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	TEACHER IN SERVICE CREDITS If your school requires you to have a sequence of educational opportunities in order to receive in-service credit, SUNYSB will provide attendance certification for each of the lectures attended during the Fall 2016 semester.Contacts for attendance certification: Physics: Lukasz Fidkowski <lukasz.fidkowski@stonybrook.edu> Geology: Gilbert Hanson <gilbert.hanson@stonybrook.edu> Astronomy: Michael Zingale <michael.zingale@stonybrook.edu> Living World: Jeffrey Levinton <jeffrey.levinton@stonybrook.edu>
Fri. 9/16	BIOLOGY LECTURE AT SUNYSB 7:30PM ESS001 Jeffrey Levinton; Oysters: Can We Save Them? Can They Save Us?
Fri. 9/23	GEOLOGY LECTURE AT SUNYSB 7:30PM ESS001 Gilbert N. Hanson; “The effects of acid rain on Long Island’s ecosystems”
Fri. 9/30	ASTRONOMY LECTURE AT SUNYSB 7:30PM ESS001 Doug Swesty; “Ripples in Space-time: Detecting Gravitational Waves”  During past year physicists and astronomers have, for the first time, directly detected gravitational waves. This phenomena, which was predicted over a century earlier by Albert Einstein as a part of his formulation of the General Theory of Relativity, has proven extremely difficult to observe because of the properties of gravity. However, a nearly half-century long effort culminating in the Laser Interferometric Gravitational Observatory (LIGO) experiment, funded by the National Science Foundation, has now detected at least gravitational wave events that are believed to be the
	6 Long Island Physics Teachers are now NYS Master Teachers!   Richard Gearns, Sachem HS East Justin King, Commack HS Keith Lundquist, Huntington HS Jaime Rogers, Walt Whitman HS Richard Slesinski, Syosset HS Gillian Winters, Smithtown East HS
	LIPTA is now on Facebook! Go HERE
	Tesla Museum - Shoreham  $1.37 million dollars was raised from 33,254 contributors to buy Tesla's Wardencliffe laboratory in Shoreham and construct a museum there. On Tesla's 158th birthday, Elon Musk pledged $1x10^6 for the effort to fully restore and operate the museum. (cnn article)