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2020 City Nature Challenge Livestream 2 - Nature in PlaceGet ready for City Nature Challenge and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day by learning about nature near you and gaining some practical skills for nature observation around your home and neighborhood. The interactive portion of this workshop will cover tricks for smartphone photography, attracting nature to your home, and some thought-provoking discussion of natural history ...
The presentation introduces air traffic management with focus on air traffic data for data-science. Starting with the common attributes of transportation systems - highway transportation, air transportation and data transportation, the initial set of slides discuss the purpose of data-science in air traffic management, reasons why air traffic management is ...
Join us for an online program exploring some of the big ideas behind the science of the Earth’s systems. Watch the live stream below or on YouTube and Facebook.April 22, 2020, marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Founded in 1970 by activist groups, Earth Day is now an annual, global event to raise ...
Emphasizing equity in the way sustainable technologies are rolled out and decision-makers develop their urban infrastructure planning is critical to ensure a movement towards a just and inclusive society, especially in the context of a clean energy transition. In this talk, I focus on two particular examples where, through a ...
To discuss strategies for controlling interfaces and thin films in sustainable energy devices. She will describe the use of atomic layer deposition, a technique borrowed from the semiconductor industry, for fabrication of both solar cells and catalysts. She will present work on perovskite photovoltaics, in which nanometer-thin interfacial layers improve ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The State of the Environment During and After COVID-19 - LivestreamWhat lessons can we learn during this pandemic regarding the environment? How can we continue climate action from home? How is the environment changing following the slowdown of major cities around the world?Joins us for a cyber conversation with Director of San Francisco's Department of the Environment, Debbie Raphael, to ...
Where: Cost: Free
Machine Learning in Databases: Learned Indexes, Hash Tables, and B-Trees - LivestreamIndexing has a long and storied history in the world of computer science. Old stalwarts like the B-Tree and the hash table have dominated modern databases since time immemorial (the 1970's), but new research into applying ML techniques to indexing could shake up the indexing scene. While no one thinks ...
Climate change and other human impacts on the environment are threatening wildflowers and the life that depends on them. In this special and timely work, conservation photographers Rob Badger and Nita Winter give us a spectacular view of California’s extraordinary wildflowers as both a cause for celebration and protection. Beauty ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Ugandan Communities Committed to Conservation - CANCELEDOakland Zoo has partnered with New Nature Foundation to protect Uganda’s Kibale National Park since 2006. Home to chimpanzees, elephants, monkeys and countless other species, the park is threatened by small-scale fuel wood collection. NNF’s multi-faceted approach achieves positive outcomes for both wildlife and people. In this Impact Speaker Series, ...
Where: OaklandCost: $10 - $30
Fast Radio Bursts: A long-standing mystery about to end? - LivestreamIn 2007, astronomers detected a radio signal from the sky that was unlike any seen before. It lasted only a millisecond but was extremely bright. Even more unexpectedly, its characteristics implied that it arrived from an unidentified galaxy billions of light-years away. This type of explosion, more powerful than anything ...
Where: Cost: Free
Skeptics in the Pub: Millbrae - CANCELEDBe sure to check http://www.skepticalcon.com/ and http://baskeptics.org/ For updates and SkeptiCal registration info.Science and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub West Bay, Fiddlers Green, Millbrae sponsored by Bay Area Skeptics.If ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the film-flam man, and if ye drink, drink with us, your friends. If ye shun the brewer’s art, at ...
Where: MillbraeCost: Free
Breathing Justice: Clean Air for Whom? - POSTPONEDSocial and environmental justice shapes the very air we breathe. Local players in the Bay Area are leading the nation - and in many cases the world - on setting policy, designing action plans for emissions reduction, and working with new technologies to identify and monitor hyperlocal hot spots in ...
