Advances in technology and the ever-growing role of digital sensors and computers in science have led to an exponential growth in the amount and complexity of data that scientists collect. We are at the threshold of an era in which hypothesis-driven science is being complemented with data-driven discovery. This alternate ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Give the Ocean a Voice: Part VThe last part of this series will provide an overview of the various issues causing a decline in the health of the sea. In support of the America's Cup, "Healthy Ocean Project" this is an attempt to encourage people to develop a deep awareness of how human beings can improve ...
Where: SausalitoCost: free
Effects of lowered pH on the exoskeleton mineralogy of porcelain crabsGraduate student presentation by Tessa Page in Romberg Tiburon Center's Seminar Series.The Seminar Series is part of a graduate level course designed to give students an opportunity to hear from and interact with experts in their fields of study. Graduate students also present talks about their own research. This experience ...
Atmospheric river storms are responsible for most of the largest historical floods in California and many western states, as well as megafloods found in the geologic record, that recurred every 100 to 200 years. The only megaflood to strike the American West in recent history occurred during the winter of ...
Where: AlbanyCost: Free
The Neuroscience of MagicFrom ancient conjurers to quick-handed con artists to big ticket Las Vegas illusionists, magicians throughout the ages have been expertly manipulating human attention and perception to dazzle and delight us (or scare us, or steal our watches). Of course you know that the phenomena of cognitive and sensory illusions are ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Transcriptomic analysis of Daphnia responses to multi-stressorsGraduate student presentation by Elize Papineau in Romberg Tiburon Center's Seminar Series.The Seminar Series is part of a graduate level course designed to give students an opportunity to hear from and interact with experts in their fields of study. Graduate students also present talks about their own research. This experience ...
