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    • October 07, 2024
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Dr Beth Hall --- Dr Beth Hall, PhD, is director of the Indiana State Climate Office on Purdue's West Lafayette Campus. She is also the director of the Purdue Mesonet, and co-director and co-founder of the Indiana Mesonet. She has a BS in Geography and Meteorology, and an MS in Atmospheric Physics and Dynamics. (Email: hall556@purdue.edu) (Sponsored By: Don Cummings)(ID: 1910)

    The Indiana Mesonet is a collaboration between the Purdue Mesonet (Indiana State Climate Office) and the Indiana Water Balance Network (at IU). These combined sensing networks, when expanded with new installations, will support more accurate and local weather, water, and soil data for decision-making, forecasting, and research. This information will be used by clients as varied as farmers, event organizers, researchers, recreational facility managers, utilities, and educators.




    • October 14, 2024
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: James Lowery --- Former Director of Management Support Services, University of Birmingham and previous Scientech Club speaker on Antarctica and the Wetumpka meteor impact crater. (Email: JLowery2@gmail.com) (Sponsored By: Dr. Alan Dale Schmidt)(ID: 1878)

    This presentation will describe the La Brea Tar Pits and the George C. Page Museum which is located in an urban public park in Los Angeles. Mr Lowery's visits to the tar pits included a “behind the scenes” tour including the processing lab and the active excavations. His presentation will include information about the many types of Ice Age fossils that have been and continue to be extracted from the active asphalt formations and seeps at the park. There have been over 3.5 million fossils collected from the tar pits that are in the Page Museum collection. Views will include the representative fossils on display inside the museum.




    • October 21, 2024
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Robert Horn --- Bob Horn is a lifelong resident of northeast Oklahoma. He has a BS in Psychology from Oklahoma State University and has worked in financial data processing for 38 years. His home is less than a mile from Tar Creek, one of the most polluted streams in the country. (Sponsored By: Ruth Schmidt)(ID: 1919)

    Picher, Oklahoma is often referred to as the most toxic town in America and it is a 21st century ghost town. It is the site of one of the largest EPA superfund sites in the country due to decades of lead and zinc mining that has left the land unstable and contaminated the soil and ground water. The government bought out all the homeowners because it was cheaper than trying to clean up the area. All that remains are empty buildings and huge chat piles. This talk will cover the history of mining in the area, how it became so contaminated, as well as what is being done to clean up the area.




    • October 28, 2024
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Scott Salmon --- Executive Director of the Friends of the White River. (Email: scott@friendsofwhiteriver.org) (Sponsored By: Christopher Moore)(ID: 1921)

    This presentation will be an overview of the natural and human history of the White River have shaped the character of the riiver in the past century. It will inlude the Great Flood of 1913, the ecological impacts and public safety hazards of low-head dams, the 1999 White River fish kill and subsequent restoration, current water pollution threats such as erosion and combined sewer overflows, and ongoing restoration projects including the Dig Indy tunnel and Emrichsville Dam removal.




    • November 04, 2024
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Laura Graf --- Owner/Operator LGI Landscaping LLC, accredited Horticulturist, licensed Nursery Dealer, and PlantRight certified installer (Email: landscapesbylaura1@gmail.com) (Sponsored By: Judy Weitzman)(ID: 1870)

    Laura is a talented landscape artist and horticulturist. She is passionate about the very real harm caused by invasive plants in Indiana. Her presentation will teach us how to identify invaders and effectively eliminate them. 




    • November 11, 2024
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Robert Yee MD --- Merrill Grayson Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology, IU School of Medicine Emeritus, Scientech member (Email: ryee@iu.edu) (Sponsored By: Robert Yee MD)(ID: 1915)

    The human eye and brain's visual system do not function like a camera, as is commonly believed. In the retina, viewed images stimulate light-sensitive cells (rods and cones) and help brain cells in the first parts of visual system to break down the seen image into light/dark contrasts at different spatial frequencies, and detect edges and orientation of lines. Beyond these basic visual brain regions, other higher-order areas respond to motion, color, faces, objects and text/numbers. Injury to these latter areas, from strokes, infections or dementia, produce selective deficits (visual agnosias) for identifying and detecting particular image features - such as not being able to perceive or recognize faces (prosopagnosia). The many different types of visual agnosias demonstrate the intricate and complex arrangement of brain functions in the so-called "association areas" of the visual system.




    • November 18, 2024
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Aina Puce PhD --- Eleanor Cox Riggs Professor in Social Justice & Ethics, Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University; Bachelor and Master of Applied Science, Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia; PhD Medicine, University of Melbourne; Post-doctoral Fellow Neurosurgery, Yale University (Email: ainapuce@indiana.edu) (Sponsored By: Robert Yee MD)(ID: 1916)

    The human brain's visual system is a mosaic of brain regions with different specializations, which can manifest as selective visual deficits in focal brain injury. Non-invasive brain mapping methods can study these specialized brain regions in detail in healthy people and patients alike. It is possible to measure changes in focal brain blood flow [functional MRI] and magnetic fields or electrical activity at the scalp surface [magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography]. Electrical activity may also be recorded invasively from inside the brains of neurosurgical patients. Studying the functions of the brain's "grey matter" are only part of the story: the information carrying pathways formed by the brain's "white matter" help ferry the grey matter's communications to other parts of the brain. Dr. Puce will present examples from all of these methods to discuss how our brains make sense of the face and body movements of others.




