Tucson Science Speaker Presentations
Junior High and Middle School
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Presentation | Presenter | Comments |
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Pesticides | Paul Baker |
2-3 weeks advance notice required. |
Termites | Paul Baker |
4 weeks advance notice required. |
Environmental Issues | Paul Baker |
2-3 weeks advance notice required. |
How to Detect a Virus using Paper, Chemistry, and a Phone! | Lane Breshears |
Topic: STEM, Graduate School, Research, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering 1-3 weeks advanced notice, Focuses on wide range of topics included in BME degrees |
Lakes | Andrew Cohen |
A few weeks advance notice required. |
Opportunities and Adventures for the Earth Scientist | Salvatore Consalvi |
1 month Advance, can alter for any audience |
Glacier Studies in Alaska and Antarctica | Salvatore Consalvi |
1 month advance, can adjust for any audience |
How Climate Change Affects the Southwest United States | Gregg Garfin |
Topic: Climate Change 1 month notice preferred; projector needed; consultation preferred, in order to home in on best match between audience and topic |
From the Parched Past to 2014 and Beyond | Gregg Garfin |
Topic: Climatology 1 month notice preferred; projector needed; consultation preferred, in order to home in on best match between audience and topic |
Use of Geographic Information Systems for Natural Resource Management | D. Phillip Guertin |
A few days advance notice required. Suitable for grades 3-5. |
Knowledge from Decay: how Radiocarbon Dating illuminates the past | Greg Hodgins |
1 month advanced notice required. |
How Do Hormones Work? | Victor Hruby |
Talk should be scheduled a few days in advance. |
How the Brain Works: Brain Chemistry | Victor Hruby |
Talk should be scheduled a few days in advance. |
Pain and Addiction: Are They Related? | Victor Hruby |
Talk should be scheduled a few days in advance. |
Tanning Without Sun | Victor Hruby |
Talk should be scheduled a few days in advance. |
How Do Cells Communicate? | Victor Hruby |
Talk should be scheduled a few days in advance. |
Telemedicine: Getting Healthcare to People Far Away - Including Space! | Elizabeth Krupinski |
2 weeks advance notice recommended. |
Using Solar, Wind, and/or Biomass Energy | Dennis Larson | |
Hubble Space Telescope and UA Astronomy | Don McCarthy |
3-4 weeks advance notice required. |
Liquid Nitrogen Demonstration and Miscellaneous Astronomy | Don McCarthy |
3-4 weeks advance notice required. |
The Phases of Matter | Anthony Muscat |
2 weeks advance notice required. |
High-Tech Toys in our Future and Space Spinoffs | Kumar Ramohalli |
1 week advance notice required. |
The Space Debris Environmental Problem | Aaron J Rosengren |
Topic: Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Engineering 1 Month Advanced Notice, Projector Needed |
Where Stars and Planets Are Born | Yancy Shirley |
Topic: Astronomy Projector needed for laptop |
Agriculture and the Environment | Jeff Silvertooth |
1 month advance notice required. |
Environmental Science and Sustainability | Jeff Silvertooth |
1 month advance notice required. |
Soil and Water Conservation and Sustainability | Jeff Silvertooth |
1 month advance notice required. |
Meteorites: Rocks from Space | Tim Swindle |
Topic: Astronomy or Earth Sciences Grades 3 and up; 1 month advance notice; screen needed |
Working (and Living) in Antarctica | Tim Swindle |
Topic: Geography, Earth Science Grades 3 and up; 1 month advance notice; screen needed |