Climate change and exotic species: range shifting plants experience reduced enemy impactTim is a new post-doctoral researcher in the lab of Nick Mills here at UC Berkeley. He is interested in how plant-insect interactions work in natural systems and uses both experimental laboratory and field approaches to examine these effects at the individual and community level.Speaker: Tim Engelkes PhD, UC BerkeleyRoom ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Results from the Building-to-Grid Testbed Experiments in Cory HallPart of the Fall 2010 i4Energy Seminar Series.Speaker: David Culler, Professor, Associate Chair of EECS, UC BerkeleyLive broadcast at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast; Questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Designing Nanomaterials for the Next Generation of Energy and Environmental TechnologiesHighly engineered nanomaterials afford great opportunities for controlling fundamental electronic, photonic, mechanical, and ionic processes, which can ultimately lead to high performance energy and environmental technologies. Here I will present examples of how we design nanostructured materials rationally to enable future generation of solar cells, electrochemical energy storage, and water ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Knowledge Hacking: Art/Science PanelKnowledge Hacking is an experimental research and exhibition project organized by the Department of Art Practice, UC Berkeley, and the Berkeley Center for New Media, as a parallel program with ZER01: The Art and Technology Network. Knowledge Hacking invites artists to use the university research environment as raw material for ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Saturday, 09/25/10
California Coastal Cleanup Day California Coastal Cleanup Day is the premier volunteer event focused on the marine environment in the country. In 2009, more than 80,600 volunteers worked together to collect more than 1,300,000 pounds of trash and recyclables from our beaches, lakes, and waterways.Golden Gate Audubon will join other organizations to remove trash ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Coastal Clean-up with Golden Gate Parks Conservancy & QUESTPitch in for California Coastal Cleanup Day! Lend a hand throughout the Golden Gate National Parks and beyond! Cleanup and restoration activities will be happening in San Francisco, Marin and Pacifica. Together we can keep our parks, neighborhoods, and shorelines clean, safe, and beautiful for everyone.Staff from QUEST, KQED's science ...
Bedtime with the Beasts is a special overnight program for youth groups (ages 6-18) and their chaperones. An Oakland Zoo education specialist will lead your group on an evening hike around the zoo where you'll get a look at what the zoo is like after all of the guests leave. ...
Where: OaklandCost: $60
Whiz KidsSan Francisco Producer/Director Tom Shepard and New York based filmmakers Tina DiFeliciantonio and Jane C. Wagner present the new film WHIZ KIDS: a coming-of-age documentary that tells the story of three remarkably different yet equally passionate 17-year-old scientists who vie to compete in the nation's oldest, most prestigious science competition ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: See theater website
Annual Coastal Cleanup Day at 4-Mile BeachInternational Coastal Cleanup Day the premier volunteer event focused on the marine environment in the world. Join the Seymour Center team in making a direct difference for your ocean!
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Sunday, 09/26/10
Marine Mammal Research TourGo behind the scenes at Long Marine Lab. Learn about the work of scientists and their studies of dolphins, seals, sea lions, and whales. Tour is best suited for adults and children over 10 years of age. Space limited. Reservations required: (831) 459-3800.
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
Exoplanets Galore: The Status of the Search for Other EarthsDr. Alex Filippenko, Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at UC Berkeley, will share the latest discoveries in the field of extra-solar planets: how we are looking, what has been found so far, and the prospects of discovering Earth-like Exoplanets. There will be time for Q&A, and a Complimentary Raffle (everyone receives ...
Where: OaklandCost: $20
Monday, 09/27/10
The Climate War, True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the EarthEric Pooley, Deputy Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek, will take us behind the scenes of his new book, "The Climate War, True Believers, Power Brokers,and the Fight to Save the Earth." Mr. Pooley will be kicking off the first of three Fall 2010 Speaker Series events hosted by the Center for Environmental ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
NEIGHBORHOOD PHYSICS AND THE SCIENCE OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIESDr. Geof Syphers of Codding Enterprises will speak of how the practice of green building is beginning to evolve away from efficiency-based goals and toward absolute impacts, putting sustainability science to the test.
