sage, University Of Toronto.
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu,
www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin...
6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History: Earth Matters
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Earth and Human: A Planetary Perspective." Charles Langmuir, Higgins Professor
of Geochemistry at Harvard University
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045 ,
www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe...
6:00p - 7:00p Future Grid and Challenges to Getting There
(MIT Stata Center, Building 32, Room 141, 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA)
Christopher James Walti discusses how power grid improvements are essential to enabling
the next generation of alternative energy generation and energy efficiency systems.
6:00p Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"Tracking Microbial Nitrogen Transformations in the Ocean: A microbiologist's
dream or nightmare?" Karen Casciotti (WHOI), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html
6:30p - 8:30p MIT Energy Movie Night: Oil on Ice
(MIT, Building 32, Room 124, Cambridge, MA)
Save the Refuge, Save the World. The controversy over one of America's last, great
wild places and our energy future.
Contact:
events.mit.edu/scripts/event_ext.pl?e...
Friday 11/14/2008
11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series
(Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA)
"New England Land Conservation." C.H.W. Foster, New England Natural Resources
Center. The Harvard Forest is located in Petersham, MA, approximately 1.5 hours from
Cambridge, MA.
Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268,
harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
Sunday 11/16/2008
9:00a Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN) Conference
(Stata Center, Bldg. 32, MIT, 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA)
"The Power of One, the Power of All." Featuring keynote speakers Ian Bowles and
David Gershon.
Contact: conference(a)massclimateaction.net,
massclimateaction.net/conference/2008...
Monday 11/17/2008
12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion.
Contact: Mark Winkler, mwinkler(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
3:30p - 5:00p Nuclear Engineering Seminar
(MIT, Building 24, Room 115, Cambridge, MA)
"Nuclear-Fossil, Nuclear-Bio, and Nuclear Renewable Futures." Dr. Charles
Forsberg, Executive Director of the MIT Nuclear Fuel Cycle Study
Contact: Anna Nikiforova, nikann(a)mit.edu,
mit.edu/ans/www/seminar.html#F08
4:00p EPS Fall Colloquium
(Haller Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Equatorial convergence of India and changes in early Cenozoic climate." Dennis
Kent from Rutgers University
Contact: Ganna Savostyanova, annasavostyanova(a)gmail.com
4:00p - 5:30p Energy Policy Research Seminar
(Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
"Transmission issues on cross-border trade of electricity: The case of internal
compensation charges in the European Union." Professor Ignacio Perez-Arriaga, MIT.
Contact: Louisa Lund, louisa_lund(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8693
Tuesday 11/18/2008
8:00a Greenbuild
(Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA)
The US Green Building Council's Conference and Expo presents hundreds of companies
showing their products along with speakers and panel discussions.
Contact: 617-954-2000 ,
www.greenbuildexpo.org/
8:30a 4th Annual Conference on Clean Energy: Financing and Partnering for Emerging
Businesses
(Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St., Boston, MA)
Join hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors and other stakeholders in the clean energy
community as they converge on Boston for the premier regional event showcasing clean
energy start-up companies.
Contact:
www.greenovationconference.com/
12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series
(Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA)
"Sex, deceit, and carbon laundering: Ecological insights into the provocative lives
of myco-heterotrophic plants in the Monotropoideae (Ericaceae)." Matt Klooster,
Mercer Fellow/Davis Lab
Contact:
www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
(Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics
of discussion.
Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
4:00p Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar
(Haller Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Modes of Evolution in the Fossil Record." Gene Hunt, Smithsonian Institution
Contact: ehap.seminar(a)gmail.com
4:00p The Geopolitics of Energy Diversification: Walking Pragmatically on the U.S.-Russian
Strategic Tightrope in Southeast Europe
(Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, 79 JFK St., Cambridge)
Dr. Constantinos Filis is director of the Russia and Eurasia Center at the Panteion
University Institute of International Relations in Athens, Greece.
Contact: Ilyana_Sawka(a)ksg.harvard.edu,
www.hks.harvard.edu/kokkalis/events.html
4:15p MIT Energy Initiative Seminar Series
(66-110, Landau Building, 25 Ames Street, MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"Zero Energy Buildings: Potentials and Realities." Stephen Selkowitz, Department
Head, Building Technologies Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Contact: Jameson Twomey , jtwomey(a)mit.edu,
mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars/
6:00p Tufts Energy and Climate Initiative
(Mugar 200, The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Ave., Tufts University, Medford, MA)
"Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Climate Change in A Post-Kyoto World."
Robert Stavins, Co-Director of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements and
Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program
Contact: Odette Mucha, Odette.Mucha(a)tufts.edu
7:00p - 8:30p Biology Discussion Group
(Small Dining Room, Dunster House, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"The Context of Knowledge" with Daniel Kohn, an artist-in-residence at the Broad
Institute who interprets genomic research through his paintings.
Contact: Dan Janes, djanes(a)oeb.harvard.edu
7:00p The Greening of Boston: An Architect's Vision
(Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA)
Speaker: Stefan Behnisch. Boston, being on a route towards a more sustainable city, will
have great opportunities and challenges to move further in this direction.
Contact: info(a)boston.goethe.org, 617 262 6050,
www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/ver/en362604...
Wednesday 11/19/2008
8:00a Greenbuild
(Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA)
The US Green Building Council's Conference and Expo presents hundreds of companies
showing their products as well as speakers and panel discussions.
Contact: 617-954-2000 ,
www.greenbuildexpo.org/
8:30a 4th Annual Conference on Clean Energy: Financing and Partnering for Emerging
Businesses
(Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St., Boston, MA)
Join hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors and other stakeholders in the clean energy
community as they converge on Boston for the premier regional event showcasing clean
energy start-up companies.
