20 Years of Non-Native Tree Removal and Restoration on the Presidio Coastal BluffsTwenty years of tree removal and restoration on the Presidio Coastal Bluffs in San Francisco have been a great boon for locally significant plant communities and rare plants, including the once presumed extinct Franciscan manzanita (Arctostaphylos franciscana). A significant expansion of diverse native plant habitat in the project area, successful ...
Environmental monitoring helps us understand how we interact with the Earth. It also generates large amounts of funding for NGOs, government agencies, universities and the private sector. Scientists with university degrees usually do this monitoring. In the north, non-scientists also successfully contribute monitoring efforts as citizen scientists. In the tropics, ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Where the Rubber Hits the Road: Population and Food Security in the SahelOver the next 30 to 40 years in the Sahel region of Africa, between 100 and 200 million people are likely to be without sustainable food supplies. The presentation will discuss the challenge of population growth, the region's natural resources and the implications for food security, with a focus on ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $3 donation requested
SLS: Our Next RideFor some time, NASA has been looking beyond single-entity space transportation programs. Our future in space has never been more secure or exciting. Over the last half century NASA was the sole entity to design our entire space program by wading ankle deep in the ocean that is our corner ...
