Color of Life NightlifeThere's more to color than meets the eye-see why in the Academy's brand new, eye-popping exhibit Color of Life.Come decked out in your favorite colors (the brighter the better!) and discover a world of dazzling live animals and shimmering scientific specimens.Take a cue from nature and learn how animals use ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
From high above Earth, satellites are tracking the health of the oceans in startling detail by precisely measuring the color of the water. The water's color may reveal blooms of plankton that nourish marine ecosystems, or that can harm fish and wildlife. Scientists use satellite color data to track ocean ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Discovering What Cosmetics to Use: During and after Oncology TreatmentsPresented by Stanford Cancer Supportive Care ProgramWe will discuss what skin changes will occur, the ingredients to stay away from, sun protection, and websites and resources to do your own research.Speaker: Lana Vorrises
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
'Pelican Dreams'Pelican Dreams (2014, 80 min.), an intimate portrait of an iconic species by filmmaker Judy Irving, follows a wayward, starving California brown pelican from her "arrest" on the roadway of the Golden Gate Bridge into care at a wildlife rehabilitation facility, and from there explores pelicans' nesting grounds, Pacific coast ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Museum Admission ($15 Gen/ $10 Mem)
Explore the lives of birds through a presentation of sound recordings from Cornell's Macaulay Library, the world's largest archive of bird sounds. From the stunningly beautiful to the bizarre, from drumming to mimicry, from the Nightingale to the Musician Wren… we will listen to sounds that birds use to communicate, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Everything Matters: CarbonCome be in your elements with Exploratorium host Ron Hipschman. Follow tales of intrigue and invention, join in dynamic demonstrations, and uncover fascinating connections between individual elements and our collective human experience.From the moment of its discovery, each element embarks on a journey into our culture. -Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Periodic TalesHail carbon, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Friday, 06/19/15
The Computing Universe: Towards the Third Age of ComputingExplore the origins of computational thinking and the rise of computer science as a discipline in this fascinating lecture by theoretical physicist Tony Hey. As outlined in his new book with Gyuri Pápay, Hey will begin by paying homage to the early pioneering work on computer hardware and programming in ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost:
It's Tough to be Heard in the City: Adaptations of Bird Song in Ruban EnvironmentsModern, high-density urban environments are an evolutionarily recent habitat in which urban features such as uniform grey cement surroundings, tall buildings with reflective surfaces, and loud low frequency ambient noise pose a variety of novel selection pressures to animals that live in this environment. The ambient noise environment can affect ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged for non-members
Space DebrisLLNL has been working for the last few years on ways to mitigate the space flight safety problems caused by orbital debris in low Earth orbits. Anyone who has seen the recent movie 'Gravity' will have a sense of what is at stake. While the movie does not paint an ...
Where: LivermoreCost: Free
Saturday, 06/20/15
Elkhorn Slough Safari on Pontoon BoatJoin MSI and our friends at Elkhorn Slough Safari to learn first-hand about one of California's most spectacular estuaries. Nationally recognized and protected as an Estuarine Research Reserve, Elkhorn Slough is naturally bountiful as a migratory bird flyway, otter and seal habitat - and home to thousands of other plant ...
Recent Advances in Stem Cell ResearchLearning the mechanisms that regulate stem cell behavior is critical for understanding the role of these powerful cells in normal function as well as for harnessing them to repair tissues damaged by disease or injury. In particular, discovering the signals that regulate whether stem cells replicate themselves or mature into ...
Join us for our Summer Maker Series. Come make, share and learn with hands-on activities. Bring your creativity and ideas, we'll supply enough projects to keep you busy making things all summer. This free, family-friendly series for all ages is hosted by Bon Air Center and Marin Maker Mobile.
Where: GreenbraeCost: Free
Super Nova !Please join Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society for an astronomy program in the Lower Summit Parking Lot of Mt. Diablo State Park. The program starts at 8:00pm (enter the park at least 45 minutes earlier) until 11:00pm. Although there is no fee for this program there is a $10 park entrance ...
