Dear Friends of HUCE,
This email contains event listings for Thursday, October 4 through
Wednesday, October 17, 2007. Please check the HUCE calendar on our Web site,
www.environment.harvard.edu <http://www.environment.harvard.edu> , for the
most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions throughout the
semester.
If you would like to submit an event to the calendar or unsubscribe(!) from
this list, contact Jenn Goodman at the Center for the Environment:
jenn_goodman(a)harvard.edu <mailto:jenn_goodman@harvard.edu> .
Please distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues, and
anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the
community. We hope to see you soon and often.
Highlights:
* Friday, October 5: Harvard Biomass Symposium. The Harvard Green Campus
Initiative hosts a half-day symposium to stimulate discussion about the
potential of biomass as an energy source. Space is limited; please RSVP to
dara_olmstead(a)harvard.edu.
* Thursday, October 11: MSI Thursday Evening Seminar. Dr. Ron Oremland of
the United States Geological Survey will give a talk on the ³10 M¹s² of the
Ecology of Arsenic. A wine and cheese precedes the seminar.
Calendar Listings:
Thursday 10/4/07
9:00a-5:00p
Terrorism, Climate Change, and Beyond: A Discussion of Cass Sunstein¹s
³Worst Case Scenarios²
Cass Sustein, University of Chicago Law School and others
Pound Hall, Ropes Gray Room (212), Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Sharon Jacobs, sjacobs(a)law.harvard.edu
12:15p
Belfer Center Directors¹ Lunch: ³Managing the Greenhouse Problem²
RSVP required
Thomas Schelling, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics
Belfer Center Library, L-369, 79 JFK St., Kennedy School of Government
Contact: Sarah Donahue, sarah_donahue(a)ksg.harvard.edu
4:00p
OEB Seminar: Phylogenomics in mammals, flies, and fungi
Manolis Kellis, MIT
Main Lecture Hall, BioLabs Building, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
5:30-6:30p
Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) Lecture on Clean Energy
Richard Ward, Jed Bailey, Aaron Brady, Chris Hansen, CERA
32-155, MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA
5:30-7:00p
Askwith Education Forum: Lessons from Sputnik: Focusing Events and the
Shaping of Science Education
Frank Baumgartner, Penn State; John Rudolph, UW-Madison and others
Askwith Lecture Hall, Longfellow Hall, Appian Way, Graduate School of Ed.
Contact: Shawn Wade Tuttle, tuttlesh(a)gse.harvard.edu
Friday 10/5/07
8:30-9:30a
Friday Chalktalk: "Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Biofilm Development"
Dr. Lauren Junker, Harvard Medical School
HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu
11:00a
Harvard Forest Autumn 2007 Seminar Series
Mark Rickenbach, University of Wisconsin and Harvard Bullard Fellow
Seminar Room, Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 N. Main St., Petersham, MA
Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu
11:00a-3:00p
Harvard Biomass Symposium
Ben Urquhart, Massachusetts Division of Conservation & Recreation
Lamont Library Forum Room, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Dara Olmsted, dara_olmsted(a)harvard.edu
12:30-2:00p
Environmental Statistics Seminar: ³Topics in Multilevel Modeling²
S.V. Subramanian, Harvard School of Public Health
HSPH Building 2, room 426
Saturday 10/6/07
12:00p
Lecture and book signing
Kim Todd, Science and environmental writer
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: (617) 495-3045
1:00-2:30p
Falling Leaves: Explaining the Science of Fall Color
Michael Dosmann, Arnold Arboretum
Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA
Contact: (617) 524-1718
Monday 10/8/07
9:15a-12:00p
Harvard Recycling Tour
Boylston Gate, Harvard Square
Contact: Rob Gogan, rob_gogan(a)harvard.edu
Tuesday 10/9/07
9:30-11:00a
ETIP Seminar Series: Building a World that Buries Climate Change
L-369, Belfer Center Library, 79 JFK St., Kennedy School of Government
Contact: etip(a)ksg.harvard.edu
5:30p
Energy and Climate Forum: ³Energy Transitions Past and Future²
Cutler J. Cleveland, Boston University
Mugar 200, Tufts University
Contact: mieke.wansem(a)tufts.edu
6:00p
³On the Verge of Extinction: Saving Iran¹s Cheetahs²
Luke Hunter
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: (617) 495-3045
Wednesday 10/10/07
6:30-8:30p
The Roots of Community: How Trees and Greenery Contribute to Society
William Sullivan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Franklin Park Golf Clubhouse, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA
Contact: (617) 524-1718
7:00-8:30p
World Religions Café Series: Would the Buddha Buy an SUV? The Philosophy of
³Sufficiency Economy²
Donald Swearer, Center for Study of World Religions
CSWR Common Room, 42 Francis Ave., Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA
Thursday 10/11/07
4:00-5:00p
OEB Seminar: Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life
Eric Schneider
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Deborah Smiley, (617) 384-5062
4:00p
Climate Seminar: Puzzles and Problems of Ongoing Global Sea Level Change
Carl Wunsch, MIT
Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
5:00p
Sustainable Planning in Allston
Harris Band and Alison Reinhardt, Allston Development Group
Allston Exhibition Room, Holyoke Center Arcade, 1350 Mass Ave., Cambridge,
MA
Contact: J. Shapiro, jshapiro(a)fas.harvard.edu
5:30-7:30p
MSI Thursday Evening Seminar: ³The Ecology of Arsenic (as summarized in ten
M¹s): Murder, Mayhem, Mobilization²
Dr. Ron Oremland, USGS
HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu
Saturday 10/13
8:30a-3:30p
Food vs. Fuel: Is Biofuel Production from Farms Jeopardizing Our Food
Security? An Environmental Leadership Program Issue Forum
Behrakis Auditorium, Friedman School of Nutrition, 150 Harrison Ave.,
Boston, MA
Contact: Melissa Bailey, melissa.bailey(a)tufts.edu
11:00a-4:00p
7th Annual CitySprouts Harvest Festival
M.L. King School and Amigos School Playground, 100 Putnam Ave., Cambridge,
MA
Contact: Carla Procaskey, anthony.flanders(a)verizon.net
Monday 10/15
12:00-1:00p
Harvard Energy Journal Club
Francis MacDonald & John Higgins
HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:15-6:00p
The Cultural Dimensions of Environmentalism
Monika Griefahn, Member of the German Bundestag
Lower Level Conference Room, 27 Kirkland St. at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Jason Beerman, beerman(a)fas.harvard.edu
Tuesday 10/16
6:00p
Lessons from Tropical Rainforests: Science for Sustaining Biodiversity
Peter Ashton, Harvard University
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus Cambridge, MA
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu
Wednesday 10/17
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy: ³Structural Uncertainty and
the Value of Statistical Life in the Economics of Catastrophic Climate
Change.²
Martin Weitzman, Harvard University
L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu