Will the rapid arrival of robotic cars lead to the blissful end of traffic? Or will autonomous cars merely put drivers out of work and clog our streets even more than before? No one knows for sure if the utopian or dystopian vision will arrive at your front door. What ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Causes for the 2013-2016 record Marine Heatwave in the NE PacificBetween the winters of 2013/14 and 2014/15 the northeast Pacific experienced its largest marine heatwave on record. The extraordinary warming persisted into 2015/2016 under the influence of an extreme El Niño event. Here Nate will review the extent to which regional atmospheric forcing of the NE Pacific marine heat wave was ...
Malthus continues to cast a shadow over environmentalism, especially in the debates over limits to growth. The important question is not whether Malthus was wrong, but why Malthus was wrong. In the first part of this lecture I will provide an alternative critique of Malthus’ infamous Essay on Population, and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Conversations About Landscape: Coming to TermsThe collective impacts of humans on Earth - including the ongoing crises of climate change and biodiversity loss - seem to dwarf our individual efforts to protect the planet. What can we do that will make a difference?A growing community of scientists, citizen scientists, writers, activists, historians, artists, and philosophers ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Inheriting Cancer: When Risks Are in Your GenesCancer might be in your DNA. Cancer-causing mutations in the BRCA gene came roaring into our collective consciousness when Angelina Jolie candidly shared her decision to undergo a double mastectomy to prevent inherited cancer. How does a BRCA mutation affect the risk of cancer for both men and women? How ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
7:00-7:25: Goran Konjevod(Origami Artist) on "Origami Beyond Geometry"New approaches to design of folded objects go beyond just two-dimensional geometry...Read more7:25-7:50: Eva Silverstein(Stanford/ Cosmology) on "TBA"Abstract forthcomingRead more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Wildlife and Habitat ConnectivityLecture will include a look at habitat connectivity and wildlife crossings.Speakers: Trevor Stevenson; Megan Isadora, River Otter Ecology Project; TBAEnvironmental Forum of Marin Lecture
Taught by the knowledgeable Naomi LeBeau (Park Stewardship Restoration Specialist), this class will provide an introduction to terminology commonly used in identification of plants with a focus on leaf and flower parts. Illustrated examples and hands-on experience will be emphasized. This is a chance to develop and build upon your ...
Connected Health Innovation at a Large Healthcare Delivery System: A Case Study At Partners Connected Health, research focuses on technology-enabled solutions that empower patients and providers to transform healthcare delivery and improve efficiency, quality and clinical outcomes. Working directly with patients and providers in a variety of settings, Partners Connected Health is gaining important insights about patient engagement, behavior change via mobile health, ...
Get straight up spacey this week as NightLife celebrates cosmo-pioneer Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.Groove to an out-of-this-world live DJ set by Space Cowboys, a sonically-inspired SF collective and Burning Man favorite. Try a taste of space with Ninkasi Brewing Company’s Ground Control beer, made with brewer’s yeast ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
Why Weight?: Advances in Obesity TreatmentMore than one third of US adults have obesity, which is related to heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer, some of the leading causes of preventable death. This talk will address advances in understanding and treating obesity.Speaker: John Magaña Morton, MD
7:00-7:25: Ron Rael(UC Berkeley/ Architecture) on "TBA"Abstract forthcomingRead more7:25-7:50: John Cumbers(Synbiobeta) on "Synthetic Biology and the Naturalist Fallacy "Abstract forthcomingRead more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to share their ...
You might think of tuberculosis as an antiquated disease: an infection largely conquered, and isolated to the most impoverished nations; and you would be dead wrong. In this talk, we will explore the history and science of Tuberculosis to understand why this ancient bacterial foe is arguably today’s greatest infectious threat ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Friday, 04/14/17
Tahoe Debuts in San Francisco!Aquarium of the Bay is "Bringing Tahoe to San Francisco!" Tahoe is a juvenile North American river otter who will be joining the Aquarium's resident otters, Shasta, Baxter, and Ryer as watershed ambassadors at Aquarium of the Bay. Tahoe enjoys spending his time romping around with rambunctious brothers Baxter and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $14.95 children & seniors; $24.95 adults
Green FridayThis month's Green Friday presentation will be by Keli Hendricks, the Ranching with Wildlife coordinator for Project Coyote, a national non-profit organization based in Northern California. Project Coyote is a North American coalition of scientists, educators, ranchers and citizen leaders promoting compassionate conservation and coexistence between people and wildlife.   Project /Coyote seeks to ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $3 donation requested
Narrow Band Astrophotography from Almaden ObservatoryRob will give an overview on building the Almaden Observatory in order to provide the audience with an appreciation of the project’s scale. This will include a discussion of classical narrowband imagery and how one composes an image using elemental spectral lines instead of broader color channels. Finally, Rob will ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking)
Saturday, 04/15/17
Guided Nature WalkExperience the beauty and rich natural history of this 535-acre preserve.�Our half-day guided nature walks are on Saturdays throughout fall and spring. Participants are divided into small groups and paired with a trained Bouverie volunteer to explore the mixed evergreen forest, flower-carpeted oak woodland and rugged chaparral. Guided Nature Walks ...
