,The first phase of the Allen Telescope Array consisting of 42 antennas has been built at the Hat Creek Observatory near Mount Lassen. One of its major missions is to conduct radio SETI observations from 1 to 10 GHz. Because we now have our own telescope (50 years after ...
What caused the recent disasters in Japan? How do tsunamis form? How and why are Fukushima's nuclear reactors failing-and what are the implications for those living in surrounding areas? How susceptible are California's nuclear power plants to similar natural disasters?
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Pro bono design: Transforming the built environment Pro bono design is changing the lives and livelihoods of America's nonprofits. Join Public Architecture Founder & President John Peterson for a panel discussion to explore the role of pro bono service in professional design practice. Two local projects will be highlighted: the Randall Overlook and the clinics of Golden ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $5 General, Free Members
Tour San Francisco's first 100% "off-grid" building and discover how the promotion of environmental justice is reshaping the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood.Opened in April 2010, the EcoCenter at Heron's Head Park is an inspiring environmental education beacon in the changing southeast San Francisco industrial zone. Nearly every feature of this 1,500-square-foot ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $20 Members
Healy Hamilton, the director of the Center for Applied Biodiversity Informatics at the California Academy of Sciences talks with freelance science journalist Mark Hertsgaard about his latest book titled "Hot: The Next 50 Years on Earth". In this conversation you will hear about how climate change is altering weather patterns ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Spring 2011 Urban Permaculture Design CourseThe Urban Permaculture Institute offers a place-based permaculture design course focusing on urban strategies that work in the city or anywhere you may go. Through a mix of classroom time and hands-on activities, we will explore methods of designing and establishing regenerative communities and economies. We visit and participate at ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $750 (86 course hours)
Enzyme Evolution for Industrial Biocatalysis and Metabolic EngineeringEnzymes are incredibly proficient catalysts, having evolved through several billion years of natural selection to catalyze thousands of biochemical reactions critical to all life on the planet. When operating on natural substrates and products under physiological conditions, they can accelerate reactions up to 10^17 over that of uncatalyzed reactions. Unfortunately, ...
Berkeley Bioeconomy Conference: THE STATE OF BIOFUEL AND BIOTECHNOLOGYModern biofuels have had a short and contentious history. Since their large-scale emergence during the beginning of the new millennium, biofuels have triggered the debate on allocation of resources for food versus fuel, were associated with controversy about subsidies and trade policies, laid the foundation of new wealth, and led ...
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST BUT OUR EVENT IS SOLD OUT HOWEVER PARTS OF THIS EVENT WILL BE WEBCAST. If you would like to sign up for the webcast please email support@bie.berkeley.edu. Green Chemistry: Collaborative Approaches & New Solutions is the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry's first national conference. It ...
There is a lot going on in the magnetometry field, with new techniques sprouting that allow ever improved sensitivity and spatial resolution. One latest rave is magnetometers based on color centers in diamond that consist of a substitutional nitrogen atom (N) and a vacancy (V) in a diamond lattice. I ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
New Successes In Colorectal Cancer Treatments and OutcomesThis second in a series of talks on cancer, focusing on the latest research in diagnosis, treatments and outcomes, will feature a team of Stanford physicians talking about the various aspects of colorectal cancer and new and emerging information about this disease.To register call (650) 498-7826
Award-winning nature photographer and author Ian Shive presents an evening of photography and short films exploring America's greatest heritage, The National Parks, as well as some of the world's wildest places, from the slopes of the highest peaks of North America to the most pristine underwater ecosystems of Micronesia's "Coral ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
The Future of PlayThe Future of Play engages Joe Wilcox toy inventor/model maker, IDEO, and Scott Sona Snibbe, new media artist, filmmaker and researcher, in a lively conversation about the expansive role of play in the world's future. The conversation will be moderated by Richard Rinehart, Media Director and Adjunct Curator at the ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free with RSVP
'Marine Mammals of California: Sophie Webb/ Sarah Allen Artist's ReceptionThere was such a fantastic reception last month that we are doing it again! Sophie Webb and her co-author Sarah Allen with celebrate "Marine Mammals of the Pacific Coast" with a book signing and artist's reception. Her art show will be held over through March.
Where: BerkeleyCost:
The Whale That Ate JawsSee the documentary "The Whale That Ate Jaws" which recounts the deadly encounter between a killer whale and white shark that occurred near the Farallon Islands, an event that challenged the white chark's supremacy as the ultimate predator.Speakers: Mary Jane Schramm and Carol Keiper
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
An Evening with Michael Pollan: The Sun Food AgendaBy replacing the energy of the sun with energy from fossil fuels, industrial agriculture has made food impressively cheap and abundant. But this achievement has come at a cost. Today, our food system is implicated in three of the most critical problems facing our society: the energy crisis, the climate ...
Where: San RafaelCost: $45 - $20
Friday, 03/25/11
Berkeley Bioeconomy Conference: THE STATE OF BIOFUEL AND BIOTECHNOLOGYModern biofuels have had a short and contentious history. Since their large-scale emergence during the beginning of the new millennium, biofuels have triggered the debate on allocation of resources for food versus fuel, were associated with controversy about subsidies and trade policies, laid the foundation of new wealth, and led ...
Meet Dr. Kaku just few days after the release of his new book Physics of the Future: How Science Will Change Daily Life by 2100. Dr. Kaku is the author of numerous previous books including Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos, and ...
