Noel Thyson has undergraduate and graduate school degrees from the University of Illinois in Aeronautical Engineering located in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. He has a distinguished alumni award from the Aeronautical Engineering Department at the University of Illinois and was awarded a life time membership in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
He worked for 47 years at Avco/Textron Systems Division in Wilmington, Ma and retired in the year 2009. He worked in the Advanced/Research Department and was director of conceptual design, aerodynamics, thermodynamics, flight mechanics, and materials.
He will present today a summary of the Apollo 11 Manned Crew flight from the earth to the moon and back to earth on July 19 —24, 1969. The first landing of man on the moon. He will concentrate on presenting details of the hostile/high temperature environments that surrounded the Crew Capsule upon reentry from the moon through the earth’s atmosphere and on the ablative heat shield thermal protection system used to protect the Crew for a Safe Return from the Moon to the Earth.
Dr. James Barger, former Chief Scientist at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, will speak to us at our meeting this Friday, November 8, at 10:45am.
Dr. Barger is an internationally recognized expert in acoustics, particularly in sonar, underwater noise detection and reduction, broadband medical ultrasound, sensors for geophysical seismic exploration, and noise and vibration cancellation. On Friday, he will discuss the acoustic studies he performed for the House Select Committee on Assassinations of the United States House of Representatives in connection with its investigation of the assassination of president John F Kennedy in November 1963.
Our guest speaker is JoAnne Stubbe, Novartis Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus at MIT who will discuss the role that ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs) play in catalyzing the conversion of nucleotides to deoxynucleotides in DNA replication and repair.
Free radicals (molecules that have lost an electron and are therefore highly active) are often cited as contributing significantly to the aging process. Recent investigations, however, have shown that certain free radicals play a very beneficial role in biochemistry, and a number of drugs based on this recognition are being developed. A brief overview of the "good" radicals and their involvement in an essential enzyme mediated reaction in primary metabolism will be presented.
Andrew Hrycyna will speak on the Mystic River watershed and its amazing urban ecological restoration story. Each year more than 700,000 river herring migrate from the Atlantic to the Mystic River to spawn in freshwater. For 8 years, the Mystic River Watershed Association (MRWA) has been documenting the population, in coordination with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF), using trained citizen volunteers who count the fish at a fish ladder in Upper Mystic Lake. The data show a remarkable tripling in the population after the building of the fish ladder. Andy will give a tour of this data, discuss the parallel data acquired from a video monitoring system now in its third year, and talk about the prospects of increasing the population of river herring even further by creating access to spawning habitat in Horn Pond in Woburn.
Andy Hrycyna is a watershed scientist at MRWA. Andy has worked closely on this project for 5 years, and also runs the water quality monitoring programs on the Mystic River. Andy came to MRWA after earning a master's in Sustainability and Environmental Management from Harvard Extension School.
Carl Pasciuto will be giving an in depth look of the history of manufacturing and High Precision machining. Carl is the CEO and one of the owners of The Custom Group Inc. a Contract Manufacturing organization based in Woburn Ma. The Custom group specializes in low volume high precision components and assemblies for diverse markets including but not limited to: Aerospace, Defense, Medical instrumentation, Green energy solutions, Space and countless others.
Established in 1969 Custom Machine has been an industry leader in innovation and process control. Now as a second-generation owned business it is profiting and growing, utilizing advanced technologies to bring their customers products to market better faster and cheaper than their competition.
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Bio:
Carl Pasciuto’s Career in Manufacturing began in 1983. His career began as an apprentice machinist for his father Cosmo Pasciuto and still continues today. After completing his education in engineering technology from Wentworth Institute of Technology he began his professional Career as an engineering assistant at Laser Science in Cambridge MA from 1988 to 1992. He then became a production manager for Custom Machine 1992. He has held most all of the managerial positions in the company and in 2004, he became president and Owner. Today with more than 35 years of Manufacturing experience he is the CEO of the Custom Group Inc which employs more than 70 people locally here in Woburn with a global customer base and annual sales of $15M.
Bio/Introduction
John L Keller, PhD, CCM
Dr. John L Keller’s career in atmospheric science research & development goes back to the early 1970s. As a Senior Research Meteorologist at AIR Worldwide in Boston, Dr. Keller developed and implemented a model for the extreme wind climate of Northwest Europe. This model is part of AIR's "EuroCAT" modeling system, widely used by the property and casualty insurance industry to manage climate risk. Prior to joining AIR Worldwide, Dr. Keller was a staff meteorologist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, MA. At Lincoln, he provided scientific support for the FAA's Integrated Terminal Weather System and NASA's Wake Vortex Program. In 2005 Dr. Keller was the founding scientist of Weather Analytics (now Athenium Analytics), a company that provides data and analytical tools, including those for managing climate risk. In addition to giving numerous conference and public presentations, Dr. Keller has published in many scientific journals, including Nature, the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences and Monthly Weather Review
Promo: Community group version
Dr. Keller will be giving a non-partisan, hopeful, expert presentation on climate change. He is a volunteer with the
Citizens’ Climate Lobby, a national nonprofit organization whose activities include offering speakers for community
organizations. Advisors to the Citizens’ Climate Lobby include former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz and
former NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Director Dr. James E. Hansen.
This talk is designed to educate, enable, and entertain. It may include short videos, slides, stories, and time for audience input and questions after the talk. In his talk, Dr. Keller will address a number of questions, including:
1. How is global climate change expected to impact life here and around the world for us and future generations?
2. Are there technical solutions that could significantly alter the climate's current trajectory?
3. What specific actions can I take to speed up the deployment of these solutions?
After participating in this meeting, members will feel (1) hopeful for a future stable climate, (2) energized, (3) inspired to get involved!