Where: GeyservilleCost: $15 Donation suggested
Greed Hairstreak Butterfly FestivalLearn about the Green Hairstreak Butterfly Corridor. Enjoy hands-on nature fun for the whole family. Sow seeds for pollinator nectar plants and discover how local wildlife is thriving in San Francisco's District 7 neighborhood.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
TEDxBerkeley 2017: Constellate*Constellate - verb"to form or cause to form into a cluster or group; gather together"Like a star, an idea can shine brightly on its own. It has the ability to impress upon its viewer a spectacular image. Picture, however, when individual ideas come together, creating a larger narrative. While that ...
Wildflower Walk at Lands EndWildflowers! To know them is to love them. It’s springtime, and all throughout California the wildflowers are beginning to bloom, including in your very own Golden Gate National Parks. We invite you to come and enjoy the huge variety of both native and exotics on display and prepare to be ...
In celebration of national Citizen Science Day and in support of the City Nature Challenge, join the California Center for Natural History and Bay Nature to document nature in Oakland!We’ll be converging at Radio Beach (aka Toll Plaza Beach) to document all the birds, tidal plants,and anything else we can find. ...
Where: OaklandCost: $20 suggested donation
Two Stanford Symbolic Systems Forum PresentationsCapturing Human Driver Behavior with Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (Alex Kuefler, advisor: Mykel Kochenderfer, Aeronautics and Astronautics)The ability to accurately predict and simulate human driving behavior is critical for the development of intelligent transportation systems. Traditional modeling methods have employed supervised machine learning. But due to the long-term, sequential nature ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
FINDING A NEW EARTH: EXOPLANETS AND THE HABITABLE ZONEDr. Stephen Kane of San Francisco State University will describe what the idea of a Habitable Zone means and shows examples of planets outside the solar system that lie in their star's Habitable Zone.
Given rising incomes and urbanization, India’s energy demand is projected to quadruple over the next two decades and is projected to be the largest contributor to the addition in the global energy demand. In India, while this presents a host of challenges ranging from energy supply reliability to rising greenhouse ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
City Nature Challenge: Marine critters in Oakland!In celebration of national Citizen Science Day and in support of the City Nature Challenge, join the California Center for Natural History to document the nature in Oakland!Ever wonder what critters lurk beneath the surface of the waters around Jack London Square in Oakland, CA? Here’s your chance to see ...
Digital marketing is constantly evolving with incredible advancements in technology, partnerships, acquisitions and new strategic thinking. Ad-blocking, artificial intelligence, programmatic media buying, and big data are constant buzzwords we hear about the marketing landscape. Join this panel of experts across agency, publishing and technology as they discuss the biggest challenges ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, Free for Members, $7 Student
How to Drawdown NowJust as the climate community is freaking out about their news feeds on social media, author and advocate Paul Hawken says he has compiled a list of 100 climate solutions and technologies that are Trump-proof. These are proven approaches already being deployed by local and state governments, cities and businesses. The wide-ranging ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Ronald J. Deibert is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. The Citizen Lab undertakes interdisciplinary research at the intersection of global security, ICTs, and human rights. Â He is a former founder and principal investigator of the ...
Can Ectomycorrhizal Plants Choose Their Fungal Partners?Nearly all land plants rely on fungi to help them extract nutrients from the soil. This association, called mycorrhizal symbiosis, is an ancient interaction that probably began when early plants moved from the ocean to dry land around 400 million years ago. The fungi grow into or around the root ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Free Bay Currents talk: How Rivers and Lakes WorkThrough droughts and floods, rivers and lakes are California’s life blood, sustaining both wild nature and our huge economy. These ever-changing water bodies are shaped by the interplay of chemistry, geology, hydrology, and biology. Why, for example, can many plants and animals live in either lakes or streams but not ...
The complexity, criticality, and real-time demands of the energy sector make it a prime candidate to benefit from applying machine learning. This session presents two case studies of machine learning automating decisions for energy companies.For the largest windfarm operator in North America, machine learning applies predictive and prescriptive analytics to ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Mushrooms from a Korean PerspectiveAlthough the dynamic is shifting, thanks to the popularity of Korean Dramas and the current chef romance with our ingredients, many people in this country still don’t know much about our culture as distinct from the other East Asian countries of China and Japan. As a mushroom club president and ...
Predicted in the 1930s and discovered in the 1960s by X-ray and radio astronomers, neutron stars are now known to be the typical result of the evolution of a massive star. There should be nearly of a billion of them in our galaxy alone. Neutron stars have roughly ten km ...
