Science Bites: Discover Bay Predators (Sharks)Take a bite out of science and discover Bay predators at Aquarium of the Bay. Find out what's on the menu as we explore three of the Bay's top predators; from unassuming sea stars, keen river otters, and awe-inspiring sharks, these predators rule their ecosystems. We'll be having fun with ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Aquarium admission
The proliferation of mobile electronic devices and the emergence of applications such as wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Things have brought energy consumption to the fore of challenges for future information-processing devices. The energy efficiency of a digital logic integrated circuit is fundamentally limited by non-zero transistor off-state ...
The current set of rules within the global trading system that impact the technology industry were put in place a generation ago-before the Internet was of critical commercial significance, when cross-border digital trade was a fraction of what it is now, mobility was limited and "cloud" architecture unknown. How will ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for members, $5 Students
TEMBLOR AppRoss Stein, Ph.D., Co-Founder & CEO of Temblor. will give a demonstration and lead a discussion about Temblor, a mobile web app that provides personal, immediate and credible seismic risk understanding resources and solutions for everyone.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Good Friends: Growth and Flowering Responses of Eelgrass to Grazing by Brant GeeseEelgrass makes up nearly all of the diet of brant geese on west coast of North America and there are several lines of evidence indicating that this is a coevolved plant-animal relationship. Brant could therefore affect the ability of an eelgrass bed to support juvenile crabs and rockfish. But what ...
Where: TiburonCost: Free
Biodiversity dynamics in deep time, and the deep seaSpeaker: Julia Sigwart, Senior Lecturer in Marine Biology and Associate Director of Queens University Marine Laboratory, Queens University, BelfastEditor's Note: The subject matter for this lecture has changed from our original listing.
Christian Marc Schmidt is principal and founder of Schema, a creative design and technology studio based in Seattle. Schema focuses on the intersection of interaction design and data visualization. Clients range from corporations such as Bloomberg and Microsoft, to startups such as Actively Learn and institutions such as the University ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Geologic History of Mt. DiabloMt. Diablo is a large, actively growing anticline that has formed in a restraining stepover between two major dextral strike-slip faults of the San Andreas system. Uplift of Mt. Diablo anticline during the past 3-5 million years has produced unique 3-D exposures of normal faults that were active in the ...
Where: OrindaCost: $5, $1 student or K-12 teacher
A recently discovered symbiosis in the oceanFixed nitrogen is an essential requirement for the biosynthesis of cellular nitrogenous compounds. Some cyanobacteria can fix nitrogen, contributing significantly to the nitrogen cycle, agriculture and biogeochemical history of Earth. The marine N2-fixing cyanobacteria in the open ocean are diverse and include free-living cyanobacteria, several symbionts and the symbiotic unicellular (UCYN-A) ...
