Fizzy, Foamy ScienceCombine chemistry and art to create your own custom fizzy, foamy masterpieces on the Hall's plaza. Use vinegar, pigment, and baking soda to bring your art to life and learn to re-create this fun (and nonpermanent) painting activity at home.This event is free with admission.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with admission
Twilight HikeTake advantage of this rare opportunity to experience the beauty and rich natural history of this 535-acre preserve as dusk arrives and the animals start to appear. Our twilight hikes are on select Fridays throughout spring and fall. Participants are divided into small groups and paired with a trained Bouverie ...
Where: GeyservilleCost: $15 Donation suggested
#teensciencenightFinish off the summer with #TeenScienceNight at the California Academy of Sciences! For the fourth year in a row, Bay Area youth (13-18) are invited to the world's largest teen-only museum event. Come enjoy music, food, and dancing while exploring science with over 1,500 other teens! Watch science come to ...
Dr. Quinn Konopacky is an assistant professor at UC San Diego. Dr. Konopacky's research interests are: Planet formation and evolution; high contrast imaging; star formation; stellar and substellar evolution; orbital dynamics; high angular resolution imaging and spectroscopy; adaptive optics; astrometry; speckle interferometry; optical and infrared astronomy.Tickets on sale April 15
The near-Earth asteroids are a population of objects on orbits that come near that of Earth. They are accessible targets for spacecraft missions, but also pose a hazard: asteroids can and do impact Earth. I will review programs to discover and characterize near-Earth asteroids, and current and future spacecraft missions ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Saturday, 08/13/16
Sunrise Solitude & Early Morning Wildlife Meet ACR Resource Ecologist Dave Self at the junction of Pine Flat Rd. and Red Winery Rd., 3/4 mile 'east' on Pine Flat Rd from Hwy 128 at Jimtown. We'll drive up to the Preserve, with each person claiming an individual sit-spot. We'll each settle in to appreciate the summer ...
Where: GeyservilleCost: Free
Lichens are Awesome and Oaks are Majestic!On this hike you'll slow down to explore the world of lichens, a small life form that is a partnership of a fungus and an alga and shows up in many places, colors and shapes. Participants will also gaze up as they walk through groves of oak trees and examine ...
Where: FairfieldCost: Free
Hayward Fault Walking TourOver the last million years, the natural beauty of Fremont has been shaped by the Hayward Fault. Instructors will be leading these 'ground breaking' tours and exposing the science and beauty of the Hayward Fault. This fault is one of several active faults in the world actually creeping at 5 ...
Let family walks become a shared time of nature learning. We'll begin by helping kids create their personal bird watching field guides, and then head out onto the trails to find those birds. A limited number of binoculars are available to borrow. Recommended for children ages 5-10. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. Register ...
Where: FremontCost: 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.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Family Sundown SafariIs your family ready for a WILD campout? Grab your camping gear, your family, a few friends, and get ready for an overnight adventure at Oakland Zoo.Family Sundown Safari is a unique overnight program for the whole family. This program includes dinner, a nighttime and morning guided tour of the ...
Where: OaklandCost: $85.00 per person for non-members / $75.00 per per
Dr. Shelley Wright is a faculty member at UC San Diego at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences. Her research focuses on developing innovative astronomical instrumentation and observations using some of the world's largest optical telescopes. She is the Project Scientist for one of the first instruments for the ...
Where: Mt. HamiltonCost: $45 General, $40 Under 16, over 65
Sunday, 08/14/16
Teddy Bear Tea with Friends!It's tea time at Oakland Zoo and you are cordially invited to learn all about Parrots! Enjoy a morning of snacks, activities, books and play while making and delivering an enrichment gift straight to the zoo's Blue and Gold Macaws. When the fun is done, your child will receive a ...
Where: OaklandCost: 23-26
Learn genetic engineering! Biohacking Academy Lab Ever wondered how GMO's are created or wanted to embrace your mad scientist side?Well, now you can! This lecture series at Counter Culture Labs, Oakland's community lab, will teach you the basics of synthetic biology then let you in the lab to try the techniques yourself.This series of classes is ...
Where: OaklandCost: 20
Marine Science Sunday: Under The Bridge: Marine Mammals of SF BayOur own backyard in the bay is full of amazing marine mammals! Free classroom programs will highlight our local sea lions, harbor porpoises, dolphins, and even the occasional whale that wanders under the Bridge! We recommend teaming our free classroom program with a Docent-led tour at 11am, 1pm or 3pm for a ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Evenings with the Pigeon Point Lighthouse Fresnel lensThe Pigeon Point Lighthouse is currently under repair, but that doesn't mean that the First Order Fresnel Lens can't shine! The Fresnel lens, the original lighthouse beacon, will light up once again from its temporary home in the Visitor Center. As dusk settles, the 24 beams of light provide a ...
