The biological reprocessing of organic nitrogen into dissolved inorganic forms, termed remineralization, is an important component of the marine nitrogen and carbon cycles. Inorganic nitrogen (e.g. nitrate) availability commonly limits primary production in the ocean, therefore, where and how much nitrogen remineralization takes place in the water column has important ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Avoiding the End-of-Life Medical Conveyer BeltThirty percent of Americans die in ICUs hooked up to machines, despite their preferences to the contrary. Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter practices the seemingly contradictory specialties of critical care and palliative care. She sees a medical system geared toward treating individual organ systems rather than caring for whole patients. Dr. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Do WIMPs rule? The LUX and LZ Experiments and the Search for Cosmic Dark MatterDark Matter remains a profound mystery at the intersection of particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. One of the leading candidates, the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle, or WIMP, may be detectable using terrestrial particle detectors. Recent technological advances are enabling very rapid increases in sensitivity in the search for these particles. ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Inspiring Science and Math Learning: Cultural ConnectionsUC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science – A University Museum Case Study University museums are noteworthy for their location, resources, audience, and academic prestige. Join us June 9 "up on the hill" at UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science for a rare opportunity to learn what it's like running ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $15 General, see weblink for members
Pegged Software evaluates 3 million job applications per year across 130 institutions. Mike Rosenbaum, founder and CEO of Pegged, will talk about lessons learned from developing the technology that allows Pegged to reduce employee turnover dramatically in every single deployment, improve outcomes across healthcare and software engineering, and have measurable ...
Where: San JoseCost: $5 General, $3 Members
Big Data Use Cases for Energy: Connected Cars – Driving Humankind Towards Greener PasturesThe advent of motor vehicles ushered in a new wave of productivity for humankind. It created economics of scale never or known seen before. Unfortunately, it also silently started to hurt the very environment that we live in. Increasing carbon emissions around the world have created irrecoverable damage on Mother ...
