Café Scientifique Summer Program 2012


Watch videos of Bigelow Laboratory 2012 Café Scientifique presentations

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July 10 Katharine Jacobs
Director of the National Climate Assessment, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Environment and Energy Division
The National Climate Assessment: First, the Good News

 

July 17 Willie Wilson
Bigelow Laboratory
Marine Algae — The Planet’s Second Lung

 

*July 19 Gary Shaw
Perkins + Will, Architects
Stone, Soffits, and Scientists — Building a Sustainable  Research Campus and Community on the Coast of Maine

* This event will be held in the Commons of the new Bigelow Ocean Science and Education Campus, 60 Bigelow Drive, East Boothbay, Maine.

July 24 Beth Orcutt
Bigelow Laboratory
Buried Alive — Life on the Rocks Beneath the Seafloor

 

July 31 Paty Matrai
Bigelow Laboratory
Anatomy of an Arctic Cloud — Sea Ice, Aerosols, and Microgels

 

August 7 David McClellan
Bigelow Laboratory
Where Adaptation Meets Environmental Change —
Evolution at the Nano Scale

 

August 14 Scott Kraus
The New England Aquarium
Underwater Vision: What Do Whales See?
 
August 21 Steve Archer
Bigelow Laboratory
Are Marine Trace Gases the Smelling Salts for
Climate Change?
 
August 28 Joyce McBeth
Bigelow Laboratory
Rock Eaters — Exploring the Lives of  Bacteria that Eat and Breathe Metals and Minerals
 
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