ZoobiquityCardiologist and psychiatrist Natterson-Horowitz and science writer Bowers look at the remarkable correspondences between the way human beings and animals live, die, get sick and heal in their natural settings. They delve into an array of disciplines: evolution, anthropology, sociology, biology, cutting-edge medicine, and zoology, to provide a revelatory understanding ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 standard, $8 members, $7 for students
'Coastal Marine Mammals along the eastern Gulf coast of Thailand' presentationA group of international scientists has been documenting relative abundance and distribution of coastal marine mammals in Trat province in the coastal islands along the eastern Gulf coast ofThailand since 2003. This multi-year project is truly interdisciplinary, and combines boat based line transect surveys, photo-id, towed acoustic arrays, and spatially explicit ...
State-of-the-art sonar systems are being used by USGS scientists to explore such fascinating underwater features as the San Adreas Fault, giant sand dunes beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, and tsunami-generated landslide debris.