Dear Friends of HUCE,
We hope you enjoyed a happy and healthy holiday season. In the
first of the 2008 HUCE weekly calendar emails, we are proud to
introduce a new format. This email contains event listings for
Friday, January 11 through Friday, January 25. Please check the
HUCE calendar on our website,
www.environment.harvard.edu , for
the most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions.
If you would like to submit an event to the calendar, contact
Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment:
lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu. Please distribute this email to
your students, faculty, colleagues, and anyone else who may
be interested in environmental events around the community.
Highlights
Tuesday, January 15: Dominican-based conservationist Eladio
Fernandez discusses his new book featuring 400 spectacular
photographs of the species richness and diversity of habitats
on the ancient island of Hispaniola as part of the Harvard
Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series.
Calendar Listings:
Friday 1/11/2008
7:30a - 9:30a Environmental Business Council Breakfast Meeting
(Nixon Peabody, 100 Summer St., Boston, MA)
With Phil Giudice, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources.
Contact: ebc(a)ebcne.org, 617-725-0207,
ebc.terranovum.com/index.php?id=77&am...
12:30p - 2:00p Seminar in Occupational and Environmental Health Research
(FXB G12, 651 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA)
Three different talks on occupation and environmental health research.
Contact: Ann Backus, MS, abackus(a)hsph.harvard.edu, 617-432-3327
Saturday 1/12/2008
9:30a - 12:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Adult Classes
(Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA)
"Discovering Dinosaurs." Registration and fee.
Contact: reservations(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-2341,
www.hmnh.harvard.edu/adult_classes/in...
Monday 1/14/2008
12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club
(HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA)
Visit website for current topics of discussion.
Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
Tuesday 1/15/2008
6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
Lecture and booksigning by Eladio Fernandez. "Hispaniola: A Photographic Journey
through Island Biodiversity."
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-2773 ,
www.hmnh.harvard.edu/kids_and_familie...
Thursday 1/17/2008
8:00a - 9:30a Environmental Business Council Solid Waste, Oceans and International
Committee Meeting
(Tech Environmental Offices at Reservoir Place, Edgartown Room, 1601 Trapelo Rd., Waltham,
MA)
"Tsunami Relief Experience - Personal Reflections of an Engineer" with speaker
David Murphy, Tighe & Bond.
Contact: ebc(a)ebcne.org, 617-725-0207,
ebc.terranovum.com/index.php?id=77&am...
4:00p Origins of Life Initiative Forum
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"Prebiotic Chemistry in the Origins of Life" with speaker John Sutherland,
University of Manchester, UK
Contact: cknell(a)cfa.harvard.edu, 617-496-1451,
origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html
Sunday 1/20/2008
2:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Sunday Family Program
(Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA)
Screening of The Naturalist, a 30-minute movie about the life and work of the renowned
entomologist, author, and Pulitzer prize winner, Edward O. Wilson.
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045,
www.hmnh.harvard.edu/family_programs/...
Monday 1/21/2008
12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club
(HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA)
Visit website for current topics of discussion.
Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu,
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
Wednesday 1/23/2008
3:30p Radcliffe Institute Fellows' Presentation Series
(34 Concord Avenue, 2nd floor Colloquium Room, Cambridge, MA)
"From Protein Sequence to Function" with Liisa Holm, University of Helsinki
(Finland), current Radcliffe Institute fellow.
Contact: 617-495-8212,
www.radcliffe.edu/events/calendar.php...
Friday 1/25/2008
8:00a - 5:30p 7th Annual Sustainable Development Forum
(MIT Sloan School of Management, Tang Center, Building E51, Cambridge, MA)
The Annual Regional Sustainable Development Forum focuses on the importance of motivating
a broad constituency to work together to address the consequences of global climate
change.
Contact:
www.newecology.org/sustainabilityforu...
3:00p Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series
(Location TBA)
"The Non-Critical Precursory Accelerating Seismicity Theory" with speaker Arnaud
Mignan, Science and Technology Research, Risk Management Solutions, London, UK
Contact:
esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM...
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