Events of Interest—Summer 2010
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Featured Events
With our partner, the Seattle Public Library, NSWA is putting on two events this summer, under the heading Science Friction. Both events are at 2 p.m. in the Central Library auditorium. Your questions are welcome for this panel as we explore the real science mixed with fiction. Please come:
• Saturday, July 18, 2 p.m. Science Friction: The Science of Avatar. Join former astronaut Bonnie Dunbar and a panel of scientists to talk about wild ideas that have roots in real laboratories. What real science lurks behind the fiction in the movie Avatar? What deep-sea fish does Chris Kenaley study whose bioluminescence resembles that of organisms on the fictional planet of Pandora? What kind of communication between cells is called signal transduction, and why does Hilary Kemp pursue it at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center? What will evolutionary biologist Peter Wimberger of the University of Puget Sound tell you about the chances for six-legged creatures on that fictional world?
• Sunday, Aug. 29, 2 p.m. Science Friction: The Case for Pluto. Alan Boyle, NSWA’s own former president, discusses Pluto and the controversies about its label as a planet. Alan is the author of the book, The Case for Pluto, and the popular science blog, Cosmic Log.
Venue: Central Library Auditorium, 1000 Fourth Ave between Spring and Madison Sts, downtown Seattle
Information: Facebook
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North Cascades Institute: September 3 - 5: The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival. The North Cascades Institute's Environmental Learning Center will be a host venue for the 2010 Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival. Spend the daylight hours exploring Cascadian wildlands at the tipping point between summer and fall. Then, on Friday and Saturday nights, sit back, relax, and watch the latest environmentally themed films.
Information: www.ncascades.org
NSWA Board Meeting
Monday August 9, 6:30 p.m.: NSWA Monthly Board Meeting. All members are welcome. Please contact Michael Bradbury for venue and other details: mbradbury@realscience.us
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Summer Events
Thursday, July 15, 4 – 7 p.m.
WBBA Summer Social Beach Party. The Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association (WBBA) holds its summer social beach party this afternoon and evening.
Venue: Shilshole Bay Beach Club (map)
Information and registration: Register
Thursday, July 15, 8 p.m.
Robin Cody, Another Way the River Has: Taut True Tales from the Northwest. The Portland writer discusses his new book of essays on Northwest people and rivers.
Venue: Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Ave, Seattle
Sunday, July 18, 2 p.m.:
Sheila Kelly: Treadwell Gold: An Alaska Saga of Riches and Ruin. The Seattle writer presents first-person accounts from the sons and daughters of the miners, machinists, hoist operators, and superintendents who all dug and blasted the gold that made Treadwell rich. It is a family story that also includes stories about mine accidents, shipwrecks, fires, labor troubles, Native land rights struggles, and changing technology.
Admission free.
Venue: Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Ave, Seattle
Tuesday, July 20, 7 p.m.
The Seattle Skeptics Meetup
Venue: Blue Star Cafe & Pub, 4512 Stone Way N, Seattle
Information: 206-548-0345
Tuesday, July 20, 7:30 p.m.
H.W. Brands: American Dreams: The United States Since 1945. The historian presents his history of the last half of the 20th century and the first decade of this one, emphasizing the effects of technological advances. Sponsored by Town Hall and University Book Store. Part of the Town Hall Center for Civic Life. Tickets are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com, 800.838.3006, and at the door beginning at 6:30pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.
Venue: Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs, 1119 8th Avenue (Enter on Seneca)
Wednesday, July 21, 7 p.m.
Maitreya Dunham: Watching evolution in action. The UW Department of Genome Sciences hosts the Wednesday Evenings at the Genome Public Lecture Series, sharing advances in genome sciences with the public. These discussions assume no background knowledge in genetics or other biological subjects. Opportunities to chat with the presenter after each talk.
Admission free, including coffee and cookies at 8 p.m. just outside the auditorium.
Venue: W.H. Foege Building Auditorium (S060), UW campus, Seattle
Information: http://www.gs.washington.edu/news/publiclecture.htm or Carlene Cross at 206.221.5374 or 206.356.5613.
Wednesday, July 21, 7 p.m.
Julia Whitty: Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean. The Mother Jones journalist, diver, and documentary filmmaker reports on encounters in the depths of the oceans, including human-induced damage of oceanic ecosystems.
Admission free.
