Science and Suds

Marion Ferrer, Pastry Chef

From Pint to Pastry - Baking with Craft Beer

Beer isn’t just for drinking! Join award-winning pastry chef Marion Ferrer as she explores the science, history, and creativity of baking with craft beer. Discover how beer transforms breads, cakes, cookies, and desserts through flavor, aroma, color, and chemistry.

Dr. David Barclay, SUNY Cortland Geology Department

Ghost Forests and Earthquakes

Subduction zone earthquakes can cause sudden sinking of coastal areas. This floods and kills shoreline trees to create “ghost forests” of dead trees that remain as a testament to the seismic event. Come learn how precise dating of an 850-year-old ghost forest in southern Alaska is helping improve understanding of these largest of earthquakes.

Dr. Arthur Degaetano

Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University

It’ a bird; it’s a plane; it’s a Super El Niño!

A discussion on the El Niño Phenomenon and its affect on global and New York weather. I will also discuss El Niños in a warming world.

Dr. Cole Gilbert, Former Director of Undergraduate Biology, Cornell University Biology, Cornell University

Skullduggery: The way mammal skulls work

Skulls of mammals are marvels of natural evolution and can inform a lot about how the animal made a living, even if you do not know who owed that skull in life. I will bring a lot of skulls and talk about various attributes of sensory systems and dentition, including the quantitative biomechanics of bite force. No there won't be a test. This will not be a skull ID workshop per se, but if participants have a found skull they would like identified, we can give it a try after the presentation.