Baylands ExplorationsJoin expert EV docents for an exploration of the science and nature of the Palo Alto Baylands. What makes this habitat so special? How do the plants and animals survive the salty conditions? Why is it so different at different times of day or times of the year? How can ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Stewardship Saturday: Craft for ConservationJoin Ciclo and The Marine Mammal Center for hands-on, creativity driven event exploring how sustainability and conservation are deeply connected. Together, we'll learn about how reducing waste and reusing materials can support a healthier planet and protect marine life. During the event, participants will transform upcycled materials into jewelry, patches, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Family Nature Adventures: InsectsUncover the fascinating lives of nature’s insects and get the buzz about bees during this month’s adventure!Interactive Workshop: Engage in exciting activities, experiments, and crafts to learn about the incredible characteristics of native insects and pollinators. Discover how these creatures play a vital role in populating your favorite flowers.Nature Exploration ...
Where: OaklandCost: $25 Adult, $35 Youth 3 - 8, Members 15% off
Pi DayCelebrate Pi Day at its birthplace! This irrational and transcendent holiday was founded in 1988 at the Exploratorium, and has since grown into an international phenomenon. Join in our annual procession around the Pi Shrine, enjoy slices of delicious pie, and think beyond circles and spheres with surprising exhibits about ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
There’s Nothing Common about the Common Crow!Learn about the fascinating world of crows!Join us in the Visitor Center at the Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge for a 50-minute presentation about crows, some of the most intelligent birds you can encounter! This program is led by USFWS volunteer Judi Nechols.
Where: FremontCost: Free
Starry Nights Star PartyJoin the San Jose Astronomical Association (SJAA) and Santa Clara County Open Space Authority (OSA) for an unforgettable night of exploring the night sky. Our knowledgeable docents, members of SJAA, will be your guides to providing valuable insights into the wonders of our universe. The viewing site, Rancho Canada del ...
Ornithologists often study breeding birds and as a result the winter ecology and social behavior of migratory birds is relatively under studied. My students and I conducted a 22-year study of a population of golden-crowned sparrows that winter in the Arboretum of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Each sparrow ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Junior Rangers at the Refuge: Track DetectivesLove learning about new habitats? Curious about wildlife? Our Junior Rangers at the Refuge program is perfect for your family! Join us each month as we explore the Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge through fun, educational activities.This March, we'll discover who's roaming the Refuge by becoming track detectives! We'll become ...
Where: AlvisoCost: 0
Salt Marsh WalkJoin us for a short walk through the La Riviere Marsh!Join us for a leisurely hike along the La Riviere Trail. You'll learn about the ways that salt marshes benefit wetland ecosystems and us!Meet at the Visitor Center. Bring warm layers, sun protection, sturdy walking shoes, and binoculars if you ...
Speaker: Joseph Jackson, Environmental Compliance Inspector, Contra Costa CountyEditor's Note: Lauren Ashlock, UC Davis, was originally scheduled to speak today
AI coding agents now complete multi-hour coding benchmarks with roughly 50% reliability, yet a randomized trial found experienced open-source developers took about 19% longer when allowed frontier AI tools than when tools were disallowed.This talk presents the evidence on the productivity paradox in AI coding, shows the bottlenecks in deployment, ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Rethinking Materials for a Resource-Constrained World: Pathways to Sustainable and Equitable InfrastructureMaterials - particularly infrastructure materials - account for a substantial share of global energy use, mineral extraction, and anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Yet they remain essential for the built environment that underpins meeting quality of life needs, and demand for them is expected to grow. Addressing their climate impacts therefore requires ...
The nature of dark matter remains an outstanding question in physics, driving searches across a vast range of scales, from microscopic interactions to the cosmos. In this talk, I will explore two exciting avenues for probing dark matter: direct interactions with materials and its influence on stellar streams. At sub-GeV ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
First Results from the JUNO Experiment Neutrinos are elusive particles with unique properties that offer key insights into the fundamental structure of matter and the cosmic sources that produce them. The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a next-generation, 20-kiloton liquid scintillator detector, the largest of its kind in the world, located in China and recently ...
