Plant Survivors: Cool Plant Adaptations for Hot, Dry ConditionsCome to the Ruth Bancroft Garden for a morning of free family activities on the first Tuesday of each month. These drop-in programs are available from 10am - 12pm. Activities are geared towards families with school-aged children, but younger siblings are also welcome to attend. Parents are encouraged to participate ...
Where: Walnut CreekCost: Free
Mapping the UniverseIn honor of its 40th Anniversary, NERSC is sponsoring a series of lectures describing the research behind four Nobel Prizes. The Laureates are also long-time users of NERSC's supercomputing resources.Speaker: George Smoot, Lawrence Berkeley National LabBuilding 66
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
MISSION TO PHOBOS AND DEIMOS: Exploring the Moons of Mars After five decades of spacecraft exploration of the Solar System, the origin of two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, remains a perplexing mystery. Are they a) captured asteroids, b) remnants of Mars's formation, or c) reaccreted impact ejecta from Mars? These small bodies lie at the crossroads of a ...
How much of the wild weather we have been experiencing in the Bay Area and watching on TV is related to climate change? The recent IPCC report raised scientists confidence that burning fossil fuels is behind much of the climate disruption humans have experienced and measured. But connecting individual weather ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Shivani Bhalla is a fourth generation Kenyan who believes the key to lion conservation is working in partnership with local communities to deliver real solutions and ensure the long-term sustainability of not only northern Kenya's lions but its other large carnivores as well. In 2007, she founded Ewaso Lions, a ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, Free for members
