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:*
*The Harvard Environmental Course Guide is ready and being distributed
to offices of the registrars across the University. If you would like
copies of this guide to all environmental courses offered by Harvard and
selected courses offered by MIT and Tufts, please contact
jenny_macgregor(a)harvard.edu
* New Course Highlight: Government 1008 An Introduction to Geographical
Information Systems (GIS)
<http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/colgsas/9732> Fall 2006, 10-11AM
Tuesday, 10AM-12PM Thursday
Lectures: Thursdays Rm. N105 CGIS North, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge
Labs: Tuesdays Rm. N018 Concourse Computer Training Lab accessed through
the Library or through the Harvard MIT Data Center Lab (Tuesdays
10AM-12PM except 9/19,11/7)
Instructor: Sumeeta Srinivasan, ssrinivasan(a)cga.harvard.edu
This course introduces Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their
applications. GIS is a combination of software and hardware with
capabilities for manipulating, analyzing and displaying spatially
referenced information. GIS links location to information (buildings to
parcels, parcels to blocks, blocks to counties, counties to states and
so on). GIS also layers data to help understand how spatial data
interrelate.
* 9/20/06 - Rashid Khan, Specialist, Intellectual Properties, Saudi
Aramco and Energy Technology Innovation Project (ETIP) Fellow, KSG,
Harvard will talk about Clean Energy Technology at KSG.
*Calendar Listings:*
*Thursday 9/14/2006 *
3:30p - 4:30p
Grand Challenges in Environmental Health Research
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=58363764>
Ken Olden, Former Director, NIEHS
Colloquium in Environmental Health
Kresge G-2, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
7:15p - 8:15p
Alum and NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson at DEAS
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59208870>
Maxwell Dworkin Building, Room G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
*Friday 9/15/2006 *
9:00a - 10:00a
Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Summer Journal Club and Breakfast
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=54415309>
Harvard Center for Environment seminar room, 3rd floor, Geological
Museum Building, 24 Oxford St.
11:00a - 12:30p
Deciphering long-term hydrologic history from lake deposits
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59452652>
Sherilyn Fritz - University of Nebraska and Harvard Bullard Fellow
Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series
Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest - Petersham, MA
*Monday 9/18/2006 *
12:00p - 1:30p
Harvard Energy Journal Club (HEJC)
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59208948>
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
3:30p - 5:00p
Traffic Fatalities and Economic Growth in Developed and Developing
Nations
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59209226>
Maureen L. Cropper, Ph.D. University of Maryland
Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series
Landmark Center, West Atrium, 414A, Harvard School of Public Health,
Boston, MA
*Tuesday 9/19/2006 *
11:00a - 1:00p
Two Ocean Seminars at Harvard
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59353412>
Prof. Pierre-Marie Poulain and Prof. Benoit Cuhsman-Roisin
Maxwell Dworkin Building, Room G119, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
6:00p - 7:30p
"The Reluctant Mr Darwin." Lecture and booksigning by David Quammen
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59180699>
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St
*Wednesday 9/20/2006 *
12:00p - 1:30p
Quest for Clean Energy: Opportunity for Innovation
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59324429>
Rashid Khan, Specialist, Intellectual Properties, Saudi Aramco and
Energy Technology Innovation Project (ETIP) Fellow, KSG, Harvard
ETIP Seminar Series
Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, KSG
*Friday 9/22/2006 *
8:30a - 9:30p
Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59180722>
Daniel Fisher, Harvard University (Physics and Applied Physics)
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
*Monday 9/25/2006 *
12:00p - 1:30p
Harvard Energy Journal Club (HEJC)
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59208949>
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
10:30p - 12:00p
Energy Security: India's Search Through Optimised Use of Indigenous
Resources
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59324431>
T.L. Sankar, Energy Technology Innovation Project (ETIP) Fellow, KSG,
Harvard
ETIP Seminar Series
Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, KSG
*Tuesday 9/26/2006 *
Energy in Caspian Basin
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59324435>
Abbas Maleki, Energy Technology Innovation Project (ETIP) Fellow, KSG,
Harvard
ETIP Seminar Series
Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, KSG
3:00p - 4:00p
ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59452201>
Conference Room, Center for Climate and Atmosphere, Geological Museum
Building, 24 Oxford Street, 4th Floor
*Thursday 9/28/2006 *
4:00p - 5:00p
Beauty before brains: Animal evolution prior to the origin of Bilateria
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59209194>
Allen Collins, National Systematic Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave
6:00p - 7:30p
Arthropods: Creatures that Rule. Exhibition opening lecture by Gonzalo
Giribet
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=59180700>
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St.