Cloaking: Where Science Fiction Meets ScienceCloaking involves making an object partly or completely invisible to incoming waves such as sound waves, sea waves or seismic waves, but usually electromagnetic waves such as visible light, microwaves, infrared light, or radio waves. Camouflage and stealth technology achieve partial invisibility, but can one achieve true invisibility from such ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Another kind of Many-Body Problem - experiences of a Physicist in the United States CongressAfter a 25 year career in high energy and accelerator physics, in 2008 Bill Foster ran for Congress for the Illinois 14th district, and has twice been elected to represent this diverse district. His talk highlights some of his success and frustrations in Congress, and offers his suggestions on how ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Free Climate Action Workshop SeriesDuring three weekly workshop sessions, you will join with a small group of Bay Area residents to calculate your carbon footprint, create a measurable personal action plan to reduce your footprint and make substantive changes in your community. Participation is free. A $10 fee (at cost) will be charged for ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Tuesday, 09/28/10
Carbon Warriors: Roz Savage and David KroodsmaRoz Savage rowed a small boat 8,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean, alone - a radical career change for a woman who used to work as a management consultant in a cubicle in London. David Kroodsma rode his bike from San Francisco to Tierra del Fuego, leading clean energy discussions in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Climate Change Effects On Animal and Plant Species - Conservation Corridors Hamilton's recently published study in Nature discusses the network of habitats such as forests, deserts, reefs and tundra, lakes, and oceans. She worries the magic carpet ride is unraveling before our eyes as the effects of climate change are seen in temperature and rainfall, causing shifts in the locations where ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members
The Challenge of Interpreting the Effects of Climate Change on Large Infrastructure SystemsJoe DuCote is a veteran of the public finance industry, having spent more than four decades involved in the financial planning/realization of infrastructure projects. This talk is intended to identify the myriad problems associated with an approach that is designed to "move the debate" between the scientific perception of climate ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
EARTHQUAKE STORY AND VALENCE FLUCTUATIONS ON THE OXYGEN SUBLATTICEProminent seismologists proclaim that earthquakes cannot be predicted, and almost everybody believes them. Unpredictability, however, cannot be the whole story. While stresses build up deep in Earth's crust prior to major earthquakes, many processes take place in the stressed rocks long before catastrophic rupture. These processes are silent: they do ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Mining the Sky for Dark EnergyProf. Tony Tyson of UC Davis will give the Physics/Applied Physics colloquium on Tues., Sept. 28, 2010 entitled "Mining the Sky for Dark Energy"
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Green Perspectives in Europe: Implications for the Americas?As Daniel Cohn-Bendit led student uprisings in 1968 Paris, newspapers called him Danny the Red. Today, as leader in the European Parliament's green coalition Europe Écologie, he is better known as Danny the Green. His campaigns have effectively channeled public concern for the environment and garnered unexpected support in the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Makers of the Microchip: Creating the Planar Integrated Circuit, Establishing Silicon ValleyIn the first three and a half years of its existence, Fairchild Semiconductor developed, produced, and marketed the device that would become the fundamental building block of the digital world: the microchip. Founded in 1957 by eight former employees of the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, Fairchild created the model for a ...
Feeding Africa's growing poulation and supporting competing demands on delicate natural resource systems sounds like an impossible task. Yet scientists at Conservation International and other organizations are using cutting edge science and modeling techniques to help decision-makers maximize the output of their resources and create sustainable Green Economies.Speaker: Sandy Andelman, ...
We are thrilled to have Jurriaan Kamp, the founder of Ode Magazine, as our speaker in San Francisco this month. Kamp will discuss his thoughts on the power and need for optimism and solutions in ourcurrent world, the role of media and specifically Ode in making a positive impact needed ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $5
Smart TVs' and other Consumer Electronics innovations from the Intel Developer ForumThis will be a review of consumer electronics innovations on display at the recent Intel Developer Forum - including Google-TV, new tablet PCs based on MeeGo and Windows-7, and a gesture-based UI that executes commands directly from hand movement..Speakers: Michael Demler has over 30 years of industry experience in both marketing ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: See description
Pritzker Lecture: From Bones to BodiesLearn how research on chimpanzee and gorilla anatomy has been applied to understanding differences in females and males, the transformation of infants to adults, and evaluating fossil humans. This research even played a role in the creation of the movie "Tarzan of the Apes."Speaker: Dr. Adrienne Zihlman, Professor of Anthropology, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 Adults, $10 Seniors, Members Free
Leading the Charge: Exotic New Materials for Future DevicesHow will we improve computer technology to create chips that are smaller, faster, and more efficient? For leaps in performance, we need to create new types of semiconductors. In this lecture, the speaker will describe a new class of materials -- the "topological insulators" -- that achieve robust performance by ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
White Nose Syndrome in Bats: A Conservation ChallengeThis talk will attempt to answer the questions:What's killing our bats?What's being done?What can we do?Where to from here?Speaker: Peter Youngbaer, VP, Northeastern Cave Conservancy, Liason on White Nose Syndrome for the National Speleological Society, President, Vermont Cavers Association, VP, Northeastern Regional Org., NSS
In his talk, Dr. Jacob will take you on a guided tour of what your life could be in the short and long-term future. We are increasingly living in a physical world augmented by the arrival of many digital worlds. When you watch a movie, you don't know when the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Lakes on Mars: Their Past, Present, and Future Exploration Lakes are time capsules. On Earth, they are considered sentinels of climate change and may have played the same role on early Mars. Their basins capture the record of geological and environmental fluctuations over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. Terrestrial lakes host a diversity of habitats where ...
