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
Friday, 09/23/16
BioHack The Planet ConferenceAs the BioHacker and gene hacker communities grow, there is a need to disseminate information and facilitate interaction between individuals of different knowledge bases and areas of expertise. BioHTP is run by BioHackers, designed for BioHackers, with talks solicited from BioHackers. There will be talks Friday night and all day ...
Where: OaklandCost: $50
Saturday, 09/24/16
Saturday Seminar: Building Environmental Literacy across Content AreasAn overview of California Department of Education's recent moves toward a goal of Environmental Literacy for All, including the guiding principles and the strategic framework, and a look at how environmental literacy requires an interdisciplinary lens.This is Your Brain on Paper: The Art and Science of Keeping a Nature Journal. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Canoe CleanupCelebrate CoastWeeks with us by joining us for a leisurely family paddle in our fleet of canoes guided by our expert naturalist instructors. No experience necessary, and we provide all of the necessary equipment. We will explore the local flora and fauna of Bair Island, a rare example of an ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: $20
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 ...
Where: FremontCost: $15
Free Admission at Hiller Aviation Museum: Smithsonian Museum DaySmithsonian Museum Day Live! is an annual event hosted by Smithsonian magazine. The Hiller Aviation Museum participates by opening our doors to anyone presenting a Museum Day Live! ticket on Saturday, September 24, 2016… for free!
Celebrate Sea Otter Awareness Week at the Museum on Saturday, September 24th, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with Science Saturday: Sea Otters and Friends!Find out if you’d rather have otter fur or blubber, see what it's like to eat like a sea otter, examine real otter fur, make a ...
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 ...
Where: MarinCost: Free
Navigating SF BayBoating is a great way to relax and have some fun. It can be very exciting but it requires knowledge and skill to do it safely. Each bay has its own disposition and personality. Unpredictable winds, powerful tides, conflicting currents, and gyres are just a few things that add to ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
“Our place in our Galaxyâ€. What is our Milky Way Galaxy and where is our place in it?This month's Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society program is “Our place in our Galaxyâ€.  What is our Milky Way Galaxy and where is our place in it? See the center of our galaxy. Tour our galaxy through the telescopesExcitement for the whole family! Participate in hands-on astronomy activities followed by supervised ...
BioHack The Planet ConferenceAs the BioHacker and gene hacker communities grow, there is a need to disseminate information and facilitate interaction between individuals of different knowledge bases and areas of expertise. BioHTP is run by BioHackers, designed for BioHackers, with talks solicited from BioHackers. There will be talks Friday night and all day ...
