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:* 5/8/07 - European Climate Policy with the former head of the EU Committee on the Environment, Karl-Heinz Florenz 5/8/07 -- Global Environmental Security with UNEP chief, Achim Steiner 5/12/07 -- Global Water Crisis Symposium at the Harvard School of Public Health *Calendar Listings:* *Thursday 5/3/2007 * 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 at 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 - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65724763> A Weekly roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 12:00p - 1:30p A Holistic Strategy For Malaria <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67796377> Onesmo ole-MoiYoi, 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 *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, MdEP Dr. Florenz is the former Chairman of the European Environment Committee Center for European Studies, Lower Level Conference Rm. 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 2:30p - 3:30p Role of clouds in trace gas retrieval: FRESCO principle and applications <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=68384554> Ping Wang, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) Pratt Conference Room, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard Observatory, Garden Street, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:30p Danish-U.S. Relations: Meeting Today's Global Challenges <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=68131730> H.E. Friis Arne Petersen, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark Allison Dining Room, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, KSG, 79 JFK St. , Cambridge 4:00p - 5:30p A Case Study in Sustainable Development: A Holistic Approach to the Control of Malaria <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 7:30p - 8:30p Animal Crossing <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=68131733> An interdisciplinary panel discussion on the place of animals in the history of science, natural history, religion, literature, and the law Harvard Hall 104, Harvard Yard *Thursday 5/10/2007* 8:30a - 9:30a Molecular Phylogenies, Genomics and the Microbial Species Concept <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=68081518> Margaret Riley, Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts- Amherst JOINT Microbial Sciences Initiative and Population and Evolutionary Genomics/Genetic Seminar Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 8:30a - 6:30p 3rd Annual Plant Biology Symposium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=68384572> Sherman Fairchild, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave., Cambridge 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, and/or Dr. GUO Xiaoqi, Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, Ohio State University Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., 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 *Monday 5/14/2007* 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65724764> 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 5/16/2007 * 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 Global EARTHWATCH, OLSEN AUDITORIUM, 4 Clock Tower Place, 5th floor in Maynard, MA *Thursday 5/17/2007* 12:00p - 1:30p Harvard Ecology Discussion Group <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65589784> 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 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 Harvard Museum of Natural History Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883