Highlights:
Celebrate Earth Day!
Tomorrow: The Harvard Green Carpet Awards honor the many staff,
students, and faculty from across the Schools and units who have
made significant contributions to Harvard’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Reduction Goal and other sustainability efforts.
Saturday, April 24: "Back to the Roots" -- the Harvard Environmental
Action Committee Earth Day Festival featuring local bands, delicious
food, and information booths.
Tuesday, April 27: Marvin Odum, the President of Shell Oil Company
presents, "The Future of Energy: Five Things We're Excited About"
at the final HUCE Future of Energy lecture this spring.
Calendar Listings:
Tonight:
5:00pm Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change
Biolabs Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave Harvard University Cambridge, MA
“Food Webs in River Networks: Algal Mediated Linkages of Rivers to Watershed and
Nearshore Marine Ecosystems." Mary Power, Professor of Integrative Biology,
University of California Berkeley. This lecture is free and open to the public. A
reception will follow in the Biolabs lobby.
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883
5:30pm - 7:30pm Green Energy Policies and Wind Energy with Prof. William Hogan
MIT 56-114 Cambridge, MA
Prof. William Hogan (Harvard, KSG), Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy, will
present an analysis on green energy policies, and how wholesale electricity markets could
interact with wind power to provide the right incentives.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/whogan/
Contact Name: Fernando de Sisternes sisternes(a)gmail.com
6:30pm - 8:00pm Talking Science in an Age of Sound Bites
Kirsch Auditorium (32-123) MIT Stata Center Cambridge, MA
In the face of ever more complex and pressing global environmental issues, broad
scientific literacy has never been more vital. Yet in this polarized, populist world of IT
overload—this Age of Sound Bites—communicating science to the public and policymakers
alike has never been more challenging.
http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=11610303&date=2010/04/22
Contact Name: Kurt Sternlof kurtster(a)mit.edu
April 23, 2010 (All day)
MIT Sustainability Summit
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center One Memorial Drive Suite 100
Cambridge, MA
"Mind the Gap: Communicate and Collaborate for a Sustainable World.” Registration
required.
http://sustainabilitysummit.mit.edu/info/mind-gap
April 23, 2010
8:45am - 9:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast
HUCE Seminar Room, 310 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA
"The quest for nitrogen: Nitrogen assimilation in chemosynthetic symbioses."
Guus Roeselers, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology.
MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu
3:00pm Harvard Green Carpet Awards
Sanders Theater Memorial Hall Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA
Join us for the first annual Harvard Green Carpet Awards, where we will honor the many
staff, students, and faculty from across the Schools and units who have made significant
contributions to Harvard’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Goal and other
sustainability efforts.
http://www.green.harvard.edu/greencarpet
Contact Name: Dara Olmsted, LEED AP 617.496.4678
April 24, 2010 (All day) - May 2, 2010 (All day)
Cambridge Science Festival
The Cambridge Science Festival is a celebration showcasing Cambridge as an internationally
recognized leader in science, technology, engineering and math.
http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/Home.aspx
April 24, 2010
11:00am - 3:00pm Earth Day Festival 2010
MAC Quad 39 Holyoke St. Harvard University Cambridge, MA
“BACK TO THE ROOTS.” Enjoy Harvard's New Community Garden - Local Foods - Live Bands
- Student and Community Group Booths - Games - Merchandise - Free Ice Cream, B. Good
Burgers, Nalgenes, and more!
http://www.greencrimson.com
April 25, 2010
2:00pm Desert, Mountain, Rainforest: Science Around the Globe with Harvard Students
Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA
Join us for a presentation by three Harvard students about their recent travels. Tim
Treuer’10 studies insect biodiversity in the tropics of Indonesia; Peter Hedman ’10 will
talk about his trip studying and collecting rocks in Nevada’s Mojave desert; and Renata
Cummins ’11 will describe the Harvard expedition to Italy in search of the famous
geological site where scientists discovered evidence of the event that may have wiped out
the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Free with museum admission.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu
hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu
April 26, 2010
12:00pm - 1:00pm OEB Faculty Search Candidate Seminar
HUH Seminar Room 22 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA
"A glimpse into the pelagic abyss: discovery, observation and evolution of midwater
animals." Karen Osborn, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
Contact Name: Jeannette Everritt jeverritt(a)oeb.harvard.edu
12:00pm - 1:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/
Contact Name: Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:00pm EPS Spring Colloquium
Haller Hall Geo Museum - 1st Floor 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
"Determining conditions within and on surfaces of seafloor hydrothermal vent
deposits, and insights they provide into faunal diversity." Margaret K. Tivey, Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institute.
5:00pm - 7:30pm What Makes a Life Significant? A panel discussion in memory of William
James
CGIS South Concourse and Tsai Auditorium 1737 Cambridge St Cambridge, MA
A little over a century ago, the Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James gave a
public lecture entitled “What Makes a Life Significant?" In honor of the hundredth
anniversary of his death and to celebrate his enduring influence, we have invited a panel
of distinguished scholars to revisit the question posed in that lecture from a range of
historical and contemporary starting points.
http://socialscience.fas.harvard.edu
Contact Name: Jennifer Shephard jmsheph(a)fas.harvard.edu 617.495.7906
6:00pm - 8:30pm 2nd Annual International CleanTech Panel
FoleyHoag EEC Waltham 1000 Winter Street / Suite 4000 / North Entrance Waltham, MA
This panel of experts will focus on the environmental economics of the CleanTech industry
and the political/financial benefits and challenges of investing in / exporting
“CleanTech" products on a global scale.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/THQSBNR
Contact Name: Diego Tebaldi dmtebaldi(a)yahoo.com 781-308-1405
April 27, 2010
10:00am OEB Special Seminar
MCZ 101 - Museum of Comparative Zoology 26 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA
"Sex determination in reptiles: transitions along the continuum." Stephen
Sarre, Professor, Deputy Director, Institute for Applied Ecology, Program Leader –
Education Invasive Animals CRC Wildlife Genetics Laboratory, University of Canberra,
Australia.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
Contact Name: Jeannette Everritt jeverritt(a)oeb.harvard.edu
11:00am - 12:30pm Inclusive Wealth, Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services
Bell Hall - 5th floor Belfer Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA
Steve Polasky, Lampert Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics in the Department
of Agricultural Economics, University of Minnesota.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/programs/sustsci/events/seminars/fro…...
