Wildlife Associates: Bay Area WildIn this special presentation of "Bay Area Wild" by Wildlife Associates you will see a gray fox, a great horned owl and other animals. Gain an insight into the secret lives of these intelligent and ecologically important animals. This event is made possible thanks to the generosity of Friends of ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Tuesday, 08/12/14
Perseids Meteor ShowerHang out on the hill and watch as the Perseids Meteor Shower makes it annual trip through our atmosphere and light up the night sky. Visibility may be obscured by the waning gibbous (nearly full) moon, but our scientists will be ready to help you catch the brightest meteors.
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Investigations of strange, linear features on Mars (AKA playing with dry ice blocks in the Utah desert) Comparative geomorphology is a standard and highly useful approach in determining the origin of features seen on planetary surfaces. However, this approach sometimes can point interpretations into the wrong direction - the specific and sometimes highly unique conditions found on another planet cannot be neglected in the analysis! In particular, ...
Weather on earth-such as thunderstorms, lightning, humidity, and drought-has a large impact on our everyday existence and is part of our daily conversations. However, there is also "space weather", which is characterized by numerous phenomena, including hurricane-force winds, large temperature variations, and large-scale storms.Space weather is complicated by the presence ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Wednesday, 08/13/14
Research RoundupMeet the UC Berkeley students and entomologists who are making cutting-edge advancements in the field of insect science. Research Roundup is part of Summer Fun Days at the Lawrence Hall of Science. Every Wednesday enjoy a unique event with your family-from trapeze arts to bubbly sidewalk painting.
Mind PuzzlesWhat if our soundest, most reasonable judgments are beyond our control? Are the feelings of being rational and having free will generated by conscious decisions or involuntary brain mechanisms? Is there a way to resolve the conflict between our innate biology and our traditional beliefs? Dr. Robert A. Burton, author ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $15 General, $10 Members, $7 Students
Thursday, 08/14/14
Science Evidence About Global WarmingClimate change: Lecture by Canadian Professor Jacques Guertin presents what science evidence says about global warming. Registration is REQUIRED as space is limited and lunch will be served. Contact seminar organizers, Bay Area Older Adults, a Santa Clara County-based nonprofit. Adults age 50+ should call 408-774-0593 or register by email: share@bayareaolderadults.org and give both your name ...
Big Graph Data ScienceOne of the challenges in big data analytics lies in being able to reason collectively about extremely large, heterogeneous, incomplete, noisy interlinked data. We need data science techniques which canrepresent and reason effectively with this form of rich and multi-relational graph data. In this presentation, Dr. Lise Getoor will describe some common collective inference ...
The Women's Environmental Network is hosting an event with networking and a talk on the topic of wildlife conservation with a focus on Asian elephants in Sri Lanka. The esteemed speaker, Shermin de Silva, is the president of Trunks and Leaves, a nonprofit that seeks to promote the conservation of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for members
John Sterling will present some of his Smithsonian research supporting the Bird-Friendly Coffee movement. He will discuss why some coffee farms are better than others for birds, why good coffee farms are critical for conservation, and will illustrate his talk with photos of birds from coffee farms in Latin America, ...
In our society - and in education, especially - people are encouraged to provide the "right" answer, and are not encouraged to focus on the process utilized to achieve the results. Consequently, most of us hate being wrong. This talk will examine the psychological processes at work when we make ...
Future Innovators ChallengeChabot is partnering with GoldieBlox, a toy company on a mission to inspire the next generation of female engineers and the Arizona Science Center to present a fun-filled day of engineering activities that will engage and inspire the next generation of young women scientists and engineers. Challenges will include engineering ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
Neural Dust and Neural InterfacesA major technological hurdle in neuroprosthetics is the lack of an implantable neural interface system that remains viable for a lifetime. This talk will discuss the basics of extracellular neural recording, discuss the state of the art in cortical neural recording and introduce Neural Dust, a concept developed with Elad ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Trekking the ModelJoin a Ranger guided tour of the Bay Model, a 1.5 acre hydraulic model of San Francisco Bay and Delta. Discover the stories of the two major operations that took place at this location between 1942 – 2000.
Tangled Web-Plankton, Plastics & UsWhy is our Bay so deliciously green? Come discover all the microscopic life of the Bay and how they affect our dinner! We'll delve into how the oceans are changing with a tide of plastics that have weaved themselves into our food web. Join an Aquarium of the Bay naturalist ...
Dr. Peter Klimley has been studying sharks for decades. Through his years of experience with a variety of species, including the much-feared great white shark, he has been able to shed light on natural behaviors rarely witnessed by others. Known as Dr. Hammerhead for his groundbreaking work on hammerhead sharks ...
Following his biography of Steve Jobs, award-winning author Walter Isaacson became fascinated with other compelling stories of the men and women who have led the global revolution of the Information Age. The Innovators is his revealing account of the revolutionaries who created the computer and the Internet, yet it begins ...
