Welcome to Sigma Xi in Boulder County
The University of Colorado chapter represents a merger with
chapters at the federal research laboratories in Boulder and at the IBM
laboratories in Longmont. We enjoy a diverse
membership of practical and academic scientists and engineers. We
encourage all interested persons to attend our meetings.
The local chapter of Sigma Xi meets at noon on a
Tuesday (usually the first) in each of the months October, November,
December, February, March, and April
at the University Memorial Center, at NCAR, or at NOAA. Lunch starts at
11:30. We invite a local scientist to describe scientific
results or scientific issues, starting about 12:15.
More below about the lunch programs.
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In 2007, the Boulder Chapter was awarded a Sigma Xi Certificate of
Excellence for
distinguished performance. The certificate recognizes exceptional chapter
activity and innovative programming, especially efforts that address the
four cornerstones of the Society's mission: honor in science and
engineering, science education, science policy, and the public
understanding of science.
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Our chapter sponsors a Science Cafe or Cafe Scientifiqe (the movement
started in France). CAFE SCI meets monthly (usually the
second Tuesday of the month) at REDFISH, just off the Pearl Street Mall.
CafeSci page
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Chapter Lunchtime MEETINGS -- dates, places, and speakers for
fall, 2008:
Watch this space for first fall meeting early in October
To receive an e-mail reminder, sent out about a
week before
each event, contact David Kassoy David.Kassoy@colorado.edu.
LUNCH MEETINGS (Everyone is welcome):
2008: Tuesday, 14 October, 12:15PM, NOAA lab, 325 S.Broadway, Larry
Grimm
See "Security for events at NOAA" below
November 4 (or maybe Nov.11) Brian Toon will speak
(SPRING)
NCAR Foothills Lab (
NCAR
Foothills Lab directions
)
Save these dates in 2008: (place may change; speakers to be
announced)
Most lunch meetings are on the first Tuesday of the month.
Tuesday, 21 or 28 April: Awards Reception
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Security for events at NOAA --
Presentations begin at 12:15PM in DSRC GC402 in the Skaggs
Building of NOAA. You are welcome to join other Sigma Xi members and
friends for lunch at 11:30AM in the cafeteria on the ground floor.
The NOAA facility is a secured space.
To enter the federal property on S. Broadway, you must get your name on an
attendance list. Please indicate to Zdenka Smith that you plan to
attend by calling her at 303 497-3051 or sending an e-mail message to:
Zdenka.Smith @noaa.gov.
Please respond even if you are uncertain about
attending, so that your name is on the attendance list. The single
entrance to the federal facility is just south of the traffic light at
27 St. and Broadway. At the entrance, you must identify
yourself to the security
personnel. Ask for directions to the
Skaggs building parking lot on the west side of the Skaggs Building.
Please enter the Skaggs Building through the main entrance (facing west into
the lower
parking lot). You will be checked in by the security person at
the desk in the entry lobby. Foreign nationals should call Zdenka
Smith at the number above for special instructions.
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RECENT EVENTS:
At our AWARDS RECEPTION, 22 April 2008, Dr. Thomas J. Bogdan,
Director: Space Weather Prediction Center NCEP/NWS/NOAA, spoke on
"SPACE WEATHER COMES OF AGE"
We welcomed three new members:
Dr. Pieter T. J. Johnson, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
;
Dr. Paul Adams Sandberg, Reconstructing early life history events at Medieval
Kulubnarti, Sudanese Nubia, by laser ablation gas chromatography
;
Robert Alan Steenburgh, Holes: Ionospheric Scintillation, GPS and Imputation
.
We honored two graduate students:
Joel Weinstein, Mechanical Engineering
:
Sarah Jack Hinners, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
.
We recognized the excellence of seven high-school students:
Atticus Bergman of Fairview High School
;
Carli Smith of Centaurus HighShool
;
Trevor Bowen of New Vista High School
;
Katherine Strasser of Broomfield High School
;
James Lee of Monarch High School
;
Elias Stallard-Oliveras of Boulder High School
;
Kyle Knight of Nederland High School
.
To learn more about the history, goals, and activity of the Society of
Sigma Xi, go to
the national home page.
Go back to the index to select pages for earlier years.
University of Colorado Chapter Officers:
Secretary: Jo Ann Joselyn Ph.D. (retired) previously a space scientist
with NOAA and Secretary General of the International Union of Geodesy and
Geophysics (1999 - 2007); phone: 303-494-4258.
President: Tammy Maldonado, Outreach Scientist, Biological Sciences
Initiative, Campus Box 347, University of Colorado,Boulder, Colorado,
80309-0347; Phone: 303-735-1679; Fax: 303-492-7744.
Vice-President: David Kassoy, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College
of Engineering and Applied Science, Campus Box 427, University of
Colorado, Boulder CO 80309-0427; Phone 303-492-6066, fax 303-492-3498.
Emeritus President: Prof. Michael Breed, Dept. of Environmental,
Population and Organismic Biology, Campus Box 334, University of Colorado,
Boulder CO 80309-0334, phone: 303-492-7683
Emeritus President: Zdenka Kopal Smith, NOAA, 325 S.Broadway,
Boulder CO 80307-3618; 303-497-3051
Treasurer: Constance B. Sawyer, 850 20th St., #705, Boulder CO80302-7749;
phone: 303-447-2250.
email to Secretary Jo Ann Joselyn:
jjoselyn@earthlink.net
email to President Tammy Maldonado::
Tammy.Maldonado@colorado.edu
email to President Emeritus Michael Breed:
michael.breed@colorado.edu
email to Vice-President David Kassoy:
David.Kassoy@colorado.edu
email to Treasurer (also web-page) Constance Sawyer:
sawyer@colorado.edu
