Integrating DNA, Drones, and Fossils to Clarify Relationships Among Rorqual Whales
The Forum, Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center (CE Building)Matthew S. Leslie ABSTRACT The systematic relationships among the lunge-feeding whales (rorquals; family Balaenopteridae) have been difficult to resolve, resulting in a history of taxonomic confusion. I am approaching this … Continue reading Integrating DNA, Drones, and Fossils to Clarify Relationships Among Rorqual Whales
Ecosystem of Innovations in Nanotechnologies for Safety, Security, and Sustainability
The Forum, Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center (CE Building)Ashok Vaseshta ABSTRACT The geopolitical landscape of the 21st century has become rather complex, dynamic, and unpredictable than that faced in the previous century. Notwithstanding unparalleled level of technological advancements, … Continue reading Ecosystem of Innovations in Nanotechnologies for Safety, Security, and Sustainability
Hip Hop and Copyright: Where Art, Technology and Law Collide
The Forum, Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center (CE Building)Aram Sinnreich ABSTRACT Hip-hop, perhaps the world’s dominant form of popular music today, emerged organically as an artifact of American vernacular technoculture in the late 1970s. Since its first emergence, … Continue reading Hip Hop and Copyright: Where Art, Technology and Law Collide
The US Shale Oil/Gas Revolution: A Historic Opportunity for America
CA 302 Auditorium (CA Building)Paul Henry Nadeau ABSTRACT Recent technical advances in unconventional or “tight” shale oil and gas extraction are reviewed in light of the dramatic rise in US oil and gas production … Continue reading The US Shale Oil/Gas Revolution: A Historic Opportunity for America
NOVA Darwin Day
CA 302 Auditorium (CA Building)How I Befriended a Vampire: Microbial Symbiosis in Blood-Feeding Parasites
The Forum, Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center (CE Building)Katharina Dittmar
Night Of Science
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Reconstructing Deep Ocean Circulation During Cenozoic Climate Transitions From the Marine Sediment Record
The Forum, Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center (CE Building)Brian Romans ABSTRACT Ocean circulation plays a critical role in the Earth’s climate system through the storage and transfer of heat and carbon dioxide. The North Atlantic and Southern Ocean … Continue reading Reconstructing Deep Ocean Circulation During Cenozoic Climate Transitions From the Marine Sediment Record
The Emergence of Planetary Intelligence: Astrobiology and the Anthropocene Earth
CA 302 Auditorium (CA Building)David Grinspoon ABSTRACT In this talk, Dr. Grinspoon will put the current human-dominated phase of our planet’s life into a broader context, juxtaposed against previous geological eras in Earth’s history, … Continue reading The Emergence of Planetary Intelligence: Astrobiology and the Anthropocene Earth
Night of Science!
CS Building LabsNOVA's semi-annual Night of Science is a community outreach event aimed at introducing children (K-12 and all interested!) to hands-on learning about a great diversity of subjects and showcasing the … Continue reading Night of Science!
The Periodic Table Day
CA 302 Auditorium (CA Building)This year marks 150th birthday of the Periodic Table, a major step toward creating a unified perspective on our understanding of the elemental nature of all matter. To commemorate this … Continue reading The Periodic Table Day
Discovering fly species and sharing biodiversity data
CA 302 Auditorium (CA Building)Torsten Dikow ABSTRACT Taxonomy has a long tradition of describing earth’s biodiversity. Taxonomic revisions contain crucial biodiversity data and in entomology such revisions may include treatments of a single to … Continue reading Discovering fly species and sharing biodiversity data