[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Environmental Events Around Harvard 5/17/07 - 5/31/07

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:* *5/158/07* -- Microbial Sciences Initiative Chalk Talk Breakfast -- Microbe sociobiology *5/23/07* -- Risk Communication at Harvard Center for Risk Analysis *5/25/07* -- Tropospheric Pollution with Kelly Chance *Calendar Listings:* *Thursday 5/17/2007 * 6:00p - 7:30p A Place To Call Home: The Ecology and Evolution of Birds' Nests and Eggs <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=68222987> Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Friday 5/18/2007 * 8:30a - 9:30a Sociobiology for microbes (and those that study them) <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=68081532> Dr. Kevin Foster, FAS Center for Systems Biology- Bauer Fellow, Harvard University Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Chalktalk Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 11:00a - 12:00p Riding the wave of ecosystem services to successful conservation: triumph or wipe-out <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66628190> Peter Kareiva -- The Nature Conservancy, Lead Scientist, Pacific Western Conservation Region Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2007 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA 12:00p - 1:00p Contrasting Climate Impacts of Fires in Boreal and Tropical Ecosystems <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66628188> Jim Randerson, UC Irvine Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge 12:30p - 1:30p Research Seminars in Occupational and Environmental Health <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=69591437> Kresge 502, HSPH, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston *Saturday 5/19/2007* First Annual Harvard Fishing Derby <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=69046556> 1:00p Harvard Yard Tree Walk <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=69046569> Harvard Yard *Monday 5/21/2007 * 12:30p - 2:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=68418517> Weekly roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge *Wednesday 5/23/2007 * 3:30p - 5:00p Managing Risk Communications <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=69417874> Baruch Fischhoff Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series Landmark 414A, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston *Friday 5/25/2007* 12:00p - 1:00p Global Monitoring of Tropospheric Pollution from Geostationary Orbit <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=68359376> Kelly Chance, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Atmospheric Science Seminar *Saturday 5/26/2007 * First Annual Harvard Fishing Derby <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=69046557> *Monday 5/28/2007 * 12:30p - 2:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=68418518> Weekly roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883