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
Will Stem Cells Cure Heart Disease?Recent breakthroughs have provided scientists with the ability to generate stem cells from adult tissues. Stem cells have already regenerated damaged heart tissue after a heart attack in clinical trials. Are these treatments safe and effective or is the hype surrounding them an example of medical "false news?" What does ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
GGRO Hawk Talk & Raptor Release - CANCELEDOur Hawk Talks and Raptor Releases occur every Saturday and Sunday from noon to 2 pm (weather permitting - heavy fog or rain cancels) during September and October, except for Fleet Week weekend. The Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE: The Influence of Antarctic Ice ShelvesCome learn about a recent four-year field program to the remote Pine Island Ice Shelf in Western Antarctica. Over the years, scientists drilled a series of 1500-feet-deep holes through the 30-mile-long ice shelf, lowering ocean instruments into the space below. Instruments were then left in place, reporting data about ice ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
Made for Movies: Indiana JonesExploding planes, collapsing temples, a wall of water rushing through a warren of miniature mining tunnelsâ€"hear tales of visual effects adventure behind Lorne Peterson’s Academy Awardâ€"winning work on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and other films in the series.Come in costume as any character from a Lorne Peterson ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Monday, 10/16/17
The End of PrivacyA growing proportion of human activities such as social interactions, entertainment, shopping, and gathering information are now mediated by digital devices and services. Such digitally mediated activities produce an unprecedented amount of digital footprints that can be used to reveal our intimate traits, emotions, and predict future behavior. Given the ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
THE QUANTUM AND THE COSMOS: THE QUEST FOR THE ORIGIN OF ORDINARY AND DARK MATTERStefano Profumo will explain why modern cosmology is a scientific theory, and introduce the two key ingredients that this scientific theory is based upon: dark matter and dark energy. Stefano will argue that it is far more interesting to think about what the dark matter is, as this is the ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
What Is Killing the US Coal Industry?Charles D. Kolstad is a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Professor of Economics, by courtesy. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy. He specializes in environmental economics, particularly regulation and ...
Presenter: Daniel George - Acting Superintendent at National Park of American Samoa and Program Manager for the San Francisco Bay Area Network Inventory and Monitoring ProgramÂ
Toxics & You: Information, Empowerment & ActionToxic chemicals are everywhere: in our food, cosmetics, environmentâ€"and in our bodies. In the past few decades, the chemicals in our immediate environment have had a direct impact on the increase in the rate of allergies, asthma, and cancers.Experts working at the intersection of toxics, public health, and policy will ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 advance, $30 at door
Current systems and application professionals have been using DevOps and CI/CD as a process to build, deploy and manage life cycle of applications. With the advent of micro-services, the push towards container pools and virtualization, the form factor granularity for infrastructure resources are optimized based on workload and time of ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Electrifying the WorldElectricity makes our life easier. When scientists learned how electricity works it changed how humans lived. Learn about what is electricity and how to capture it to make work. Stories: Night without Light, Electricity Song
Each general meeting begins with mushroom identification, appetizers, wine tasting, and then features a guest speaker on a selected mycological topic. General meetings are open to the public.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Finding FibonacciIn 2001, Stanford mathematician Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the 13th-century mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci. Leonardo introduced the Hindu-Arabic numeral system and arithmetic to the Western world and thereby helped start a global, social, and economic revolution. Devlin recounted Leonardo’s story ...
Join us for a fascinating journey through the early universe using the latest computer animations of early star formation, supernova explosions and the build-up of the first galaxies. Dr. Abel's work has shown that the first luminous objects in the universe were very massive stars shining one million times as ...
