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