Environmental Fellow: 2023-2025
PhD, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Abigail (Abby) Ostriker is an economist studying how individuals, firms, and governments both influence and are affected by environmental risk....

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Environmental Fellow: 2023-2025
PhD, Climate Physics, Sorbonne University

Anna Lea Albright uses models, theory, and observations to improve understanding of how clouds and rainfall change as a result of a warming planet....

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Location: Zoom & Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre St., Boston

The Arnold Arboretum assembled its remarkable living collection over the past 150 years by collecting plants from habitats around the world, but plant exploration today is characterized by new methods, meaning, and urgency. Join Head of the Library and Archives Lisa Pearson and Keeper of the Living Collections Michael Dosmann to learn about the past, present, and future of plant collecting at the Arboretum and beyond.

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Location: Harvard ArtLab, 140 North Harvard St., Boston

ArtLab invites you to a public screening of the environmental racism documentary There's Something in the Water followed by a discussion about about the power of documentary to change public conversations, influence policymakers and inspire people to act for lasting social change with the filmmaker Ian Daniel, MC MPA 23, Roy and Lila Ash Fellow at HKS.... Read more about Film Screening & Discussion: "There’s Something in the Water"

Location: Gund Hall Piper Auditorium, GSD, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

Architect Bas Smets will present "Biospheric Urbanism."... Read more about Daniel Urban Kiley Lecture

Location: Bell Hall B-500, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Join the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability for a convening of leaders from student-led climate and sustainability organizations from across all of Harvard's Schools for its second Student Club Event, led by James Stock, Director of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and Peter Tufano, Baker Foundation Professor.... Read more about Salata Student Club Event

Location: Room 105, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland St., Cambridge

Brandy Toner, Professor in the Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota, will present "A Deep-Sea Tour of Global Hydrothermal Vents, One Nanoparticle at a Time."... Read more about MSI Seminar

Location: Biological Laboratories 1080, 16 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Iliana Baums, Professor of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, will present "How Do Corals Adapt to Rising Temperatures?"... Read more about OEB Seminar

March 20, 2023 | "Tracking Flows of Carbon at the Global Scale" with Ralph Keeling, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Location: Zoom & Cambridge

This symposium hosted by Harvard GSD will bring together policy makers, scholars, and activists to discuss how lack and abundance of water, contaminated and privatized as well as communal, has altered both Mexican cities and rural areas.... Read more about Mexico + H2O = Challenges, Reckonings, and Opportunities

Location: Carpenter Center Theater, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

How to Blow Up a Pipeline, a new film by AFVS alumnus Daniel Goldhaber, in collaboration with and edited by AFVS alumnus Daniel Garber, follows a group of young environmental activists as they plan to sabotage and explode an oil pipeline in Texas.... Read more about Art, Film, and Visual Studies Alumni & Faculty Film Seminar

Location: The Forum, 79 JFK St., HKS, Cambridge

Join the Institute of Politics at HKS for a panel that will examine the history of systemic racism and exclusion in America’s National Parks, public lands, and outdoor industry, and how leaders and organizations are challenging these structures and creating new equitable practices and policies.... Read more about The Great Outdoors? Tackling Structural Racism in National Parks

Location: Smith Campus Center Commons, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge

Join the Center for International Development at HKS for an in-person film screening of The Territory, followed by remarks from and a student-moderated Q&A with Field Producer Paula Moura. Regionally significant refreshments from a local restaurant will be served.... Read more about Film Screening of “The Territory”

Location:  Sperry Room, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge

Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the Loka Initiative at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will speak in the third of this four-part lecture series. She is a religion and ecology expert, having worked with faith and Indigenous leaders around the world on developing faith-led environmental and climate projects for 15 years.... Read more about William Belden Noble Lecture

Location: Sperry Room, HDS, 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge

Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the Loka Initiative at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, will present "The Role of Religion in the Anthropocene."... Read more about William Belden Noble Lecture

Location: Room L-332, HKS, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

“Green Energy Jobs in the US: What Are They and Where Are They?” with E. Mark Curtis, Wake Forest University, and Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania.

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Location: Zoom & Pierce Hall Room 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge

Ernani Choma, Research Fellow in the Dept of Environmental Health, HSPH, will present "Source-Specific Mortality Attributable to PM2.5—Implications for Emission Control in the US and the World."... Read more about Harvard-China Project Research Seminar

Location: Zoom & Haller Hall (102), 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

"Toward Reliable Projections of Ocean Warming and Climate Change" with Laure Zanna, Courant Institute, NYU.... Read more about SEAS Seminar

Location: Zoom & Science and Engineering Complex (SEC), LL2.224, Boston

"Wildfire Risk Mitigation and Data-Driven Methods for Electric Power Systems" with Alyssa Kody, Argonne National Laboratory.... Read more about SEAS Seminar

Location: S354 (3rd Floor), CGIS South, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge

Join the Mittal Institute for an opening reception for the new exhibit featuring our Spring 2022 Visiting Artist Fellows: Manjot Kaur and Dhara Mehrotra, both visual artists from India. The artists will be joined by Professor Jinah Kim in a panel discussion about their work.... Read more about South Asian Art Through Nature Narratives