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Ales & Ideas:
math and music
ASTORIA — Clatsop Com-
munity College and Fort
George Brewery are pleased
to announce the February
event for the Ales & Ideas
community lectures, held the
first Thursday of the month.
On Feb. 1, Math Instruc-
tor Rich Beveridge presents
“Mathematics & Music.”
Doors open with food and
beverage service at 6 p.m.
Seasonal beers will be on
tap, and food and other bev-
erages available for purchase
(but no purchase is required).
The Fort George Lovell
Showroom is located at 14th
and Duane streets in Astoria.
Minors are welcome.
“Doe, a deer, a female
deer. Ray, a drop of gold-
en sun. Me, a name I call
myself …”
Many of us grew up
with Do Re Mi Fa So La
Ti Do, but few understand
the mathematics behind the
diatonic scale made famous
in “The Sound of Music.”
The ancient Greeks knew
that the length of a vibrating
string was mathematically
related to the tone it pro-
duced and developed the
seven-tone diatonic scale
and seven-stringed lyre.
During the Renaissance,
this scale was extended
by European musicians
to develop the 12-tone
even-tempered scale. The
process they used can be
adapted to create other
types of even-tempered
scales. This month’s Ales
& Ideas presentation ex-
plores the interconnections
between two of humanity’s
greatest expressions: math
and music.
Beveridge, amateur
COURTESY CLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Math Instructor Rich Beveridge
guitarist and professional
mathematician, will explain
the math behind music, how
it has informed not only the
history of musical compo-
sition but also instrument
design. Come experience
the marriage of music and
mathematics — see the beau-
ty in mathematics, and hear
the patterns and formulas in
music!
Beveridge began his
career as a high school math
teacher in 1994. He taught
at Hopi High School in
Arizona and several high
schools in Maine before re-
Fish for information at Nature Matters
FORT CLATSOP — Oregon’s ocean
is a place of incredible productiv-
ity and amazing biodiversity. The
state is taking steps to protect its
treasures through a new system
of marine reserves.
At the next Nature Matters
— 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, at
Fort George Brewery’s Lovell
Building — Dr. Kirsten Grorud-
Colvert will take us underwater
to show how Oregon’s unique
ecosystem supports the incred-
ible journey of fishes traveling
from open ocean, to nearshore
waters, to the deep offshore.
She will explain how we can
learn from fishes that settle in
protected habitats by tracking
when and where they end up,
and how this knowledge can
help inform successful protec-
tion of Oregon’s ocean eco-
systems and the benefits they
provide.
The free event is open to the
public. Doors open at 6 p.m. to
purchase dinner or beverages.
Grorud-Colvert is a marine
ecologist and assistant profes-
sor in the Integrative Biology
Department at Oregon State
University.
Nature Matters, a lively con-
versation about the intersection
of nature and culture, takes place
on second Thursday of each
month, October through May.
The conversations are hosted
by Lewis and Clark National
Historical Park in partnership
with the North Coast Watershed
Association, the Lewis & Clark
National Park Association and
Fort George Brewery.
For more information, call the
park at 503-861-2471, or check
out nps.gov/lewi or Lewis and
Clark National Historical Park on
Facebook or Instagram.
COURTESY LEWIS AND CLARK NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
Dr. Kirsten Grorud-Colvert
turning to school in 2000 to
earn bachelor’s and master’s
degrees in mathematics at
the University of Maine.
He’s been teaching at CCC
since 2004.
Yacht not to
miss this talk
ASTORIA — The Astoria Yacht club
will present a talk by professional yacht
surveyor Alison Mazon 6 p.m. Thursday,
Feb. 8.
Mazon is among the foremost survey-
ors in the Portland area, and has an excel-
lent reputation in the yachting communi-
ty. She will present information designed
to help the prospective yacht buyer, as
well as those preparing to sell their boat,
to avoid conditions which might be a
source of regret later.
Mazon will also discuss some of the
ins and outs of the purchasing process
and answer questions from the audience.
Don’t miss this informative program de-
signed to make the “two happiest days of
a sailor’s life” serene and satisfying.
There is no charge for this presenta-
tion, and it is open to everyone, not just
to club members. All talks will be at the
clubroom (300 Industry St., Suite 201) in
Astoria at the west boat basin.