The internet has exponentially increased the public’s ability to follow and weigh in on current issues, though the tone and quality of public debate has arguably declined. Increased access has not lead to better policy or a more functioning governing system… yet. The limitations of first generation digital engagement are ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Energy Grid of the FutureDan Kammen is a Professor and Chair of of the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley and is a professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory. Dr. Kammen has worked ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members
Four presentations at Romberg Tiburon CenterJeffrey Blumenthal Environmental Covariates and Oyster Drill Snail Distribution in Richardson Bay, CA Samantha Cope Evaluating Threats to Marine Mammals from Vessel Traffic in an Urbanized Estuary Kaytlin Ingman Long Term Trends in Baleen Whale Sightings Near the Farallon Islands California Jane Rudebusch Anthropogenic Stressors on Sea Otters Re-settling ...
Conversations About Landscape: Measurement and MetaphorRecent advances in neuroscience research are starting to elucidate how landscapes may impact a variety of cognitive and emotional systems, from memory and attention to creativity and stress. Yet there has been little discussion of how the intersections between landscapes and our brains could be mediated by the arts. How ...
Where: AlbanyCost: Free for presentation, $10 for refreshements
New Era in Distributed Computing with Blockchains and DatabasesA new era is emerging in the world of distributed computing with the growing popularity of blockchains (shared, replicated and distributed ledgers) and the associated databases as a way of integrating inter-organizational work. Originally, the concept of a distributed ledger was invented as the underlying technology of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. ...
Where: SunnyvaleCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #89: Brain Science, Neon Signs, and Dark Matter!NOTE: We’ll have actual brains, including some human ones, for you to examine and even hold. We wanted to let you know in case you were uncomfortable with seeing organs.-------------------------“Seeing Eye to I: Traveling the World with Brains in Your Luggage†by Patrick HouseNeuroscientist Patrick House will give a neuroanatomy ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $8
The Hybrid Mind: Richard Louv of The Children & Nature NetworkThere’s no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion without a force to balance it creates a hole in the boat, draining our ability to pay attention, think clearly, be production and creative. To combat these losses, our society seems to look everywhere but the natural domain for ...
Where: San JoseCost: $22 General, $15 Member, Students free
The Bay Model Wants You!!! Become part of Sausalito’s very own attraction known around the world! We have a variety of volunteer positions that are suited for people just like you! Greet visitors, lead tours, work with school groups, and more! Come and be a part of one of the largest working hydraulic models in ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Thursday, 10/19/17
Hawk Identification Field ClassJoin Step Wilson (Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Hawkwatch Manager) for this unique outing in the field to practice your hawk identification skills with the fall migration! Meet at the trail head gate to Hawk Hill at the top of Conzelman Rd at 11am. After a steep and gravelly 250 yard ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Donations encouraged
The Simulation of Droplets, Bubbles and InterfacesDroplets, bubbles and interfaces offer fascinating physical and mathematical problems and are a key part of the microscopic modeling of multiphase flow in porous media and other contexts. The talk will describe how to address these problems numerically, using tools such as the Volume of Fluid method. In particular, I ...
Research and Development at the Toyota Research InstituteToyota Research Institute (TRI), established in 2015, has four initial mandates: 1) enhance the safety of automobiles, 2) increase access to cars to those who otherwise cannot drive, 3) translate Toyota’s expertise in creating products for outdoor mobility into products for indoor mobility, and 4) accelerate scientific discovery by applying ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Making Robots Work to Help us Work RemotelyA panel of experts, Leila Takayama, Susan Herring, Dallas Goecker and Victoria Bellotti, will debate the state and future prospects of mobile telepresence robotics. More and more, companies around the world are exploring ways to support and empower employees to work remotely while still “being" and “feeling†present and successful. ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
A Spider Sampler: Arachnid Biology and Local FaunaSpiders elicit fear and disgust in many humans, but closer acquaintance with this ecologically vital order of arachnids can transform these reactions into more positive attitudes. I ll divide my talk into an introduction to spider biology and a bestiary of species that you might run into on the San ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Extraterrestrial NightLifeExplore the mysteries beyond our solar system with a night dedicated to the search for extraterrestrials.Join experts from NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View for fascinating talks on exoplanets and life beyond Earth - including what it might look like to live on Mars:Â Ed Bendek and Rus Belikov will ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
In 1973, National Audubon successfully restored a breeding colony of Atlantic Puffins on an island in the Gulf of Maine where they had been extirpated in the early 20th century. They relied on social attraction an innovative use of decoys and audio playback that since then has helped restore seabird colonies ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Sonoma County Mycological Assoc. monthly meeting - CANCELEDCome identify mushrooms (and bring your mushrooms for identification), and hear a guest speaker. This month's speaker is SOMA board member Kingman Bond Graham. Open to the public.
