25/10/2024 | What colour is sea ice? Why is Bremen not a city state? What do energy detectives do? And what is artificial intelligence doing on Mars? The topics of this year's autumn series of the popular ‘Science goes public’ format are once again varied and entertaining. From 10 October to 14 November 2024, scientists will be enticing people into the pubs of Bremen and Bremerhaven with their talks. Almost twenty entertaining talks, each no more than thirty minutes long, show the fascinating world of science - broken down into facts and anecdotes that are easy to understand even for laypeople. Afterwards, there will be an opportunity for the audience and the researchers to exchange ideas.
From ZMT, Dr Mirco Wölfelschneider will take part. At the Gastfeld in Bremen's Neustadt distric on 31 October, the mangrove ecologist invites the audience on a trip to tropical coasts to let them know what he finds so fascinating about mangroves and why mangrove forests are not only vital for the local population in the tropics, but are also viewed as ‘climate savers’ these days.
On 10 October at the pub Fehrfeld Bremen, Imogen Weidinger from the University of Bremen will take a look at the connections between emancipation and female alcohol consumption. Current developments show a growing trend towards alcohol consumption among young women and female executives.
On 17 October at Maerz in Bremen, Professor Sven Uhrhan from Bremen University of Applied Sciences will be discussing the third topic alongside football and the weather that everyone can have a say in: urban planning and transport. What are the requirements for a turnaround in transport and mobility?
On 24 October at Café de Fiets in Bremerhaven, Lena Buth from the Alfred Wegener Institute will take her audience on an expedition to the North Pole and explain how researchers look at the ice in the Arctic, what melt ponds are and why they are so important for the climate.
On 14 November at Mojo Coffee, Linda Böhm from ttz Bremerhaven will report on the connection between earthworms and Sunday rolls and shed light on the challenges and sustainability aspects of the flour supply chain from the field to the breakfast table.
In Bremen, the Bremen University of Applied Sciences, the University of Bremen, the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research and the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research are among those taking part. In Bremerhaven, representatives from Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences, the Historical Museum, the German Maritime Museum and the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems will be giving talks.
Admission to all events on Thursdays at 8.30 pm is free. More information about the programme can be found at www.sciencegoespublic.de. The series can be found on social networks under #ScienceGoesPublic. The organisers of ‘Science goes public’ are Erlebnis Bremerhaven GmbH on behalf of the ‘Pier der Wissenschaft’ and WFB Wirtschaftsförderung Bremen GmbH for the Hanseatic City of Bremen.
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