The Secret Life of the Grown-Up BrainBarbara Strauch, New York Times health/medical science editor and author of The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain and The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids, will be the second speaker in the Stanford Center on Longevity Distinguished Lecture Series.Strauch has ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Energy Innovation EcosystemAndrew Revkin, editor of Dot Earth, will moderate a discussion with leaders from industry about the opportunities for businesses and countries to participate in the energy economy and the "energy innovation ecosystem" that will be needed to stimulate, support, and sustain innovation in the energy sector. This panel takes place ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Green Perspectives in Europe: Implications for the Americas?As Daniel Cohn-Bendit led student uprisings in 1968 Paris, newspapers called him Danny the Red. Today, as leader in the European Parliament's green coalition Europe Écologie, he is better known as Danny the Green. His campaigns have effectively channeled public concern for the environment and garnered unexpected support in the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Scalable Synthetic Biology for Engineering Beyond the BioreactorOur current ability to engineer biological circuits is hindered by design cycles that are costly in terms of time and money, with constructs failing to operate as desired, or evolving away from the desired function once deployed. Synthetic biologists seek to understand biological design principles and use them to create ...
Personal Genomics and Public AngstDirect-to-consumer marketing of genetic tests has brought fresh attention to old debates: Who owns our personal information? What obligations are placed on us to seek out and use this information? What limits are imposed on those who would use our information for their own purposes? And perhaps most important of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Thursday, 09/30/10
West Coast Green ConferenceWest Coast Green Is The Premier Conference on Green Innovation for the Built Environment.Join 11,000 thought leaders and forward thinkers at the drawing board for a cleaner, brighter future.Sept 30 - Oct 2, 2010 Fort Mason Center | San FranciscoVisit the event website for full schedule, speakers, and highlights.
EVIDENCE FOR A SOLAR INFLUENCE ON NUCLEAR DECAY RATESAnalyses of data acquired during two experiments at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and one at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Germany have yielded strong evidence for an annual variation of some nuclear decay rates. Since it has not proved possible to explain this variation in terms of an experimental ...
Dr. James T. Caldwell, head of the Green Building Task Force and a director of the US-China Green Energy Council, discusses Chinese measures for improving the environment as it makes massive investments in domestic infrastructure. Smart cities, improvements to the built-in infrastructure, technology standards for new green buildings, harmony with ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Chris Jordan: Running the NumbersIn this series, begun in 2005, Jordan envisions staggering statistics of American consumption. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: two million bottles are depicted in a larger-than-human-scale digital photograph entitled "Plastic Bottles," literally representing the number of plastic beverage bottles used in the United States every five minutes. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 general, $10 members
The Blood Banking Challenge in Africa: The 'Safe Blood Africa' ResponsePresented by John Edward Watson-Williams, M.D., past Professor of Medicine and Hematology on three continents, on Advisory Board for "The Safe Blood Africa Project" through the Rotary Club of Carmel Valley. One quarter of a million people die annually in Nigeria from lack of blood products. Its National Transfusion Service ...
A journey through the landscape of Earth's greatest floods.Glacial Lake Missoula released scores of cataclysmic floods, sculpting the bizarre landscape of Washington's Channeled Scabland New video depicts the enormous 3-day flood releasing 500 cubic miles of water Floodwaters poured as deep as 1100 feet down Columbia Valley, carrying enormous boulders ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Stargazing Adventure on TransportedSF Join us for an Equilibrium & Transported SF Stargazing Adventure.We'll make our way out of the city to a special location where telescopes and star guides await our arrival. Get hands-on with the wonders of astronomy as our guide instructs you in proper telescope use for planetary and galactic viewing. ...