Why do you immediately click with some people while others just as inexplicably turn you off? Do people emit vibes? Is it possible to read a room? Are bad habits contagious? Kate Murphy, author of the international bestseller You’re Not Listening, answers these and other fascinating questions in Why We Click, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $10 Online, discount for members
Dopamine is everywhere - on podcasts, in productivity hacks, in conversations about addiction, motivation, and “dopamine detox.” But what does neuroscience actually say?In this lecture, Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera, PhD candidate in Neuroscience at Stanford University School of Medicine, cuts through the hype to separate fact from fiction about the brain’s most ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25
Think Different: Apple, the Counterculture, and Digital Culture, 1976-2026Join us for this talk on the counterculture's significant influence on Apple's origin story as the company turns 50 on April 1st.As we approach the 50th anniversary of Apple Inc. on April 1, 2026, the counterculture's influence on the company's origins and brand continues to draw significant attention. This program ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $18 in person, $9 online
Understanding the structure of the Earth’s subsurface is fundamentally an inverse problem with sparse direct observations and abundant indirect measurements. Drillholes provide precise but extremely limited information, while geophysical signals such as gravity, magnetics, and seismic data provide broader but indirect constraints on the underlying geology.In this talk, I introduce ...
Atmospheric CO2 concentrations continue to rise, yet uncertainty in equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) remains large, with implications for future warming projections. In this talk, I use simulations of past climate states to assess Earth system model performance and to diagnose sources of model bias. By comparing multiple generations of the Community Earth ...
Spatial light modulators (SLMs) enable dynamic optical patterning through pixel-level control of coherent light, facilitating emerging applications such as optical neural interfaces, deep tissue optical imaging, and near-eye displays for augmented and virtual reality. However, the advancement of many of these applications is constrained by the limitations of commercial SLMs, ...
The solvated electron (es-) is one of nature’s most powerful transient reactants, with thousands of reactions identified in water. What happens when these electrons are born near the surface of water instead of deep in the bulk? We create near-surface electrons by exposing a water microjet in vacuum to sodium ...
Productivity Gains And Labor Pains: What Will AI Do To Jobs?AI will transform the nature of work - but how quickly, which sectors first, and with what consequences? This event brings together leading technologists, economists and policymakers to assess what’s happening and what needs to be done. Join us for a timely and thought-provoking discussion about how AI is reshaping the workplace and what leaders need ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Popping the Science Bubble - Two TalksSneaking into cells: How plants are helping rewrite their own DNASpeaker: Kylee Hillman, UC BerkeleyThe 3-billion year war: How bacteria-virus conflict shapes our worldSpeaker: Emily Kibby, UC BerkeleyAttend in person or via zoom
Olga Tzogas of Smugtown Mushrooms, based in Rochester, NY returns to her ancestral home to interact, learn and connect deeper to the mycelial communities, and the people still practicing traditional ways of life or those creating a new. Greece is typically pictured by blue bird skies and matching crystalline seascapes, ...
This conversation with environmental humanities scholar and author Solvejg Nitzke will explore intriguing questions that are raised in her recent book Making Kin with Trees. A Cultural Poetics of Interspecies Care such as: Is it ok for scientists to be, or to admit to be, tree huggers? What does referring ...
The ocean plays an important role in the global carbon and oxygen cycles, but monitoring these processes using traditional ship-based methods is often challenging due to the vast size and dynamic nature of our oceans. Thankfully, autonomous assets, like Biogeochemical (BGC) Argo and autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs), have revolutionized ocean ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
UC Santa Cruz Whole Earth SeminarSpeaker:Andrew Fisher, UC Santa CruzEditor's Note: Matt Savoca, Hopkins Marine Station was originally scheduled to talk today.
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
'Time's Second Arrow' - LivestreamJoin Carnegie Science researchers Robert M. Hazen and Michael L. Wong for a lively discussion about their proposed "second arrow of time"??"a heretofore missing law of nature that explains how the marvelously complex constituents of our universe came to be. They will explain how the natural process of selection for ...
Where: Cost: Free
GTC 2026 After Hours: From Models to Agents to InfraThe AI stack is shifting fast - frontier models, agentic architectures, and the infrastructure underneath are all evolving in real time. But what's actually working in production vs. what's still hype?Novita AI, together with FounderCoho, is hosting a high-energy after-hours event during NVIDIA GTC 2026, featuring speakers from NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence ...
