Join park staff and docents for a tour down the Point Bonita Trail, through the hand carved tunnel and out to the Lighthouse. We will walk along a half-mile trail which is steep in places. Arrive early as parking is limited. Meet at the Point Bonita Lighthouse trailhead. Dress warmly ...
Dr. Kenneth Lum  will give Part two of his presentation on the evolution of the reflecting telescope. In August he spoke about the invention of the reflecting telescope by Sir Isaac Newton in 1668, through to the development of large aperture reflectors in the 19th Century that were hampered by poor ...
Local avian artist Amanda Krauss is captivated by the natural beauty of birds in the Bay Area landscape. By drawing, painting, or using printmaking techniques on paper, wood or canvas she captures the memories of her observations in nature.Please join us for the opening reception of "Wings Over the Baylands", ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
California Coastal Cleanup Day Marin CountyTake part in the 32nd California Coastal Cleanup. Join others around the State to make a difference on Sat, September 17th 9am-Noon. With over 40 sites in Marin County, check the Bay Model website for a volunteer opportunity near you.Cleanup ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Coastal Cleanup - FremontJoin thousands of people around the world for International Coastal Clean-Up Day. Bring a hat, sturdy shoes, water, sunscreen, and gloves and a refillable water bottle if you have them. Removing invasive non-native plants may be an option on this day. Children under 18 must have parental approval.  Speed up the registration process by downloading ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Coastal Cleanup Day - Rodeo BeachThe Marine Mammal Center will host a beach cleanup at Rodeo Beach on behalf of International Coastal Cleanup Day. Bring gloves, a bucket, and a friend! Make a day of it and head over to The Marine Mammal Center afterwards to view our patients and learn more about Ocean Conservation! After ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Coastal Cleanup Day: Half Moon BayEvery year, on the third Saturday in September, people join together at sites all over California to take part in the State's largest volunteer event, California Coastal Cleanup Day. In 2015, more that 68,000 volunteers removed nearly 1,143,000 pounds of trash and recyclables from California's beaches, lakes, and waterways. Join ...
Within families one can find several diverse traditions and customs. We all have ancestors and elders that experienced different upbringings and life events that led them to pass down certain traditions, beliefs, and values.The redwood forest can have several life lessons to teach us if we learn how to listen. ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost:
NatureBridge Coastal Cleanup DayCelebrate the annual California Coastal Cleanup Day with stewardship at Rodeo Lagoon. Coastal Cleanup Day is the highlight of the California Coastal Commission's year-round Adopt-a-Beach program. This is a great way for families, students, service groups, and neighbors to join together to take care of our fragile marine environment. Show ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Learn to Photograph Plants and GardensWhether your goal is to record a plant or a landscape in the wild or in a garden, a few basic principles of the horticultural photographer's trade will help you create photographs that are more useful as well as beautiful. The topics covered will be how to make the best ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $30-$40
What really killed the dinosaurs?The disappearance of the dinosaurs, along with 70% of all species in the fossil record, about 66 million years ago is widely attributed to the Chicxulub impact in Yucatán, Mexico �" a discovery credited to a Berkeley team led by Walter and Luis Alvarez. However, at the same time, one of the ...
The Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Midway through, a banding volunteer brings up a newly banded hawk, talks about the banding program, shows everyone the hawk, and lets it go in front ...
Join us on a fairly strenuous six-mile hike to a nearby ridge where, weather permitting, we will watch a spectacular sunset on the Pacific Ocean while listening for local coyotes greet the rising full moon. We’ll make several stops along the hike to learn more about the species and find ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Sunset/Full Moon Walk to the Point Bonita LighthouseJoin park staff and docents for a tour down the Point Bonita Trail, through the hand carved tunnel and out to the Lighthouse. We will walk along a half-mile trail which is steep in places. Arrive early as parking is limited. Meet at the Point Bonita Lighthouse trailhead. Dress warmly ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Zoovie Night �' Disneynature: ChimpanzeePut on your jammies and enjoy an evening of Zoovie magic with the whole family. Bring your pillows, blankets, and chairs and snuggle up in our auditorium for a specially selected family movie. Meet some of our education animals and Roosevelt, Oakland Zoo's costumed alligator mascot. Hot chocolate and popcorn ...
