Particulate iron is a significant fraction of the total iron pool in the ocean, usually accounting for at least a third and often the majority of the total iron pool. Most iron studies to date have focused on the dissolved iron fraction, but studying the particulate iron fraction has the ...
As more and more data moves to the cloud, data replication has become prohibitively costly and there is an acute need for efficient, fault-tolerant schemes for data storage. Coding theory offers solutions for fault-tolerant storage that are potentially far more efficient than replication. At the same time, the cloud storage ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Computational Epidemiology: The role of big data and pervasive informatics Pandemics such as H1N1 influenza are global outbreaks of infectious disease. Human behavior, social contact networks, and pandemics are closely intertwined. The ordinary behavior and daily activities of individuals create varied and dense social interactions that are characteristic of modern urban societies. They provide a perfect fabric for rapid, uncontrolled ...
Dr. Sylvia Earle – fondly dubbed "Her Deepness" by the New York Times – holds the women's record for the deepest ocean dive and has led more than 100 undersea expeditions, logging more than 7,000 hours underwater. Formerly chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Dr. Earle has garnered countless ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $7 Students, $12 Members
Due to its enormous heat capacity and ability to move heat around the globe, the ocean plays an out-sized role in climate and climate change. The ocean is at the center of contemporary questions such as: Why have global-mean surface temperatures not warmed in the last decade despite CO2 continuing to rise ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $45 General, $30 Members
Birds of the San Francisco AreaJoin us for an illustrated talk about Bay Area birds by a local photographer and Bay swimmer.The program will cover bird anatomy, adaptation and migration, with a handout and reading list, and features photos & two short films on aquatic birds that live in or visit our area, especially in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Breast Cancer and the Patenting of GenesGeneticist Mary-Claire King spent over a decade tracking down a gene mutation that she believed leads to a hereditary disposition to breast and ovarian cancer. Then a biotech company stepped in and patented the gene! Legal arguments over whether this naturally occurring gene can be patented went all of the ...
Dr. Vint Virga (The Soul of All Living Creatures) is likely the only veterinarian in the country whose fulltime job is tending to the psychological welfare of animals in captivity. What does it mean when an elephant lowers her head and folds her trunk beneath it? Or when a zebra ...
Alan Rockefeller is a mycologist and photographer specializing in mushroom identification and taxonomy.Alan has been collecting mushrooms for ten years, and has traveled to Mexico to collect mushrooms for the past 8 years. Alan is a network security expert who has a mushroom DNA lab in Berkeley and posts all ...
What actually happened to Darling Clementine? Historian Joel Pomerantz explores the California floods of 1862. Learn how this historic storm, which killed thousands and caused a number of San Francisco houses to collapse, can be an example for what a really extreme weather event could be like in our future.