Using spectacular images from space probes and the world's largest telescopes, we will explore the most intriguing future "tourist destinations" among the planets and moons in our cosmic neighborhood. Our stops will include the 4,000-mile lava channel on Venus, the towering Mount Olympus volcano on Mars (three times the height of Mount ...
Spring is a wonderful time to enjoy the influx of birds to the Marin Headlands. Join volunteer Jane Haley for an easy walk to discover our spring visitors. Meet at the Marin Headlands Visitor Center. Bring field guides and binoculars; dress in layers. For ages 8 and up; no pets ...
California ranks as the eighth largest economy in the world supporting a vast array of tech, entertainment, government, research, and of course agricultural industries. Sustaining that economy demands water. Water is diverted from its historic course through a network of storage reservoirs and conveyance and pumping systems known as the ...
In the wireless generation, people have embraced and accommodated the cellphone, but how much physical harm could a tiny wireless device cause? A panel of distinguished researchers will review the science of cellphone risk, mechanisms of action, new genetic questions, and whether the IARC warning should be upgraded to "probable ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 General, $20 Member, $11 Student
In the past few years, research around (big) data management has begun to intertwine with research around predictive modeling and simulation in novel and interesting ways. Driving this trend is an increasing recognition that information contained in real-world data must be combined with information from domain experts, as embodied in ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Tuesday, 06/23/15
The Bay Model Wants You!!!Become part of Sausalito's very own attraction known around the world! We have a variety of volunteer positions that are suited for people just like you! Greet visitors, lead tours, work with school groups, and more! Come and be a part of one of the largest working hydraulic models in ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Volunteering
A Holographic Quantum Theory of SpacetimeThe theory called Holographic Space-time is an attempt to generalize String Theory so that one can discuss local regions of space-time. It's key feature is a mapping between quantum concepts and the geometry of space-time. Causality conditions are imposed, as in quantum field theory, by insisting that things which cannot ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Astronomy Lecture June 23rd, Dave Erskine, LLNLThis month's speaker is Dave Erskine from LLNL, who will be presenting some recent advances in spectroscopy and the potential impact on astronomy. With new high resolution spectral scans, a treasure trove of information has been gleaned regarding the detailed energetics of molecular flow in the Orion nebula.
One of the most pressing issues in ecology is determining the drivers of ecosystem functioning and stability. Researchers and managers of ecosystems and populations of concern are often faced with determining the relative effects of top down forces (top predators and lower level consumers), and bottom up forces (nutrient loading ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: 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.
Summer Permaculture Incoming!The Urban Permaculture Institute of San Francsico offers a place-based permaculture design course focusing on urban strategies that work in the city or anywhere you may go. Through a mix of classroom time and hands-on activities, we will explore methods of designing and establishing regenerative communities and economies. We visit ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $850, payment plans and work-trade available
An Evening with Peter Norvig and 'Her', Movie Screening & TalkIt's a great pleasure of modern life to watch a wonderful movie, and then to discuss it with a smart friend. Even better when the movie is Her, Spike Jonze's 2013 sci-fi-rom-comabout a man who falls in love with a female-voiced operating system (think Siri) - and the smart friend is Peter ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15
Nucleosome dynamics in the cell cycleHeterochromatin, or packaging of DNA, is a way to control gene expression. Gene expression is a fundamental question on which lies the basis of all cell-based life. Mammalian studies are time consuming, difficult to handle, and lack the ancestral, conserved mechanism which is not understood. Drosophila embryo exist during early development as ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Science and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub, West BayIf ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the flim-flam man, join us, your friends. Skeptics in the Pub is a group of like-minded people informally discussing the latest in science or pseudoscience over good eats & ale.Skeptics in the Pub is a monthly meeting for discussion of topics ...
Where: MillbraeCost: Free
Solving Real World Problems with Computer Simulations and Statistical ModelsMany modern problems involve computer simulations of physical or social processes, such as rocket science, groundwater contamination remediation, and health care policy. These simulators are typically very complex and expensive to run. Statistical models provide a fast approximation to the simulator, as well as a range of tools to help with design, analysis, prediction, ...