    • November 25, 2024
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Jerry Karwowski is a Retired Senior Vice President, Investment Officer, Wells Fargo Advisors. Member of the 

    Arizona Sports and Entertainment Commission and Scientech member. 


    The speaker will cover the remarkable life of Carl Erskine, one of the great human-rights champions of our time. From the dirt-poor alleys of Anderson, Indiana, to a storied career with the Brooklyn Dodgers’ fabled “Boys of Summer”, Carl Erskine lived the American Dream and spent his lifetime giving it to others. After his playing days, he returned to Anderson and spent the rest of his life as a Hoosier. Without Carl Erskine, we would not have the Special Olympics International. Erskine with the support of teammates, Jackie Robinson and Johnny Wilson, advocated for 60 years for people with intellectual disabilities such as his son, Jimmy. Carl helped effect profound social change through his core values of grace, humility and servant leadership.






    • December 02, 2024
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Donna Riner --- Donna Riner, Assistant Manager, Eagle Creek Park Ornithology Center B.A. Environmental Biology, DePauw University 2020 (Email: Donna.Riner@Indy.Gov) (Sponsored By: Karen Bumb)(ID: 1913)

    Join Donna Riner, for a presentation about her experience attending Avian Behavior International's Bird of Prey Workshop in Escondido, California. During this presentation you will get an inside look at how avian behavior science and progressive training techniques from this experience are applied at the Ornithology Center within their raptor ambassador program.




    • December 09, 2024
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speakers: Andy Ratermann, Jeff Rasley, and Doug Gettelfinger --- Andy Ratermann is president of the Scientech Club. Jeff Rasley is president of the Scientech Foundation. Doug Gettelfinger is treasurer of both organizations. (Sponsored By: Rick Whitener)(ID: 1896)

    The annual meeting will be held to elect officers for 2025. This meeting is required by the bylaws of our club. After the elections, Jeff Rasley will give an update on the activities of the Scientech Foundation. Doug Gettelfinger will give an update on the Foundations first full year as a public charity.



    • January 06, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Ruth Schmidt, PhD, MBA, was the program manager of the business mailer payment systems at the United States Postal Service. She has been involved in information security design, testing, and implementation for over 20 years. She is certified as a Project Management Professional and a Program Management Professional from the Project Management Institute. She is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, CISSP, from the International Information System Security Certification Consortium, Inc. ISC2.

    The CrowdStrike cybersecurity Falcon platform update on July 19, 2024, caused the largest IT outage in the history of the world. The estimated cost of this outage is now over $5 billion. Ruth Schmidt will show how CrowdStrike and other companies offering cybersecurity products could improve product technical design, testing and roll out procedures to prevent or minimize the impact of future outages. She will explore how client companies can prevent outages through testing, acceptance, and contingency processes.


    • January 13, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speakers: Richard Gunderman is Professor of Radiology at the IU School of Medicine. He is a Scientech Member and frequent contributor.


    The life and career of Vince Lombardi includes the Green Bay Packers winning five championships in seven years, including the first two Super Bowls. Although he is associated with the view that 'Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing,' Lombardi in fact thought there are things more important than winning in both football and life.

    These lessons have applied to those working in scientific discovery and the inventions that changed our lives and our society. Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, and the Curies are a few examples.



    • February 03, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Bobby Dalzell. Day job: Investment Advisor at a family office in Carmel. More interesting job: Spotter for Arrow McLaren Indycar Team. BS from Indiana University in Public Financial Management and 17 years in open wheel racing.

    At 230+ mph and millions of dollars in technology, Indycar drivers still rely on the human eye from high above the press box to provide vital information. Strategists and Engineers have split seconds to accept, filter, and utilize the spotter’s input in conjunction with thousands of datapoints of telemetry to win races.

     

    • March 03, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Hernán Castillo-Hermosilla 

    Feldhusen Doctoral Student Fellow in Education. Marcia Gentry Influence Scholar & Fulbright Scholar. MENSA Foundation Gifted Education Fellow & Dean's Doctoral Fellow. Department of Educational Studies.College of Education.

    Link to Purdue Gifted Education Research Institute

    Link to Speaker Profile

    Mr. Castillo-Hermosilla will present a project explores novel gifted identification methods to find gifted people forgotten in the system by current instruments and how these other measurements may be relevant to use for additional pathways for identifying children who may be overlooked. This research project was given an award by the MENSA Researchn and Education Foundation (he presented it this year at the Foundation Meeting at the Mensa Annual Gathering in Kansas City) and he also received the Marcia Gentry Influence Scholarship.

    Sponsored by Alison Brown

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