Venue: Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Ave, Seattle
Saturday, July 24, 1 p.m.
Lynne Brunelle: Camp Out!: The Ultimate Kids' Guide from the Backyard to the Backwoods. As part of the Group Health READ Program, the author and Group Health pediatrician presents her newest book of science as fun for kids.
Admission free.
Venue: Third Place Books Lake Forest Park Commons Stage, 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA
Information: http://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/group-health-read-program-featuring-author-lynne-brunelle
Monday, July 26, 7 p.m.
Science on Tap: Monica Lake. The Woodland Park Zoo capital projects manager discusses building a living exhibit: the Zoo’s new penguin habitat.
Venue: Ravenna Third Place Books Pub, 6504 20th Ave. NE, Seattle.
Information: www.scienceontap.org
Monday, July 26, 7 p.m.
William Johnson: A River Without Banks: Place and Belonging in the Inland Northwest. The Idaho poet/essayist chronicles one family's journey to Idaho, a place he calls "still pretty wild."
Admission free.
Venue: Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Ave, Seattle
Tuesday, July 27, noon to 1 p.m.
Publication Practices and Responsible Authorship, by Stephen H. Friend, president and CEO, Sage Bionetworks. Biomedical Research Integrity Series. Part of UW School of Medicine’s efforts for its researchers to conduct research responsibly.
Admission free.
Venue: UW Hogness Auditorium (Room A420 UW HSC) , Seattle Second chance: The program will be repeated on the same day 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Pelton Auditorium, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, Seattle.
Information: UW Department of Bioethics & Humanities Biomedical Research Integrity website: http://depts.washington.edu/uwbri/
Tuesday, July 27, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
Ed Begley, Jr.: Toward a Sustainable Future. Actor, activist, and author Ed Begley, Jr. talks about leading the way toward a sustainable future. As well-known for his environmental advocacy as for his performing career, he lives in a self-sufficient Los Angeles-area home powered by solar energy and has written two books about the eco-friendly life: Guide to Sustainable Living and Living Like Ed (a companion to his Living With Ed reality TV show). Matthew Coates, Coates Design Architects, has designed the first LEED Platinum home in Washington outside of Seattle (the Ellis residence on Bainbridge Island) for which he will receive a LEED Platinum Certificate. Presented by Coates Design, with Elliott Bay Book Company.
Venue: Town Hall, Great Hall, enter on 8th Ave, Seattle Tickets are $8 at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006. Call 206/819-3618 or visit www.coatesdesign.com for more information.
Tuesday - Wednesday, July 27 – 28:
2010 Seattle Fundraising Summit. Learn about creative new ways to raise more money for your organization.
Venue: Seattle University, Student Center Building, 901 12th Ave, Seattle
Admission: $495 for two days, including two 30-minute mentoring sessions; or $60 per seminar and $60 for each mentoring session.
Information and registration: http://www.cfnps.org/Seattle_10.aspx
Wednesday, July 28, 6 p.m.
Priscilla Long: The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life. The Seattle writer and writing teacher packs insight, advice, and strategies for advanced writers into her new book.
Admission free.
Venue: Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Ave, Seattle
Wednesday, July 28, 7 p.m.
Joe Felsenstein; Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosome Adam: Who do your genes come from? The UW Department of Genome Sciences hosts the Wednesday Evenings at the Genome Public Lecture Series, sharing advances in genome sciences with the public. These discussions assume no background knowledge in genetics or other biological subjects. Opportunities to chat with the presenter after each talk.
Admission free, including coffee and cookies at 8 p.m. just outside the auditorium.
Venue: W.H. Foege Building Auditorium (S060), UW campus, Seattle
Information: http://www.gs.washington.edu/news/publiclecture.htm or Carlene Cross at 206.221.5374 or 206.356.5613.
Wednesday, July 28, 7 p.m.
Eric Jay Dolin: Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America. He recounts U.S. history through the lens of the fur trade, concluding it was not "Manifest Destiny" that took us westward, but a need to chase animals in a "lethal wave," a relentless drive for fur.
Admission free.
Venue: University Book Store U District store, 4326 University Way NE, Seattle
Thursday, July 29, 2010, 8 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.:
8th Annual Environmental Policy Conference & Luncheon: Politics or Science: How Do We Make Environmental Policy? Jointly presented by Seattle CityClub and Washington Policy Center. Keynote speaker, Roger Pielke, a Professor at the University of Colorado’s Environmental Studies Program and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), will address the failures of the scientific process in climate science. His research focuses on the intersection of science and technology with decision making. Other panel discussions will be held too.
