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An Interview with Dr. Ken Caldeira on Climate Change - LivestreamInteractive session with renowned scientist Dr. Ken Caldeira. All are welcome. Questions will be invited from audience.Ken Caldeira serves as Senior Advisor, Climate Change for Gates Ventures and is a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, where his job is “to make important scientific discoveries.” He also serves ...
Where: Cost: Free
Ocean Buoy Live Exploration: Cleaning and Servicing a CO2 Buoy Have you ever wondered how to move and service a full-sized scientific ocean buoy? Or what critters and seaweed cling to its underside? Watch live online as we lift our one-ton, 20-foot-tall carbon dioxide (CO2) buoy out of the water and explore its scientific instruments and the organisms that have ...
Where: Cost: Free
The COVID Economy: How the Pandemic is Impacting Inequality and Local Economies - LivestreamThe pandemic has sped up unsustainable and unjust trends in our economy. Tens if not hundreds of millions of Americans are struggling to cope with the economic fallout, while billionaires have only grown more disproportionately wealthy. Communities of color have been hit especially hard. Enormous multinational corporations like Amazon have ...
Is There a Future for Carpooling? - LivestreamIn the Bay Area, carpools carry nearly as many commute trips as public transit. As the Bay Area region struggles to meet state-mandated greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, carpooling remains an important alternative to single-occupant vehicle travel. Prior to the pandemic, new options emerged to match up riders and drivers, ...
Where: Cost: $10 General, Free for Members
The Science Behind Forest Restoration in the Sierra Nevada - LivestreamFire suppression and past logging have increased fire hazards in the forests of the Sierra Nevada. Climate change makes this situation worse but is not the dominant factor. We will look at a long-term study to see what forest restoration activities can be used today to increase the resilience of ...
This year we are celebrating 20 years of continuous human presence in space, onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Did you know that the ISS is a U.S. National Laboratory? The ISS National Lab is accessible to commercial companies, entrepreneurs and startups, and academic and government institutions for groundbreaking science, ...
Where: Cost: Free
Translating Data into a Shared LanguageBeing a talented data scientist who can program in multiple languages and analyze massive data sets is not always enough to get your work recognized by decision-makers. Often, we focus on building impressive visualizations and models only to find our audience confused about what we need them to learn, or ...
Hardcore Natural History: The Price of PesticidesJoin us for a discussion of recent research on pesticide contamination of milkweed in California's Central Valley led by Sarah Hoyle. A research team including Xerces Society staff and scientists from University of Nevada, Reno, sampled milkweed plants from various landscapes in the Central Valley and analyzed them for pesticide ...
Organic matter, part of what makes up living organisms, can be defined as material in the process of decay. Though life may be gone, it’s not forgotten, as this matter cycles back through the ecosystem - creating new opportunities for life. Tonight, scale down to the smallest forms of life ...
Where: Cost: Free
NightSchool: WildLife in the City - LivestreamJoin us for a NightSchool session examining the wild landscape of cities: how living with wildlife has shaped the design of where we live - and how we are shaping wildlife. Featuring talks by Elizabeth Carlen, Max Lambert, PhD, and Dr. Christopher Schell.
