Launched January 2010

General Information

Science at the Pub

Where:	Jim’s Tap, 309 Main Ave
When:	Third Thursday of each  month, through May, beginning at 6PM
Contact:	Fedora Sutton Science Visions 520 3rd Ave, Suite 101 Brookings SD 57006 ((605) 692-8355)

Upcoming events:

New program to start September 2010

Past Events:

Description:	April - Warren Hovland earns his living as a computer programmer and system operator and also is a part time flight instructor. In his presentation he demonstrated the principles of the physics of flight and showed how aircraft design must obey numerous laws to produce dependable aircraft.  In the little over one hundred year history of manned flight designers have learned a great deal from both successes and failures. It is a very long and involved process going from the drafting board to the final product.
Description:	March - Dr. Eugene Butler is a molecular research biologist and instructor whose  area of interest is discovering more efficient and productive ways of producing alcohols and solvents to change the way energy is generated. In a world where traditional forms of energy producing substances are running out or are dirty and pollute the environment, new ways to power our civilization have become very important. Dr. Butler explained fermentation and how his research is designed to maximize production through the examination of many compounds and substances.
Description:	February - Dr. Bill Adamson is an economist who teaches graduate level courses and has published research on economic s including racial wage disparity among  union members and market viability of the telecom industry in South Dakota. He presented a lecture on the Stimulus Package enacted under President Barack Obama following the collapse of the real estate market through investment in derivatives. Part of the Stimulus provided states with money for projects to provide employment for some of the ten percent of the population that lost jobs due to the fall of the market and he examined job numbers from before and after the Stimulus to see if the spending was effective.

Date:	Thursday January 21st 2010
Title:	The Brazilian Amazon: Monitoring development and conservation from South Dakota with remote sensing
Speaker:	Chris Barber, doctoral candidate, affiliated with the Institute for Man and the Environment in the Amazon
Description:	Chris Barber, a PhD candidate in Remote Sensing  His work demonstrates the human effects on the Brazilizian Amazon rainforest through various activities including farming, timber harvesting and mining. He will show maps and images and overlaid these with satellite data and explained the progression of encroachment on these regions and efforts by the Brazilian Government to exercise a comprehensive plan to control use with regard to resource depletion, protection of animal species, pollution and human population level.