[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Environmental Events Around Harvard 4/26/07 - 5/10/07

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:* 4/30/07 -- International Cooperation and Globa Public Goods with Scott Barrett at CGIS 5/1/07 -- Tropical Landscapes with Ariel Lugo at GSD 5/8/07 -- EU Climate policy with MEP Karl-Heinz Florenz at Center for European Studies 5/8/07 -- UNEP Chief Achim Steiner at KSG Note - Latest Center newsletter attached! *Calendar Listings:*** *Thursday 4/26/2007 * 8:00p - 9:00p The world's energy problem and what we can do about it <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66628180> Steven Chu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Chemistry and Chemical Biology Seminars G. B. Kistiakowsky Lecture Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford Street *Friday 4/27/2007 * 8:30a - 9:30a Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria: Microbial Methylmercury Polluters <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67212170> Eileen Ekstrom, Hansel Laboratory, Harvard University Microbial Sciences Initiative Chalktalk Breakfast Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 11:00a - 12:00p Statistical Processes on a Global Scale <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65127929> Michael Stein, Department of Statistics and Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science, University of Chicago Space-time statistical modeling: an introductory lecture series CGIS N354, simulcast to HSPH Kresge G3 11:00a - 12:00p Plant nitrogen uptake and global change: is there a unifying mechanism that explains diversity of responses? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67212190> Hormoz BassiriRad -- University of Illinois and Harvard Bullard Fellow Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2007 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA 12:00p - 1:00p Integrated Assessment of Global Climate Change: What can we learn from coupled models of Science and Economics to help inform climate policy and future technological investments? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67187030> Ronald Prinn, MIT Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge 5:00p Korea DMZ Workshop Public Event <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67245699> Gund Hall, Room 109, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Quincy Street *Monday 4/30/2007 * 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65724762> Weekly roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64154658> Ralph Lorenz, Johns Hopkins University Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 4:00p - 5:00p International Cooperation: The incentives to supply global public goods <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67796409> Scott Barrett, Professor of Environmental Economics and International Political Economy; Director, International policy Program, Johns Hopkins University Belfer Case Study Room, S020, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Harvard *Tuesday 5/1/2007 * 12:00p - 1:00p Nomen-colonialism: Unwitting Barrier to Conservation <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66628192> Glenn Adelson, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Series Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p Cope's Rule, Hypercarnivory, and Extinction <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67520743> BlaireVan Valkenburgh, UCLA Earth History and Paleobiology (EHAP) seminar series Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 6:00p - 8:00p Emerging Ecosystems on Tropical Landscapes: The Shining Star of the Caribbean <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66603349> Ariel Lugo, Director, USDA, FS, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Puerto Rico Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge *Wednesday 5/2/2007 * 4:00p - 5:30p Regulatory Regime Changes Under Federalism: Do States Matter? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=63056706> Wayne Gray, Clark University, and Ronald Shadbegian, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 6:00p - 8:00p Shaping the City: A Strategic Blueprint for New York's Future <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67212136> Amanda Burden, chair of the New York City Planning Commission Sylvester Baxter Lecture in Urban Planning Gund Hall, Room 109, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Quincy Street 7:30p - 8:30p With Speed and Violence: Tipping Points and Climate Change <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67212173> Fred Pearce, science journalist, Book signing to follow First Parish, 3 Church Street, Cambridge *Thursday 5/3/2007 * 12:00p - 1:30p Harvard Ecology Discussion Group <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65589782> Weekly roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 6:00p - 7:30p Sex, Drugs, and Natural Selection: The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67796403> Marc Lipsitch, Professor of Epidemiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases, Harvard Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Friday 5/4/2007 * 12:00p - 1:00p Lessons learned from the 2004 and 2005 Alaskan fires based on field observations of burn severity - implications for modeling of pyrogenic emissions and understanding processes controlling terrestrial carbon cycling <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67796426> Eric Kasischke, Univ. of Maryland Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge *Monday 5/7/2007 * 12:00p - 1:30p A Holistic Strategy For Malaria <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67796377> Director of Research and Partnerships of the African Insect Science for Food and Health (ICIPE) Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series and Global Health Student Group Center for International Development, Perkins Room -- Rubenstein Bldg, Room 415, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65724763> Weekly roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge *Tuesday 5/8/2007* 1:45p - 3:00p What's the difference?! The European Approach to Climate Change <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66653188> Karl-Heinz Florenz, MEP Dr. Florenz is the former Chairman of the European Environment Committee and a leading expert on European environmental policy Center for European Studies, Lower Level Conference Rm. 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA. 4:00p - 5:30p African Insect Science for Food and Health <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67796408> Onesmo Ole-MoiYoi, Director of Research and Partnerships, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) Kresge 502, HSPH, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston... 6:00p - 7:30p EARTH OUT OF BALANCE: Rethinking Global Environmental Security <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67712705> Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya The Kennedy School Forum, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Littauer Building, First Floor, Cambridge *Wednesday 5/9/2007 * 6:00p - 7:30p The Snoring Bird <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67796404> Lecture and booksigning by Bernd Heinrich Science Center Lecture Hall D, Harvard *Thursday 5/10/2007 * 9:00a - 4:45p Harvard Plant Biology Symposium on Plant Stem Cells <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64663674> Fairchild Auditorium, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge 12:00p - 1:30p Harvard Ecology Discussion Group <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65589783> Weekly roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 3:30p - 4:30p The Economic Value of Air-Pollution-Related Health Risks in Chengdu, China <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64462524> Prof. James K. Hammitt, Director, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis and Harvard School of Public Health Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883