Highlights:
Friday, March 11: Come to the inaugural lecture in the new HUCE Energy Materials series
featuring
Howard Branz, Principal Scientist in the National Center for Photovoltaics, National
Renewable
Energy Laboratory.
Wednesday, March 23: The Clean Energy and the Media Seminar series continues with a
discussion
on "The Seesaw Coverage of Nuclear Power: Promise or Peril?" with Ned Potter,
ABC News science
correspondent, and Matthew Wald, New York Times science reporter.
Thursday, March 24: HUCE welcomes Jon Chase, Professor of Biology and director, Tyson
Research
Center, Washington University in St. Louis, as the next speaker in the series on
Biodiversity,
Ecology, and Global Change. Professor Chase works to address some of the most fundamental
principles of community ecology.
Calendar Listings:
March 11, 2011
4:00pm Energy Materials at Harvard: "Nanoporous Black Silicon by Liquid Etch: Optics,
Photovoltaics and Photoelectrochemistry"
Maxwell Dworkin G115 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Featuring Howard Branz, Principal Scientist in the National Center for Photovoltaics,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Contact Name: Brenda Hugot bhugot(a)fas.harvard.edu
March 12, 2011
9:00am - 5:30pm Environmental Action 2011 Conference
Bentley University Waltham, MA
The conference will bring together community activists, organizers, and scientific experts
to network, collaborate, and strategize about hot environmental issues.
http://www.ace-ej.org/environmental_action_2011_conference_0
(617) 256-9834
2:00pm The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle
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 The Inconvenient Truth about the Causes of Global Warming
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Pratt conference room 60 Garden St Cambridge,
MA
The 20th Century has seen a notable temperature rise, generally attributed to the
greenhouse effect of anthropogenic gases, and a future "business as usual"
policy is generally believed to be catastrophic. Nir Shaviv, Hebrew University, Israel,
will show, however, that the story is not that simple.
March 14 – 18, 2011
Harvard University Spring Break
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 brings together leaders of the Cambridge community to discuss what
Cambridge is doing in 2010, specifically their programs, plans, challenges and successes.
We will focus 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
March 18, 2011
7:30am - 12:00pm EBC Climate Change Program: Massachusetts Clean Energy and Climate Plan
for 2020
Contact Name: Megan Curtis-Murphy mcurtismurphy(a)ebcne.org 617-505-1818
Nixon Peabody 100 Summer St. Boston, MA
David Cash, Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Executive Office of Energy and
Environmental Affairs, will be the keynote speaker for this program.
http://www.ebcne.org
March 20, 2011
2:00pm HMNH Family Program and Booksigning
HMNH 26 Oxford St Cambridge, MA
Artist, author, and naturalist Clare Walker Leslie will talk about her travels to Africa,
the Arctic, and other distant lands, as well as her work sketching in the HMNH galleries
at "Drawing and Observing Nature: From Cambridge to Africa and Back." Her newest
book, The Nature Connection: An Outdoor Workbook for Kids, Families, and Classrooms will
be available for purchase and signing.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/family_programs/index.php
March 21, 2011
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
"Transforming U.S. Energy Technology Innovation." Laura Diaz Anadon, Matthew
Bunn, and Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Harvard.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/events.html
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 23, 2011
11:00am OEB Weekly Seminar Series
Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA
Carlos Bustamante, Stanford University. Title TBD. Host: OEB Graduate Students.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
1:00pm - 2:30pm Clean Energy and the Media Seminar
Bell Hall, Belfer Bldg., 5th Floor 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA
"The Seesaw Coverage of Nuclear Power: Promise or Peril?”. Ned Potter, ABC News
science correspondent, and Matthew Wald, New York Times science reporter.
Contact Name: Cristine Russell Cristine_Russell(a)hks.harvard.edu
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 24, 2011
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.
Discuss the future of American energy and climate policy! Learn and exchange views on
future energy legislation, conservation, and the economic possibilities of
environmentalism.
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Spring-2011-Study-…...
5:00pm - 6:00pm Biodiversity, Ecology, & Global Change: Jon Chase
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883
Biolabs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge
Jon Chase, Professor of Biology; Director, Tyson Research Center, Washington University in
St. Louis.
Professor Chase works to address some of the most fundamental principles of community
ecology. Title TBA.
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