Free Days at Bay Area Discovery MuseumPlease join us for free on the first Wednesday of each month for a full day of creative and fun experiences for all.F
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Intermittency-Friendly Community Scale Renewable Energy MicrogridsThe challenges proposed by long-term resource supplies, global climate change and energy market volatility require strategies and policies directed towards the development of technologically, economically and socially acceptable energy solutions. The need for major reductions in fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions from large-scale centralized power generation will require a ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Dripping, jetting, drops and wetting: the magic of microfluidicsThis talk will discuss the use of microfluidic devices to precisely control the flow and mixing of fluids to make drops, and will explore how these drops can be used to create new materials that are difficult to synthesize with any other method. These materials have great potential for use ...
Microbial eukaryotes (e.g. nematodes, fungi, protists, and other 'minor' metazoan phyla) are diverse and abundant in every habitat on earth, yet for most groups we possess scant knowledge of species distributions and global diversity. Benthic meiofaunal taxa often show rapid response to disturbance, and have been touted as ideal organisms ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Two Lectures at Romberg Tiburon CenterOcean Climate Change Beyond the Polar Wall: A Tale of Dragonfish Eggs; Erin Flynn, RTCSpatial and Temporal Variability in Shipping Traffic around San Francisco Bay; Caitlin Jensen, RTC
Risk, Information, Time & Money: Developing Software in Conditions of Extreme UncertaintyDeveloping software, you're constantly facing a surprisingly tricky choice: of all the things you could work on, which ones are worth your time? How should you spend your next hour? Your next day? A team building a new product will make a thousand such decisions -- and the ultimate success ...
Curious to learn and understand more about dementia? Hulme will teach real-life strategies for coping with dementia. She will describe her "Three Laws for Living with Dementia" and will highlight the importance of humor, creativity and experimentation in staying connected to anyone suffering from this illogical and vexing disease.Speaker: Mary ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Mysteries of Sleep We spend one third of our lives asleep, yet doctors and scientists still have no complete understanding as to why. It is one of the last great scientific mysteries. UC Berkeley's Matt Walker will talk with us about new discoveries suggesting that, far from being a time when the brain ...
Robert Drewes is a American biologist with a long fascination for the African continent, having conducted field research in 30 different countries in Africa since 1969. In this presentation, he will bring us up to date on the Academy's research and conservation efforts in São Tomé and Príncipe. These two ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Seniors, Free for members
