(You normally shouldn't see this. Dang.) Cafe Scientifique Orlando is a gathering of scientifically-inclined people in Central Florida, who meet at a cafe, coffee house, pub, or nonacademic location to discuss events and ideas in the world of science. We enjoy beer and wine, and we use plain language to talk about extraordinary ideas.

Surface Water Improvement

Presenter: 
Brabham, Mary
When: 
Wednesday, 3 June 2009 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Venue: 
Taste
Where: 
Taste
Street:
717 W. Smith Street
City:
Orlando
,
Province:
Florida
Postal Code:
32804
Country:
United States

Water is one of the most important and fragile natural resources Orlando and Florida has. We’ll learn how authorities are protecting and improving the surface water around us.

Mary Brabham, PE, will present information on the SJRWMD and the Middle St. Johns River Basin, descriptions of the waterbodies and watersheds of the Middle St. Johns River Basin, and the District SWIM Program that is working to improve the water quality of these waterbodies.

Mary Brabham is the Basin Program Manager for the Middle St. Johns River Basin at the St. Johns River Water-Management District. The Middle St. Johns River Basin includes Lakes Harney, Jesup, and Monroe, the Econlockhatchee and Wekiva Rivers, and the St. Johns River sections that lie between these lakes and major tributaries. The Middle Basin represents one of several priority waterbodies within the St. Johns River Basin at the SJRWMD. Mary Brabham is a registered professional engineer in the State of Florida that has been working at SJRWMD for 20 years. She has a BS in Biology from Old Dominion University in Norfolk Virginia and a masters degree from the Environmental and Civil Engineering program at the University of Central Florida.

Future Café Scientifique Events

Our next event is…

(TBA)

Presenter: 
Kuebler, Stephen M.
When: 
Wednesday, 6 October 2010 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Venue: 
Taste
Where: 
Taste
Street:
717 W. Smith Street
City:
Orlando
,
Province:
Florida
Postal Code:
32804
Country:
United States

(Topic TBA)

Stephen M. Kuebler joined the faculty at the University of Central Florida in August of 2003 as an Assistant Professor through a joint appointment with the Department of Chemistry and CREOL. Kuebler earned a BS degree in chemistry and a BA degree in German from Tulane University. He was awarded a Marshall Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Fellowship to pursue graduate research in chemistry at the University of Oxford. There he earned the DPhil degree for his studies of the third-order nonlinear optical properties of molecular materials with Professors Robert G. Denning and Malcolm L. H. Green. Before joining UCF, Kuebler worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and later at the University of Arizona investigating the photophysics, photochemistry, and applications of two-photon absorbers. In 2008 he was awarded an NSF CAREER Award and promoted to Associate Professor. His broader interests include the physical and chemical properties of optical and electronic materials and their development for new technologies.

Dr Keubler presented earlier at Cafe Sci.

Past Café Scientifique Events

Building Planets on Suborbital Rockets 1 September, 2010 - 19:00
International Opportunities: Collaborations, Partnerships, Exchanges and More 4 August, 2010 - 19:00
Inorganic Biochemical Lessons from Nature 7 July, 2010 - 19:00
Sewage Contamination of Florida’s Coral Reefs 2 June, 2010 - 19:00
Using Light to Make Materials 5 May, 2010 - 19:00
Search for Extraterrestrial Life 7 April, 2010 - 19:00
Fast Food and Nutritional Perceptions 3 March, 2010 - 19:00
Rehabilitating Raptors 3 February, 2010 - 19:00
The National Children's-Health Study 6 January, 2010 - 19:00
High-Fructose Corn Syrup 2 December, 2009 - 19:00
Energy Issues 4 November, 2009 - 19:00
Building the Amazon 7 October, 2009 - 19:00
Evolution, Biodiversity and Conservation 2 September, 2009 - 19:00
Climate Change 5 August, 2009 - 19:00
Surface Water Improvement 3 June, 2009 - 19:00
Measuring Exoplanets from Space 6 May, 2009 - 19:00
Ethical Quandaries in Genetics 1 April, 2009 - 19:00
Physics of Saturn's Ring System 4 March, 2009 - 19:00
Evolution in School 4 February, 2009 - 19:00
The Nature of Science 7 January, 2009 - 19:00
The Neandertal Enigma 3 December, 2008 - 19:00
Tidal Modeling in the 21st Century 5 November, 2008 - 19:00
The War on Weeds 1 October, 2008 - 19:00
On Water Pollution 3 September, 2008 - 19:00
Evolutionary Antecedents of Obesity 6 August, 2008 - 19:00
Phoenix on the Red Planet 2 July, 2008 - 19:00

Topics We'd Love to See

What are some topics you’d like to have? Tell us in your comments below. See our full schedule to know what we’ve had and plan to have, before adding something new.

Additionally, if you are a scientific expert interested in presenting a topic, please email us.

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