Numerous seafloor emissions of methane have been identified spanning a wide range of oceanographic conditions. A fundamental question when assessing the transport and fate of this released greenhouse gas is "how much is biodegraded vs. dispersed and diluted in ocean waters?" For decades, measurements of natural stable isotopes have been ...
Dragonfly expert Kathy Biggs will mesmerize you with details on these colorful insects and their fascinating lives. Learn how you can support their life cycle by creating habitat for them. This meeting will open with a brief presentation from the Joaquin Miller Elementary Ocean Guardians on their work at Beaconsfield ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Monster Black Holes: What Lurks at the Center of GalaxiesBlack holes are among the most fascinating objects in the cosmos and have long entranced the public as well as astronomers. Today we understand that black holes can grow to monstrous size, swallowing the mass of millions or billions of suns. New telescopes and techniques in the past decade have ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking)
Conversations on Science: The Nueroscience of Music & Creativity A cognitive neuroscientist with UCSF and member of the faculty at the San Franciso Conservatory of Music, Indre Viskontas studies how memories, creativity and other cognitive processes are supported by neural networks using the latest techniques including direct recordings from neurons in the human brain and high-resolution functional MRIs. She ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $27 General, $25 Members
The Dusty DozenAmerica and NASA did the impossible. We met JFK's challenge to explore Earth's moon in an up-close and personal way. A dozen American astronauts would become humanity's first ambassadors to visit our companion world, Luna. In this presentation, we will be introduced to the "Dusty Dozen" lucky men who risked ...
Shall we put some stupid, bizarre, and even foreign ideas into your heads? Yes, yes, and yes! Make the merriest month the smartest one with an evolutionary biologist turning dumb ideas into smart research, an engineer teaching us the steps to the bioelectric slide, and a communications pro delving into ...
