[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Environmental Events around Harvard 5/10/07 - 5/24/07

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:* TONIGHT -- Microbial Sciences Initiative Seminar -- Dr. Peg Reilly -- Controversial Species Concept <http://www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html> 5/11/07 -- Global Water Crisis Symposium at Harvard School of Public Health 5/13/07 -- Annual Harvard Environmental Society Spring Barbeque *Calendar Listings:*** *Thursday 5/10/2007 * 3:30p - 4:30p POSTPONED: The Economic Value of Air-Pollution-Related Health Risks in Chengdu, China <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64462524> New Date in June TBD 6:00p -- 8:30p -- MSI Thursday Evening Seminar Peg Reilly, UMass, Amherst Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street, 3^rd Floor, Cambridge *Friday 5/11/2007 * 11:00a - 12:00p The ecological logic of indigenous landscape burning <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=68359378> David Bowman, School of Plant Science, The University of Tasmania Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2007 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA 12:00p - 1:00p Climate Impacts of Air Pollution From Specific Sources <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66628184> Nadine Unger, University of Vermont Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge 1:00p - 5:00p The Impact of the Global Water Crisis on Health and Human Development <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=68359373> Kresge Snyder Auditorium HSPH, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston *Sunday 5/13/2007 * 2:00p - 4:00p Deep-Sea Volcanoes! <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=68215925> Harvard Museum of Natural History Sunday Family Program with Ken Mallory Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge 4:00p - 7:00p Annual Environment Society spring BBQ <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=68874291> Quincy House, 58 Plympton St., Cambridge *Monday 5/14/2007 * 12:30p - 2:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=68418516> 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 5/15/2007 * 12:15p - 1:15p Landscape Issues in European Regional Planning: The Rise of a Third Way? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=68986141> Francesca Leder, Center for European Studies Visiting Scholars Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series Cabot Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge *Wednesday 5/16/2007* 12:00p - 1:00p Climate Change at the Arctic's Edge <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65927489> Alan Fortescue, Director of Education, Earthwatch EARTHWATCH, OLSEN AUDITORIUM, 4 Clock Tower Place, 5th floor in Maynard, MA *Thursday 5/17/2007 * 12:00p - 1:30p Hybrid knowledge, linking action to knowledge, and trust: experiences balancing human development and conservation in East Africa <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=68934455> Robin Reid, Principal Systems Socio-Ecologist, Project Leader Sustaining Lands and Livelihoods Project International Livestock Research Institute Nairobi, Kenya Frontiers in Sustainable Development Lecture Series Center for International Development, Perkins Room -- Rubenstein Bldg, Room 415, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard 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> Exhibition opening lecture by Scott Edwards Geological Lecture Hall, 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 The Impact of Boreal Forest Fire on Climate <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 12:00p - 1:00p Climate Impacts of Air Pollution From Specific Sources" <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67796416> Nadine Unger, University of Vermont Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge *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 Harvard and MIT faculty 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