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Past Cafés For Cafés from 2014-2015 click here. A toolbox of membrane technologies Presenter : Dr. Tiezheng Tong from CSU's Department of Environmental Engineering February 12, 2020 Everyday Joe's Coffee House Dr. Tong introduced "membranes" and the magic that leads to water sustainability. Photos, Flyer Ask an Entomologist! Presenter : Erika Peirce & Melissa Schreiner, graduate students in the Department of Entomology at CSU November 13, 2019 Everyday Joe's Coffee House Erika and Melissa presented a variety of Colorado insects and arthropods and answered a myriad of questions. Photos, Flyer Living with wild elephants: stories from elephant research in Kenya's Northern Frontier Presenter : Dr. George Wittemyer from the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology at CSU October 9, 2019 Everyday Joe's Coffee House Dr. Wittemyer's research focuses on developing innovative solutions to conserve the world's wildlife. He shared stories about his adventures with elephants, explaining the behavior and conservation challenges facing this incredible species. Photos, Flyer Seeing the Earth from Space Presenter : Dr. Matthew Rogers from the NOAA Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere September 11, 2019 Everyday Joe's Coffee House Dr. Rogers presented how scientists monitor the atmosphere and other parts of the Earth's environment using NASA and NOAA satellites. Photos, Flyer Ask an Entomologist! Presenter : Erika Peirce and Melissa Schreiner from the CSU Department of Entomology March 13, 2019 Everyday Joe's Coffee House Our March blizzard may have taken this one out! Flyer High Impact Primate Paleontology: CSU Undergraduate FOSSIL Research! Presenter : Dr. Kim Nichols from the CSU Department of Anthropology February 13, 2019 Everyday Joe's Coffee House Dr. Nichols talked about undergraduate fossil research from the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming. Photos, Flyer Dam It! How Beavers Change Landscapes Presenter : Juli Scamardo from the CSU Warner College of Natural Resources November 14, 2018 Everyday Joe's Coffee House Beavers were important engineers of wetlands and valley bottoms before being hunted to near extinction in the nineteenth century. Juli's talk focused on where the beavers are today and what we can do to help protect them. Photos, Flyer What does gold have to do with malaria? Presenter : Dr. Heidi Hausermann from the Colorado State University Department of Anthropology October 10, 2018 Everyday Joe's Coffee House This talk explored the social, environmental and health implications of "small-scale" gold mining in Ghana, West Africa. Students learned how land-use changes are impacting the everyday lives of rural people. Photos, Flyer Chasing the Strongest Storms in the World Presenter : Dr. Kristen Rasmussen from the Colorado State University Department of Atmospheric Science September 12, 2018 Everyday Joe's Coffee House What's it like to chase the strongest storms in the world? Dr Rasmussen and her group travel to Argentina to observe storm formation and look at severe weather impacts! Photos, Flyer From Laser Cooling to Laser Fusion... to Sharks with Laser Beams on their Heads? Lasers. What Can They Do? Can They Do Things? Presenter : PhD student Zak Burkley from the Colorado State University Physics Department April 11, 2018 Everyday Joe's Coffee House We found out about a few of the many cool ways lasers are being used scientifically: Laser cooling, atom trapping, atomic clocks, detection of gravitational waves, and laser fusion. We looked at how lasers are being used in technology as well: Optical Fibers, Self-Driving Cars, GPS, Wind Farm Design, and weaponizing marine animals. Photos, Flyer The Teal Housewives of Colorado: How Ducks Make the Most of Their Summer Break Presenter : Casey Setash from CSU's Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology March 21, 2018 Everyday Joe's Coffee House How do ducks fly all the way to Colorado from South America and still find time to sit on eggs for a month? We learned this and more at a great presentation by Casey. Photos, Flyer Wildlife in our Neighborhoods: How Cameras and Collars Help us Track our Furry Friends Presenter : Dr Christopher Schell from CSU's Department of Biology February 14, 2018 Everyday Joe's Coffee House How do all the species survive in our cities? We learned about how they adapt and evolve... to live with people! Photos, Flyer The Secret Lives of Bats: Dark Adventures from the Namib Desert Presenter : Theresa Laverty from CSU's Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology December 13, 2017 Everyday Joe's Coffee House With well over 1000 species of bats recognized around the world, we uncovered why there are so many species and ways in which they relate to humans. Photos, Flyer Neandertals are us! Learn why some of us carry more Neandertal genes than others. Presenter : Dr. Mica Glantz from the CSU Department of Anthropology October 11, 2017 Everyday Joe's Coffee House Attendees learned how to identify the characteristics that separate modern humans from Neandertals from human fossil casts which Dr. Glantz brought. Were they romantically involved in the past?? Photos, Flyer Through the Eye of the Drone: Chasing Severe Storms. Presenter : Dr. Sue van den Heever from the CSU Department of Atmospheric Science September 20, 2017 Everyday Joe's Coffee House Prof. van den Heever brought a drone from her research group and showed computer animations and drone video of severe storms and discussed how her group's research has helped improve the computer models that predict storms. Photos, Flyer The Three S's of Climate Change: Simple. Serious. Solvable. Presenter : Dr. Scott Denning from the CSU Department of Atmospheric Science April 12, 2017 Everyday Joe's Coffee House Prof. Denning explained causes of climate change and solutions to those causes in a lively demonstration and discussion. Photos, Flyer Wildfires and Animals: Creeping through Colorado's Forests Presenter : Dr. Monique Rocca from the CSU Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability March 8, 2017 Everyday Joe's Coffee House Dr. Rocca talked about how many plants and animals need fire to survive and brought some great props to show fire history. Photos, Flyer What'd You Have For Dinner... 10,000 Years Ago? Presenter : Dr. Jason La Belle from the CSU Department of Anthropology February 8, 2017 Everyday Joe's Coffee House Dr. La Belle talked about what ancient peoples had to eat and showed how archaeologists have found out! Photos, Flyer Clouds are Cirrusly Supercool Presenters : Drs. Paul DeMott and Thomas Hill with PhD student Christina McCluskey of the CSU Department of Atmospheric Science November 9, 2016 Everyday Joe's Coffee House Our presenters demonstrated how particles in the air play an important and "Supercool" role in forming clouds. We learned where "aerosols" come from and how they are measured with a particle counter, we made a few clouds and learned how bacteria can help make snow! Photos, Flyer Eye know what you ate last summer: Eye-tracking cameras and food choices Presenter : Dr. Dan Graham, CSU's Psychology Department October 12, 2016 Everyday Joe's Coffee House Dr Graham demonstrated eye-tracking glasses that have integrated cameras that show where the wearer is looking. These have helped him understand how people use nutrition information when making food choices. Photos, Flyer Binging on junk food: What happens to the nitrogen that gets away? Presenter : Dr. Jill Baron, CSU's Natural Resource Ecology Lab September 14, 2016 Everyday Joe's Coffee House Dr Baron talked about the nitrogen imbalance caused by food production of a growing world population. Photos, Flyer Biologically Inspired Miniature Jumping Robots Presenter : Dr. Jianguo Zhao, CSU's Dept. of Mechanical Engineering April 13, 2016 Everyday Joe's Coffee House Dr Zhao explained how biological inspirations from small animals and insects have helped Zhao and his team build tiny jumping robots. 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