This class will look beyond the prison walls of Alcatraz to the natural wonders of the island. Nine different waterbird species breed on Alcatraz during the summer months, the easiest to see being gulls, cormorants, pigeon guillemots, snowy egrets and black-crowned night herons. Waterbird docent, Corny Foster, will lead the ...
Dr. Mark Ammons is an astronomer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He joined the laboratory in 2011 after visiting the University of Arizona on a Hubble Fellowship and receiving his PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz.Dr. Ammons' research focuses on detection and characterization of planets outside of ...
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March 2016 Solar Eclipse ExtravaganzaOur next club presentation will feature three PAS members sharing their experiences from traveling to view the recent solar eclipse in March 2016. Jacques Guertin (leading a "Ring of Fire Expeditions " group organized by Paul Maley) along with Don Gardner were on the Indonesian island of Ternate and had ...
