Future Meetings
Honolulu Science Cafe is normally once a month, with a summer break from June to August.
2023
- February 22nd: Jacqueline Keane
James Webb Space Telescope - March 15th Susan Scott
Hawaii Audubon Society Citizen Science Projects - April 19th: Frances Zhu
Autonomous Robots Traversing Extreme Environments - May 17th: James Potemra
WHOt's Hot at ALOHA
Past Meetings
2023
- January 17th: Jonas Vibell
Brain imaging: mapping an imploded Universe
2022
- December 20th: Monique Chyba
Pandemic Modelling Gone Viral - November 15th: Curt Dodds
Internet threats: viruses, privacy, shutdowns and malicious AI - October 18th: Megan Porter
Light, Vision and Perception: How Animals See the World - September 27th Tom Browder
Hunting New Physics at the Belle II experiment
2021 No meetings due to Covid
2020
- February 18th: Rob Wright
What can we learn about the Earth using a satellite the size of a shoe-box? - January 21st: Robert Jedicke
Mining Asteroids
2019
- December 17th: Brent Tully
The Laniakea Supercluster of Galaxies - November 19th: Alan Tokunaga
The Future of Astronomy in Hawaii
- October 15th: Bruce Houghton
The 2018 Eruption of Kilauea - September 17th: Sven Vahsen
Dark Matter in the Universe - June 18th: Aaron Ohta
Microfluidics: what can it do for you? - May 21st: Sarah Fagents
Ocean Worlds of the Outer Solar System - April 16th: Angel Yanagihara
The Science of the Sting - March 19th: Kirsten Carlson
Fathoming Antarctica as both Scientist and Artist - February 19th: Alison Nugent
Hurricanes in Hawai'i - January 15th: Philomene Verlaan
Deep Sea Mining.
2018
- December 18th: Jay Fidell
What else can we do to promote Science and Technology in Hawaii? - November 20th: Victoria Fan
Losses from Pandemics - October 16th: Glenn Carter
Exploring Beyond the Abyss - September 18th: Chip Fletcher
Planning for Sea Level rise on Oahu - May 15th: Floyd McCoy
The Bronze Age Eruption of Thera - April 17th: Karen Meech
`Oumuamua: our First Interstellar Visitor - March 20th: Brian Popp
New discoveries on Rapa Nui - February 20th: Christopher Sabine
Plastic Waste and our Throwaway Culture - January 16th: Sara Oka
Textile Science
2017
- December 19th: Gareth Wynn-Williams
Asteroids: Minor Planets or Major Threats? - November 21st: Jolene Sutton
Controlling Mosquito-Borne Diseases in Hawai'i - October 17th: Nellie Sugii
Conservation "Hawaii Style" - September 19th: Nienke van der Marel
Exoplanets: How they form and where to find them - June 20th: Amanda Lowrey
The Science of Food Safety
- May 16th: Chris Measures and Mariko Hatta
Oceanography in the Arctic and the Disappearing Sea Ice - April 18th: Fred Harris
Charm in China
- March 21st: Walter Rhee
Kitchen Science - Febuary 21st: Terrilea Burnett
Hereditary Cancers
- January 17th: Alan Tokunaga
The Maunakea Thirty Meter Telescope
2016
- December 20th: Steven Businger
Wind on the Water: the Weather and Climate of Oahu - November 15th: Veronica Bindi
Cosmic Rays and Space Exploration
- October 18th: Donald Thomas
Revisiting and Revising Hawaii's Groundwater Models - September 20th: Rebecca Cann
On the DNA Trail - May 17th: Ruth Gates
The Wonderful World of Corals - April 19th: Rich Pyle
Saving the Biodiversity Library - March 15th: Eugene Magnier
The Pan-STARRS Survey
- February 16th: Kim Binsted
The Mars HI-SEAS project
- January 19th: Patrick Cross
Ocean Wave Energy
2015
- December 15th: Robert Jedicke
Einstein versus Santa - November 17th: Robert Littman
Paleopathology of Ancient Plague Diseases - October 20th: Jeff Drazen
Studying the biology of the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth - September 15th: Margaret McManus
Understanding the effects of a changing ocean environment on the marine ecosystem - May 19th: Shadia Habbal
The magic of total solar eclipses - April 21st: Tom Ranker
Plants and people of Vanatu - March 17th: Karen Meech
Origin of the Earth's water - February 17th: Andy Kaufman
Aloha of Plants - January 20th: Rhett Butler
The Tsunami threat to Hawaii
2014
- December 16th: Sarah Park
Ebola and Other Epidemic Threats to Hawaii - November 18th: Klaus Sattler
Nanophysics from Fundamentals to new Discoveries - October 21st: Guenther Hasinger
Black Holes and the Evolution of Galaxies - September 16th: Chris Measures & Axel Timmermann
El Nino: To be or not to be - May 20th; Andrew Howard
Earth-like Exoplanets - April 16th; Hainang Yang
Asbestos and Cancer - March 18th; Kim Holland
Shark Tales - February 18th; Olga Boric-Lubecke and Victor Lubecke
Doppler Radar Physiological Monitoring - January 21st' Michael Garcia
Hawaii Volcanism
2013
- December 17th; Stefan Moisyadi
Transposase enzymes as modulators of active gene insertion - Novermber 19th; Larry Denneau
"ATLAS" - Saving the World from Asteroid Impacts - October 15th; Takashi Matsui
Myocardial architecture for efficient pump functionality of the heart - September 17th; Reinold Penner
Drug Repurposing: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks - May 21st: Karen Meech
The Red Planet - Mission to Mars - April 16th: Trevor Sorensen
The Hawaii Spaceflight Laboratory - March 19th: Shepherd Myers
The Role of Natural History Collections - February 19th: Jim Harwood
Discovering Mauna Kea - January 15th: David Beilman
Dead mammoths, warm climates, big carbon
2012
- December 18th: Gordon Grau
Sustainability in Hawaii - November 20th: Robert Jedicke,
Earth’s Minimoons - October 16th: Don Thomas,
Hawaii’s Geothermal Resources - July 17th: Dr. Ginnie Watson,
Science, Technology and Security in the Asia-Pacific Region (Joint meeting with Sigma XI). - May 22nd: Bruce Howe,
New Tools for Observing the Ocean from the Surface to the Abyss. - April 17th: Heather Spalding,
Discovering New Coral Reef Ecosystems in Hawaii. - March 20th: Doug Carlson,
Honolulu Rail: - 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 Jahren,
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 - April 19th: Tim Wong,
Micro-scale Concentrated Solar Power - March 15th: Peter Gorham,
Searching for Neutrinos in Antarctica - February 15th: Peter Mouginis-Mark,
Progressing Towards Hawaii’s Own Space Program - January 14th: Bruce Anderson,
Dengue Fever
2010
- November 16th: Steve Freeland
Is Life on Earth a Cosmic Accident? - October 19th: Eric DeCarlo,
Military Munition Disposal in Hawaiian Waters - September 21st: John Hawkins And Colleen Murakami,
Science Education in Hawai‘i - May 18th: Gerard Fryer,
Tsunami Warning - April 20th: James Campbell,
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.