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. Younger Lagoon is excellent for bird watching and seeing animals that call the reserve's intact coastal dunes home, such as: bobcats, foxes, seabirds, raptors, and ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
Science Smart Kids- Radical RecyclingRadical Recycling with Science Smart Kids offers engaging, multi-sensory, hands-on science workshops for children. Kids learn best when they are having fun!
Where: San JoseCost: Free
MAKING SMART COMMUNITIES RESILIENTRecent disasters locally and worldwide have demonstrated the difficulties in mounting fast, coordinated, and successful responses as well as the importance of incorporating citizens in preparing, responding, and communicating. The Disaster Management Initiative (DMI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Silicon Valley, develops open, interoperable solutions using smart phones, mobile devices, ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Cafe InquiryMeet up with rationalists, skeptics, and freethinkers south of San FranciscoCafe Inquiry is a social event hosted by the Center for Inquiry|San Francisco. We'll meet at Café Borrone http://www.cafeborrone.com/ between Kepler's Books and the British Banker's Club! Look for the black balloon.For more information or if you have questions please ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
LED Lighting: State of the ArtThe future of lighting is here. What is LED Lighting? What are its benefits compared with other lighting technologies? What products are available and how are they made? Tim Benson, CEO Advanced LED LLC, will discuss how to choose the right lighting for your applications - residential or commercial, to ...
Where: San JoseCost: Advance Tickets $6.50 or $10 at the Door
April LASER Event6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.7:00-7:25: Jesse Houldingon "Phenomena as material"Installations that use light and other natural phenomenon to explore perception...Read more7:25-7:50: Chris McKay(NASA) on "The Curiosity Mars Mission"Abstract...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
'People of a Feather'Featuring groundbreaking footage from seven winters in the Arctic, People of a Feather takes the audience through time into the world of Inuit on the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay. Connecting past, present, and future is a unique cultural relationship with the eider duck. Recreations of traditional life are juxtaposed ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $10
What Nitrogen Deposition Can Teach Us About Birds, Butterflies, Native Plants, and the Future of Conservation Brent Plater, Executive Director of the Wild Equity Institute, will discuss the largely-unknown landscape of the Antioch Dunes. The Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge was created to protect extremely rare insects, and remains the only wildlife refuge specifically created for invertebrate conservation. An unforeseen problem threatens this dune community: nitrogen ...
