MEASURING CLIMATE CHANGE USING EARTH-SENSING SATELLITESDr. Carl Mears, a Senior Scientist at Remote Sensing in Santa Rosa, will be speaking about how measurements made using microwave sensors on satellites monitor changes in Earth's climate and test the predictions of climate simulation models.
DripTECH PresentationIn the spring of 2008, three Stanford graduate students from the schools of business, engineering, and design joined forces in a course called Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability. The team traveled to Ethiopia to see where they could apply their talents to help, arriving in the middle of the worst ...
Pauline W. Chen, a liver transplant and liver cancer surgeon, is the author of Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality, a New York Times bestseller. Dr. Chen graduated from Harvard University and Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, completing her surgical training at Yale University, the National Cancer Institute ...
How does location affect the taste of your food? Food and environment writer Jacobsen explores the connection between these two, extending the French wine-growing concept of terroir out to a variety of foods from the Western Hemisphere. Learn where the best-tasting honey comes from; why Alaska's Yukon River produces the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, Free Members, $7 Students
Science at the Theater: Cool Cities, Cool Planet featuring Art RosenfeldArthur Rosenfeld, Professor of Physics Emeritus at UC Berkeley, was the last graduate student of Nobelist Enrico Fermi. In 1955 he joined the Physics faculty at UC Berkeley and the research group of Luis Alvarez. In 1974, in response to the OPEC oil embargo, Rosenfeld switched to the new field ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Mediation, Performance, and the Public SphereIn 1968, protesters outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago chanted "The whole world is watching," and shortly thereafter their images appeared on the evening news. These days, protesters bring their own cameras and post their clips on YouTube. Has participatory media effected a structural transformation of the public sphere? ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Tuesday, 10/12/10
Arecibo Radar Observations of Near-Earth AsteroidsRadar observations are one of the only groundbased techniques to spatially resolve near-Earth asteroids. Images with up to 7.5-m resolution reveal a wide variety of shapes, surface features and helped to discover many binary objects. Our understanding of the nature and evolution of NEAs has changed radically in recent years, ...
Think of life without modern drugs. Diseases that are considered simple inconveniences today were often incurable only 50 years ago. But the process to develop a new drug and bring it to patients is long and costly. Only a few drugs – out of thousands or millions of compounds tested ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Free 3-Session Climate Action Workshop During three weekly workshop sessions, you will join with a small group of Bay Area residents to:*Calculate your carbon footprint*Consider ways to reduce your ecological footprint and make substantive changes in your community*Take action (as much or as little as you choose)*Access the wisdom, advice, and collaboration of your community ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
High Performance Computing: Union of Software and Reconfigurable LogicModern FPGA platforms have capabilities that are well suited to assume a more central role in the implementation of complex embedded processing systems. In particular, FPGAs are well placed to be at the heart of complex signal processing, packet processing and high performance computing applications because of their high computational ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free ($2 donation for refreshments)
Off Grid Energy Solutions In Developing Countries Speaker SeriesAshok's famous cook stove will be showcased at the event. This cook stove has helped increase overall cooking efficiency in developing countries, as well as it has dramatically reduced the public health issues that are related to bad indoor air quality from inefficient open-air biomass burning.· Esteemed UC Berkeley Professor ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
In the Balance: Energy, Economy and EnvironmentWith California projected to add another 15 million people in the next few decades, how can the state meet growing energy demand while protecting its natural environment? And how can it do all that while protecting an innovative business environment that creates jobs and drives economic growth? Will a transition ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, Free students
Wednesday, 10/13/10
A New look at what Life is and how it beganLife has two unique processes. The first is precision assembly, in which the shape of a molecule is selected, and it is "glued" to another precisely selected molecule. The second is when the assembler-glue-selector device exactly copies itself. The first item produced must be a structure so as to be ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Innovation in the Health Care EnterpriseThe evaluation and management of new information technologies is an increasing challenge for health care organizations that want to establish innovation as a core strategic capability. The Innovation and Advanced Technology Group at Kaiser Permanente looks at technologies from clinical, business, and strategic viewpoints to help inform internal decisions on ...
