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  • Saturday, April 5, 9:30 am – 11:30 am – Tastes of the Garden: From the Heart of Italy

    Whether you’re Italian or not, nothing feels more like home than a delicious Italian dinner. Stefano Granzo, Tufts University grad student, teaches us his favorite recipes from his mother’s kitchen in Venice while incorporating locally grown produce and herbs, in this Boston Natural Areas Network class to be held Saturday, April 5, from 9:30 – 11:30 at the Future Chefs Office and Teaching Kitchen, 560 Albany Street (South End), Boston. Registration required, to register call 617-542-7696 or email info@bostonnatural.org.

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  • Saturday, March 8, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm – Extinction is Forever: What Have We Learned?

    Using the passenger pigeon as an iconic example of what can happen to a super-abundant species in a relatively short span of time, the 22nd annual Mass Audubon Birders Meeting on Saturday, March 8, from 9 – 3, will focus on the extinction phenomenon from a variety of perspectives. Since 1992, birders from around New England have come together every March to attend Mass Audubon’s Annual Birders Meeting. With the help of supportive sponsors, they have successfully brought together engaging speakers from around the country, been joined by top-notch vendors, and drawn enthusiastic participants to these day-long events.

    The meeting will take place at Bentley University in Waltham, and is co-hosted by Mass Audubon, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Featured speakers are:

    Patrick Comins, Audubon Connecticut – Weather: Its Significance to Birds and Birders

    Keynote Joel Greenberg, Research Associate of both the Chicago Academy of Sciences, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and the Field Museum – A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction

    Matthew Kamm, Ph.D. candidate at Tufts University – Legacy of the Heath Hen

    John Kricher, Professor of Biology at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts – Bird Conservation: Ultimately it’s Personal

    Michael Reed, Professor of Biology at Tufts University – Causes and Consequences of Avian Extinctions

    There will also be a silent auction, proceeds of which will provide financial support to the Bird Conservation programs at Mass Audubon. Register ($60 sponsor members, $65 public) at https://secure2.convio.net/mas/site/Ecommerce;jsessionid=2941D35BFE22BC33B67791314E6F05F1.app271b?store_id=1761.

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  • Monday, December 9, 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm – Climate Implications of the United States’ Oil and Gas Boom

    Michael Levi, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations, will speak on Climate Implications of the United States’ Oil and Gas Boom on Monday, December 9, from 12:30 pm-1:45pm, in Cabot 702, The Fletcher School, Tufts University. Hosted by CIERP’s Energy, Climate, and Innovation Program’s Research Seminar Series. Free. A light lunch will be served (first come first served).  The speaker’s expertise centers on climate change, energy policy, weapons of mass destruction, homeland security, arms control and proliferation, technology and foreign policy, and science and technology in the Islamic world.

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  • Saturday, November 16, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – Talk and Taste Low Calorie Cooking

    Tufts University Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, in partnership with the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, invites you to a Talk and Taste: Low-Calorie Cooking, a lecture on cooking low caloric dishes with preparation of Gingered Carrot Chicken Salad and Green Coconut Curry Sauce, along with gardening tips and tasting.  The event will take place Saturday, November 16, from 2 – 3:30 on the mezzanine level of 711 Washington Street in Boston.

    The event will feature Dr. Susan Roberts, Susan Hammond, Lisa Kamer, and Lisa Caldwell. Registration is $5, is required, and space is limited to 200 people.  Register at www.tinyurl.com/Talk-Taste.

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  • Monday, November 4, 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm – Road to Paris via Warsaw

    The Fletcher School of Tufts University will hold a panel discussion on key issues in the lead up to the Warsaw Climate Change Conference.  The event will take place Monday, November 4, from 12:30 – 1:45 in Mugar 200 at The Fletcher School, and is hosted by CIERP’s Energy, Climate and Innovation Program.  The panel includes Kelly Sims Gallagher, chair, Director and Associatie Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School. Sivan Kartha, Senior Scientist at Stockholm Environment Institute, Gilbert Metcalf, Professor of Economics at Tufts University, and Mukul Sanwal, Visiting Scholar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and former Advisor to the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC.  A light lunch will be served. For more information visit http://fletcher.tufts.edu/CIERP/Events.

