About us
Science on Tap is a science lecture series where you can sit back, enjoy a pint, and laugh while you learn. Listen to experts talk about the science in your neighborhood and around the world. You don’t have to be a science geek to have fun—all you need is a thirst for knowledge!
Upcoming events
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- $25.00
Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex
Kiggins Theatre, 1011 Main Street, Vancouver, WA, USEVENT DESCRIPTION:
A vast and delightfully diverse journey through the sex lives of animals.For too long, science has ignored and obscured the multiplicity of animal sexual behavior. With vivid, often funny, and always beautiful watercolor illustrations in a work of graphic nonfiction, artist Perrin Roosevelt Ireland examines how animals express and have sex.
Go on a wild biodiversity ride from queerness, infidelity, and divorce to consent, sexual cannibalism, and sex change. She interviews researchers at the edge of this new science and brings readers along as she learns the latest discoveries.
In vivid comics of seahorse dads, polygamous albatross, and gender-fluid barnacles, Poking the Squid illustrates for us a vibrant and erotic earth that we are just beginning to grasp. By illuminating and celebrating animal diversity, she asks us to embrace our own.
Perrin Roosevelt Ireland is an artist and environmentalist. Her work has appeared at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and the Mystic Seaport Museum and in Discover, Nature, Scientific American, and the Rumpus. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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$15.00 DISCOUNT (senior, student, it's your birthday, just can't afford the GA price right now)
$25.00 GENERAL ADMISSION
$35.00 VIP Premium seating (front center rows)
$46.75 Book and ticket combo - 15% off bothTICKETS: Get tickets!
WHERE ARE MY PEEPS?
This is an unhosted meetup event, but we have a Meetup sign if anyone wants to volunteer to mark a row or two!IN-PERSON ONLY
We are no longer able to offer a live stream option for our live events. A recording may be available after the event on our Patreon (or sometimes also our YouTube channel) at the speaker's discretion.Visit the Science On Tap website
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1 attendee - $25.00
How Did the Frog Cross the Road? Portland’s Frog Tunnel
Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR, USEVENT DESCRIPTION:
Every winter, the amphibians of northwest Portland enter a real-life game of Frogger. Most drivers on U.S. Route 30 never notice the small, slimy critters leaping across the asphalt on rainy nights. But for northern red-legged frogs, the stakes are high—reach the water to lay their eggs, or die trying.In response to their plight, biologists are using innovative solutions to help frogs and other vulnerable wildlife cross roads. With the help of buckets and bulldozers, over a decade of conservation efforts have inspired a growing community of amphibian enthusiasts in Portland. In the summer of 2024, they broke ground on their biggest venture yet: a tunnel for frogs beneath Route 30.
Less than two years later, the project is shaping up to be an early success story. Along the way, scientists are using specialized technology to document northern red-legged frog behavior and develop strategies to protect this common, yet cryptic species.
Join us to learn about the challenges our amphibian neighbors face and how we can help overcome them, while gaining a glimpse into the fascinating lives of frogs.
Alyson Yates is a graduate student in the School of Earth, Environment and Society at PSU and a freelance photojournalist. Her work has been featured by National Wildlife Magazine, Bats Magazine, Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation, OSU, and other media outlets.
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COST:
$15 DISCOUNT (senior, student, it's your birthday, just can't afford the GA price right now)
$25 GENERAL ADMISSION
$35 VIP Premium seating (front center rows)
$45 SUPPORTER (Premium seating, pint glass (beer not included), and good feelings for supporting the program)TICKETS: Get tickets!
WHERE ARE MY PEEPS?
This is an unhosted meetup event, but we have a Meetup sign if anyone wants to volunteer to mark a row or two!IN-PERSON ONLY
We are no longer able to offer a live stream option for our live events. A recording may be available after the event on our Patreon (or sometimes also our YouTube channel) at the speaker's discretion.Visit the Science On Tap website
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1 attendee - $25.00
How to Think Like a Volcano
Kiggins Theatre, 1011 Main Street, Vancouver, WA, USEVENT DESCRIPTION:
When and how will a volcano erupt in the future? Say…Mount Baker (a very-high-threat volcano in Washington State)?Volcanic eruptions are fueled by the magmas stored beneath the surface, so if we want to better prepare, we have to dig deep (literally). In this talk, we will explore “how to think like a volcano” by looking closely at how ‘magma factories’ operate.
When a magma cools and solidifies, it can form crystals that can sometimes preserve zones like the rings of a tree. Zoning patterns can therefore record the changing magmatic environment, including temperature changes, physical interactions between magmas, and time.
Using crystal cargo in erupted material, we will address:
- What causes magmas to escape the crust and erupt on the surface?
- How long does it take for magma to exit the crust?
- Can we improve our “stopwatches” between the moment volcanic unrest is detected, and the moment we need to respond to an impending eruption?
We’ll take a close look at the Cascade volcanoes in our very own backyard, zooming in on the active Mount Baker in WA state.
Dr. Hannah Shamloo works at Central Washington University as an Assistant Professor where she has taught igneous petrology, geochemistry, volcanology, and science communication for the past 5 years. Her research is on both active and extinct volcanic systems in Washington state and beyond.--------
COST:
$15.00 DISCOUNT (senior, student, it's your birthday, just can't afford the GA price right now)
$25.00 GENERAL ADMISSION
$35.00 VIP Premium seating (front center rows)
$45.00 SUPPORTER: Premium seating, pint glass (beer not included), and good feelings for supporting the programTICKETS: Get tickets!
WHERE ARE MY PEEPS?
This is an unhosted meetup event, but we have a Meetup sign if anyone wants to volunteer to mark a row or two!IN-PERSON ONLY
We are no longer able to offer a live stream option for our live events. A recording may be available after the event on our Patreon (or sometimes also our YouTube channel) at the speaker's discretion.Visit the Science On Tap website
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1 attendee - $25.00
How to Revive Our Memories & Restore the Planet
Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR, USEVENT DESCRIPTION:
As the climate emergency worsens and biodiversity shrinks, we humans get used to it—we adapt, we normalize, we forget. Scientists call this “shifting baseline syndrome” and warn that it’s why we are increasingly sleepwalking toward disaster.In this positive and inspiring manifesto, the environmental activist and longtime editor-in-chief of Sierra magazine Jason Dove Mark offers an antidote, focusing on four simple but powerful rules that everyone can use to resist environmental amnesia:
Go outside. Bear witness. Make a record. Pass it on.
Mark makes the case for easy, everyday practices that can help us “remember the Earth” and support environmental conservation, restoration, and rewilding. And he shares moving examples of citizen scientists, birdwatchers, mountain climbers, and fishermen across the country who are putting them into practice. The Earth Said Remember Me: *How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet *is a hopeful, achievable prescription for protecting the planet, one citizen at a time.
Jason Dove Mark has served as editor-in-chief of Sierra and editor of Earth Island Journal. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Atlantic. He lives in the PNW.
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COST:
$15 DISCOUNT (senior, student, it's your birthday, just can't afford the GA price right now)
$25 GENERAL ADMISSION
$35 VIP Premium seating (front center rows)
$45 SUPPORTER (Premium seating, pint glass (beer not included), and good feelings for supporting the program)TICKETS: Get tickets!
WHERE ARE MY PEEPS?
This is an unhosted meetup event, but we have a Meetup sign if anyone wants to volunteer to mark a row or two!IN-PERSON ONLY
We are no longer able to offer a live stream option for our live events. A recording may be available after the event on our Patreon (or sometimes also our YouTube channel) at the speaker's discretion.Visit the Science On Tap website
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1 attendee
Past events
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