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The Environmental Events Calendar is available directly by email. A calendar of events for the coming week is sent every Friday during the academic year. Email your information to enviro-events@lists.umn.edu.

Fall Semester 2009
The Environmental Events Calendar is compiled weekly during the academic year by the Department of Forest Resources, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, at the University of Minnesota.  It promotes environmentally related events of interest to students, faculty, staff, and the public.  The events include seminars, lectures, and related activities offered by many different departments and programs at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus.  These events are open to all.

The calendar for the coming week is posted every Friday on this website.  To have your University-sponsored event included in the calendar, send a complete description by Wednesday noon for events taking place the following week.  Include sponsor, title, speaker and affiliation, location, and time.  Email your information to enviro-events@lists.umn.edu

Every effort will be made to include all appropriate events with a direct connection to the University of Minnesota, but some will inevitably be missed because information about them was never received or received too late to be included.

Weekly Events Calendar: November 16 - November 20

November 23 - November 27

Monday, 2:00 p.m., November 23, 2009, Room 365 Borlaug Hall, St. Paul Campus
DEPARTMENT OF PLANT PATHOLOGY CANDIDATE FOR ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/ FUNGAL BIOLOGIST SEMINAR
“Tracing the Origins of Fungal Genetic Diversity in Biomes and Populations Using DNA Barcodes,” Dr. Sarah E. Bergemann, Department of Biology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

Monday, 3:00 p.m., November 23, 2009, Room 365 Borlaug Hall, St. Paul Campus
DEPARTMENT OF PLANT PATHOLOGY PLPA 8200 SEMINAR
“Pyrosequencing Bacterial Communities from Native Prairie Rhizospheres of Andropogon gerardii and Lespedeza capitata,” Dr. Noah Rosenzweig

Monday, 3:30 p.m., November 23, 2009, Room 306 Borlaug Hall, St. Paul Campus
DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED PLANT SCIENCE SEMINAR
“Natural Variation in Maize Meristem Architecture,” Addie Thompson, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics

Monday, 4:00 p.m., November 23, 2009, Room 140 Plant Growth Facility, St. Paul Campus
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY GRADUATE PROGRAM SEMINAR
“The Role of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation,” Olivier Langrand, Senior VP, International Government Relations, Conservation International

Tuesday, 12:00 noon, November 24, 2009, Room 375 Borlaug Hall, St. Paul Campus
DEPARTMENT OF SOIL, WATER, AND CLIMATE SEMINAR
“Phylogenetic and Functional Structure of Plant Communities Provides Guidelines for Restoration,” Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

Tuesday, 1:30 p.m., November 24, 2009, Room 491 Borlaug Hall, St. Paul Campus
DEPARTMENT OF PLANT PATHOLOGY CANDIDATE FOR ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/ FUNGAL BIOLOGIST TEACHING DISCUSSION
“Fungal Biology Teaching Discussion,” Dr. Sarah E. Bergemann, Department of Biology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

Tuesday, 3:00 p.m., November 24, 2009, Room 490 Hodson Hall, St. Paul Campus
DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY SEMINAR
“The Effects of Nosema ceranae Infection on Honey Bee Health and Colony Collapse Disorder,” Michael Goblirsch, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota

Wednesday, 3:30 p.m., November 25, 2009, SAFL Auditoriam, 2nd Third Avenue SE, Minneapolis
SAINT ANTHONY FALLS LABORATORY SEMINAR
“Local High-slope Effects on Sediment Transport and Fluvial Bed From Dynamics, Dr. Luca Solari, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence, Italy

Special Events and Programs
(includes non-University Events)

Monday, 7:30 p.m., November 30, 2009, Room 3-210 Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Building, Minneapolis Campus East Bank
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA LAB
“Metamorphism, Melting, and Mountains,” Prof. Donna Whitney, University of Minnesota

December 1-2, 2009, Continuing Education and Conference Center, St. Paul Campus
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION and UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
“Growing the Bioeconomy: Solutions for Sustainability” Cost: $50 per day, $85 for both days. Program schedule and registration: http://www.extension.umn.edu/biorenewables/

Thursday, 1:00 p.m., December 3, 2009, North Star Ballroom, St. Paul Student Center, St. Paul Campus
6TH SOLUTION-DRIVEN SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM
“Sustainable Animal Agriculture in the 21st Century” FREE but registration required. Register by November 25 at: http://www.cfans.umn.edu/ResearchOutreach/Research/SDS/index.htm

Thursday, 7:00 p.m., December 3, 2009, Dakota Lodge, Thompson County Park, 360 Butler Ave. East, West St. Paul
MINNESOTA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY
“Salvage Logging in St. Croix State Park,” Gretchen Heaser, St. Croix State Park Resources Specialist

Thursday, 7:00 p.m., December 10, 2009, Fairview Community Center, 1910 West County Road B, Roseville, MN
SAINT PAUL AUDUBON SEMINAR
“Amazon River Cruise: Birding in Northeastern Peru,” Ben Wilson, Birder and Photographer

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Bell Museum of Natural History
Calendar of Events
Museum info: 612-624-7083
Registration: 612-624-9050
www.bellmuseum.org

FILM SERIES
Hungry Planet Food Film Series
Second Thursday of every month through December
October 8, 2009 through May 6, 2010, 7 p.m.
Free with museum admission
The topic of food comes to the big screen the second Thursdays of every month through December. Titles range from Black Gold, an eye-opening documentary on the world's coffee market, to Nora Ephron's comedy of gastronomic pleasures, Julie and Julia. Members of the University's Agri-Food Reading Group, the sponsoring organization, will lead a brief discussion after each screening, and the museum's Hungry Planet exhibit will be open for self-guided tours.
List of films: http://sites.google.com/site/agrofoodreading/Home/food-film-series-fall-2009

Thursday, December 10, 7 p.m.
Big Night tells the story of two brothers running a small restaurant serving Italian cuisine in 1950s New Jersey.

EXHIBITS
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
October 17, 2009, through May 9, 2010
Grocery lists and dining tables of people around the globe captured in fascinating photos and hands-on displays that explore issues of food in the 21st century.

Drawn to Nature: Art Sale and Exhibition
Sunday, November 15, 2009 through Sunday, January 3, 2010
In time for the holidays, The Bell Museum offers a gallery of gorgeous art by the area’s most revered nature artists.

CAFÉ SCIENTIFIQUE
Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 7 p.m.
Can Agriculture Deliver Food, Fiber and Fuel?
Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis
Tickets: $5, $12. Call 612-825-8949 for reservations.
Discuss the myths and realities of producing food, fiber, and fuel with the world’s finite natural resources with scientist Jason Hill of the University of Minnesota Institute of the Environment

The Environmental Events Calendar is published weekly from October to June by the Department of Forest Resources, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota. It lists events offered by many departments and programs at the University's Twin Cities Campus.