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,
Friday 4/27/2007
8:30a -
9:30a
Sulfate-Reducing
Bacteria: Microbial Methylmercury Polluters
Eileen Ekstrom, Hansel Laboratory,
11:00a -
12:00p
Statistical
Processes on a Global Scale
Michael Stein, Department of Statistics and Center for Integrating
Statistical
and Environmental Science,
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 –
Shaler Hall,
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,
5:00p
Korea
DMZ Workshop Public Event
Gund Hall, Room 109,
Monday 4/30/2007
12:00p -
1:00p
Harvard
Energy Journal Club
Weekly roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities
4:00p -
5:00p
Earth
and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium
Ralph Lorenz, Johns Hopkins University
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum,
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,
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
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,
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
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
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,
12:00p -
1:30p
Harvard
Ecology Discussion Group
Weekly roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities
3:30p -
4:30p
The
Economic Value of Air-Pollution-Related Health Risks in Chengdu, China
Prof. James K. Hammitt, Director,
Pierce Hall 100F,
-- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883