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:*
4/23/07 -- Biodiversity, Ecology and Global Change Lecture Series with
Dave Tilman
4/23/07 -- Social Science studies of the Environment with Arun Agrawal
4/25, 4/26 and 4/27/07 -- Environmental Statistic Seminar Series with
Michael Stein
*Calendar Listings:***
*Thursday 4/19/2007 *
6:30p - 8:00p
Sustainability - GSD Faculty Discussion Panel
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67103602>
Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
*Friday 4/20/2007 *
8:30a - 9:30a
Computational Representation of the E. coli Regulatory Network
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66603355>
Julio Collado-Vides, director, Center for Genomic Sciences, Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México
Microbial Sciences Initiative Chalktalk Breakfast
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24
Oxford St, Cambridge
*Saturday 4/21/2007 *
11:00a - 3:30p
Harvard Earth Day 2007
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67020477>
Quadrangle behind the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC), Harvard Campus
*Sunday 4/22/2007*
2:00p - 4:00p
Earth Day: It's About Ocean Life, Too!
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66603357>
George Buckley, co-director of Harvard Extension School's environmental
management program
Harvard Museum of Natural History Family Program
Harvard Museum of Natural History
*Monday 4/23/2007*
12:00p - 1:00
Harvard Energy Journal Club
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65724761>
Weekly roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24
Oxford St, Cambridge
4:00p - 5:00p
Intrusions, Eruptions, Silent Slip Events and Triggered Earthquakes:
Lessons from Kilauea volcano
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64154646>
Paul Segall, Stanford University
Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
4:15p - 5:30p
Towns and Rivers, River Towns: Environmental Archaeology and the
Archaeological Evaluation of Medieval Urban Activities and Trade
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65961121>
Joëlle Burnouf, Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar
Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
4:30p - 6:30p
Do People Matter in Social-Science Studies of the Environment? - An
Afternoon with Arun Agrawal
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66328606>
Presented by The Program on Science, Technology, and Society
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
5:00p - 6:30p
The Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity: Theory and Experimental
Tests
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66653157>
David Tilman, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University
of Minnesota
Fairchild Auditorium 102, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge
6:00p - 7:30p
Environment in an Age of Terror
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65893496>
Thompson Room (110), Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
*Tuesday 4/24/2007*
9:30a - 11:00a
Status of the Coal Sector and Advanced Coal Technology in India
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=63829862>
Ananth Chikkatur, ETIP Fellow
Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series
Belfer Center Library, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge
12:00p - 1:00p
Recycling and waste management
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67212179>
Rob Gogan, Harvard Recycling
Earth and Planetary Sciences Graduate Student and Post-Doc Seminar
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor,
Hoffman Laboratories, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge
12:00p - 1:00p
What do 14CO measurements tell us about OH?
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66628187>
Maarten Krol, Wageningen University
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge
12:00p - 1:00p
Government Failure in Urban Transportation and the Case for
Privatization
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67187301>
Clifford Winston, senior fellow, economic studies, The Brookings Institution
Taubman Building, AB 5th Floor, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK
Street, Cambridge
12:00p - 1:00p
The advantages and disadvantages of being introduced: fighting invasion
by grasses with sweets
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66628191>
Peter Alpert, UMass, Amherst
Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Series
Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
6:00p - 8:00p
Global Perspective of Landscape Architecture
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66603337>
Diane Menzies, President, International Federation of Landscape
Architects (IFLA)
Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
6:15p - 7:30p
Clean Water for One Billion People
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67103613>
Susan Murcott, Principal Investigator and Research Engineer, MIT
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Gund Hall, Room 109, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Quincy Street
*Wednesday 4/25/2007*
7:00a - 5:00p
Ceres Conference 2007: Advancing Sustainable Prosperity
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64596873>
Seaport Hotel, Boston, MA
8:00a - 9:30a
Statistical Methods for Exposure Effects on Genomic Pathways and Gene
Selection
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67045267>
Xihong Lin, Ph.D., Harvard School of Public Health
Department of Biostatistics Genetics & Environmental Health Breakfast
Kresge 110, HSPH, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston
3:00p - 4:00p
Special Climatea Meeting
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66029313>
Jeffrey Shaman, Oregon State
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor,
Hoffman Laboratories, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge
3:30p - 5:00p
Space-time statistical modeling: an introductory lecture series
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65127928>
