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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 2 - November 6

November 9 - November 13

Monday, 3:00 p.m., November 9, 2009, Room 365 Borlaug Hall, St. Paul Campus
DEPARTMENT OF PLANT PATHOLOGY SEMINAR
“The Puccinia graminis Genome,” Dr. Les Szabo

Monday, 3:30 p.m., November 9, 2009, Room 306 Borlaug Hall, St. Paul Campus
DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED PLANT SCIENCE SEMINAR
“Consumer Preferences for Flowers as Gifts,” Alicia Rihn, Horticultural Sciences

Monday, 4:00 p.m., November 9, 2009, Room 140 Plant Growth Facility, St. Paul Campus
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY GRADUATE PROGRAM SEMINAR
“Clean Water Policy: Lessons from the Minnesota River,” Rep. Jean Wagenius, MN State Representative (DFL-Minneapolis)

Tuesday, 3:00 p.m., November 10, 2009, Room 490 Hodson Hall, St. Paul Campus
DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY SEMINAR
“Compatibility of Management Methods Used Against the Invasive Soybean Aphid,” Thelma Heidel, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota

Wednesday, 12:00 noon, November 11, 2009, IonE Seminar Room 380, VoTech Building, St. Paul Campus
FRONTIERS IN THE ENVIRONMENT
“Mud in the Eye of the Beholder: Unraveling Climate Past and Future in the African Tropics,” Tom Johnson, Professor, Large Lakes Observatory

Wednesday, 12:00 noon, November 11, 2009, Room 306 Borlaug Hall, St. Paul Campus
WHAT’S UP IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
“University of Minnesota Extension and Sustainable Agriculture,” Betsy Wieland

Wednesday, 3:00 p.m., November 11, 2009, Room 203 Green Hall, St. Paul Campus
DEPARTMENT OF FOREST RESOURCES GRADUATE SEMINAR FR8107
“Forest Land Parcelization in Northern MN–A Snapshot in Time,” Kayla Block-Torgerson, Graduate Student, Natural Resources Science and Management

Wednesday, 3:30 p.m., November 11, 2009, SAFL Auditorium, 2nd Third Avenue SE, Minneapolis
SAINT ANTHONY FALLS LABORATORY SEMINAR
“Vegetation Dynamics and Landscape Evolution,” Dr. Erkan Istanbulluoglu, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington

Wednesday, 3:30 p.m., November 11, 2009, Room 310 Alderman Hall, St. Paul Campus
DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE SEMINAR
“The U of M Edible Landscape: Wrapping Up a Savory Season,” Emily Tepe

Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., November 11, 2009, Herb Wright’s home, 1426 Hythe Street, St. Paul
QUATERNARY PALEOECOLOGY MINOR SEMINAR
“Diatom Response to Groundwater Fluctuations in a Closed-basin Lake Over the Last 8500 Years,” Will Hobbs, Department of Biology, University of St. Thomas

Thursday, 3:30 p.m., November 12, 2009, Room 110 Pillsbury Hall, Minneapolis Campus
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS SEMINAR
“Ocean Bottom Seismology,” Dr. David Dolenc, Large Lakes Observatory, University of Minnesota, Duluth

Friday, 3:00 p.m., November 13, 2009, Room 375 Borlaug Hall, St. Paul Campus
WATER RESOURCES SCIENCE SEMINAR
“Pesticides and Water Quality in Minnesota: Prevention, Evaluation, and Mitigation,” Joseph Zachmann, Minnesota Department of Agriculture

Special Events and Programs
(includes non-University Events)

Monday, 3:30 p.m., November 9, 2009, Room 105 Cargill Building & Microbial and Plant Genomics, St. Paul Campus
COLLEGE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
“Itasca in St. Paul: Celebrating 100 years of Field Biology,” The College of Biological Sciences will bring a little bit of Itasca to St. Paul to culminate our year-long celebration of the field station’s 100th birthday. RSVP to hoff0530@umn.edu

Tuesday, 4:00 p.m., November 10, 2009, Coffman Union Bookstore, Minneapolis Campus
READING AND BOOK SIGNING
“Our Neck of the Woods: Exploring Minnesota’s Wild Places,” Dan Philippon, University of Minnesota. More info: http://www.bookstores.umn.edu/genref/authors.html#philippon

Thursday, 7:00 p.m., November 12, 2009, Fairview Community Center, 1910 West County Road B, Roseville, MN
SAINT PAUL AUDUBON SEMINAR
“Treasures of the Lost Gorge,” Mike Davis, MN DNR River Ecologist

Monday, 7:30 p.m., November 16, 2009, Room 3-210 Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Building, Minneapolis Campus East Bank
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA LAB
“Viewing the Universe Through an Iron Lens: Using the Magnetic Properties of Rocks to Illuminate Geological Process,” Prof. Josh Feinberg, University of Minnesota

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

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, November 12, 2009, 7 p.m.
Black Gold: A Film About Coffee and Trade asks us to “wake up and smell the coffee” with this entertaining look at the economic and social conditions which coffee is produced.

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, November 17, 2009, 7 p.m.
Feeding Africa
Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis
Tickets: $5, $12. Call 612-825-8949 for reservations.
Hear agronomy and plant genetics professor Paul Porter’s personal tales and observations about his bike trek through Africa.

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.