Event List

Alan Knapp – Colorado State University and Harvard Bullard Fellow, "Global change and grasslands"

"Oil: The Next Big Surprises" with Leonardo Maugeri, Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School

Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia, History), Physics, Emotion, and the Scientific Self in the Nuclear Age: Merle Tuve's Cold War

Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the 2006 best-seller "Field Notes from a Catastrophe" and staff writer at the New Yorker

Iain Couzin, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton

Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology.

Travel back in time to explore the world of dinosaurs, Ice Age mammals, trilobites, and other fossils

"Are Current Electricity Markets Suitable to Integrate Non-dispatchable (Renewable) Producers?" with Antonio Conejo, University of Castilla - La Mancha

"Layers of Uncertainty in Science Policy"

Creating the Smart Grid: A Backbone and Regulations and Standards

Robin Burgess, London School of Economics, Matthew Hansen, Peter Potapov, University of Maryland, Benjamin Olken, MIT, and Stefanie Sieber, World Bank. "The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics."

Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology.

Jonathan Foley, PhD, Director, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota

Rebecca Rowe – University of New Hampshire, "Ecological responses to a century of change: climate, land use and the small mammals of the Great Basin"

Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology.

"Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food Security" with Joel Schwartz, Harvard School of Public Health

Sergio Sismondo (Queen’s University, Philosophy), Pharma's Key Opinion Leaders: Valuing Conflicts of Interest and Independence

Noah Fierer, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder

"But Will the Planet Notice? Why only economists -- not recyclers -- can stop global warming" with Gernot Wagner, Environmental Defense Fund & Columbia University

Agassiz Lecture

Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, Nicholas Ryan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Rohini Pande, Harvard University. "Truth telling by Third Party Auditors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in India."

“Water, Climate Change, and Health” with John Briscoe, PhD, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering and Environmental Health at Harvard University; Director, Water Security Initiative, Harvard University

International short films, puppet-making, a kids’ matinee, an eco-marketplace, and a cinematic tribute to Kenyan Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai

Stephen Hilgartner (Cornell University, STS), Dis·en·closing Science

A SEAS and EPS joint seminar

Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology.

Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, Professor of Environmental Studies & Population Health Sciences, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Gregg Mitman (University of Wisconsin, History of Science), Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record

A SEAS and EPS joint seminar

Andy Haines, MD, MBBS [videoconference], Professor of Public Health & Primary Care, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Matt Jackson, Boston University

Katharine Sims, Amherst College, Jennifer Alix Garcia, University of Wisconsin, and Elizabeth Shapiro, Duke University. "Impacts of Mexico=s National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program."

Thomas B. Smith, Professor, Institute of the Environment and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA

Learn more about campus or community sustainability and best practices

Learn more about campus or community sustainability and best practices

"Regulating the Brazilian Power Sector" with Jerson Kelman, Former Director, Brazil’s National Electricity Regulatory Agency (ANEEL)

Bob Aller, SUNY Stony Brook

Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University, and Pinar Keskin, Wellesley College. "Distributional Consequences of Water Markets: Local Economic Spillovers from Agricultural Water Use."

Mark Friedl – Boston University, Topic TBA

A SEAS and EPS joint seminar

Musical performances, delicious appetizers and desserts, beverages, auctions, and presentation of Green Star Awards

A SEAS and EPS joint seminar

George Luber, PhD, Associate Director for Global Climate Change, National Center for Environmental Health

Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology.