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Junior Café Scientifique – Under The Sea: Life Aboard A Submarine – Saturday, June 16

Greetings fellow astrophiles! A TACNY-hosted (Technology Alliance of CNY, of which the SAS is a member organization) Junior Café Scientifique lecture at the MOST is happening on Saturday June 16 at 9:30 a.m. NOTE: This is the last Junior Cafe of the 2011-12 program year. They’ll be back in September! When: Saturday, June 16, 9:30-11:00am Where: Milton J Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology (MOST), Syracuse NY Enrique “Henry” Sanchez, a consultant at ANTMAR Consulting and former member of the U.S. Navy’s submarine force, will present Under the Sea: Life Aboard a Submarine, a talk about submarines, as part of […]

Junior Café Scientifique – Antarctica Before the Ice: How Global Climate Change Affects Marine Ecology – Saturday, March 10

Greetings fellow astrophiles! A TACNY-hosted (Technology Alliance of CNY, of which the SAS is a member organization) Junior Café Scientifique lecture at the MOST is happening on Saturday March 10 at 9:30 a.m. Information is below. When: Saturday, March 10, 9:30-11:00am (NOTE: not the usual third Saturday of the month) Where: Milton J Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology (MOST), Syracuse NY Linda C. Ivany, an associate professor of earth sciences at Syracuse University, will present Antarctica Before the Ice: How Global Climate Change Affects Marine Ecology, a talk about the threat of global warming to Antarctica, as part of […]

New York Center for Astrobiology – 2012 Astrobiology Short Story Contest

Greetings (younger) fellow astrophiles! I am pleased to announce that the New York Center for Astrobiology is sponsoring a writing contest for 9th – 12th graders. A brief overview of the contest is below, with the complete list of rules, story proposals, and lots of extraterrestrial parameters included in the linked PDF you can find at: www.origins.rpi.edu/astrobiologycontestfinalversion.pdf NOTE: I urge you to have wikipedia open as you read the two plots. Some good explanations and a whole lot of potential inspiration lies within! This contest is sponsored by the New York Center for Astrobiology, a member of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute […]