Cafe Sci Orlando announcements for 2008-10

[Chad MILLER]

Contents:

 - October 1 meeting
 --- Topic & speaker *
 --- Directions and Parking Instructions
 - About us
 - Help us thrive
 - Seventh graders draw scientists before and after visit to Fermilab *


(asterisk = change since last announcement)



## October café:  On Water Pollution ##

For the month of October, we have a cafe meeting on Wednesday,
October 1st, at 7pm.

Effects of non-native species are a great hazard to global biodiversity, second only to habitat destruction. United States spends $120 billion a year on direct costs from non-indigenous species, and Florida is one of the most invaded states, with significant resources spent on nonnative control and eradication. Dr. Von Holle will first enumerate methods of preventing, eradicating, and controlling nonnative species, then discuss the historical approach that Florida has used for control of nonnative species, and finally suggest a way forward.

The presenter, Dr. Betsy Von Holle, studies the interaction of nonnative species and ecologies, especially ecological resistance, the impact of land use history, community structure, and disturbance and restoration ecology. She is an Assistant Professor at UCF.

### Directions ###

Our cafe is held at Stardust Video and Coffee, which is in the area
north of Colonial (SR50) and east of Mills Ave (17/92), but south of
Winter Park.

- *From Mills*, drive east on Virginia Dr, past Leu Gardens, following
the curves -- Virginia, Forest, Corrine.  At a the traffic light for
Winter Park Road, turn left/north.
- *From Colonial*, drive north on Bennett Road, toward Baldwin Park.
At the traffic light for Corrine Dr, turn left/west and at the traffic
light for Winter Park Road, turn right/north.

From that intersection, Stardust is immediately on the left.  1842 E
Winter Park Rd, Orlando, FL.   (407) 623-3393   Beware that some GPS
maps send you too far north, to W Winter Park Rd.  Stardust is only 50
feet from Corrine Rd.

### Parking Instructions ###

The parking lot will probably be crowded, so please park on Marble
Ave, which is next to (north, away from Corrine) Stardust's modest
parking lot. [ http://bit.ly/117cja ]

You may see tables reading "Reserved for Café Scientifique", and that
means it's for you and me, not for some other special sub-group.  C-S
doesn't have an exclusive monopoly on the venue, and the signs help
notify patrons of what we expect to do, not keep spaces for notional
V.I.P.s.


## About us ##

Café Scientifique is a worldwide grassroots effort to raise science
literacy by bringing science out of the lab and into the pub.  It
started in England about ten years ago, modeled after the French /Café
Philosophique/, and has since spread to several dozen cities.
Meetings are free to attend, and we love questions.

A typical meeting runs about an hour.  A scientific expert presents
some topic for about 20 to 30 minutes, we have a short break to
cogitate and order refreshments, and then we ask questions, discuss,
and generally have a good time.


## Help us grow and thrive! ##

We need you to help us keep a healthy number of people attending and
stoking our dialectic fires.  You can help us in two ways in the next
week:  Print out a PDF flier and post it so that others can see it.  [
http://bit.ly/cafesciorl-pdf-2008-09 ]  Or, tell others about us.  It
may be easiest to point them to Cafe Sci Orlando's web site,
cafesciorl.com .

Also, Chad loves folksonomies, and recommends using the tag
"cafesciorl" to refer to this Café Scientifique.  It's already in use
to pull photos from Flickr on the cafe web site.  Take a look at our
web site to see it in action.  Use that tag on your own on the 'Net
when referring to us.


## Seventh graders draw scientists before and after visit to Fermilab ##

[ http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/ ]