We do not, but if you’re a local community organisation looking for a space to host an event, feel free to shoot us a note at and we can have a chat. Though we do have some outlets available, they’re limited to the lounges, so we recommend coming with your electronics fully juiced. We definitely welcome people to pop open their laptops or meet up for a brainstorming session. If you need beans ground for a particular brewing method, just let the team know and they’ll get you sorted. We sell our full selection of coffee beans, grounds, pods and merch at the Tasting Bar so you can enjoy them at home. When we’re not slinging mighty fine brews for people like you, we’re doing all that other fun stuff.Ĭan I buy your coffee beans to enjoy at home? Also, is it possible to have them ground for espresso/AeroPress/Plunger/etc.? Our HQ Tasting Bar is a hybrid space – part cafe, micro roastery, concept store, barista training studio and community space. Why isn’t the Tasting Bar open on Mondays and Tuesdays? The good news is the Tasting Bar has now reopened, ready to welcome our mates (that’s you) once again. We originally opened the space back in 2019, but unfortunately had to shut our doors to the public when a little virus decided to pay us a visit… Instead, we focused our efforts on supporting our cafe partners to ensure their wellbeing during an incredibly tough trot for the hospitality industry. So, our coffee tastes and skills in marine cycles take us around the world on a journey of scientific adventure, which comes together on this VERTIGO cruise.FAQs about the Tasting Bar: I seem to remember the space being open a few years back – what happened? in Wellington New Zealand, and bought by our group in Honolulu at the Exquisite Coffee Company. We have also enjoyed coffee carried to the ship by Phil Boyd’s group from the Ripe Coffee Co. I might have spent a bit more money than intended in the restaurant. The atmosphere, design, service, food, coffee, rooms. On this VERTIGO research cruise, we have already collected and measured over 200 thorium-234 samples. KOZHELUZHSKA 945/31, Olomouc, 779 00, Czech Republic Excellent location - show map. We added a few creature comforts like a stereo, and of course the espresso maker and voila, the Café Thorium was born. As our methods became streamlined for thorium work, we outfitted a 20 foot long container as a mobile marine thorium lab that can be shipped around the world and placed directly on board a research vessel for our use. Like all approaches, thorium is not a perfect tool, but we here at the Café Thorium have improved methods that allow us to measure thorium easier and on smaller sample sizes than in prior work and this improves our ability to learn more about the ocean with this tracer. So rather than collecting sinking particles directly using sediment traps or other devices (which is not an easy task) we can calculate the rate of vertical particle flux by measuring this “tracer” or proxy for ocean particle flux. High thorium indicates low particle fluxes. Since uranium concentrations are generally constant in the ocean, this means that if one measures low thorium, more thorium is hitching a ride on sinking particles and the flux of particles is high. What is interesting about the cycle of thorium in seawater, is that the concentration, or amount of thorium in seawater is largely determined by the balance between its supply from uranium, and its removal on sinking particles. This decay period of a few weeks makes thorium-234 a good “clock” to measure biological processes in the upper ocean, including the rates of particle sinking, since ocean plankton that are the source of many marine particles have cycles of growth and decay that lasts from days to weeks. There is more than one thorium isotope, or atomic mass for thorium, and thorium-234 is appealing to us in that it is naturally sticky, or attaches easily to particles surfaces, and it has a period of 24 days for half of the thorium atoms to be lost due to natural radioactive decay processes. Thorium is a naturally radioactive compound derived from the decay of uranium in seawater. We started taking an Italian espresso machine with us on research trips about 10 years ago, at the same time we were developing improved methods for measuring thorium-234 in seawater. Well to make a long story short, our group is not the first to measure the elemental distribution of thorium in seawater, but I think we are the first to combine our skills in the marine chemistry of thorium with an appreciation for an excellent espresso. If you’ve been following our VERTIGO cruise from the home page of the Café Thorium, you might be asking yourself, what does a Café have to do with ocean science? and what the heck is thorium? and what does all of this have to do with VERTIGO, our study of the sources and sinking rates of marine particles, and this cruise off Hawaii?
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