Habitat Restoration: Love Lake LagunitasStewardship is an ethic that embodies planning and management of the land to support healthy habitat. Become a steward of Mt Tamalpais by joining us in a morning of habitat restoration.Depending on the weather, volunteers will remove French broom or young Douglas-fir trees.Our grassy meadows are home to sun-loving plants and animals and ...
Where: FairfaxCost: 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 existence. ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Assessing the potential impact of superâ€eruptions: on society and the environmentRare, but extremely large, explosive super-eruptions Magnitude 8 and above have occurred throughout geologic time. How frequent they have been, and will be, has been estimated in the range of one per 100,000 years. With the latest at 74 ka ago, human society should perhaps not be over concerned about ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Free Film Screening: The End of Meat, a documentary"The End of Meat" is a feature documentary that explores the idea of a post-meat world. It will include interviews with philosophers, scientists, artists and activists who offer their insight and progressive ideas about the role of animals in our society. The End of Meat is a sequel to 2013's ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: FREE
Liberty Ships and the Lesser Known FactsA WWII emergency shipyard once operated here in Sausalito. Over the years, Liberty Ships have become an icon of WWII. We know a lot about the shipyards, the Liberty Ships and the people who built them, but there is more to this story that has gotten lost in time. Come ...
Come to China Camp State Park to learn what extreme high tides, commonly called King Tides, can tell us about sea level rise. As part of NOAA’s National Estuarine Research Reserve System, China Camp’s tidal marshes play a key role in helping scientists understand how marshes respond to sea level ...
Where: San RafaelCost: $5 General, Free for members
Jazz Under the Stars - CANCELEDCome peer through our telescopes and see craters on the Moon, the visible planets, star clusters, and more while we listen to CSM's very own KCSM Jazz 91 FM. Dress warmly. Free parking in Marie Curie Lot 5. Directions are available on the Maps, Directions & Parking page.Canceled due to weather.
Beginning BirdingCome explore the bustling birdlife that call the Marin Headlands home with volunteer Jane Haley in this easy walk along Rodeo Lagoon! Bring field guides and binoculars. Dress in layers. For ages 8 and older. No dogs. Reservation required, please call 415-331-1540.Â
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Science Film Festival: 'Robot & Frank'In the near future, a cantankerous retired jewel thief receives a gift from his son: a robot caretaker to look after him and keep him company. Robot & Frank examines how Frank's relationship with his new robot companion helps him cope with a rapidly changing world and the realities of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: See weblink
Monday, 12/17/18
Big Screen Science: DIE HARD - SOLD OUTTwelve terrorists. One cop. The odds are against John McClane... that's just the way we like it. Join Kishore Hari (@sciencequiche) and Jeff Silverman (@J_M_Silverman) as we learn if an air duct can actually support John McLane's weight, how to safely walk on glass, and we'll finally settle that age old question ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15.50
Training for Mushroom CollectionThis event is a training session for field collection and preservation of mushrooms in Alameda County. Citizen Scientists are needed to gather and process mushrooms for long-term storage in study collections. When training is completed participants will be invited for forays to gather mushrooms of all shapes and sizes. Volunteers ...
Where: OaklandCost:
Tuesday, 12/18/18
Wildlife Picture Index ProjectCome contribute to the Marin Wildlife Picture Index Project! This project depends on volunteer "Community Scientists" to help maintain wildlife cameras and process photos, and we are especially looking to train and retain volunteers for the long-term. At this training, we will be viewing and cataloging photos (on the computer) acquired ...
For more than four decades, astronomers have been searching for technosignatures: signals coming from  distant technological civilizations. The first SETI searches began by searching for extraterrestrial radio waves in the 1960s and have more recently expanded to include optical (visible) signals, such as powerful laser pulses. We know that like technological progress, the search ...
When scientists see changes in an ecosystem they can often hear them as well. Monitoring different species’ sounds or bioacoustics is one method to quickly detect environmental change. But urban underwater habitats like San Francisco Bay are dominated by ship and vessel noise, which can drown out most biological sounds. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free, (RSVP required for lunch)
Basics of Mushroom IdentificationKingman Bond-Graham discovered the incredibly vast world of fungi at the age of 10. While playing on his family property in Mendocino County, he noticed thousands of mushrooms. After crafting a science project for school, he continued with his fungi fascination into adulthood.Kingman has been collecting and studying the mushrooms ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Nerd Night SF #103: Novelty Catalog, Software Disasters, and Animal Astronauts!‘Twas the nite of the nerds, and all through the Rickshaw, many creatures were stirring, ‘specially the bartenders. The slides were projected on screen at fast pace, in hopes that some learning soon would take place. Three Nerd Nite alumni this month take the stage: the first on the best ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $8
taste of science: Human Genome and Travel to MARS!Checklist for Mars: how to get humans there and back again, in one piece?What happens to the human body in space, especially, on a three-year round trip to Mars, and what are we doing to avoid it? I will give a brief overview of some of the risks of spaceflight, ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: $5
Wings of Wonder: Saving Bats around the WorldDr. Winifred Frick is Chief Scientist at Bat Conservation International and an Associate Research Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz. Dr. Frick has studied bats for nearly 20 years and has worked around the world, including places such as Mexico, Rwanda, Guinea, Fiji, and Jamaica to study ...
How can we design a strategy for the search for life elsewhere - or to understand what the future will hold for life on Earth and beyond - without extrapolating from pre-biotic chemistry and evolution? The origin and evolution of life often seems an unpredictable oddity, based on the quirks ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Thursday, 12/20/18
High tide walk on Richmond waterfrontDuring high winter tides, shorebirds cluster in bits of marsh that remain above water and water birds come close to shore. Enjoy these colorful winter migrants and talk about a future of rising tides with F5C’s president, Susan Schwartz. Wear comfortable walking shoes, dress in layers, and bring a re-usable ...
Where: RichmondCost: Free
Recent Developments in Neutrino CosmologyA robust detection of neutrino masses is avowedly among the key goals of several upcoming Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Large-Scale Structure (LSS) surveys. In this talk, I will describe recent progress in neutrino cosmology on three fronts. Firstly, I will illustrate the wealth of information on the sum of ...
What do we really need to survive? What happens when a key ingredient goes missing? Examine some essential questions surrounding ecology, packing lists, oils, and nutrition, including the element selenium at Everything Matters.Shop Essentials With Vicente Oropeza and Dave Fleming7:00, 8:00, & 9:00 p.m. | Gallery 2 Exhibit ShopSee where the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
David Belk, MD on the True Cost of HealthcareAlameda-based doctor David Belk will be presenting the findings of his investigation into high drug prices. The drug price crisis, specifically around insulin, has already claimed many lives, and it is one of the main motivations for Counter Culture Labs' Open Insulin project, which aims to develop low-cost, small-scale technology ...
Where: OaklandCost: Donations accepted, not required