BAMS Co-Founder Debbie Viess aka Amanitarita will talk about the broad array of toxins found in the genus Amanita. You will learn how to recognize the various sections of the Genus Amanita, which sections may contain toxins and which never do, what those toxins are and how they affect us ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Everything Matters: ChromiumCome be in your elements with Exploratorium host and scientific raconteur Ron Hipschman. Follow tales of intrigue and invention, join in dynamic demonstrations, and uncover fascinating connections between individual elements and our collective human experience.Learn more about the series, Everything Matters: Tales from the Periodic Table.Explore the colorful past of a transition metal best ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with After Dark Admission
Friday, 10/20/17
Scientists at Work: What Are Local Seabirds Eating?How do scientists learn what Bay Area birds are eating? Come see for yourself, as biologists from Point Blue Conservation Science invite visitors to watch them while they work. They’ll be studying the diets of local cormorants by dissecting the indigestible pellets coughed up by these birds. Each pellet contains ...
Kat Taylor is co-founder and co-CEO of Beneficial State Bank and develops its social and environmental objectives. Beneficial State Bank is a community development financial institution whose mission is to bring beneficial banking to low-income communities in an economically and environmentally sustainable manner. We invite you to come hear her perspective ...
Shark DayCome join us at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay Wildlife Refuge for Shark Day. Help us appreciate our finned friends of the bay. Enjoy guided wildlife hikes and live demonstrations by the Marine Science Institute. Make a spectacular shark or ocean themed craft. And, try some sun spotting too!Priority ...
Where: AlvisoCost: Free
Geology Rocks on the HillsEver wondered why the Coyote Hills rise up out of the surrounding marshland? Take a walk with Dr. Malcolm Pringle around the hills of the refuge. Observe rocks that formed deep in the ocean during the time of the dinosaurs. Ponder how they could have joined North America, then been ...
There’s no perfect way to count votes. To paraphrase Ulysses S. Grant and Richard M. Nixon, “Mistakes will be made.†Voters don’t always follow instructions. Voting systems can be mis-programmed. Ballots can be misplaced. Election fraud is not entirely unknown in the U.S. And the more elections depend on technology, the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
GGRO Hawk Talk & Raptor ReleaseOur Hawk Talks and Raptor Releases occur every Saturday and Sunday from noon to 2 pm (weather permitting - heavy fog or rain cancels) during September and October, except for Fleet Week weekend. The Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Fish DaysLearn about fresh water fish that are found in local ponds and rivers. Games show native and non native fish and how they arrived at Tule Ponds. Compare fishing ponds for people versus fishing ponds for wildlife.  Explore how the early peoples of area went fishing as well as the ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Safari West - CANCELEDThe mission of Safari West is to actively promote conservation, environmental education, and share knowledge that will help each individual make personal choices in regards to the environment and conservation efforts. They'll be joining us for a presentation and hands-on exploration of environmental education and conservation.Ages 6 and up (with parent)
Where: Santa RosaCost: Free with admission
OUR PLACE IN THE GALAXY: What is our Milky Way Galaxy and where is our place in it?The program starts at 7:30 (enter the park at least 45 minutes earlier) at the lower summit parking lot. See the center of our galaxy. Tour our galaxy - and others - through the telescopesSee stars, nebula, galaxies, clusters, the moon and planets through member telescopes. Bring kids, binoculars, warm clothes ...
