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:*
*10/20/06 -- Nature's Renewable Blueprint at Pierce hall -- Charles
Dismukes
*10/24/06 -- Energy Symposium at Harvard Business School
*10/26/06/ /-- Harvard China Project Seminar -- Acid Rain in China
*Calendar Listings:*
*Thursday 10/19/2006 *
4:00p - 5:00p
Ecology, mosaic genomes and the evolution of organismal design
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60107834>
AveTodd Streelman, Georgia Tech
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity
*Friday 10/20/2006*
8:30a - 9:30p
Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59180732>
Marcia B. Goldberg, Mass General Hospital
Research Focus: Host-Pathogen Interactions
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
11:00a - 12:15p
Regeneration dynamics in large forest gaps
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59209198>
Michael Dietze - Harvard University
Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series
Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest - Petersham, MA
12:00p - 1:00p
Atmospheric pollution in China: measurements in source regions and
implications
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60318053>
Tao Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St. Cambridge
4:00p - 5:15p
Nature's Renewable Energy Blueprint: Future Fuel from Photosynthesis &
Biomimics
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59892988>
Charles Dismukes, Department of Chemistry Princeton Materials Institute
& Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University
Pierce 209, 29 Oxford Street
*Saturday 10/21/2006 *
8:00a - 8:00p
Conservation, Environmental Justice, and Resource Rights
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59010636>
William James Hall, Room 1, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
*Monday 10/23/2006 *
4:00p - 5:00p
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60318055>
Yadvinder Malhi, Department of Geography, Oxford
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
*Tuesday 10/24/2006 *
9:00a - 10:30a
Management Practices of Expert Innovators
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59481778>
Robert Austin, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Energy Technology Innovation Project (ETIP) Seminar
Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, KSG
11:00a - 12:00p
The Ecology of Place: The role of field stations in going from the
particular to the general
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60318170>
Ian Billick - Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series
Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest - Petersham, MA
3:00p - 7:00p
Harvard Business School -- Energy Symposium
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60257659>
Spangler Auditorium, HBS, Soldier's Field Rd
3:00p - 4:15p
Paleoseismology and earthquake surface ruptures: Could we learn anything
about earthquake processes?
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60107812>
Yann Klinger, Laboratoire Tectonique, Institut de Physique du Globe,
Paris, France
Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman Laboratories, 20 Oxford Street
*Wednesday 10/25/2006 *
8:00a - 9:15a
Smoke and Genes
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60257925>
Joel Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Health and
Epidemiology, HSPH
Genetics and Environmental Health Series
Kresge Building, Room 110, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, HSPH
10:30a - 11:30a
Temperature and Pressure Measurements from the ACE-MAESTRO Space
Instrument
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60528866>
Dr. Caroline Nowlan, University of Toronto
CFA AMP / Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Host
Center for Astrophysics Pratt Conference Room (G04), Harvard,
4:00p - 5:30p
Design Insights from the Use of Tradeable Permits for Air Emissions,
Water Allocation, and Fisheries
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=58953639>
Tom Tietenberg, Colby College
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard
*Thursday 10/26/2006 *
12:00p
Biomass-Derived Transportation Fuels to Meet Sustainability and Security
Objectives
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59481783>
Lee Lynd, Professor of Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Biology,
Dartmouth College
Innovation in Transportation Seminar Series
Carr Center conference room, Rubenstein 219, JFK School of Government
4:00p - 5:00p
Acid Rain in China: Current Situation and a New National Initiative
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60468889>
WANG Tao (Professor, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences
and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Visiting Scholar, China
Project, HUCE/DEAS
Harvard China Project seminars
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge
6:00p - 7:00p
Alternatives to Oil: Dream or Reality?
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60498910>
The Third Annual Everett-Moomaw Debate
TUFTS - ASEAN Auditorium
*Friday 10/27/2006 *
8:30a - 9:30p
Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59180735>
Johan Paulsson, Harvard University, HMS, Systems Biology
Research Focus: Modeling Gene Networks
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
11:00a - 12:00p
Land-use history and patterns of biodiversity in Southern Appalachian
forests
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60108038>
Scott Pearson, Mars Hill College and Harvard Bullard Fellow
Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series
Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest - Petersham, MA
2:30p - 3:30p
Satellite-Observed US Powerplant NOx Emission Reductions and Their
Impact on Air Quality
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59669520>
Gregory J. Frost, NOAA
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge
*Sunday 10/29/2006 *
7:30p - 8:30p
Global Warming and its Effects on New England
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60348362>
Kevin Knobloch, President, Union of Concerned Scientists
Sponsored by the Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition
Cary Memorial Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA
*Tuesday 10/31/2006 *
12:00p - 2:30p
Information Session: Duke Nicholas School
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=58982205>
Make a career out of your concerns about climate change, ocean pollution
and sustainable development.
Harvard Center for Environment seminar room, 3rd floor, Geological
Museum Building, 24 Oxford St.
4:00p - 5:00p
Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar Series
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60529259>
Felisa Wolfe-Simon Arizona State University
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
*Wednesday 11/1/2006 *
4:00p - 5:30p
Does Electricity Restructuring Benefit the Environment? A Structural,
Empirical Analysis of Intertemporal Emission Trading in the U.S. SO2
Allowance Market
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=58981890>
Fan Zhang, Harvard University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University
6:00p - 7:00p
Is the WTO Accountable?
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60529270>
Pascal Lamy, director-general, WTO, former European Commissioner for
Trade, 1999-2004 2006
Wiener Lecture on International Political Economy
John F. Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
*Thursday 11/2/2006 *
8:30a - 5:00p
The 2nd Annual Conference on Clean Energy: Financing and Partnering for
Emerging Technologies
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=58982201>
Hynes Convention Center, Boston
2:00p - 4:15p
The 'instability' of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: for too long a
hypothesis?
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59209223>
Duncan Wingham, Director, Centre for Polar Observational Modeling,
Professor of Climate Physics, University College London
Harvard Climate Seminar
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street