WHAT: Noggin + TRIO outreach in Astoria, Warrenton and Knappa!

WHERE: Clatsop County, Northwest Oregon; Fort George Brewery, Astoria High School, Knappa High School, Bumble Art Pre-School, West Exchange Pre-School

WHEN: Tuesday, April 18 – Friday, April 21

Signal from Noise: Surrounded by Waves in the Pacific Northwest

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
– Nikola Tesla

We did this!

New post on talk:

Signal from Noise on the Oregon Coast

New post on school visits!

Pre-K, Fish and Logger Lobes!

Energy travels in waves, and we are immersed in energetic waves, in air, in water and in electromagnetism. There is information in complex, changing waves  –  including critical details of weather, language, and our own perception, cognition and behavior in health and disease.

The Northwest is home to people who understand waves, who make a living attending to wave energy, to safely navigate Pacific and Columbia River shipping routes, to compel and engage us with music, to discover neural activity linked to our individualized perceptions, and to determine where seizures originate in the brain. What are waves? What is information? How do we extract, using our noggins, our developmental experience and our technology, the personally relevant signals we seek from surrounding noise?

We’ll host a presentation at the Fort George Brewery featuring Randall Olson, a graduate student in Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience conducting NIH-funded research using electrophysiological techniques at OHSU, Mark Hails, a Columbia River bar pilot, and Tom Hernandez, a PA cardiologist from Columbia Memorial Hospital. We’ll follow this up with three days of NW Noggin outreach visits to Astoria and Knappa Public Schools. We’ll contribute eleven volunteers in collaboration with the Oregon TRIO Association, Knappa and Astoria Public Schools, West Exchange and Bumble Art Pre-Schools, the Astoria Coop, Peter Pan Market, Good to Go, the Astoria YMCA, the Rosebriar Mansion and the Fort George Brewery.

TALK SLIDES Waves_FINAL (pdf)

“Signals always point to something. In this sense, a signal is not a thing but a relationship. Data becomes useful knowledge of something that matters when it builds a bridge between a question and an answer. This connection is the signal.”
– Stephen Few

THANK YOU!

Housing and meals generously provided through TRIO and community partners!

LEARN MORE: Threshold through TRIO

TUESDAY, APRIL 18
Fort George Brewery, 6 – 8pm
Signal from Noise: Bar Pilots, Heartbeats and Brains!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19
MORNING: Bumble Art Pre-School, 1555 W Marine Dr, Astoria, OR 97103
LUNCH: Fort George Brewery
AFTERNOON: Free!

THURSDAY, APRIL 20
MORNING: West Exchange Pre-School, 245 W Exchange St St, Astoria, OR 97103
LUNCH: Good to Go
AFTERNOON: Knappa High School, 41535 Old US Hwy 30, Astoria, OR 97103
DINNER: Fort George Brewery!!

FRIDAY, APRIL 21
MORNING: Astoria High School, 1001 W Marine Dr #5829, Astoria, OR 97103
LUNCH: Peter Pan Market
AFTERNOON: Astoria High School

COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS:
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Tonia Bautista, PSU
4. Josie Borden, PSU Rosenbaum scholar
5. Isabella Starr, PSU
6. Kai Hosea, PSU
7. Kadi Rae Smith, PSU
8. Chad Alexander, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
9. Becky Hunt, PSU
10. Nathalie Rios Carreon, PSU
11. Martin Lemke, PSU

 

SEE WHAT WE’VE DONE IN CLATSOP COUNTY BEFORE

Viking, Shark, Fishermen & Bandit Brains!

Clatsop Community Cortex

North Coast Noggins: Art, Alevins & Brains!

Accumbens in Astoria