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
Saturday, 03/26/11
Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association Teacher Workshop: LiMPETS Sandy Beach MonitoringThis workshops is for teachers (grades 6 and higher) and educators who are interested in participating in the Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association's (FMSA) Long-term Monitoring Program and Experiential Training for Students (LiMPETS), http://limpetsmonitoring.org.Get involved in this exciting science education program for students. Participants receive the new 5-unit LiMPETS Curriculum and ...
Editors Note: This event has been rescheduled to April 30.Kick off the yearlong celebration of our Species of the Year: the endangered mission blue butterfly (Icaricia icariodes missionensis)!Join us at the Marin Headlands Rifle Range for walks, talks, and hands-on family-friendly activities. And, with luck, you might get a glimpse ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Back in TimeHave you ever imagined what the SF Bay Estuary looked like thousands of years ago? Walk back in time with Ranger Linda on a tour of the Bay Model and explore nature's handiwork. Meet at the information desk.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Gold Fever: How the Gold Rush Forever Changed SF BayIn 1848 gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, luring people by the thousahds to California. Join Ranger Tammi to find out how this event changed San Francisco Bay forever.
Come experience the sights, sounds, smells, and flavors of Crissy Field and the marsh!Look for crabs, taste strawberry treats, listen to legends, smell a sea shore habitat, and touch the sands of Crissy Field as we play on the beach under the cypress trees.Things to bring on this walk: sand ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
SMCAS Star Party Come out and bring the kids for a mind expanding look at the universe.Setup of telescopes begins around sunset, with observations beginning about 1 hour later.
Where: San CarlosCost: Free
Sunday, 03/27/11
Forever SpringBring your family on this slow and moderate walk through the redwood forest on the Fern Creek Trail to Camp Alice Eastwood and back.Discover wild mushroom gardens, banana slug trails, the Native American uses of plants, ghost redwoods, and more. Learn about the families who came here by gravity train more ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
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.
Physicist Michio Kaku's newest book, Physics of the Future, provides astonishing predictions about where science is taking us over the next century-from driverless cars that float above the ground, to X-ray vision, robot surgeons, and an elevator to space. Kaku, the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the CUNY ...
Mountaintop Removal Mining: A West Virginia Activist's PerspectiveLarry Gibson is West Virginia activist (and President of the Board of the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation) working to stop the destructive mining practice of mountaintop removal (MTR). This method of coal mining has been described as "strip mining on steroids." Coal companies remove the vegetation from an entire ...
Man-Made Climate Change in the Skies What is happening in our skies may have more to do with global climate change than we know. From commercial airlines' contrails to solar radiation management and weather modification, new and challenging perspectives are emerging. Across the board, diverse interest groups have started to investigate these phenomena and their effects ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, Free for Members, $7 Students
No one has used the revelations of science fiction to explain the realities of science more than Kaku, who takes us on a fast-forward look at tomorrow. Based on interviews with more than 300 of the world's top scientists who are already inventing the future in their labs, Kaku reveals ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $20 General, $12 Members
Tuesday, 03/29/11
The Next Frontier: Engineering the Golden Age of Green: Renewable, clean energy technologiesCommissioned by the Professional Engineers in California Government, this new film takes the viewer around the world in search of renewable, clean energy technologies and policies that will address the serious problem of excessive carbon dioxide emissions and our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.Speaker: Timothy Lipman, commentator, UCB Institute of ...
Spurred by revelations in mainstream media of surreptitious monitoring, much of it spurred by the ascent of behavioral advertising, there has been a resurgence of interest in online privacy among government agencies and the general public. Despite its acknowledged failure, in the United States, notice-and-consent, fortified in one way or ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Creating Sustainable Livelihoods in Poor RegionsSamasource is a nonprofit that connects people living in poverty to work via the Internet. In parallel, they provide high-quality content moderation, data entry, and other outsourcing services to clients. Ms. Janah first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant, where her clients included global leaders ...
Debates Worth Having: Pros and cons of SaltworksThe proposed Saltworks development in Redwood City would bring as many as 12,000 much-needed housing units to the core of the Bay Area. But it would be built on decommissioned salt ponds at the edge of the Bay, and would thus destroy what could be a large and productive wetlands. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $5 General, Free Members
Earthquakes, tsunamis, and nuclear fallout: Is California at risk like Japan?As Japan grapples with the effects of a massive earthquake, devastating tsunami, and potentially catastrophic meltdown of multiple nuclear reactors, it is appropriate to consider whether California faces similar risks. Like Japan, California sits on the so-called "Ring of Fire", the boundary of the Pacific Plate whose potential for seismic ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Dobsonian Telescope MakingBuild a telescope the Dobson way. You will learn about John Dobson and his reflector telescopes, as well as how these telescopes work. You'll learn the step-by-step method for grinding and polishing the mirror, building the mount, and assembling a complete telescope. Seeing the rings of Saturn, the moons of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $170 + materials & supplies
The Heartbreak Turtle TodayThe Sea Turtle Restoration Project (STRP) hosts the public premier showing of The Heartbreak Turtle Today, an educational documentary detailing Gulf of Mexico sea turtle conservation up to, and including, the horrific BP oil spill. The 30-minute documentary will be followed by an interactive discussion and a presentation on California's ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free, donations encouraged
Moonwalking With EinsteinConversations at the Herbst: Joshua Foer In Conversation With Douglas McGrayScience journalist Joshua Foer became the United State Memory Champion in 2007, after researching how others use memory devices competitively. His forthcoming first book is based on that experience, and called Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $18 Members
