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Naturalist Workshop: HANDS-ON SKULLS, Double Workshop In this two-part workshop, you'll get to investigate a wide variety of fascinating skulls and specimens plus learn the essentials of how to identify local animals by their skulls. You'll discover what determines if the animal was predator or prey, what it ate, and what sense was most important to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 General, $24 Members
Wildlife Associates: Animals of the RainforestIn this special presentation of "Animals of the Rainforest" by Wildlife Associates you will see an anteater, sloth, macaw and other fascinating animals. Learn about their habits, lives, and their roles in the great webs of life.
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Khayyam: A Tunable Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer for Broadband Observation of Diffuse Emission Line Targets Sona Hosseini will report on progress toward development of a tunable spatial heterodyne spectrometer (TSHS) at the fixed focus of the Coudé Auxiliary Telescope (CAT) in the Shane Telescope at Lick Observatory (Khayyam). Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer (SHS) instruments are a class of interferometric sensor capable of providing a combination of ...
Like foraging marine animals, humans rely disproportionately on productive coastal areas created by upwelling. Particularly sensitive cetaceans are vulnerable to anthropogenic inputs when they converge with human activities. These inputs range from contaminants and toxins to entanglement in marine debris and noise, which affects communication, causes hearing loss and displacement, ...