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:*
*3/10/07 -- *Microbial Sciences Initiative Annual Symposium*
3/12/07 - *An afternoon with Yale anthropologist David Graeber
*Calendar Listings:***
*Thursday 3/1/2007 *
4:30p - 6:00p
China Shifts Gears: Automakers, oil, pollution and development -
discussion with author Kelly Sims Gallagher
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64796348>
Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director of the Energy Technology Innovation
Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at
Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government
TUFTS - Burden Lounge, Anderson Hall 108
6:00p - 7:00p
The Songs Of Insects. Lecture and booksigning by Lang Elliott and Wil
Hershberger
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64829265>
Harvard Museum of Natural History
*Friday 3/2/2007 *
8:30a - 9:30a
C. elegans olfactory learning on pathogenic bacteria
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64862176>
Prof Yun Zhang, Harvard University (OEB Dept)
MSI Chalktalk
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24
Oxford St, Cambridge
12:00p - 10:00p
Improving Understanding of Global and Regional Carbon Dioxide Flux
Variability through Assimilation of In Situ and Remote Sensing Data in a
Geostatistical Framework
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64862215>
Anna Michalak, University of Michigan
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge
12:00p - 11:00p
ECOTRANSOLOGY: Integrated Design for Urban Mobility
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64796240>
Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D.
Presented by GSD Green Design
Porticoes 122 in Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Quincy
St., Cambridge
*Saturday 3/3/2007 *
7:30p - 8:30p
Arctic Climate Change - Why It Should Concern Us
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64395863>
Professor James McCarthy, Harvard University
LEXINGTON, MA - Cary Memorial Hall
*Monday 3/5/2007 *
12:00p - 10:00p
REVIVING THE CHARLES RIVER: Urban Planning and Design for "America's
Cleanest Urban River."
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64837898>
Kate Bowditch, Charles River Watershed Association
Stubbins Room 112, Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy
Street, Cambridge
3:30p - 5:00p
Global Cycling of Mercury in the Atmosphere and Oceans: Implications for
Exposure in the United States
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64429390>
Elsie M. Sunderland, Ph.D., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office
of Research and Development
Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series
Landmark 414A, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
4:00p - 5:00p
Testing climate and tectonic coupling in the Central Andes
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64154632>
Nadine McQuarrie, Princeton University
Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium Lecture
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
*Tuesday 3/6/2007*
12:00p - 10:00p
Co2 Capture and Storage
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64862199>
Kurt House, Harvard University
EPS 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
The effects of global change on tropical forest structure and dynamics
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64462542>
Ken Feeley, Harvard University Herbarium
Harvard Herbarium Seminar
Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
4:00p - 5:00p
Oceans, Climate, Biodiversity, and Human Health: The Cholera Paradigm
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59209202>
Rita Colwell, distinguished university professor, University of Maryland
College Park; adjunct professor of environmental health sciences, Johns
Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Radcliffe Institute Seminar
Radcliffe Gymnasium, Radcliffe Yard
*
Wednesday 3/7/2007 *
3:30p - 4:30p
Applied evolution: Domestication, disease, crime and culture
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64862235>
David Mindell, University of Michigan
2006-2007 Radcliffe Institute Fellows' Presentation
Radcliffe Institute, 34 Concord Ave., 2nd Floor Colloquium Room
4:00p - 5:30p
Unintended Biological Invasions: Does Risk Vary by Trading Partner?
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63056649>
Andrew Solow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, et al.
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University
*Thursday 3/8/2007 *
4:00p - 5:00p
Modeling of Travel Behavior in Chengdu, China
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64462536>
Prof. Joan Walker, Center for Transportation Studies, Department of
Geography and Environment, Boston University
China Project Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge
5:00p - 6:00p
Evolution and Christianity
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64862211>
Professor Martin Nowak, Harvard Mathematics Organismic and Evolutionary
Biology
ETC lecture series
Sperry Room, Andover Hall, HDS
5:30p - 7:00p
Species composition, structure and function of a cyanobacterial mat
community inhabiting a Yellowstone hot spring
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63961322>
Prof. Dave Ward, Montana State University (Boseman)
MSI Thursday Evening Seminar Series
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24
Oxford St, Cambridge
6:00p - 7:00p
Highlights of Archaeological Fieldwork at Sardis, 2002-2006
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64862178>
Crawford Greenewalk, University of California, Berkeley
Sackler Museum Lecture Hall
*Friday 3/9/2007*
12:00p - 1:00p
Challenges for Global Chemical Transport Models from Ozone and
Hydrocarbon Measurements
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64862230>
David Parrish, NOAA
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge
12:30p - 10:30p
The Course of Avian Flu in Indonesia: Implications and Possibilities
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64862179>
James Fox, Harvard University, Australian National University
Sponsored by the Asia Center
CGIS South Building, Room 050 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
5:00p - 8:00p
MIT - New England Energy Showcase
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64862226>
Kendall Square Marriot, Cambridge, MA
*Saturday 3/10/2007*
8:45a - 5:00p
Microbial Sciences Annual Symposium
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64296828>
Science Center Lecture Hall C, Harvard
*Monday 3/12/2007 *
11:00a - 12:00p
Inspiring slimes: What hagfish slime can teach us about predator
defense, cellular mechanics, and artificial silk
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64862236>
Douglas S. Fudge, University of Guelph
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Seminar Talk
Pierce 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
4:00p - 5:00p
Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64154635>
Walter Robinson, University of Illinois, Chicago
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
4:30p - 6:30p
An afternoon with David Graeber
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64829459>
Presented by The Program on Science, Technology, and Society at the John
F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
*Tuesday 3/13/2007*
9:30a - 11:00a
A Review of Research on Geological Storage of CO2 in Australia and the
USA
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=63829857>
Aleks Kalinowski, ETIP Fellow
Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series
Belfer Center Library, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge
3:00p - 4:00p
Rock-Paper-Scissors games and biodiversity
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64862213>
Professor Erwin Frey, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Sponsored by the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
One Brattle Square, 6th Floor, Cambridge
6:00p
Wind in the Wild
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64663673>
Seaport World Trade Center Amphitheater, Boston
*Wednesday 3/14/2007 *
5:00p - 6:00p
Whole-genome sequence diversity and reproductive isolation in the plant
Arabidopsis thaliana
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64862229>
Detlef Weigel, Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for
Developmental Biology
Center for Systems Biology Seminar
Sherman Fairchild, Room 102
*
Thursday 3/15/2007*
4:00p - 5:00p
The evolution of referential communication in highly social bees
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64862214>
James Nieh, Division of Biological Sciences University of California,
San Diego
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge