Cellphone and nature? Yes! Map plants with app!On fourth Thursdays, join a small group mapping invasives and some natives in Tilden Regional Park in the East Bay. Easy, leisurely walks -- learn about and enjoy nature while you contribute to a statewide database and stewardship, using CalFlora's cellphone-mapping apps! Info. RSVP, and instructions (let us know whether ...
Let's face it, dinosaurs rock! This week, NightLife is throwing a party of jurassic proportions that is guaranteed to bring out the dino lover in everyone. Catch a screening of the original Jurassic Park-yes, the one that started it all! See fascinating paleontology artifacts from the Academy's collection. On arrival, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
Full-Spectrum Science with Ron Hipschman: Heat and TemperatureWhat's the difference between heat and temperature? We use the terms interchangeably, but they have precise meanings to physicists. How does your thermostat work and how does a Thermos® know to keep a hot thing hot and a cold thing cold? The mysteries will be revealed in this talk.Speaker: Ron ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Friday, 07/24/15
Moth night' adventure in the beautiful Hillside Natural Area!For International Moth Week, help us discover magical nighttime denizens of El Cerrito's amazing, 100-acre urban oasis, with Eddie Dunbar of the California Insect Sciences Museum! Meet at the Schmidt Lane entrance (map here) We'll enjoy a light potluck, take a nature walk as it gets dark, and then safety ...
Where: El CerittoCost: Free
Evening with the Stars - SOLD OUTLick Observatory hosts the Evenings with the Stars, inviting the public to observe through both the 36-inch Great Lick Refractor and Nickel 40-inch Reflecting Telescope. Each evening also features two "star" astronomer speakers, who present programs even if clouds or fog prohibit viewing.Lick astronomers present multimedia lectures on their ...
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.
Explore bugs as you get inspired for our science future! Meet and build Dash, the cardboard origami robot developed here at UC Berkeley, then go on a hunt for real, live bugs. Sponsored by ScholarShare, California's College Savings Plan.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with admission
Discover San Francisco Bay with the Marine Science Institute!Saturday, July 25, 1pm and 3pmThe Marine Science Institute invites you to explore San Francisco Bay with us on. Voyages lasting two hours will depart at 1pm and 3pm from Marine Science Institute. Our 90 foot Research Vessel, the Robert G. Brownlee, offers a unique window into the wilderness below ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: $30 General, $20 Members
Family Sundown SafariAges; 4 and upGrab your tent, sleeping bag, your family, and a few friends and get ready for an overnight adventure at Oakland Zoo. This unique program includes dinner, a nighttime and morning guided tour of the Zoo, a special behind the scenes, live animal presentations, interactive and educational activities, ...
Where: OaklandCost: $70-$85 per person
Music of the Spheres concert and astronomy lecture - SOLD OUTOur Music of the Spheres Concert series is held annually in the summer. Join us and observe through the Great Lick Refractor and the Nickel Reflector.Performers: Ken EmersonSpeaker: Melissa Graham, UC Berkeley
Where: Mt. HamiltonCost: $40 General (see website for other options)
Weighing GalaxiesWe live in a galaxy of about a hundred billion stars, the Milky Way. As the sky over Mount Tam darkens, and the stars in the disk of our galactic home come into view, see how we are mapping out where the Dark Matter is, both in our local group of galaxies and ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Sunday, 07/26/15
Full-Spectrum Science with Ron Hipschman: Heat and TemperatureWhat's the difference between heat and temperature? We use the terms interchangeably, but they have precise meanings to physicists. How does your thermostat work and how does a Thermos® know to keep a hot thing hot and a cold thing cold? The mysteries will be revealed in this talk.Talks at ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Connections: Women Environmental Artists– Art Exhibit ReceptionTwelve artists present their hopes for the endangered wildlife of the Marin Coast ––the birds, insects, mammals, sea life, and plants who share this beautiful planet with us.Exhibit runs July 14 - August 23, 10:00 - 04:00.
This talk will start with a number of complex data real-time use cases, such as a) complex event processing, b) supporting the modeling of a data mining department and c) developing enterprise applications on Apache big-data systems. While Hadoop and big data has been around for a while, banks and ...
This talk will start with a number of complex data streaming use cases, such as a) complex event processing, b) supporting the modeling of a data mining department and c) developing enterprise applications on Apache big-data systems. While Hadoop and big data has been around for a while, banks and ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Dr. Geoff Marcy public talk: Part of the Meteoritical Society convention at UC BerkeleyDr. Marcy will discuss the discovery and nature of planets 1 to 4 times Earth's size, their habitability, and the new search for intelligent life in the universe, especially after the announcement of the $100 million donation by billionaire Yuri Milner. The talk is free and open to the public ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Nerd Night East Bay 32: Equestrian/Butterflies/PepperThis month's Nerd Nite brings stories of Olympic horses, hi-jacked butterflies, and the king of all spices. Come eat, drink, learn, and laugh with us.Horsing Around: A Gallop Through the Most Dangerous and Expensive Olympic Events by Donnelly GillenDo Butterflies Dream of Genetic Tattoos? by Arnaud MartinPepper, The King of ...
Where: OaklandCost: $8 advance; $10 at door, if available
Tuesday, 07/28/15
Imaging a habitable planet at Alpha Centauri with a small space telescopeIn 1990, at the request of Carl Sagan, Voyager 1 turned and took a picture of Earth from a distance of 6 billion kilometers. This produced the famous "pale blue dot" image of our planet. Several mission concepts are being studied to obtain similar images of Earth-like exoplanets (exo-Earths) around other stars. ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Ashlee Vance on Elon Musk, Tesla, Space-X and the FutureCan the nation of inventors and creators, which led the modern world for a century, still compete in an age of fierce global competition? Vance argues that Elon Musk is a contemporary amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes and Steve Jobs. Vance is ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Creative Collisions: 3D Printing + The Body + YouJoin us for Creative Collisions: 3D Printing + The Body + You, where we'll explore how 3D printing is being used today. The event will feature:Anatomage, a company that 3D-prints versions of the human body for educational purposesE-nable the Future, a global network of volunteers creating free 3D printed prosthetic hands ...
In the past five years, science has made great strides in better understanding the emotion of awe. UC Berkeley psychologist Craig L. Anderson will help us understand state-of-the-art findings about how awe promotes curiosity and pro-sociality, including the physiological processes that support these behaviors. We will explore important implications that awe research has ...
Cetacean morbilliviruses have the potential to cause explosive outbreaks with high mortality, and have emerged as the cause of die-offs of striped dolphins in the Mediterranean, harbor porpoises in the UK and Netherlands, and bottlenose dolphins along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Interestingly, large-scale mortality has not been documented in the ...
Where: SausalitoCost: $5 Donation
Astronomy Lecture July 28th. with Dr. Stephen Kane (SFSU)This month's speaker is Dr. Stephen Kane, a Professor of Astrophysics at San Francisco State University. He has devoted most of his professional career to examining the hundreds of new planetary systems that have been discovered by the Kepler Mission and similar efforts. He will discuss several Kepler planet candidates, ...
Effective science communication is more important now than it has ever been. Much of science communication is about sharing information with the general public for the sake of discovery and exploration, but there are potential broader societal impacts of communicating science to the public at large, as well as to ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Big Bug Bonanza: Summer Fun DayBring out your inner entomologist and discover a world right under your feet. Meet and touch small bugs, spiky ones, and even giant ones as you learn about their environments and lifestyles with the help of "Save Nature".
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with admission
Ship Chat with Exploration Vessel Nautilus: Live from Deep CaliforniaJoin a live chat with scientists and educators on board the Exploration Vessel Nautilus as it uses an ROV (remotely operated vehicle) to explore the ocean floor off the coasts of California and Canada. The expedition's targets will include ecosystems around "cold seeps," where water flows from cracks along an active underwater ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Included with museum admission.
My New Physician Is a D.O.: What Is Osteopathic Medicine?There are two degrees that physicians in the U.S. earn, the M.D. (allopathic medicine) or D.O. (osteopathic medicine) degree. While doctors with the two degrees carry the same rights and privileges compared to one degree, there are differences in their education and training, considering that one in five students currently ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 students
Scaredy Cats: How Pumas' Fear of Humans Impacts the Santa Cruz Mountains EcosystemWhen considering how species interact with one another, we often think of the food chain – the pattern of how species consume each other. However, the struggle not to be eaten is just as important to animal community structure. Animal fear responses to their predators are powerful drivers of species interactions and ...