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  • Saturday, June 8, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – Talk and Taste: Cooking with Strawberries

    Tufts University, in partnership with the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, will present Talk and Taste: Cooking with Strawberries, a lecture on the health benefits of strawberries, preparation of berry salad (wheatberries, strawberries and balsamic), gardening tips, and tasting, on Saturday, June 8, from 2 – 3:30 at the Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA at Tufts University, Mezzanine Level, 711 Washington Street in Boston.  Registration is limited to 70 people on EventBrite (search for Talk and Taste).  The event features Dr. Barbara Shukitt-Hale, Research Psychologist, USDA, Tim Nourse of Nourse Berry Farms in Whately, Massachusetts, and Rolando Robledo, Chef at Clover Food Lab in Boston.  Event includes a prize drawing.

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  • Thursday, February 14, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm – Extreme Weather and a Changing Climate: Past, Present and Future

    Andrew Freedman, Senior Science Writer for Climate Central, will speak at The Fletcher School, Tufts University in Medford on Thursday, February 14, from 5:30 – 7, in Cabot 703.  His topic is Extreme Weather and a Changing Climate: Past, Present and Future. The talk is free and no registration is required. The event is sponsored by The Center for International Environment & Resource Policy.

  • Friday, January 25, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Reversing Global Warming While Meeting Human Needs: An Urgently Needed Land-Based Option

    Allan Savory, rancher and restoration ecologist, Founder of the Savory Institute and originator of the Holistic Management approach to restoring grasslands, winner of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award, and finalist in the Virgin Earth Challenge, will speak on Friday, January 25 from 2 – 4 at the ASEAN Auditorium, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, 160 Packard Avenue in Medford, on Reversing Global Warming While Meeting Human Needs: An Urgently Needed Land-Based Option.  A reception will follow.  This is the first in a series of Creating the Future We Want events. Image from www.livinggreenmag.com. Free, but registration required at http://allansavory.eventbrite.com/#.

  • Tuesday, January 11, 7:30 pm – Seminal Influences: The Role of Male Ejaculates in Firefly Evolution

    Sometimes you just can’t make this stuff up.  We recently highlighted the Museum of Science’s Firefly Project, and now we receive notification that the Cambridge Entomological Club will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, January 11 at 7:30 pm in Room 101 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Oxford Street, Cambridge.  Adam South will speak on “Seminal Influences: The Role of Male Ejaculates in Firefly Evolution.” Adam is a PhD candidate from Tufts University, and we’d love to see his Facebook profile.

    Have you ever wondered what is behind the flashing lights of fireflies? Adam South will discuss his fascinating research exploring firefly mating, sexual selection and nuptial gifts. Male fireflies produce and transfer to the female a proteinacous, spirally coiled spermatophore each time they mate. These types of seminal nuptial gifts have been shown to be intimately connected with pre and post copulatory sexual selection in a diverse array of taxa. This presentation will examine spermatophore production from a phylogenetic perspective, including how it is linked to sex specific patterns of evolution and its role in firefly sexual selection.

    The meeting is free and open to the public. Snacks will be provided and you are also welcome to join Club members at 6:15 PM for an informal pre-meeting dinner at Harkness Commons, in the law school cafeteria on the second floor. For more information you may contact David Lubertazzi at lubertazzi@gmail.com.  Photo below by Baird Woods.

  • Firefly Watch

    Spotting fireflies is a special part of any warm summer night, because we so rarely see them. Are fireflies disappearing from our landscape? If so, why? What can we do about it?

    The Museum of Science has linked with the Citizen Science website, co-sponsored by the Museum of Science, Tufts University, and Fitchburg State College, helping researchers determine why fireflies seem to be declining, and offering the general public an opportunity to learn how to collect scientific data in a manner that is both useful to firefly researchers and fun for the whole family.

    Using your own backyard as a data collection site, chart the occurrence of fireflies from May to August. Each week, you can upload your observations to the website, joining the data from hundreds of other citizen scientists to track the status of fireflies in your area.

    Becoming a citizen scientist is easy and fun, and your collective data is essential to helping scientists learn why firefly numbers are declining, as well as what can be done to reverse the trend. Whether you participate as an individual or family, it is a great way to foster a lifelong interest in science and a greater understanding of natural history. To learn more about the project, and to register, log on to www.mos.org/fireflywatch.