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About SERVING SCIENCEScience cafés aim to promote scientific literacy beyond the walls of academia. The science café concept, which started several years ago in European cities, is growing worldwide. The few such cafés around New York City routinely draw standing-room-only crowds and often turn away more people than they can accommodate, demonstrating a need for more such events. CUNY is well poised to fill that need. In doing so, CUNY will enhance the awareness - locally, nationally, and internationally - about the breadth and depth of leading edge scientific research that takes place within the CUNY system. Beginning in Fall 2008, Serving Science began bringing some of CUNY's faculty to Kouzan Japanese Restaurant to discuss newsworthy scientific topics.
Location: Kouzan Restaurant
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Cover Charge: $10. Includes one drink. Seating is limited, so arrive early. For those wishing to stay for dinner, Kouzan offers a 10% discount after each presentation. |
Featured Speaker
Dr. Anthony Carpi holds a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Boston College, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology from Cornell University. His research focuses on both the biogeochemistry of mercury in soil and the mentoring of undergraduates in scientific research. In the last year, he has received two very prestigious awards for these different aspects of his work. In August 2011 he was awarded a Fulbright fellowship from the American and Brazilian governments to study the effect of deforestation on mercury levels in the Amazon. And in January 2011 he was awarded a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring in a ceremony held at the White House.
Monday, March 5, 2012, 6-7 PM
Click here for the Spring 2012 Serving Science Café Poster. <pdf>
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Mercury, a toxic heavy metal, is one of the few pollutants that continues to produce a growing number of advisories on fishing resources in the United States and abroad. Mercury is released into the atmosphere from a number of sources; however, this is mitigated by the storage of the metal in forest soils. Recent research suggests that the burning of biomass during deforestation and the subsequent evaporation of the metal from the cleared soil release large amounts of mercury back into the air. Dr. Anthony Carpi, Professor of Environmental Toxicology at John Jay College, has spent the last 6 months in the Brazilian Amazon studying the effects of deforestation on the release and transport of this toxin. He’s joining us to talk about his fieldwork, the mercury levels in the local environment and what rising levels mean for our planet.
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