Where: SunnyvaleCost: Free
The Future of K-12 is Here: How AI is Shaping the Future of EducationJoin leading experts Sunanna Chand, Alex Kotran, and Dr. Victor Lee in discussion on how K-12 schooling needs to adapt and meld with AI now.Education has long been rooted in producing workers that fit the needs of the workforce in that day and age. But as AI takes root in ...
Melody Jue is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research and writings center the ocean humanities, science fiction, media studies, science & technology studies, and the environmental humanities.Professor Jue is the author of Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater, which won the Speculative Fictions and ...
oin Julie Amato and Carolyn Knight for an evening discussing the 6 species of owls most common to Santa Clara County. We're digging into the who's who of our nocturnal raptors, where you can encounter them, and all of the amazing adaptations that make them best at what they do.We're ...
Daniel Andrews is the Director of Engineering at NASA’s Ames Research Center. He was also most recently the Project Manager of the VIPER lunar rover mission, following on the heels of his leadership of the groundbreaking LCROSS lunar impactor mission, which confirmed the presence of billions of gallons of water-ice ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Marsh Hike at Coyote PointStep into the baylands and explore the vibrant marsh ecosystem right outside our doors. Join CuriOdyssey educators for a guided hike through Coyote Point’s wetlands, where we’ll look for native plants, local wildlife, and signs of seasonal change.
Radiation detectors form the critical interface between physical phenomena and measurable data, yet their performance is fundamentally shaped by complex interactions between materials, electronics, and device physics. In this seminar, I will present a broad overview of the principles that guide modern detector development, with an emphasis on how signals ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
'Return to the Sky: The Reintroduction of the Bald Eagle' - LivestreamIn 1976, as the bald eagle faced extinction in the continental U.S., Tina Morris began her graduate work at Cornell University. By chance, she was chosen to reintroduce the species to New York State, hoping to repopulate eastern North America. Young, female, and inexperienced, she navigated the challenges of saving ...
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark: LightscapesCome closer, look deeper, and refresh your senses with activities and artworks on light and shadow.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95 General, Free for members
NightLifeThursdays hit different at NightLife. The museum comes alive after hours - wilder, more curious, and full of exciting creatures. Grab your friends, grab a hand-crafted drink, and let yourself wander into whatever weird or wonderful corner calls you. You never know what you’ll stumble into next, and that’s the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Retro Tech Night: cntrl+art+delightDisrupt your evening programming with Retro Tech Night: Ctrl+Art+Delight at SJMA. Join us for an evening to reset and refresh, featuring hands-on artmaking activities, live music by Character Select, vintage video games, partner demonstrations, and art & technology-themed tours of the Museum's collection galleries.See weblink for collaborators and additional information.
Mycota Lab's “MycoMap California Network” is an engaged network of volunteer fungi collectors who are documenting biodiversity across California. This community-driven effort, fueled by collective expertise and grassroots engagement, has uncovered numerous unique and important species. This presentation will highlight some of the most interesting, rare, and remarkable fungi discovered ...
Drought has reduced food and water security and caused migration and conflict internationally. How can we change this trajectory by improving water resilience in a changing climate? With variable rain and only two years of storage capacity, Marin's vulnerable water supply offers a case study for understanding infrastructure choices locally, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, member discounts, free for Students
Tales of Animal Sex, Murder and MayhemJoin naturalist and conservationist Jeff Miller for a talk about his book Bay Area Wildlife: An Irreverent Guide, to learn about the ecology and antics of the Bay Area’s most charismatic wildlife species. Learn about conservation and recovery of iconic Bay Area critters such as tule elk, elephant seals, river ...
Art without an Artist: Can AI be Considered an ArtistArtificial intelligence has become part of almost everything we do, especially in creating art. The speed of making art has increased tremendously. In this talk, I want to explore: can we think of artificial intelligence as an artist? I’m not talking about artists using AI as a tool to create ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
In Town Star PartyCome join San Jose Astronomical Association (SJAA) for an evening of stargazing. Event details:Events are held at the parking lot of our headquarters, Houge Park, San Jose. The event duration is 2 hours. SJAA volunteers will share night sky views from their telescopes.Please refrain from bringing your own telescopes ...
