Cafe Sci Orlando announcements for 2008-11
Chad MILLER
- November 5 meeting
--- Topic & speaker *
--- Directions and Parking Instructions
- About us
- Help us thrive
- Vote! *
(asterisk = change since last announcement)
## November café: Tidal Modeling in the 21st Century ##
For the month of November, we have a cafe meeting on Wednesday,
November 5th, at 7pm.
Modern technology now allows us to model tides on the scale of
entire oceans, which gives new insights into local coastal and
estuarine systems like the St. Johns River.
The presenter, Scott C. Hagen, received his Ph.D. in 1998 from
the University of Notre Dame, where he studied under Joannes J.
Westerink. Dr. Hagen is presently an Associate Professor of Civil
Engineering at the University of Central Florida and is a registered
Professional Engineer with the State of Florida. At UCF he has
established a nationally- and internationally-recognized lab for coastal
hydroscience analysis, modeling and predictive simulations.
Currently, much of the research that Dr. Hagen and his students
pursue is grounded in astronomic and meteorologic tidal modeling,
including hurricane storm surge simulations and tidal flow analyses.
Scott serves on the ASCE Coasts, Oceans, Ports and Rivers
Institute Wetland & Sediment Management Committee, chairing
the subcommittee on Coastal and River Modeling.
### 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 ]
## 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://archive.cafesciorl.com/2008-11-05-flier.pdf ] Or, tell others
about us. It may be easiest to point them to Cafe Sci Orlando's
web site, at cafesciorl.com .
Also, Chad loves folksonomies, and recommends using the tag
"cafesciorl" to refer online 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.
## Vote! ##
If you're registered already, then please vote. We have early voting
in Florida, open from 7AM to 7PM until Saturday, Nov 1, 7PM. The
final day you may vote is the day before the café, November 4th,
when you must go to your local precinct.
For Orange County, find your precinct and see a sample ballot
[ http://bit.ly/4rh4Rd ]. For early voting, go to any of most public
libraries or the office of the supervisor of elections
[ http://bit.ly/4pak2q ].