Where: OaklandCost: 6
Messier Marathon:The talk will be about the Messier Marathon and how to run it. We begin with a short overview of the life of Charles Messier, a comet hunter who developed the list of objects. We then move on to the actual Messier Objects in Messier's Catalogues. Some of the Messier ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Sunday, 09/18/16
Acorns, Oaks and Others Nature HikeJoin ACR Resource Ecologist Dave Self for a close look at oaks, their acorns, and the critters who love them including people, deer, bear, jays, acorn woodpeckers, woodrats, etc. If you can, read "Secrets of the Oak Woodlands" before the trip - and consider joining our Book Group starting in mid ...
Where: GeyservilleCost: Free
3rd Annual Hike The Headlands Bring your family and friends for a day of discovery and learning while exploring the Marin Headlands. Proceeds from Hike the Headlands will help us open children's hearts and minds to the wonders of science and nature. Experience:Entertainment, beer tasting, and numerous family activitiesOptional hikes of varying lengths and degree ...
Where: SausalitoCost: $42 Family of 4, $15 Adult, $12 5-17 y/o
The Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Midway through, a banding volunteer brings up a newly banded hawk, talks about the banding program, shows everyone the hawk, and lets it go in front ...
Millions of tourists visit California each year, spending billions of dollars on hotels, restaurants, shops, and attractions. Translating the intangible value of our iconic coastal waters into dollars can help ensure we manage our natural capital wisely. If we are not explicit about these values, they often get ignored. The ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
Full Spectrum Science: TimeYou know what time is because of your daily experience, but what seems constant and unchanging is not. In 1905, Albert Einstein threw a monkey wrench in our perception of time and space. Join us as we examine a few of these quirks on a conceptual non-mathematical level. Yes, you ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Monday, 09/19/16
b-Quark Tagging Algorithm CharacterizationSSU student Michael Dobbs will discuss his summer research conducted at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the largest physics laboratory and particle collider in the world, and describe how machine learning algorithms are a new and efficient way to capture interesting physics events in the ATLAS detector.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Being Well While DyingAmericans tend to consider illness and dying as fundamentally medical problems. Doctors and nurses focus their attention on alleviating suffering at end of life. But though suffering is undeniably part of illness and dying, with good palliative care many people retain a capacity for subjective well-being through the end of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, Free for members, $7 students
Pluto's interacting surface and atmospherePluto's main atmospheric species, N2, is also frozen on its surface, as are its minor atmospheric species, CH4 and CO. The New Horizons spacecraft found complicated and intriguing evidence for a dynamically interacting surface and atmosphere. The REX instrument shows a planetary boundary layer that depends on whether there's N2 ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
The History of the Martian South Polar Cap - RESCHEDULED to Oct 25In the last few years we have found that Mars' south polar cap has as much carbon-dioxide as Mars' current atmosphere. This raises numerous questions about how this massive deposit formed and what Mars was like when it was in the atmosphere. Using a combination of methods including spacecraft imagery, ...
Ten years ago, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed what many consider to be the most important piece of climate legislation in the world. The law, AB 32, created a market for the right to emit carbon pollution; that market is generating billions of dollars in revenue and is now connected ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Award-winning writer and environmental thought leader Mary Ellen Hannibal wades into tide pools, follows hawks and scours mountains to collect data on threatened species as part of her wide-ranging exploration of today’s tech-enabled citizen science. She harnesses the power of a heroic cast of volunteers to pursue what may be ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $17 General, -10% members
Mushrooms of the Redwood CoastNorthern California is known for its seemingly endless wet winters which make the mushrooms flourish and its majestic forest. Not only do we have the biggest trees we also have the largest known Chanterelle and Porcini!Six years in the making, the newly published Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast is the ...
Cities and urban regions can make coherent sense, can metabolize efficiently, can use their very complexity to solve problems, and can become so resilient they "bounce forward" when stressed.In this urbanizing century ever more of us live in cities (a majority now; 80% expected by 2100), and cities all over ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free for members, TBA General
In September 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected the first gravitational wave signals. The event represents the coalescence of two distinct black holes that were previously in mutual orbit. LIGO's exciting discovery provides direct evidence of what is arguably the last major unconfirmed prediction of Einstein's General Theory ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Wednesday, 09/21/16
Dent:SpaceScientists, makers, entrepreneurs, thinkers. Talented people of all backgrounds are pushing us farther, and Dent:Space brings them together. It's time to make our ambitions a reality. Look up, let's go.Speakers include:Mary Roach, Author; "Packing for Mars"Seth Shostak, SETI; Searching for ETSimone Giertz, Queen of Shitty RobotsCamille Eddy, Mechanical Engineering Student; ...
Susan Ustin is a Professor of Environmental and Resource Science and Director of the Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS) at UC Davis. She works with imaging spectroscopy and other remote sensing systems at a variety of scales ,from leaf level to global. Among other studies, she has included mapping vegetation distribution and ...
Speaker: Molly Joel Coye, Network for Excellence in Health Innovation
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Spatial Data Science and the 21st Century Mapping ToolkitThe past decade has been one of astonishing innovation in the world of spatial data, analysis and visualization. I’m going to talk about all the amazing and fun technology that you can work with. My group focuses on mapping for a California, and we use blends of very modern tools with historical and contemporary ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Life Under the SeaHear how two men became aquanauts and find out what its like to live under the sea. Aquanauts Ed Clifton and Kip Evans will discuss the challenges, biomedical and marine life studies, dangers, and funny moments from undersea life.Speakers: Ed Clifton and Kip Evans
As the world's population increasingly concentrates in cities, what is the future of urban life? Taking a look back at ancient civilizations and a look forward at climate-disrupted cities, primarily along coastlines, this conversation will contemplate how people will live in the Bay Area and beyond in coming decades. We ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Alison Gopnik is one of the world's leading child psychologists, and author of several bestselling and critically-acclaimed books that take us into the minds of babies and children. In her latest thought-provoking book, The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $28 - $38 General, -10% members
Myths of AstronomyMarin Science SeminarSpeaker: Thomas Targett, Sonoma State Univ.
The question of whether nuclear power should be adopted as a technology to produce clean energy along with wind and solar has been hotly debated for years.  In fact, during last years’ COP21 meeting in Paris the debate over whether nuclear power should be part of the climate change solution was almost ...
Where: SaratogaCost: Free event, RSVP requested but not required
Dent:SpaceScientists, makers, entrepreneurs, thinkers. Talented people of all backgrounds are pushing us farther, and Dent:Space brings them together. It's time to make our ambitions a reality. Look up, let's go.Speakers include:Mary Roach, Author; "Packing for Mars"Seth Shostak, SETI; Searching for ETSimone Giertz, Queen of Shitty RobotsCamille Eddy, Mechanical Engineering Student; ...
Happy Hollow is not just a place for kids!Introducing our early morning Senior Safari Walkabout. Get some exercise while enjoying the beautiful sights and sounds of Happy Hollow Park & Zoo. Seniors are invited to challenge their minds, get a little (or a lot) of exercise, and gain unique knowledge into the ...
TIME-EFFICIENT INFORMATION COLLECTION IN RFID NETWORKSRadio-frequency Identification (RFID) networks nowadays have been widely used in various cyber-physical systems in the fields such as manufacturing, transportation, energy, and healthcare, for identification, tracking, and information collection due to the simplicity and low cost of RFID tags. For these cyber-physical systems, time-efficient information collection is usually desirable or ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
'Character Day' film screeningjoin hundreds of thousands of people around the globe for the third annual Character Day - a free day and global initiative where universities, school districts, companies, families, congregations, and organizations of all sizes screen films on the science of character development from different perspectives, dive into free printed discussion ...
You know what time is because of your daily experience, but what seems constant and unchanging is not. In 1905, Albert Einstein threw a monkey wrench in our perception of time and space. Join us as we examine a few of these quirks on a conceptual non-mathematical level. Yes, you can age ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General; $10 Members; Free for Lab Members
When Machine Learning Takes over Audio Signal ProcessingDuring the last few years, machine learning has started to permeate the world of audio processing and has produced results that drastically improve over the state of the art. In this talk I'll touch on some recent approaches taking advantage of a machine learning perspective for attacking audio problems. I ...
Where: SunnyvaleCost: Free
Serendipity -- An Ecologist's Quest to Understand NatureJoin Dr. James Estes, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, for a lecture based on his recently published book, Serendipity: An Ecologist’s Quest to Understand Nature.Serendipity is an exploration of the ideas and beliefs underlying ecology’s most fundamental objective�"to understand the distribution and abundance of species�"based on ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $5 General, Free for members
