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Fibre-optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is an emerging technology that enables the recording of ground motions with fibre-optic (telecommunication) cables. Since these cables can be deployed in environments that are traditionally challenging for seismometers (underwater, in cities, glaciers, deep boreholes, etc.), we can use DAS to make measurements of seismic ...
Where: Cost: Free
21-cm cosmology in 2021 - LivestreamI will describe how to use the 21-cm line of hydrogen to learn about cosmology and particle physics. I will begin with an overview of the 21-cm signal during cosmic dawn and reionization, and give an update of the 2021 status of both theory and data. Then I will show ...
Where: Cost: Free
NASA Ocean Satellites, Supercomputers, And Climate Science - LivestreamLearn more about climate science at NASA with Dr. Dimitris Menemenlis, a research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Working with the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, or ECCO, Menemenlis and colleagues attempt to make the best possible estimates of ocean circulation and ...
Where: Cost: Free
Wild & Scenic Film Festival 2021 - VirtualJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) and Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (Midpen) as we co-host the Wild & Scenic Film Festival Virtually! Those who register will enjoy 2-hour film program that will air live at 7pm, Friday May 21st, and can be watched at any time, on demand through ...
Where: Cost: Free
A Walking Tour of Optical History -- Artifacts and Anecdotes from the Astronomical Lyceum - LivestreamPioneering telescope makers allowed a revolutionary ascendancy of American astronomy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Astronomical Lyceum in New Mexico, originally built in 1936 as a theater and gymnasium, now houses a collection of telescopes, optics, archives, and literature from this ascendancy. Its volunteer staff find the ...
