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 ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Friday, 08/19/16
Super Heroes and Super Powers Cinema Nights at CuriOdyssey Enjoy a festive evening of short films celebrating creative observations of natural phenomena as well as human and animal behaviors. Creatures come to life with humor and affection in this family-fun program!The Animated Life of A.R. Wallace (Flora Lichtman and Sharon Shattuck, 2014, 8 min.) Paper cutouts and puppetry techniques are ...
Meet the stars of summer! Join our amateur astronomers to learn about constellations. Make a star chart and then venture outside to view the night sky through a telescope. Afterwards, warm up with some hot chocolate. Bring your own binoculars or spotting scopes if you have them. Dress warmly. Fun ...
Where: AlvisoCost: Free
Saturday, 08/20/16
Broom pull party! Help reduce fire danger in Tilden Park & ride the historic merry-go-round Friends of Five Creeks, California Center for Natural History, and Park Hills neighbors are partnering up for this event to keep fire-prone French broom under control near Berkeley's Park Hills neighborhood and in the heart of Tilden Park, near Lake Anza and the merry-go-round. Friends of Five Creeks has done ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: FREE!
Why Tides MatterDocent Laurel Stell will talk and walk you through all things tides. What are they? How do they affect wildlife? How have humans reshaped the Bay's tidal lands? Program starts indoors but will move outside for an easy 0.5-mile walk. All are welcome. Register at http://tideseec.eventbrite.com.
Where: AlvisoCost: Free
Clear to Land at Burning ManOnce a year, Black Rock City Municipal Airport (88NV) exists for one purpose: to support the massive counter-culture Burning Man festival which draws about 70,000 people to this inhospitable dry lake bed for a week of exuberant, over-the-top partying that culminates in the fiery destruction of a series of massive ...
How the human body acquires, stores and uses chemical energy a basic processes, key to life. Indeed, the metabolism of a champion athlete, the aging individual, the person with several forms of chronic diseases and traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients are all governed by the same metabolic, biochemical and physiological ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
bay.org and the Bay Modelbay.org has teamed up with the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bay Model Visitor Center to create the Bay Model Alliance, a not-for-profit organization that benefits the Bay Model and its educational programs by bringing the Bay, its animals, and their habitats to you!Join us at the Bay Model ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
SCIENCE: And Our ClimateOnce more we bring you a collaborative project between Aquarium of the Bay and the Bay Model to discuss the next level of climate science and rubber duckies! Join us for a Rubber Ducky Race to see where salt water from the ocean first heads to in San Francisco Bay. ...
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
Film Screening & Meet the Filmmaker  In Pelican Dreams, an intimate portrait of an iconic seabird species, filmmaker Judy Irving follows a wayward, starving California brown pelican from her “arrest†on the Golden Gate Bridge into care at a wildlife rehabilitation facility, and from there explores pelicans’ nesting grounds, Pacific coast migration, and ...
Where: Point Reyes StationCost: $8 to $10
Twilight Marsh WalkExperience the salt marsh at twilight on an easy stroll along Tidelands (1 1/3 mile) Trail. At the setting of the sun we will observe the beginning of nature's night shift. Come discover the sights, sounds, and smells of the refuge as night descends. Not suitable for young children. RESERVATIONS ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
The Violent Universe Observed with the Fermi TelescopeThe Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched into space in June 2008. The main instrument is the Large Area Telescope (LAT). Dr. Amy Furniss will present the Fermi-LAT instrument and highlight its most interesting results after seven years of operation.Gamma-ray observations open a new window into the universe, allowing us ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Sunday, 08/21/16
Learn genetic engineering! Biohacking Academy LabEver 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 ...
Our August Science Sunday speaker, Steven Haddock, is working on deep-sea gelatinous zooplankton. He is doing research on bioluminescence, biodiversity, and ecology of deep-sea and open-ocean ctenophores, siphonophores, radiolarians, and medusae. In addition to assembling phylogenies for these groups, he is interested in cloning novel photoproteins and fluorescent proteins from ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
Solar Energy Training: Free Workshop on How to Install Rooftop PV SystemsJoin others who are interested in helping save the environment one rooftop at a time! This workshop is offered by SunWork, a nonprofit that installs rooftop PV systems on small-energy-footprint homes. You'll learn the basics of rooftop solar energy and gain insights on how to install rooftop photovoltaic (PV) energy ...
