The Piscataqua Science Cafe series runs during the Gundalow Company’s off season; November through March. Each night brings experts from a variety of backgrounds together for a discussion about current science topics. This is your chance to ask an expert the questions you’ve always wanted to!
This year our Science Cafe Series will be hosted at Throwback Brewery [7 Hobbs Rd, North Hampton, NH]
Each 60 minute Science Cafe presentation or panel will begin at 5pm.
Please arrive early to settle in and order your food or beverages if you’d like.
Science Cafes are free. Donations are always welcome. Please register online so we know how many guests to expect.
Science Cafe Schedule
November 7th Great Bay Horseshoe Crab Monitoring presented by Melissa Brogle and Chris Chabot
December 19th Cassie Stymiest from Educational Passages will share information about the MiniBoat program that offers an extraordinary way for people of all ages to learn crucial STEAM skills, discover maritime careers, and build connections that will last a lifetime.
January 9, 2025 (info coming soon)
February 13, 2025 *New Date Great Bay 2030 Panel Discussion with CLF Great Bay Waterkeeper Melissa Paly, Lynn Vaccaro from The Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and Trevor Mattera, Habitat Program Manager for UNH Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership
Register Online Today
This project was funded, in part, by NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management under the Coastal Zone Management Act in conjunction with the NH Department of Environmental Services Coastal Program. The Gundalow Company is a non-profit 501(c)3 which sails on the waterways of the Piscataqua with 125 school groups from our region annually.
Past Science Cafes
2023
March 23 Oyster aquaculture featuring local oyster farmers at Earth Eagle Brewing North, Somersworth, NH. Laura Brown, Fox Point Oysters & Brian Gennaco, Virgin Oysters
January 26 In Partnership with Blue Ocean Society: Plastic Pollution Diane Kamberalis [Blue Ocean Society] & Gabriels Bradt [NH Sea Grant]
December 2022
Traditional Boatbuilding with Local Master Builders with Nate Piper [Piper Boatworks], Graham McKay [Lowell’s Boat Shop] and Susan Johnson [Traip Academy] and students.
Past Science Cafes
January 22 2017: Meltdown: What People Should Know and Why they Should Care about Glaciers
- Cameron Wake
- Larry Hamilton
Feb 22 2017: Clean it Up: Creative Solutions for the Health of Our Bay
- Jeff Barnum
- Rebecca O’Brien
- Rachel Rouillard
March 22 2017: Investments in Portsmouth’s Pierce Island Facility: Improving Water Quality in Great Bay
- Terry Desmarais
- Tom Irwin
- Dean Peschel
April 19 2017: Raging River: Is New England Prepared for Increasingly Extreme Weather?
- Cliff Sinnott
- Mary Stampone
May 10 2017: Pollution Solutions: What you can do as an Individual
- David Cedarholm
- Stephen Jones
- Corey Riley
Oct 18 2017: Right Whales in the Wrong Places: The Future of Right Whales in the North Atlantic
- Ken Baldwin
- Heather Pettis
Nov 15th 2017: The Secret Life of Lobsters
- Win Watson
- Joshua Carloni
Jan 17, 2018: Electrons and Electrolytes: Alternative Energy (and) Drinks
- Kate Epsen
- Clay Mitchell
Feb 21, 2018: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Shellfish
- Michael Chambers (UNH)
- Brian Fennaco (Virgin Oyster Company)
- Rich Pettigrew (Seaport Fish)
March 28, 2018: Yo, Salt Marshes!
- David Burdick (UNH)
- Alyson Eberhart (UNH)
April 18, 2018: Tracking Fisheries in the Gulf of Maine
- Alix Laferriere (TNC)
- Kathy Mills (GMRI)
October 28, 2018 – The Consequences of Climate Change Policy
- Robert Mohr (UNH Economist)
- Larry Hamilton (UNH Sociologist)
November 28, 2018 – Farming for the Future: Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
- Dorn Cox (Research Director – Wolfe’s Neck Center)
- Todd Guerdat (UNH Agrictultural Engineering)
January 16, 2019 – Seals on the Shoals: Population Monitoring and Human Interactions on Harbor and Gray Seals
- Andrea Bogomolni
- Nadine Lysiak
- Ashley Stokes
Seabirds: Sentinels of ocean health
- Dr. Gemma Clucas (UNH)
- Dr. Elizabeth Craig (Cornell)
- Dr.Jennifer Seavey (Shoals Marine Lab)
Out of the Darkness & Into the Light: The Role of Emerging Fisheries in the Changing Gulf of Maine
- Josh Carloni (NH Fish and Game)
- Jason Goldstein (Wells Reserve)
Ocean Plastics: Separating Fact and Fiction
- Jen Kennedy (Blue Ocean Society)
- Gabi Bradt (Fisheries Extension Specialist – NH Sea Grant)
Oil Spills in the Piscataqua: Past and Future
- Jason Domke (NHDES)
- Dan Oleksiak (USCG)
- Chris Holt (Portsmouth Pilot)
Citizen Science: By the People For the People
- Alyson Eberhardt
- Malin Clyde
Feb 20, 2020 Climate Change in the Seacoast: It’s More than Flooding
- Jennifer Jacobs (UNH)
- Sherry Godlewski (NHDES)
March 18, 2020 Water Over the Dam: resolving conflicts between beavers and human communities (Cancelled)
- Larry Keniston
- Jim O’Brien
- Matthew Tarr
- Patrick Tate
May 7th 2020 – Exploring the Environmental Impacts of Covid-19 (Virtual)
- Cameron Wake (Dept. of Earth Sciences UNH)
- Larry Hamilton (Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow in the Carsey School of Public Policy UNH)
- Kalle Matso (Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership)
