Living in the water beneath the Exploratorium at Pier 15 is an ever-changing community of tiny plankton. Under a microscope, a plankton sample appears as a miniature world of intricate shapes and speeding swimmers. These tiny organisms form the base of the marine food web, and in San Francisco Bay, ...
You’ve heard that smoking is best done low and slow … but how does that deliver the best tasting meat? Join Sean Cusack, Lead Designer at Sheet Metal Alchemist, to explore the science behind smokers.Learn preparation techniques for smoking fish and beef brisket from Seaglass chefs Loretta Keller and Jerrel KeyAuthor, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
Artist Oxossi Ayofemi and Physicist Risa Wechsler in ConversationFor the current exhibition In That Case: Havruta in Contemporary Art, artist Oxossi Ayofemi collaborated with Stanford physicist Risa Wechsler to explore the concept of dark matter and dark energy in physics. The resulting exhibition entitled Black Matter foregrounds forms of power and energy that are often unrecognized and unseen ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: FREE with Museum admission ($5 after 5pm).
Friday, 08/10/18
iPhone PhotographyThe iPhone camera is more powerful and versatile today as a $6,000 DSLR was only a few years ago. The built in camera is terrific and third party apps take the camera to new levels. In this class you learn to make use of this camera to produce professional quality ...
Create a glowing, inflatable lantern to light up your nights with Green Art Workshop. Using origami techniques, explore ways to illuminate layers of discarded paper with light, shadows, colors, and shapes. All ages welcome.Summer hours at the explO on Friday are from 10 am to 9 pm. Stay for sunset ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Ocean Discovery Talk: Whale RescueHow do first responders rescue whales when they're tangled in fishing gear or marine debris? Join Exploratorium staff member and NOAA-trained entanglement responder Kathi George to learn how responders approach and save entangled whales. These majestic animals weigh 50,000 pounds, and responders must be at a close distance to use ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Night Sky PartyMeet the stars of spring! Join our amateur astronomers to learn about constellations. Make a star chart and then venture outside to view the night sky through a telescope. Go for a night hike on the boardwalk, looking for signs of nocturnal animals. Afterwards, warm up with some hot chocolate. Bring ...
Let family walks become a shared time of nature learning. We’ll begin by helping kids create their personal bird watching field guides, and then head out onto the trails to find those birds. A limited number of binoculars are available to borrow. Recommended for children ages 5-10. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. Registration ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Hayward Fault 150th Anniversary of Great Quake tour Tule PondsFree tours of the Hayward Fault (registration required), with lecture, activities, and tour included. Children welcome, under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Wear comfortable shoes.
Where: FremontCost: Free
Shark DayMSI loves sharks! Our special Shark Day invites one and all to learn about these amazing creatures, from the great whites that swim just off our ocean shores, to the gentle Leopard sharks that are common in our Bay. We will be feeding and touching our local Leopard sharks in ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: $20
'Reuben Lasker' Ship TourClimb aboard a U.S. fisheries research vessel - the Reuben Lasker - to learn about its ongoing survey of deep-sea fish populations along the West Coast. Tour the sampling stations and laboratories where scientists collect their data; learn about the nets, winches, and cranes; and meet the ship’s Captain, Chief ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Trekking the ModelJoin a Ranger or docent on a guided tour of the Bay Model, a 1.5-acre hydraulic model of the San Francisco Bay and Delta. Discover the stories of the two major operations that took place at this location between 1942 - 2000.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Sunday, 08/12/18
Marine Science Sunday: Under The Bridge: Marine Mammals of SF BayOur own backyard in the bay is full of amazing marine mammals! Free classroom programs will highlight our local sea lions, harbor porpoises, dolphins, and even the occasional whale that wanders under the Bridge! We recommend teaming our free classroom program with a Docent-led tour at 11am, 1pm or 3pm for a ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Carbon Buoy ActivitiesHave you ever wondered what’s inside a scientific buoy? Find out as we pull our NOAA CO2 buoy out of the water and host activities about carbon dioxide in the air and water. You’ll have a chance to learn about how we measure carbon with the buoy instruments and the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Robotic Hand ChallengeBe one of the first to experience the Hall's newest Ingenuity Challenge. Work together to design, build, and test a prosthetic hand capable of grasping items.
