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
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Jenny MacGregor
Events and Publications Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
ph: 617-495-8883