Venue: Westin Seattle, 1900 Fifth Ave, Seattle
Admission: $60 lunch & conference ($55 WPC supporters); $35 lunch only ($30 WPC supporters) Register online: http://www.washingtonpolicy.org/events/environment_2010.html
Information: Lindsay, 206-937-9691 or events@washingtonpolicy.org
Thursday, July 29, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
CSIS Seattle Forum. Join the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington Global Health Alliance, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PATH, World Affairs Council, and the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle for this forum on global health in Seattle. Panelists include Governor Christine Gregoire; Tachi Yamada, Gates Foundation; Rajeev Venkayya, Gates Foundation; Chris Elias, PATH; Admiral William Fallon, US Navy (Ret.); Helene Gayle, CARE; and John Hamre, CSIS
Information: http://www.wghalliance.org/events/csis-seattle-forum
Saturday, July 31, 8:30 a.m.
Free Day Trip, North Cascades Institute. Ramble up a forest trail to discover what is in bloom. Paddle on emerald-green Diablo Lake with views of glaciers, tiny pine-studded islands and the impressive Skagit River gorge. Explore the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center and learn more about the Institute and the wide variety of opportunities to connect with nature that we offer people of all ages and abilities.
Admission free. Day Trips are open to people of all ages on a drop-in basis, first-come, first-served, and no advanced registration is offered. Sign ups begin at 8:30 am.
Venue: North Cascades Institute, Diablo Lake, WA Information, including directions, at www.ncascades.org/daytrips.
Sunday, August 1.
Deadline for registration for 2010 UW Program on Climate Change Summer Institute, which will be held Wednesday - Friday, September 15 – 17, at Friday Harbor Labs. Topic: Climate feedbacks. This year's Summer Institute will focus on feedbacks in all parts of the Earth system that affect the global climate. How sensitive is climate to perturbations? This is a central scientific uncertainty in projecting human-induced climate change over the next century and beyond. State-of-the-art coupled ocean-atmosphere-land models predict that under 'business as usual' emission scenarios, global mean surface temperatures in the 2090s will be 2.4-6.4 K higher than the 1980-1999 average, with much greater warming in the Arctic.
Register: Here
Information: Deadline to register for 2010 PCC Summer Institute, or Dargan Frierson (UW Atmospheric Sciences)
Tuesday, August 3, 7:30 p.m.
Steven G. Gilbert: Oil Dispersants: Our Right to Know at Queen Anne Science Café. Dr. Gilbert, of the Institute of Neurotoxicology & Neurological Disorders, will discuss the use of oil dispersants in crude oil spills such as currently showcased in the Gulf of Mexico. Come and learn more about how dispersants act, as well as their benefits and risks to humans and the environment.
Admission free.
Venue: T.S. McHugh's, 21 Mercer St, Seattle
Friday, August 6, noon to 1 p.m.
Conflict of Interest and Commitment, by Steven Joffe, assistant professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; pediatric hematologist/oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital in Boston. Biomedical Research Integrity Series. Part of UW School of Medicine’s efforts for its researchers to conduct research responsibly.
Admission free.
Venue: UW Hogness Auditorium (Room A420 UW HSC) , Seattle Second chance: The program will be repeated on the same day 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Pelton Auditorium, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, Seattle.
Information: UW Department of Bioethics & Humanities Biomedical Research Integrity website
Friday, August 6, time TBD.
Jallen Rix: Ex-Gay No Way. A Southern Baptist insider's perspective for people grappling with the after-effects of "reparative therapy," which assumes that going from gay to straight is easily changeable and change-worthy, despite decades of psycho/sexual research to the contrary.
Admission free.
Venue: Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Ave, Seattle
Saturday, August 7, 5 p.m.
Catherine Lutz & Anne Lutz Fernandez: Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives. This critique of Americans’ infatuation with their cars includes car psychology to deliver its message about the statistical costs of four-wheeled freedom. Relying on studies and interviews with about 100 drivers, the authors look askance at public expenditure on automobile infrastructure, fractions of lives spent in cars––and lost in them by the tens of thousands annually.
Admission free.
Venue: Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Ave, Seattle
Monday, August 9, 7 p.m.
