EAST BOOTHBAY — Entrepreneur, engineer, and philanthropist Dr. Ed Bosarge will lead Bigelow Laboratory’s July 16 Café Scientifique discussion, titled “Renewable Energy on Islands in the Exumas Island Chain,” beginning at 6 p.m. at the laboratory’s Ocean Science and Education Campus at 60 Bigelow Drive in East Boothbay.

Bosarge will talk about renewable energy design and construction concepts for island archipelagos, and the extent to which it is feasible to use solar, wind, and tidal energy today.

This is the third Bigelow Café Scientifique of the season, and the first summer “science conversation” to be held in the Commons of the new campus, rather than at the laboratory’s usual venue in the Boothbay Harbor Opera House.

In 2011, the Bosarge family funded the LEED Platinum, net-zero energy education center at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

A former IBM executive, Bosarge helped design NASA’s flight control systems for the Saturn program, and worked with Standard & Poor’s to develop methods for yield enhancement of fixed income portfolios. He founded The Frontier Companies, where he further developed predictive financial market technologies for automated trading of major equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets.

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences is an independent, nonprofit center for global ocean research, ocean science education, and technology transfer. The laboratory’s Café Scientifique talks are free and open to the public. The complete 2013 summer Café Scientifique program is available on the laboratory’s website at www.bigelow.org.