Contact:
www.greenovationconference.com/
4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
(Littauer-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
"
The Environmental Consequences of the North American Free Trade Agreement: A Consumption
Based Approach." Lucas Davis, University of Michigan, and Matthew Kahn, University of
California.
Contact: Jason Chapman, Jason_Chapman(a)ksg.harvard.edu, 617-496-8054,
www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/heep/event...
5:00p - 6:00p The Future of Energy
(Science Center Lecture Hall D, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Energy, Security, and the Long War of the 21st Century" with R. James Woolsey,
Venture Partner with VantagePoint Venture Partners of San Bruno, California.
Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883
5:00p - 7:00p Covering the Environment in a New Media World
(Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge,
MA)
A public lecture hosted by the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard
Medical School featuring some of the most effective "new media" communicators.
Featuring Bill McKibben.
Contact: Emily Huhn, Emily_Huhn(a)hms.harvard.edu, 617 384-8739,
chge.med.harvard.edu
5:30p - 7:00p Bright Green, Bright Future Launch Party
(Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA )
The Green Standard, a non-profit dedicated to advancing global sustainability through
products and purchasing, is hosting a special event during Greenbuild.
Contact: Ellen Hall , ellen_hall(a)thegreenstandard.org, 919-824-1195 ,
www.thegreenstandard.org
7:00p - 9:00p Science in the News Seminar Series
(Armenise amphitheater, Harvard Medical School, Longwood Campus, Boston, MA)
Visit the Science in the News website for the schedule of topics.
Contact: sitnboston(a)yahoo.com,
www.hms.harvard.edu/sitn/
Thursday 11/20/2008
8:00a Greenbuild
(Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA)
The US Green Building Council's Conference and Expo presents hundreds of companies
showing their products and fantastic speakers and panel discussions.
Contact: 617-954-2000 ,
www.greenbuildexpo.org/
3:30p China Project Seminar
(Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Costly Blackouts in China: Measuring Productivity and Environmental Effects of
Electricity Shortages." Ms. WANG Qiong (Juliana), doctoral student, School of
Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-2378,
chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminar%20fo...
4:00p OEB Seminar Series
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"Acoel Flatworm Development & the Evolution of Bilaterian Organ Systems."
Andreas Hejnol, University of Hawaii, Kewalo Marine Labs.
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu,
www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin...
4:00p - 6:00p A Conversation with Bill McKibben
(Andover Hall, Room 102, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA )
"On the role of religious faith in the environmental movement" with Bill
McKibben.
Contact: P Joshua Griffin, pgriffin(a)hds.harvard.edu
5:00p - 6:30p Biofuels: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
(Aldrich 208, Harvard Business Scool, Boston, MA)
A presentation by Dr. Isaac Berzin, the founder of Cambridge-based GreenFuel Technologies,
a venture-backed developer of algae-based biofuels.
Contact: contact(a)boston-israel.org,
www.boston-israel.org
6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History: Earth Matters
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Earthquakes! How We Can Better Understand and Prepare for Them." John H. Shaw,
Dudley Professor of Structural and Economic Geology at Harvard University
Contact:
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php#earth,
hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045
7:00p - 9:00p One Laptop per Child: Changing the World
(Science Center Lecture Hall D, One Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
Speaker: Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman and Founder, One Laptop per Child and Calestous
Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School.
OLPC...
7:00p Harvard Book Store Author Reading
(First Parish Church, 3 Church St., Cambridge)
E.O. Wilson and Bert Holldobler discuss "The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and
Strangeness of Insect Societies", a conversation moderated by Allan Coukell.
Contact:
www.harvard.com/events/
Friday 11/21/2008
8:00a Greenbuild
(Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA)
The US Green Building Council's Conference and Expo presents hundreds of companies
showing their products and speakers and panel discussions.
Contact: 617-954-2000 ,
www.greenbuildexpo.org/
8:30a - 9:30a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
Deborah Hung, Center for Computational and Integrative Biology at Massachusetts General
Hospital and HMS - Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. Title TBA.
Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495 8643,
www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html
11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series
(Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA)
"The Oregon Biscuit Fire: A large ecological and political disturbance."
Jonathan Thompson, Harvard Forest
Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268,
harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
4:00p EPS Dissertation Defense
(Haller Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"On the Physics and Chemistry of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in Terrestrial
and Marine Environments" by Kurt House.
Saturday 11/22/2008
8:00a Greenbuild
(Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA)
The US Green Building Council's Conference and Expo presents hundreds of companies
showing their products and speakers and panel discussions.
Contact: 617-954-2000 ,
www.greenbuildexpo.org/
9:00a - 4:45p Clean Energy Connections
(MassMutual Center, 1277 Main St., Springfield, MA)
Career and business development information and networking event for individuals and
organizations that will accelerate the growth of a clean energy economy.
Contact: Loren Walker, loren(a)research.umass.edu, 413-577-3725,
umass.edu/green/index.html
Monday 11/24/2008
12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion.
Contact: Mark Winkler, mwinkler(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
4:00p - 5:30p Energy Policy Research Seminar
(Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
Speaker: Prof. Daniel Schrag, FAS/HUCE. Title TBA.
Contact: Louisa Lund, louisa_lund(a)harvard.edu, (617) 495-8693,
www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/index...
Tuesday 11/25/2008
9:00a - 11:00a Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series
(Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK St., JFK School of Government, Cambridge,
MA)
"Issues in Sustainable Energy Development of India." Ramprasad Sengupta,
Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton(a)harvard.edu,
belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/project/...
12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series
(Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA)
"Biomechanics of invasive growth by Armillaria rhizomorphs." Levi Yaffeto,
Farlow Fellow/Dumais Lab.
Contact:
www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
(Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics
of discussion.
Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
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