Contact Name: Nancy Dickson nancy_dickson(a)harvard.edu
1:30pm Solid Earth Physics Seminar
Rm. B-108 (basement) Northwest Building 52 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
"Reducing the Tsunami Risk in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia: A Focus on Vertical
Evacuation." Veronica Cedillos, GeoHazards International, Palo Alto, California.
http://esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEMINAR.html
2:30pm - 4:00pm Energy Policy Seminar Series
Bell Hall - Belfer Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
"Not Dead Yet: The Internal Combustion Engine and The Determinants of
Performance." Prof. Dan Snow, Harvard Business School.
4:00pm The Future of Energy: Marvin Odum - Shell
Science Center Lecture Hall D One Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
"The Future of Energy: Five Things We're Excited About." Marvin E. Odum,
President, Shell Oil Company and Managing Director for Upstream Americas.
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883
6:00pm Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can
Do About It
Brattle Theatre 40 Brattle Street Cambridge
Anna Lappe discusses Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and
What You Can Do About It with author Frances Moore Lappe.
http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2515
April 28, 2010
4:00pm IIC Colloquim - Large-Scale Visualizationof Emergent Infectious Diseases
33 Oxford Street Room G115 Cambridge, MA
Daniel Janies, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State
University.
http://iic.harvard.edu/seminars/iic-colloquium-series-fall-2009-through-spr…...
4:00pm EPS Dissertation Defense
"Investigations of Enigmatic Neoproterozoic Eukaryotes." Phoebe Cohen.
Refreshments to follow in the Student Lounge, Hoffman 4th floor
Contact Name: Sarah Colgan colgan(a)eps.harvard.edu
6:00pm New Directions in EcoPlanning Annual Lecture
Geological Museum Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA
"Defining an Environmental Vocabulary." Public Lecture by Jane Wolff.
Jane Wolff (AB '85, GSD, ’92), director of the landscape architecture program at the
University of Toronto, addresses the intersection of ecology, design, public education,
and grassroots advocacy in intensely inhabited landscapes.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures-classes-events/new-directions-10.html
hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu 617.495.3045
6:00pm - 8:00pm Book Launch: Greenovate! Companies Innovating to Create a More Sustainable
World
Hult International Business School 1 Education Street Cambridge, MA
The first from the "Beyond Eureka" series. Meet many like-minded people, from
business and academia, innovation and sustainability experts.
Contact Name: Milena Koleva milena.koleva(a)ixl-center.com
April 29, 2010 (All day) - April 30, 2010 (All day)
6th Harvard Plant Biology Symposium
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 136 Irving Street Cambridge, MA
"Trees and the Global Environment." Free and open to the public; lunch provided
for registered participants.
http://www.pbi.fas.harvard.edu/events.htm
April 29, 2010
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
7:30pm Global Warming, End of Oil, Perfect Storm
Cary Hall 1605 Massachusetts Ave. Lexington, MA
Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow In Residence at the Post-Carbon Institute and one of the
world's foremost peak oil educators, will discuss how the rapid depletion of fossil
fuels and accelerating global climate disruption are creating unprecedented challenges for
global society in the twenty-first century.
http://www.lexgwac.org
info(a)lexgwac.org 781-674-2339
April 30, 2010 (All day)
Radcliffe Science Symposium: "Patterning in Nature"
Radcliffe Gymnasium 18 Mason Street Cambridge, MA
This year's Science Symposium will bring together life scientists, materials
scientists, mathematicians, and astronomers.
http://www.radcliffe.edu/events/calendar_2009science.aspx.
April 30, 2010
8:15am - 6:30pm Wyss Symposium: New Directions in Synthetic Biology
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Amphitheater Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
This meeting will focus on forefront research at the leading edge of the Synthetic Biology
field, with an emphasis on science-driven technology development relating to medicine,
sustainability, ecology, and nanotechnology. Registration required.
http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewevent/43/wyss-symposium-new-directions-in-synth…...
info(a)wyss.harvard.edu
9:00am - 12:30pm
New England Restructuring Roundtable
Foley Hoag LLP 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Fl. Conference Room Boston, MA 02210
"Potential New Natural Gas Supplies for New England: Panacea or Curse?"
Distinguished panel of leading experts from across the U.S. and Canada address New
England's commodity and infrastructure outlook in light of dynamic changes in
conventional and unconventional gas production.
http://www.raabassociates.org/main/roundtable.asp
May 3, 2010
6:00pm JFK JR. Forum
Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
"Making Progress on Energy." 2010 Edwin L. Godkin Lecture by John Deutch,
Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Director, Central Intelligence
Agency (1995-96)
617 496 3864
May 4, 2010
2:30pm - 4:00pm Energy Policy Seminar Series
Bell Hall - Belfer Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
"Institutions for Energy Innovation: Science and Technology Decision-Making at the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory." Nat Logar, Research Fellow, ETIP.
Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu
May 6, 2010
Ecology Journal Club
11:45am - 1:00pm
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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