Dear Friends of HUCE, This email contains event listings for Thursday, December 6 through Thursday, December 20, 2007. Please check the HUCE calendar on our website, <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/> 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 Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment: <mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu> 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. We hope to see you soon and often. Highlights: *Friday, December 7: As part of the Women's Initiative in Leadership (IOP) and Women and Public Policy Program, Maria Cantwell, Senator from Washington (D), addresses the JFK Institute of Politics Forum in "$100 Oil, Climate Change, and Bipartisan Gridlock: What's Next?" *Thursday, December 13: Three representatives from GridPoint Technologies join professors Daniel Schrag and William Hogan in the second HUCE Green Conversations Series. Gridpoint's energy platform empowers utility companies to achieve business objectives while promoting environmental stewardship and fueling the adoption of renewable energy sources. Calendar Listings: Thursday 12/6/2007 11:45a - 1:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88301968> Center for International Development Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Conflict, Conservation, and Natural Resources" with speaker Ann Laudati, Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science, Sustainability Science Program, CID. Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:cid_events@harvard.edu> cid_events(a)harvard.edu 12:00p - 2:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88064887> KSG Tap Water Challenge The tap water challenge urges students, professors and staff to drink tap water instead of bottled. JFK Forum, Littauer Building, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Matt Wilson, <mailto:matt_wilson@ksg08.harvard.edu> matt_wilson(a)ksg08.harvard.edu 12:00p - 1:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88104085> Opportunities and Challenges in Alternative Fuel Industry Bruce Jamerson, CEO, Mascoma. Lunch is served. E51-395, MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA 12:00p - 1:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88232687> Business and Government Lunch Seminar Series "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Assessing the Functionality of Industry Self-Regulation Institutions" with speaker Andrew Kind, Associate Professor of Strategy Tuck School of Business. Bell Hall (5th Floor, Belfer Building), Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:mrcbg@ksg.harvard.edu> mrcbg(a)ksg.harvard.edu 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88035247> GSD Green Design Lecture "Grow with the Flow: The Confluence of Waste Management and Resource Trans-formation" with Carol Steinfeld Room 109, 48 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA Contact: Mary Lydecker, <mailto:mary.lydecker@gmail.com> mary.lydecker(a)gmail.com, <http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/events/> www.gsd.harvard.edu/events/ 2:00p - 6:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87544606> NEXUS Exhibitor Showcase: Green is Affordable Tour the NEXUS Green Building Resource Center Exhibit Hall and speak with vendor representatives. NEXUS Green Building Resource Center, 38 Chauncy St., 7th Floor, Boston, MA Contact: Aaron Desatnik , <mailto:aaron@greenroundtable.org> aaron(a)greenroundtable.org, 617-374-3740 x.127 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86692940> OEB Seminar Series "Putting real adaptation into comparative tests of adaptive hypotheses: the way forward?" Speaker: Dr. Steve Orzack, The Fresh Pond Research Institute. Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge Contact: <http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm> www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm 5:00p - 7:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88104086> Leading Green @ MIT Speaker: Laxmi Rao, Energy Coordinator of IS&T and Jason Jay & Elsa Olivetti, founders of the MIT Generator Coalition PDR1, Student Center (W20), 3rd floor, MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA 6:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86682040> Carpenter Center Lecture: Understanding Anthropogeomorphology Speaker: Matt Coolidge, the director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI). Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: 617.495.3251, <http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/coolidgematt.html> www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/coolidgematt.... 6:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88232654> Ride the Green Wave Speakers Van Jones of the Ella Baker Center, Oakland, CA and Jim Hunt, Boston's Environment and Energy Department Director. Grover Cleveland School, 11 Charles St., Fields Corner, Boston, MA Contact: (617) 436-7100 7:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84215033> Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Family Friendly Nights A Star is Born, with Meredith Hughes. How are stars made, and what happens when their lives are over? 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:pubaffairs@cfa.edu> pubaffairs(a)cfa.edu, (617) 495-7461, <http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/ffn.html> www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/ffn.html Friday 12/7/2007 8:30a - 9:30a <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84638687> Friday Chalktalk: "Genes, Proteins and Organelles Responsible for Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence and the Mechanism of the Regulation of Flashing" Dr. Woody Hastings, Molecular and Cellular Biology. Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, 1st floor Geological Museum, Cambridge, MA Contact: Christy Herren, <mailto:herren@fas.harvard.edu> herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-8643, <http://www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html> www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html 11:00a - 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=82935342> Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series Scott Ollinger - Complex Research Systems Center, University of New Hampshire Harvard Forest Seminar Room, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, <mailto:aabarker@fas.harvard.edu> aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, (978) 724-3302 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86682052> Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Speaker: Jintai Lin, Univ. of Illinois, with hosts Michael McElroy & Yuxuan Wang. Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:bmathieu@seas.harvard.edu> bmathieu(a)seas.harvard.edu , <http://www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html> www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html 12:30p - 2:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=80808296> Environmental Statistics Seminar: "Topics in Environmental Health" Tom Webster, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health HSPH Building 2, Room 426, Boston, MA Contact: <http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostats/events/seminars/env_stat.html> www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostats/events/... 2:15p - 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=81454152> Challenges of the Twenty-first Century: European and American Perspectives Series "Climate Change and Energy; Europe Takes the Lead" with speaker Andris Pielbags, Commissioner for Energy, Commission of the European Union. Lower Level Conference Room, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA Contact: Renee Haferkamp, <mailto:haferkam@fas.harvard.edu> haferkam(a)fas.harvard.edu 3:00p - 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88331679> Center for Systems Biology "Natural history and evolutionary principles of gene duplication in yeasts" with speaker Ilan Wapinski, Broad Institute. Sherman Fairchild 177, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA Contact: Caitlin O'Leary, 617-496-4085 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88035271> JFK Institute of Politics Forum "$100 Oil, Climate Change, and Bipartisan Gridlock: What's Next?" a public address by Maria Cantwell, United State Senator, Washington (D). John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:kamron_mitchell@ksg.harvard.edu> kamron_mitchell(a)ksg.harvard.edu, 617 496 3864 4:30p - 6:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87741254> Tufts Energy and Climate Forum "European Energy Policy: Challenges and Responses" with Andris Piebalgs, Commissioner for Energy, Commission of the European Union. Cabot 702, Tufts University, Medford, MA Contact: Mieke van der Wansem, <mailto:mieke.wansem@tufts.edu> mieke.wansem(a)tufts.edu 6:45p - 1:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88232648> New England Botanical Club Meeting "Why are the Asian tropics so different?" with speaker Dr. Peter S. Ashton, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA Contact: Dr. Nancy M. Eyster-Smith, <mailto:nebc@rhodora.org> nebc(a)rhodora.org, 781-891-2987, <http://www.rhodora.org/Meetings.html> www.rhodora.org/Meetings.html Saturday 12/8/2007 9:30a - 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88331692> HMNH: Saturday Scholars "Animals in Winter" for children in kindergarten or grade 1. Advance reservations required. Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:reservations@oeb.harvard.edu> reservations(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.2341 9:30a - 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88331696> HMNH: Saturday Scholars "Dinosaur ABC's" for children in preschool (age 4 or 5 with one adult). Advance reservations required. Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:reservations@oeb.harvard.edu> reservations(a)oeb.harvard.edu , 617.495.2341 Sunday 12/9/2007 2:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539756> Sunday Family Program: Mammals in Winter: Survival and Adaptation When the ground is covered with snow and the trees are bare, just how do mammals survive? Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu> hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-3045 Monday 12/10/2007 12:00p - 1:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=81038270> Harvard Energy Journal Club Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion. HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Kurt House, <mailto:khouse@fas.harvard.edu> khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, <http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html> www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 7:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539760> Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series Raising Tomorrow's Naturalists: Film screening and conversation with E. O. Wilson and T. Berry Brazelton. Science Center, One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu> hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-3045 Tuesday 12/11/2007 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88331689> Herbaria Seminar Series "An evolutionary perspective on desiccation tolerance mechanisms in plants" with speaker Melvin Oliver, Agricultural Research Service/USDA Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA Contact: <http://www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/> www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/ 3:00p - 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84667707> ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion. Geological Museum, Room 418, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge Contact: Kate Dennis and Martin Tingley, <http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html> www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... 7:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87672486> Cambridge Entomological Club Meeting "Interactions between invasive species: woolly adelgid, elongate scale, and the fate of New England's hemlock forests" with Evan Preisser, University of Rhode Island Museum of Comparative Zoology, 101, 26 Oxford Street, Harvard University Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:entclub@entclub.org> entclub(a)entclub.org, <http://entclub.org/> entclub.org/ Wednesday 12/12/2007 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87672478> Origins of Life Initiative Forum Microbial Population Structure of the World's Oceans: An Underexplored "Rare Biosphere" with speaker Mitchell L. Sogin Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole & Brown University Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Carol Knell, <mailto:cknell@cfa.harvard.edu> cknell(a)cfa.harvard.edu, <http://origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html> origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html Thursday 12/13/2007 12:30p - 1:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88331610> Film Screenings on Global Trash Trade "The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-Use and Abuse to Africa" and "Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia" CGIS Knafel Building, Room N-354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: Clare Putnam, <mailto:cputnam@wcfia.harvard.edu> cputnam(a)wcfia.harvard.edu, 617-495-9899, <http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/> www.wcfia.harvard.edu/ 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87672481> HUCE Green Conversations Series Join us for a conversation with three representatives from GridPoint , whose SmartGrid platform empowers utilities to achieve business objectives, increase grid reliability, promote environmental stewardship and fuel the adoption of renewable energy sources. Pierce Hall, Room 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: Lisa Matthews, <mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu> lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883, <http://www.gridpoint.com/> www.gridpoint.com/ 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539802> OEB Seminar: Evolutionary Biorobotics: Navigating Simulated Selection Environments to Test Adaptation Hypotheses Speaker Dr. John Lang, Vassar College Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge Contact: Katie Parodi, <mailto:kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu> kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, <http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm> www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm 4:00p - 5:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88331622> China Project Seminar "Understanding Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides from China Using Satellite Observations" with Dr. Wang Yuxuan, Research Associate, China Project and SEAS Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: <http://chinaproject.harvard.edu> chinaproject.harvard.edu Friday 12/14/2007 8:30a - 9:30a <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87446378> Friday Chalktalk: "Germ Stories, GASPing and Microfluidics" Roberto Kolter, Dept. MMG, Harvard Medical School. HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Christy Herren, <mailto:herren@fas.harvard.edu> herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495-8643, <http://www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html> www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html 11:00a - 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=82935343> Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series Tom Kunz - Boston University Aeroecology: probing and modeling the Aerosphere Harvard Forest Seminar Room, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, <mailto:aabarker@fas.harvard.edu> aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, (978) 724-3302 3:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87348286> OEB Special Seminar: Building the Encyclopedia of Life at Harvard ) Presenters: James Edwards, Executive Director, EOL, Smithsonian Institution; and Jesse Ausubel, Program Officer, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Chair, EOL Steering Committee Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Katie Parodi, <mailto:kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu> kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-5891 5:00p - 8:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86682055> HMNH: Night at the Museum Free admission and 20% off everything in the museum store! Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu> hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045 Monday 12/17/2007 12:00p - 1:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=81038271> Harvard Energy Journal Club Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion. HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Kurt House, <mailto:khouse@fas.harvard.edu> khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, <http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html> www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 6:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539763> Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series "Life in the Valley of Death" lecture and booksigning by Alan Rabinowitz. Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge Contact: <mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu> hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-3045 Tuesday 12/18/2007 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88331671> Herbaria Seminar Series Rfael Rubio de Casas (Donohue Lab/OEB). Title TBA. Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA Contact: <http://www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/> www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/ 3:00p - 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84667708> ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion. Geological Museum, Room 418, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge Contact: Kate Dennis and Martin Tingley, <http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html> http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html Lisa Matthews Events Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu p. 617-495-8883 f. 617-496-0425