LoopageSoftware development is hampered by a specific set of design mistakes that were made in the first programming languages and repeated in everything that has been done since. And, somewhat miraculously, JavaScript is going to make it right, radically transforming the way we write applications. Again. In the Loop of ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Well-Being, Consumption, and Climate Change CommitmentGovernments are currently considering policies that will limit greenhouse gas concentrations, including negotiation of an international treaty to replace the expiring Kyoto Protocol. Designing effective climate change mitigation and adaptation measures requires rigorous, comprehensive, detailed analyses of the response of climate dynamics to elevated greenhouse gas concentrations, and of the ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Watering the Farm: Stanford's Water Systems Old and New, Near and FarEver since the Farm was a farm, managing water on Stanford's lands has been a challenge and adventure. Today, Stanford University operates a complex water source, distribution, and management system that typifies the challenges of managing water resources in a densely-populated, semi-arid environment. Stanford operates old dams and new fish ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
ScienceMakers feat. William A. Lester, Jr. & Robert Bragg, Jr.The HistoryMakers, a repository of nearly 2,000 African American oral histories. We are currently in year 2 of our NSF grant entitled 'ScienceMakers: An Innovative African American Media and Educational Initiative.'ScienceMakers seeks to encourage youth to enter S.T.E.M. disciplines by showing them prominent African American scientists who they may not ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
October LASER Event6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking. Anyone in the audience is welcome to describe in 30 seconds what they are working on.7:00-7:30pm: Renetta Sitoy (artist) on "The Internet as Media"Employing a range of strategies for acquiring, organizing, and re-contextualizing information found on the World Wide Web; exploring themes such as online communities (in which ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
How to Cook Like a ScientistDo you have a hard time choosing between cooking shows and Mythbusters? If so, come meet Jeff Potter, author of Cooking for Geeks - a book described by one reviewer as "...the best science-meets-the-kitchen book to come out. Ever." Written for anyone who likes to think about how things work, ...
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
SharktoberfestLearn all you ever wanted to about sharks – we'll have specimens from the Academy's collections, movies, experts ready to answer your questions, shark inspired art and dance pieces, a shark trivia contest, and animatronics, along with other great programming. In our take on Octoberfest, this week's NightLife will also ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
A pioneer in climate science, Hansen testified at Al Gore's seminal Congressional hearings on global warming in the late 1980s. Several years ago, when the federal government tried to muzzle climate scientists and computer models suggested tipping points were near, Hansen came out swinging. He was arrested at a demonstration ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $15 Members, Free Students
Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical MiracleThea Cooper, B.A., Bard College, M.F.A., Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and co-author of Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle by Thea Cooper and Arthur Ainsberg (St. Martin's Press, September 2010).On October 31, 1920, Frederick Banting was an orthopedic surgeon looking for work when, half-asleep ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: FREE
Changing Climates, Changing HabitatsNational Park Service ranger Will Elder will discuss how climate change may influence habitats at the Presidio, Golden Gate, and other western national parks. What role can parks play in preserving our natural heritage during a time of change?
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Reishi, Shiitake, and the Medicinal Mushroom FraudDr. Nicholas Money is a mycologist , Western Program Director and Professor of Botany at Miami University. He will speak on the culture and mythology surrounding medicinal mushrooms, and the irrational beliefs that lead to the use of fungi for everything from sexual impotence to keeping a dying patient alive. ...
An overview of the world-wide Corvid Family (Crows, Jays & their kin), with a specific focus on the four Bay Area resident species, plus a fifth that may be establishing a population here. A sidebar will give guidelines for distinguishing the local American Crow from its larger cousin, the Northern ...
What's the most efficient way to minimize the impacts of climate change? Public policy? Massive funding of new technology? Buying off emerging countries that will soon emit most of the world's carbon pollution? Pielke, who is affiliated with The Breakthrough Institute, is critical of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, Free Members, $7 Students
Self-powered wireless MEMS sensor modules for Smart Grid applicationsSpeaker: Igor Paprotny, Postdoc at BSAC, UC BerkeleyPart of the Fall 2010 i4Energy Seminar Series. Live broadcast at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast; Questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents.
Unusual Suspects: Resurgence, resilience and regeneration in the face of Climate ChangeWe invite you to join us in a conversation with community leaders who are a veritable group of "unusual suspects", effectively broadening and challenging the prevailing policy discourse about climate change.Panel: Will Allen, CEO, CEO, Growing Power, Inc; Dr. Michel Gelobter, Founder & CEO, Cooler, Inc.; Jihan Gearon, Native Energy ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
In Celebration of 50 Years at GombeJoin the Leakey Foundation and Dr. Anne Pusey in celebration of 50 years of research at Gombe Stream in Tanzania. In 1960, Dr. Louis Leakey sent Jane Goodall to Gombe Stream, where she began her groundbreaking study of chimpanzees in the wild. Dr. Pusey worked for Dr. Goodall in Gombe ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 general, $10 seniors, members
Saturday, 10/16/10
Sustainable Architecture Tour Series: Marin Country Day SchoolWhen Marin Country Day School embarked on a long-range visioning process six years ago, the organization made a commitment to sustainability. That commitment led to a physical and intellectual transformation of the campus in its architecture, curriculum, and workplace practice. MCDS recently completed the second phase of its long-range master ...