Hang out on our new observation deck and be dazzled as you watch the spectacular Perseid Meteor Shower makes it annual trip through our atmosphere and lights up the night sky. Our astronomers are on hand to answer questions and hot chocolate and other goodies will be available.See weblink for ...
In less than three decades, more than three thousand planets have been discovered orbiting other stars. This has sparked a post-Copernican revolution, as we realize our solar system is not alone. However, we still don't know if our solar system is rare or unique - the powerful techniques that detect extrasolar ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
Tuesday, 08/14/18
Functional Target Discovery by Quantitative Chemical ProteomicsGenome sequencing projects have revolutionized our view of the complexity of prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteomes, however, we are also left with a daunting challenge of functionally annotating these large number of predicted proteins. Chemical proteomic methods, such as activity-based protein profiling (ABPP), have been developed aiming at systematically discovering new ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Farmers on the Frontlines in Our Fight Against Climate ChangeIt’s become increasingly and painfully obvious to farmers in California that climate change means more than just rising temperatures. Evermore erratic weather patterns fuel longer droughts, bigger floods and even more frequent wildfires. As we slowly come to terms with the consequences to our rural communities, food supply, local economy ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
The SETI Institute is known for its world-class, cutting edge scientific research but we also have a passion as science ambassadors to inspire young STEM learners and engage the general public. Education and public outreach are part of our mission and that’s why the Center for Education is one of ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: free preregistration is required
When we use robots to explore the ocean and its inhabitants, other planets, or our co-worker’s remote office spaces, we are blending our human perceptual systems and physical actuation capabilities with robotic systems. These systems can readily become an extension of ourselves, especially after years of practice. Coming from a ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Plankton Exhibit TourJoin Exploratorium biologist Jennifer Frazier for a tour of plankton and marine science exhibits.San Francisco Bay is teeming with microscopic life, called plankton, that change with the seasons, feed marine ecosystems, and collectively produce half the oxygen for the planet. Come explore interactive exhibits that explore plankton in San Francisco ...
Bring your lunch and hear from Exploratorium staff and collaborating scientists about the connections between San Francisco Bay and the ocean. Exploratorium staff scientist Heike Winterheld will discuss how social psychology can help you improve communication and lower psychological barriers to learning about the current state of the ocean and ...
There is a lot of misinformation thrown around these days, especially online. Headlines tell us to do this, not that, with the hope that we will live longer and better, become thinner, and look younger. In Hype, Nina Shapiro distinguishes between falsehoods and the evidence-backed truth. Shapiro has more than twenty ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Tomorrow’s Computers: More Moore?A single iPhone today has more power than the NASA computer that took astronauts to the moon. A smartwatch has more memory than computers that used to fill an entire room. So how did we get here? In 1965, Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor cofounder Gordon Moore predicted that the number ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost:
What is new on Software I.P. for startups, and how to detect I.P. TheftRelevant I.P. updates in 2018 to software start-upsEvery major and successful software company has a patent portfolio and strategy that has been a key factor in its success. This presentation will focus on the patentability of software as well as why and when an entity should consider pursuing patent protection. ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #99: Mars Colonization, Rational Economics, and Octopuses from Space!“Not So Fast, Elon: Challenges of Resurrecting the Martian Atmosphere†by Dr. Robert LillisMars’s atmosphere is dry, cold, and too thin to stop you from bursting like a balloon or getting cancer from cosmic rays. Eeeek, right? But billions of years ago it was thick, warm and (sometimes) wet. If ...
The distribution of galaxies in the universe is patchy. Galaxies are bound together in clusters made of stars, hot gas and invisible dark matter. These galaxy clusters are part of a cosmic web of filaments, nodes and empty voids that has been building up over 13 billion years. How do ...