Michael Stein, Department of Statistics and Center for Integrating
Statistical and Environmental Science, University of Chicago
Environmental Statistics Lecture Series
Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge G1, simulcast to CGIS N031
4:00p - 5:30p
A Laboratory Investigation of the Welfare Effects of Imperfectly
Enforced Emissions Trading Policies
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=63056700>
John Stranlund, James Murphy, and John Spraggon, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University
6:00p - 8:00p
in between
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66603336>
Craig Verzone and Cristina Woods Principals, Verzone Woods Architects,
Switzerland and Spain
Daniel Urban Kiley Public Lecture
Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
*Thursday 4/26/2007 *
7:00a - 5:00p
Ceres Conference 2007: Advancing Sustainable Prosperity
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64596874>
Seaport Hotel, Boston, MA
12:00p - 1:30p
Harvard Ecology Discussion Group
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65589781>
Weekly Roundtable Discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24
Oxford St, Cambridge
3:30p - 4:30p
Autos, Transit and Bicycles - Comparing the Costs in Chinese Cities
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64462540>
Mr. WANG Rui, doctoral candidate, Kennedy School of Government
China Project Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge
3:30p - 5:00p
Space-time statistical modeling: an introductory lecture series
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65127907>
Michael Stein, Department of Statistics and Center for Integrating
Statistical and Environmental Science, University of Chicago
Environmental Statistics Lecture Series
Harvard School of Public Health Kresge G2, simulcast to CGIS N031
4:00p - 5:30p
New Business Opportunities for Science
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67212138>
William's Room, Spangler Hall, HBS, Soldier's Field Rd.
8:00p - 9:00p
The world's energy problem and what we can do about it
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66628180>
Steven Chu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Chemistry and Chemical Biology Seminars - G. B. Kistiakowsky Lecture
Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford Street
*Friday 4/27/2007 *
8:30a - 9:30a
Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria: Microbial Methylmercury Polluters
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67212170>
Eileen Ekstrom, Hansel Laboratory, Harvard University
Microbial Sciences Initiative Chalktalk Breakfast
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24
Oxford St, Cambridge
11:00a - 12:00p
Plant nitrogen uptake and global change: is there a unifying mechanism
that explains diversity of responses?
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67212190>
Hormoz BassiriRad -- University of Illinois and Harvard Bullard Fellow
Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2007 Seminar Series
Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
12:00p - 1:00p
Integrated Assessment of Global Climate Change: What can we learn from
coupled models of Science and Economics to help inform climate policy
and future technological investments?
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67187030>
Ronald Prinn, MIT
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge
3:30p - 5:00p
Space-time statistical modeling: an introductory lecture series
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65127929>
Michael Stein, Department of Statistics and Center for Integrating
Statistical and Environmental Science, University of Chicago
Environmental Statistics Lecture Series
CGIS N354, simulcast to HSPH Kresge G3
*Monday 4/30/2007 *
12:00p - 1:00p
Harvard Energy Journal Club
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65724762>
Weekly Roundtable Discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24
Oxford St, Cambridge
4:00p - 5:00p
Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64154658>
Ralph Lorenz, Johns Hopkins University
Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium Lecture
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
*Tuesday 5/1/2007 *
12:00p - 1:00p
Nomen-colonialism: Unwitting Barrier to Conservation
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66628192>
Glenn Adelson, OEB
Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Series
Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
4:00p - 5:00p
Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar Series
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67212182>
Blaire Van Valkenburg, UCLA
Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
6:00p - 8:00p
Emerging Ecosystems on Tropical Landscapes: The Shining Star of the
Caribbean
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66603349>
Ariel Lugo, Director, USDA, FS, International Institute of Tropical
Forestry, Puerto Rico
Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
*Wednesday 5/2/2007 *
4:00p - 5:30p
Regulatory Regime Changes Under Federalism: Do States Matter?
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=63056706>
Wayne Gray, Clark University, and Ronald Shadbegian, University of
Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University
6:00p - 8:00p
Shaping the City: A Strategic Blueprint for New York's Future
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67212136>
Amanda Burden, chair of the New York City Planning Commission
Sylvester Baxter Lecture in Urban Planning
Gund Hall, Room 109, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Quincy Street
7:30p - 8:30p
With Speed and Violence: Tipping Points and Climate Change.
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67212173>
Fred Pearce, science journalist Book signing to follow
First Parish, 3 Church Street, Cambridge
*Thursday 5/3/2007 *
12:00p - 1:30p
Harvard Ecology Discussion Group
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65589782>
Weekly roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities
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