Walk on the Wild Side Wildlife Awareness DayPlease join us at our annual Wildlife Awareness Day to learn more about the work we do rehabilitating sick, injured, and orphaned birds and mammals. Activities include: Live Animal Presentations; Children's Hands-On Activities; Educational and Informational Booths; Short Tours of Outside Enclosure Area; Viewing of Rehabilitation Patient Feedings.
Let's get dizzy! We will be making toys that twist, spin, and rotate while learning the science behind circular motions. All materials will be provided. Take home what you make!
Our thoughts, feelings, and perceptions - the conscious awareness of our mental processes - is how we experience the world. How these mental phenomena are related to the cellular and molecular processes of our brain and body is one of the great unanswered questions of contemporary science. Research in neurobiology ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Composting VermacompostHome Composting for Busy People!Conducted by Central Contra Costa Solid Waste Authority.Preregistration required.
Where: LafayetteCost: Free
Discover Ohlone Uses of PlantsExplore the plants that were traditionally used by the original inhabitants of this area, the Ohlone Indians. Then enjoy a guided walk around our native plant garden. Fun for the whole family! Led by Pat Hartinger. Reservations required. Call Debra at 408-262-5513 ext. 102.
Where: AlvisoCost: Free
Stop and Go Rides Again: Animation FestivalContemporary animation from Europe and the United States uses stop-motion techniques to tell stories, examine visual phenomena, and make political statements in this collection of short videos. The animators breathe life into magazine cutouts, homemade drawings, everyday objects, and even the body itself. From the simple beauty of a rubber ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Eighteen+ Speakers: 'Long Conversation'Long Conversation is an epic relay of one-to-one conversations among some of the Bay Area's most interesting minds, which is being presented in conjunction with a musical performance of Longplayer.Melissa Alexander • John Perry Barlow • Violet Blue • Stewart Brand • Stuart Candy • Danese Cooper • Jem Finer ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $28
Astronomy Day at College of San MateoGet your kids interested in Astronomy and spark a lifelong interest in science Learn how to choose a first telescopeGet started in Astronomy as a hobbySee Planetarium ShowsView Astronomy VideosParticipate in hands on demonstrationsKids can construct Astronomy related CraftsPurchase and assemble a good quality Astronomical Telescope for $30.Learn how to get ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Jazz Under the StarsOnce a month we invite the public to our rooftop observatory for night sky viewing, while listening to KCSM Jazz 91.1FM. See the first quarter moon, Jupiter, and more through our telescopes.This is an outdoor event, please dress warmly and check back here for weather updates. If it's cloudy or ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Saturday Night Stargazing — on the LHS PlazaSee the Moon, Planets, Stars, Galaxies and MoreStargaze through astronomical telescopes Ask questions and talk with amateur astronomers Learn how to use a star map to find constellations Share in the wonder of the universe with your friends Saturday Night Stargazing is a free public viewing program sponsored by LHS ...
Our ocean waters teem with tiny microscopic life called plankton. Using recycled plastic, create a sculpture sparked by your exploration of the museum's Living Systems' plankton exhibits. Investigate concepts such as mobility, impact and diversity in your art. Leave with your own translucent sculpture and a newfound understanding of our ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $35 General, $25 Members
Featuring Michael Beck, Lead Marine Scientist with The Nature Conservancy and a research associate at UC Santa Cruz. Beck is an expert in the conservation and restoration of salt marshes, oyster reefs and seagrass meadows and has worked on conservation in the Gulf of Mexico for over 20 years. Come ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
Science Safari: Fall Flora and Fauna HikeJoin YSI for a casual guided walk through Vasona County Park to enjoy the fall's flora and fauna. We will admire fall foliage, hunt for acorns and see what other wonderful surprises the season brings! In addition, we will identify plants, look for birds, lizards, and any other creatures that ...
Where: Los GatosCost: See description
Chemistry: Colorful and Fun with Professor Marvin Lang and Dr. ShowalterIn October, the California and Santa Clara Sections (www.scvacs.org) together are sponsoring an unusual and a not-to-be-forgotten special program, Chemistry – Colorful and Fun in 2010, at several venues in Northern California as part of celebrating National Chemistry Week. This will be presented by Dr. Showalter and Professor Marvin Lang ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
The Salt Marshes: Then and NowApproximately 85% of San Francisco Bay's wetlands have disappeared over the last 200 years due to industry and development, impacting the wildlife that lived in and around them. Some of the plants and animals have made a comeback and a few have adapted to the changes. Learn a little about ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Younger Lagoon Reserve Tour Experience the wildlife and natural beauty that make Younger Lagoon an exceptional local treasure on this docent-led tour to the lagoon and its beach habitat. Learn about the ongoing research and habitat restoration work that help this vital habitat thrive. Tour includes a short hike and is best suited for ...
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