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:
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
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
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
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?
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?
Ronald Prinn, MIT
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge

5:00p
Korea DMZ Workshop Public Event
Gund Hall, Room 109, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Quincy Street

Monday 4/30/2007

12:00p - 1:00p
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

4:00p - 5:00p
Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fairchild Auditorium, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge

12:00p - 1:30p
Harvard Ecology Discussion Group
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
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