Mt Tam Docent TrainingVolunteer your time to assist visitors in appreciating and protecting Mt Tamalpais!We are now recruiting Visitor Center and Gravity Car Barn Museum docents! The Visitor Center and the Gravity Car Barn at East Peak attract many visitors who enjoy learning about the mountain and its natural and cultural history. Visitor ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Beginning BirdingJoin volunteer Jane Haley on an easy walk along Rodeo Lagoon to discover our winter birds.  Bring binoculars and field guides. Meet at the Marin Headlands Visitor Center. Bring field guides and binoculars.Ages 8+
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Holiday Sale Rocks, Gems, Minerals, Fossils, Jewelry, & MoreMineral and Gem Society invites you to the annual holiday sale organized by members of the club. Come and see wonderful gifts of nature and art from around the world gems, jewelry, rocks, minerals, and lapidary arts. Browse the bargains and pick up some great gifts for the holidays. Kids ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Science Film Festival: 'Contact' with Jill TarterBased on the novel by the famed astrophysicist Carl Sagan, Contact tells the story of a mysterious radio signal discovered by Dr. Ellie Arroway at the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Dr. Arroway contends with the far-reaching implications of her discovery and considers the pursuit of a first contact with ...
Training Session: Alameda County MycoFlora ProjectThis is a training session for an ongoing project.Citizen scientists are needed to gather mushrooms for the North American MycoFlora Project.As a local sub-project, MycoFlora of Alameda County Project will collect and document mushrooms to store for future study. Training to locate, photograph, post to iNaturalist, number, dry and process our collections are ...
Where: OaklandCost: 0
The Evolution of a MartianOur journey toward Mars and beyond will be humanity’s greatest adventure. It will determine the fate of our species and the extent of our legacy. This journey is already underway. Humans have walked on the Moon and have survived long-duration spaceflight. Our spacecraft have explored the solar system and mapped ...
Hydrodynamics of topological fields in insulatorsI will discuss recent progress on understanding and harnessing collective transport in magnetic insulators. Central to this talk will be conservation laws that are rooted in a topological invariant rather than a global symmetry. In one example, the emergent hydrodynamics closely mimics neutral superfluidity, which may allow to establish and ...
MYSTERIES OF HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITYDr. Ming Yi of Rice University will talk about the world of mysteries hidden in high temperature superconductors, and how we can attempt to solve them by using a very special experimental tool to watch electrons dance on the crystal lattices.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
People and Robots SeminarAutomated driving is breaking new ground where "smart", connected and eventually collaborating machines are deployed for increasingly complex tasks in unstructured environments. This provides a wonderful stage with numerous opportunities and challenges, especially considering the societal impact and broad variety of applications, from automated machines in mines to SAE level ...
KiDS and biasesThe current ongoing large imaging surveys are an excellent tool for studying the origin and evolution of the Universe and the galaxy - dark matter connection, using the weak gravitational lensing as the main probe. Using the predicting power of the halo model formalism, the weak gravitational lensing (together with ...
Our lab aims to identify reactions for the synthesis and modification of peptides and proteins. We apply these to study functional consequences of naturally occurring posttranslational protein modifications (PTMs), in particular phosphorylated Lys- and Cystein-residues, as well as to generate novel protein-conjugates for pharmaceutical and medicinal applications. In this presentation ...
Our research uses chemistry principles to address questions of importance in life sciences and molecular medicine. This lecture will cover recent examples of emerging areas in our group in: (i) methods developed for site-selective chemical modification of proteins at cysteine, disulfide and lysine and their use to build stable ...
Hybrid organic - inorganic perovskites (HOPs) have demonstrated an extraordinary potential for clean sustainable energy technologies and low-cost optoelectronic devices such as solar cells, light emitting diodes, detectors, sensors, ionic conductors, etc. This talk overviews the main features of the optoelectronic properties of three dimensional (3D) and layered two-dimensional (2D) ...
The gene-editing technology known as CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is transforming everything, from pharmaceutical research to agriculture to the process of making yogurt (really). It is a disruptive technology that allows people to edit genomes, changing the genetic code of life. In some cases, it's also raising ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
Saturday, 11/24/18
Science Saturday: Magnificent MonarchsHelp us welcome the butterflies back to Pacific Grove during November’s Science Saturday, Magnificent Monarchs. Learn about the amazing migration of the western monarch butterfly, sit in a butterfly chrysalis, dress up like a monarch, and more, all while learning about the animal that is so special to our area.
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Salt Marsh WalkTake a walk with docent Gregg Aronson around the wetlands of the wildlife refuge and learn about their history. See examples of salt collection ponds and learn what is being done to convert them back to their original, natural salt marsh state. Hear how wildlife is affected by the two types of habitat, and why it ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
The Delta: Past and PresentIn 1850, the Sacrament/San Joaquin Delta was a much different place than today. It was part of an immense everglade system that extended into and included the Central Valley. A massive transformation occurred with the rapid population growth during and after the Gold Rush. Oak forests, hundreds of meandering rivers, ...
Do you sometimes see paw prints in mud or scat (poop) on the trails and assume that a dog left it? It could be from something else. Come along with me and I will show you how to distinguish and identify the markings of a gray fox. Gain some insights into the fox’s nature and ...
