Probing Supermassive Black Hole Growth with Next Generation Telescopes A new generation of telescopes is coming online. Operating at wavelengths from radio, through optical, to gamma ray, they are particularly well-suited to time-domain survey science -- essentially, making large-format movies of the sky. These telescopes will have the capability to tell us about how black holes grow: through stupendous ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Registries for AllCitizens can transform clinical and translational science with networking tools used in other industries. Registries for All is a novel registry tool that allows individuals to set their own sharing and data access preferences through privacy settings. This allows for more robust sharing, respectful of the individuals' varied preferences, enabling ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Imagining the Earth's InteriorBarbara Romanowicz studied mathematics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and holds a Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of Paris 7. As a researcher at France's CNRS between 1982 and 1990, she developed GEOSCOPE, a then state-of-the-art global network of digital seismic stations for the study of earthquakes and the ...
More than any other country, China sets an energy strategy and then pursues it. The central government writes those plans. To try to feed the energy appetite of China's 1.35 billion people, Beijing's energy planners have laid out an all-of-the-above agenda: more coal, more natural gas, more nuclear, more energy ...
Innovating Technologies for the Poorest Two BillionTwo recent technology innovations could improve the lives of tens-possibly hundreds-of millions of people among the poorest two billion people on the planet. Both technologies have emerged in the last few years from focused, goal-driven research by teams of creative, hard-working researchers in the Gadgil laboratory and in the field. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Bowhead whales in the age of oil: Behavioral responses of bowhead whales to seismic operationsBowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) were heavily exploited by commercial whaling in the mid to late 19th Century. The Western Arctic population has been steadily recovering and now comprises 90 % of the world's population. Since the 1970s this population has been contending with anthropogenic activities related to oil and gas ...
Where: SausalitoCost: $5 Suggested Donation towards Student Research
