The next Science Café will be at P.F. Chang's, Honolulu on Tuesday, May 22.

Bruce Howe of the UH-Manoa Ocean and Resources Engineering Dept. will discuss "New Tools for Observing the Ocean from the Surface to the Abyss."

• Social/Dinner Hour (No Host) begins at 6 p.m.
• The Featured Speaker's talk is from 7–8 p.m.

If you like talking about science with a glass or a fork in your hand, please join us at Honolulu's monthly SCIENCE CAFE, which is organized by the Hawai‘i Academy of Science in collaboration with Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS), Sigma Xi and the American Chemical Society.

We try to follow the guidelines set out at ScienceCafes.org. Meetings start with a social hour at 6pm, followed by a short invited talk at 7 pm. The rest of the meeting is devoted to discussion by the attendees (ie. you).

Date	Featured Speaker	Topic
Summer Hiatus

2012

• April 17th: Heather Spalding, Discovering New Coral Reef Ecosystems in Hawaii.
• March 20th: Doug Carlson, Honolulu Rail: Sustainable Transportation for This and Future Generations; Why Elevated Mass Transit Will Meet Oahu's Needs.
• February: Postponed
• January 17th: Nader Haghighipour, The Search for Earth-like Planets Outside our Solar System

2011

• December 13th: Dr. Margo Edwards, Deep ocean science
• November 15th: Dr. Hope Jahtren, Trees that Grew in the Dark?
• October 18th: Jim Crisafulli, International Lunar Research Park.
• September 20th: J. Scott Hauger, Climate Change and Security in the Asia-Pacific Region.
• May 17th: Michael Deweert, Fission Without Critical Masses: The Thorium Energy Amplifier and a Sustainable Energy Future
• April 19th: Tim Wong, Micro-scale Concentrated Solar Power (MicroCSP)
• March 15th: Peter Gorham, Searching for Neutrinos in Antarctica: Astrophysics at the Ends of the Earth
• February 15th: Peter Mouginis-Mark, Progressing Towards Hawaii's Own Space Program
• January 14th: Bruce Anderson, Dengue Fever

2010

• November 16th: Steve Freeland
• October 19th: Dr. Eric DeCarlo, UH Manoa Dept. of Oceanography, Is Eating Fish Healthy? Military Munition Disposal in Hawaiian Waters
• September 21st: John Hawkins And Colleen Murakami, Hawai‘i Department of Education, Science Education in Hawai‘i-Are Our Children Being Left Behind?
• May 18th: Gerard Fryer, NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center: Tsunami Warning: Lessons Gathered From The Response to the 2010 Chile Tsunami
• April 20th: Dr. James Campbell, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies: Protecting the Pacific from Pandemic Panic
• March 16th: Chris Measures, Burying atmosheric CO2: Hope or Hype?
• February 16th: Eric Miller, Riding the Green Wave.
• January 19th: Neal Atebara, A New Eye on Diabetes.

2009

• November 24th: Gareth Wynn-Williams, The Antikythera Mechanism.
• October 27th: Leon Geschwind, Climate Change Mythbusters.
• September 22nd: Michael Mottl, Climate Change, a Geologic perspective.
• June 30th: Rolf Kudritzki, Astronomy in Hawaii.
• May 26th: Jim Crisafulli, Hawaii's Rendezvous with Space.
• April 28th: Michael Richlin, Marine Mammal Conservation.
• March 31st: Bob Cooney, Disease Prevention through Nutrition.
• February 24th: John Learned, ET - so where is he?
• January 20th: Lee Goff, Forensics and CSI.