Linda Ng Boyle: Distracted Driving—How Technology can Help, not Hinder at Eastside Science Café. The UW Engineering professor will talk about how new technology can help distracted drivers and keep our roadways safer.
Venue: Wilde Rover, 111 Central Way, downtown Kirkland, WA.
Information: Distracted Driving—How Technology
Tuesday, August 10, 7 p.m.
Paul Greenberg: Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food.
Admission free.
Venue: University Book Store U District store, 4326 University Way NE, Seattle
Wednesday, August 11, 9 a.m. – noon.
Ann Wylie at the Museum of Glass. Seattle CityClub and Puget Sound Public Relations Society of America present Ann Wylie of Wylie Communications Inc. on guiding readers through your Web site smoothly.
Venue: Museum of Glass, 1801 Dock Street, Tacoma
Admission: $95 PRSA; $145 Non-member; $75 Students Register online: http://asi-seattle.com/prsa1/register.php or call 206-623-8632 Online registration closes August 6.
Information: Linda Farmer, APR, 253-232-2891 or linda.farmer@cityoffederalway.com
Wednesday, August 11, time TBD.
Peter Heller; KOOK: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave.
Admission free.
Venue: Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Ave, Seattle
Saturday, August 14, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Lectures and workshops on the latest techniques and advancements in conservation photography. As part of its International Conservation Photography Awards show from June 19 through September 6, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the UW presents a day dedicated to the art and craft of photography. Lecturers include nature photographers Paul Bannick, John Greengo, and Mark Turner.
Venue: Burke Museum, on the UW campus at the corner of 17th Ave NE and NE 45th St
Information: Call: (206) 543-5590 or visit www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/
Wednesday, August 18, noon to 1 p.m.
Data Acquisition, Management, Sharing and Ownership, by Karen Cheng, associate professor, UW School of Art; chair, Division of Design, and chair, Visual Communication Design and Marco Rolandi, assistant professor, UW Materials Science and Engineering. Biomedical Research Integrity Series. Part of UW School of Medicine’s efforts for its researchers to conduct research responsibly.
Admission free.
Venue: Room 120 Kane Hall, UW Campus, Seattle Second chance: The program will be repeated on the same day 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Pelton Auditorium, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, Seattle.
Information: UW Department of Bioethics & Humanities Biomedical Research Integrity website: http://depts.washington.edu/uwbri/
Wednesday, August 18, 7 p.m.
Mary Roach: Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void. Sponsored by University Book Store. One of the funniest science writers ever (and author of Boink) turns her attention to the red planet.
Venue: UW Kane Hall, Room 210
Monday – Wednesday, August 23-25:
Writing about the Outdoors with Nick O'Connell at the North Cascades Institute. This workshop will teach you how to recreate the world on the page through use of concrete language, vivid imagery, dramatic scene, and point of view. Through writing exercises, readings and discussion, each participant will complete a short story of his or her own, evoking a strong sense of place.
Information: www.ncascades.org
Tuesday, August 24.
Aldona Jonaitis: The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History. The co-editor is director emerita of the University of Alaska Museum of the North and professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This book collects short essays by scholars and artists, including Robert Davidson, Bill Holm, Richard Hunt, Nathan Jackson, Vickie Jensen, Andrea Laforet, Susan Point, Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Lyle Wilson, and Robin Wright, provide specific case studies of many of the topics discussed, directly illustrating the various relationships that people have with the totem pole.
Admission free.
Venue: Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Ave, Seattle
Monday, August 30, 7 p.m.
Science on Tap: Matt Bachmann of the U.S. Geological Survey discusses climate change and the cost of beer: why groundwater will dictate your bar tab.
Venue: Ravenna Third Place Books Pub, 6504 20th Ave. NE, Seattle.
Information: www.scienceontap.org
REMINDER:
The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the UW hosts International Conservation Photography Awards from June 19 through September 6. This summer, for the first time, the Burke Museum will present the winners of the 2010 International Conservation Photography Awards (ICP Awards) in an exhibit of more than 75 images representing the best of conservation photography from around the world. The ICP Awards competition was founded in 1997 by Art Wolfe, a Seattle native and nature photographer and author.
Venue: Burke Museum, on the UW campus at the corner of 17th Ave NE and NE 45th St
Information: Call: (206) 543-5590 or visit www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/
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