Where: PescaderoCost: Free
Monday, 08/15/16
Learn genetic engineering! Biohacking Academy: Experimental DesignEver wondered how GMO's are created or wanted to embrace your mad scientist side?Well, now you can! This lecture series at Counter Culture Labs, Oakland's community lab, will teach you the basics of synthetic biology then let you in the lab to try the techniques yourself.This series of classes is ...
Have you ever wondered what's inside a scientific buoy? Come find out as we pull our NOAA CO2 buoy out of the water and perform its yearly servicing. The buoy, on loan to us from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has been anchored between Piers 15 and 17 since ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
REU Student lightning talksThe SETI Institute REU students Class of 2016 will summarise their summer projects in exciting 3 minute lightning talks!
Ami Vitale is an award-winning photographer and photojournalist whose work has taken her around the world to more than 90 countries! At the beginning of her career, Ami's work focused on conflict. She told stories by taking photographs of wars, civil unrest, and border disputes As her career has progressed, ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: $45 - $63
Trivia @ The TechSo you think you're down with what's up in Silicon Valley these days? Put your chops to the test at our Trivia @ The Tech event. Bring your friends or make new ones on the spot, then settle in for a not-your-typical-trivia-night night.Food, beer and wine sold separately.Ages 18+
Where: San JoseCost: $10 General Admission $7 Members
Kepler's Heartbeat Stars: When Binary Stars Get FunkyUsing the continuous, high-precision photometry available from the Kepler spacecraft, the Kepler team discovered a type of eccentric binary star named Heartbeat Stars. In these systems, the two stars come close enough to each other to cause large, periodic changes in the tidal deformation and mutual irradiation of the stars. ...
Have you ever wondered what's inside a scientific buoy? Come find out as we pull our NOAA CO2 buoy out of the water and perform its yearly servicing. The buoy, on loan to us from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has been anchored between Piers 15 and 17 since ...
The Lost Ships of the FarallonesMeet the Indiana Jones of the sea, and join marine archeologist, James Delgado as he takes us on a tour of some of the most amazing shipwrecks discovered over the last three years by NOAA. Just outside the Golden Gate, the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, hosts an undersea museum ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10
Rising Moon & Setting Sun HikeJoin ACR Resource Ecologist Dave Self for a hike up Redhill to watch the full moon rising over the Mayacamas at about 7:45pm, followed by sunset at about 8:00pm. After we watch a few stars, we'll wander down, appreciating the quiet and the light of the full moon.RSVP required on ...
Where: HealdsburgCost: $15 - $25 Donation
Cellphone Macro Photography of InsectsAre you interested doing close-up (macro) photography but don't have a fancy camera? On Damon Tighe, a local macro photographer, will be running a workshop at the Rotary Nature Center in Oakland on how to use your cell phone's camera and some relatively inexpensive lenses to do amazing macro photography ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free, $20 Donation suggested
Nerd Nite SF #75: 'Sleep Studies, Zapping Proteins, and Driverless Cars'Ah, the brave new world: Commuters make up their sleep deficits snoozing at the wheels of driverless cars on their way to their jobs using lasers! We are living in the future! Come explore it using the finest in, um, 1990s technology: PowerPoint! With vinyl records (1940s) to tickle your ...
Personalized healthcare and precision medicine are introducing novel opportunities to leverage data about an individual to deliver personalized health profiles and wellness profiles to an individual. This data includes electronic medical records, genomics, lifestyle, and environmental data. However, there are fundamental challenges from collecting such data at an individual level to integrating it to ...
Just offshore from Half Moon Bay, where the Monterey Bay and Greater Farallones national marine sanctuaries meet, lie the submerged, battered remains of the once-mighty USS Independence. An aircraft carrier used in World War II, it served as a target in America's first atomic weapons test at Bikini Atoll in 1946. ...
Clear your plates and head to NightLife for a foodie-inspired night featuring cooking and cocktail demos and tastings from some of SF's top culinary minds.Join Ne Timeas Restaurant Group (Flour + Water, Central Kitchen) for a delicious deep dive into the history of cured meats, the art of butchery, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
The Bay Bridge and Richmond-San Rafael Bridge have hosted the Bay Area's largest nesting colonies of Double-crested Cormorants for decades. But now these colonies are declining, and their nesting structures are being dismantled or blocked off for maintenance. Where will the cormorants nest in the future? Learn about this resilient species ...
