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UT assistant professor to talk about chemical oceanography on July 20

Posted at 5:50 pm July 17, 2016
By Jennifer Hartwig Leave a Comment

Andrew Steen

Drew Steen

An assistant professor of environmental geology at the University of Tennessee will talk about chemical oceanography in Oak Ridge on Wednesday.

The title of the presentation by Drew Steen, of the UT Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, is “Heterotrophic Organisms in the Deep Marine Sediments” or “What to Do When You’re Hungry but You’re 100,000 Years Late for Dinner.”

The Wednesday talk starts at 7 p.m. July 20. It’s hosted by the ORION astronomy club. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Clubs, Community, Front Page News Tagged With: astronomy, deep marine sediments, Drew Steen, Grove Theater, Heterotrophic Organisms, ORION, ORION astronomy club, science, University of Tennessee, UT, UT Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Learn about gravitational waves at ORION astronomy lecture

Posted at 11:30 am May 15, 2016
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Michael Guidry

Michael Guidry

Learn about gravitational waves during an ORION astronomy club meeting on Wednesday.

The meeting will feature Mike Guidry, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Tennessee and an adjunct staff member with Oak Ridge National Laboratory Physics and Computer Science departments.

On September 14, 2015, the event detectors from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, facilities in Washington and Louisiana recorded data that was consistent with the merging of two black holes, a press release said. Together, the recorded data form the event known as GW150914. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Front Page News, Meetings and Events Tagged With: astronomy, black holes, gravitational waves, GW150914, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, LIGO, Michael Guidry, Mike Guidry, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORION astronomy club, physics, science, University of Tennessee

ORION astronomy club to feature talk on origin of universe, life on Earth

Posted at 10:26 am April 14, 2016
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Bob Compton

Bob Compton

The ORION astronomy club will have a discussion of the origin of the universe and life on Earth during a talk next week.

The talk will be presented by Robert N. Compton, senior corporate fellow emeritus, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and professor emeritus (physics and chemistry), University of Tennessee.

His talk is titled “On the Origin of the Universe and Life on Earth.”

Humans have long desired to understand our origin and place in the grand cosmos, a press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Clubs, Community, Front Page News, Meetings and Events Tagged With: astronomy, Bob Compton, Grove Theater, On the Origin of the Universe and Life on Earth, ORION, ORION astronomy club, Robert N. Compton

ORNL associate lab director to discuss discovery of elements 115, 117; super-heavy nuclei; ‘island of stability’

Posted at 9:20 pm March 8, 2016
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Jim Roberto

Jim Roberto

Jim Roberto, an associate laboratory director at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will discuss the discovery of elements 115 and 117, super-heavy nuclei, and the “island of stability” during a Wednesday evening talk next week.

Roberto, ORNL associate laboratory director for science and technology partnerships, will give the featured talk to the ORION astronomy club at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 16. The talk will be at the Grove Theater at 123 Randolph Road in Oak Ridge.

Roberto’s talk is titled “The Discovery of Elements 115 and 117: SuperHeavy Nuclei and the ‘Island of Stability.'” Roberto will review recent progress in super-heavy element research with particular focus on the significance of element 117 and its decay products as evidence for the existence of the presumed “island of stability” for super-heavy nuclei, a press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Meetings and Events, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: berkelium-249, calcium-48, element 113, element 117, element 118, Grove Theater, High Flux Isotope Reactor, International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry, island of stability, IUPAC, Jim Roberto, JINR, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORION, ORION astronomy club, ORNL, Radiochemical Engineering Development Center, RIKEN, super-heavy nuclei, The Discovery of Elements 115 and 117: SuperHeavy Nuclei and the Island of Stability, U.S. Department of Energy

ORION astronomy club meeting features UT professor on Wednesday

Posted at 10:14 pm April 14, 2015
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The Wednesday meeting of the ORION astronomy club will feature Professor Denise Phillips, director of graduate studies in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Her presentation, “Can Peasants Be Scientists? Debates about the Social Reach of Science in the 18th-Century Europe,” is from her current book project, which includes both lay and professional astronomers.

The meeting is at the Grove Theater at 123 Randolph Road in Oak Ridge at 7 p.m. Wednesday April 15. (See http://orionastronomy.wordpress.com, for more information.)

ORION has supported educational and astronomy activities in Oak Ridge and the surrounding region since 1974. These include the free public star gazes at the Tamke-Allan Observatory in Rockwood scheduled on the first and third Saturday of the month. (See www.roanestate.edu/TAO or contact David E. Fields at [email protected].)

Filed Under: College, Community, Education, Front Page News, Meetings and Events Tagged With: Can Peasants Be Scientists? Debates about the Social Reach of Science in the 18th-Century Europe, David E. Fields, Denise Phillips, Department of History, Grove Theater, ORION, ORION astronomy club, Tamke-Allan Observatory, University of Tennessee, UT

Amateur rocketry to be featured at astronomy club meeting

Posted at 3:55 pm October 15, 2014
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In advance of the October Sky Festival, the ORION astronomy club presents Nicholas “Sterling” Edmunds III, a notable figure in amateur rocketry, who’ll speak on tracking and real time telemetry and data logging in rocketry, as well as on designing rockets with “Rocksim.” He will feature the Phoenix XL Rocket.

Come to the Grove Theater at 123 Randolph Road in Oak Ridge on Wednesday October 15, at 7 p.m., a press release said. (See http://orionastronomy.wordpress.com for more information.) [Read more…]

Filed Under: Clubs, Community, Front Page News Tagged With: amateur rocketry, Grove Theater, Nicholas "Sterling" Edmunds III, October Sky Festival, ORION, ORION astronomy club, rocketry

ORION astronomy club to meet Wednesday at Grove Theater

Posted at 1:30 pm March 18, 2014
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The ORION astronomy club presents Linda C. Kah, a University of Tennessee Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences professor, on Wednesday, March 19, at 7 p.m. Her presentation will be on Mars and titled “Curioser and Curioser: The Curiosity Rover’s adventure in Gale Crater.”

This talk will highlight the first 1.5 years of surface mission activities and explore ancient environments of Mars.

This free presentation will be at the Grove Theater. For more information, go to http://orionastronomy.wordpress.com. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Clubs, College, Education, Front Page News Tagged With: astronomy, Curiosity Rover, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Grove Theater, Linda C. Kah, Mars, ORION astronomy club, rover, University of Tennessee

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