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@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
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)
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
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
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
Kresge 502, HSPH, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston

Saturday 5/19/2007

First Annual Harvard Fishing Derby

1:00p
Harvard Yard Tree Walk
Harvard Yard

Monday 5/21/2007

12:30p - 2:00p
Harvard Energy Journal Club
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
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
Kelly Chance, Harvard-Smithsonian
Center
for Astrophysics Atmospheric Science Seminar

Saturday 5/26/2007

First Annual Harvard Fishing Derby

Monday 5/28/2007

12:30p - 2:00p
Harvard Energy Journal Club
Weekly roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge

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Jenny MacGregor
Events and Publications Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
ph: 617-495-8883