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:* *10/1/06 - Environmental Society Annual Barbeque for Harvard students *10/4/06 - Matthew Khan and Green Cities at KSG *10/5/06 - The First Harvard Climate Seminar of the Fall Term *Calendar Listings:* *Friday 9/29/2006 * 8:30a - 9:30p Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59180725> Jon Clardy, Harvard University (HMS, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology) Research Focus: Microbial Chemical Biology Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 12:30p - 1:45p Susceptibility Factors to the Health Effects of Environmental Exposures: an Italian multi-city case-crossover analysis <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59795130> Massimo Stafoggia, of the Department of Epidemiology, Local Health Authority, Rome, and student in the Department of Biostatistics in the Harvard School of Public Health Environmental Statistics Seminar School of Public Health, Building 2, Room 426, Boston *Saturday 9/30/2006 * 9:00a - 5:00p Arthropods: Creatures that Rule - Exhibit public opening <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59180701> Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge *Sunday 10/1/2006 * 5:00p - 8:00p Environment Society Annual Fall BBQ <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59797192> Quincy House Senior Common Room & Garden, 58 Plympton St. *Monday 10/2/2006 * 10:00a - 11:00a Rebuilding After Katrina <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59892866> Part of its fall series - Human Rights at Home: America's Response to Domestic Disaster. The Carr Center in collaboration with The Joint Center for Housing Studies Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219, 79 JFK Street, KSG 12:00p - 1:30p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HEJC) <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59208950> Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 4:00p - 5:00p Magnetization of Martian Crust <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59892992> Jafar Arkamni-Ahmed Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquia Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Tuesday 10/3/2006 * 3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59452202> Conference Room, Center for Climate and Atmosphere, Geological Museum Building, 24 Oxford Street, 4th Floor 4:30p - 5:45p Scaling up HIV Testing and Counseling: Debates and Evidence <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59796804> Dr. Carla Obermeyer Sponsored by The Harvard Initiative for Global Health & Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies 9 Bow St., Cambridge, MA 6:00p - 7:15p The Making of the Fittest. Lecture and booksigning by Sean Carroll <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59669584> Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge *Wednesday 10/4/2006 * 12:00p - 1:15p Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59669444> Matthew Kahn, Professor of International Economics, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University Taubman Center for State and Local Government Seminar Fainsod Room, 324 Littauer Building, 79 John F. Kennedy Street 3:45p - 5:00p Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions with a Wireless Sensor Network <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59893026> Matt Welsh, Harvard University, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Initiative in Innovative Computing Seminar 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 4:00p - 5:30p Is Clean Water Overrated? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=58953635> Michael Kremer, Economics Department, Harvard University, et al. Seminar in Environmental Economics and Public policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government 5:30p - 6:30p Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) and the Three-Dimensional Mapping and Analysis of Deeply Buried Archaeological Sites <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59893027> Lawrence Conyers, Denver University Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Thursday 10/5/2006 * 10:00a - 11:00a Cyber-chat on Climate Change <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59637422> 12:00p - 1:00p Ecological diversification and evolutionary patterns in desert lizard communities <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59893004> Jane Melville, Herpetology Department Museum OEB Seminars MCZ 101, 26 Oxford Street 4:00p - 5:15p A Modest Role for Atmospheric CO2 in the Progression of Ice Ages <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59209222> Robbie Toggweiler, Researcher, Oceans and Climate Group, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA, Princeton University Harvard Climate Seminar Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Friday 10/6/2006 * 8:30a - 9:30p Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59180728> Howard Berg, Harvard University (FAS- Molecular and Cellular Biology) Research Focus: Motility and Chemotaxis Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 11:00a - 12:15p Grasslands as biodiversity hotspots of the European cultural landscape: ecological aspects of conservation and restoration <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59209197> Kai Jensen, Smith College and University of Hamburg Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest - Petersham, MA 4:00p - 5:15p Mathematical models of hurricanes, dust storms & similar natural phenomena <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59669524> Grigory I. Barenblatt, Professor in Residence, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley Pierce Hall 209, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge *Monday 10/9/2006 * 12:00p - 1:30p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HEJC) <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59208951> Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Tuesday 10/10/2006 * 9:00a - 10:30a Exploring the Role of the Private Sector in Addressing Climate Change <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59481755> Craig Hart, PhD. Candidate, MIT Energy Technology Innovation Project (ETIP) Seminar Coffee Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, KSG 3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59452203> Conference Room, Center for Climate and Atmosphere, Geological Museum Building, 24 Oxford Street, 4th Floor *Wednesday 10/11/2006 * 4:00p - 5:30p The Impact of Critical Habitat Designation on the California Housing Market <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=58953637> Jeffrey Zabel, Tufts University, and Robert Paterson, Industrial Economics Seminar in Environmental Economics and Public policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government 6:00p - 7:15p One World, One Health: Protecting the health of people, animals, and the planet <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59669586> Dr. William Karesh, DVM, Director of Wildlife Conservation Society's Field Veterinary Program Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge