Coastal Upwelling and Climate in the California CurrentAlongshore winds, through upwelling and transport, are the main force behind the rich marine ecosystem found in the California Upwelling Ecosystem and other Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems. These winds, driven by large-scale atmospheric processes and enhanced at by coastal features, are largely impacted by climate. Ocean temperatures and chemical properties ...
Speaker:Â Melanie Okoro is a chief operating officer and founder, Eco-Alpha
Where: Bodega BayCost: Free
Skeptics in the Pub: MillbraeScience and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub West Bay, Fiddlers Green, Millbrae sponsored by Bay Area Skeptics.If ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the film-flam man, and if ye drink, drink with us, your friends. If ye shun the brewer’s art, at least help us lay waste to bangers & mash!Skeptics ...
Where: MillbraeCost: Free
The Social and Ecolological Impacts of Light Pollution in Santa CruzJoin Santa Cruz IDA chapter members Lisa Heschong and Andy Kreyche for a discussion of how light pollution in Santa Cruz impacts our local environment. We will review recent research on circadian disruption of plants, animals and humans by exposure to artificial light at night. Plants and animals depend on ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Thursday, 08/29/19
Alcatraz Gardens Class Series: Herbarium and Plant PressingAn Herbarium is a collection of preserved plant specimens used for scientific study. These sheets may be whole plants or plant parts and are mounted on a sheet of paper. These are used to reference and describe plant taxa as a much more accurate than drawings. Recently, herbaria have been ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged
Printing Nanoscale Things: Metals, Oxides, and Quantum DotsThis talk will introduce deep-nanoscale fabrication technologies based on synergic combinations of self-assembly, photolithography, and transfer-printing applicable to a variety of material systems including polymers, oxides, metals, quantum nanostructures for high-performance sensors, photovoltaics, and displays. In particular, this talk will report on our recent innovation: highly precise patterning ...
Do you know the science behind America’s national pastime? Why is a ball stitched, what’s inside, and how does its makeup affect the physics of throwing the ball? How does a pitcher throw a curveball or a knuckleball, and how can a ball be either “dead†or “juiced� Then delve ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
Desert NightlifeCan’t stand the heat? Chill out and explore some of the coolest creatures from some of the planet’s hottest climates at Desert NightLife.Catch a screening of The Devil’s Road: A Baja Adventure, about a group of adventurers on a 5,000-mile journey across Baja California to recreate the century-old expedition of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
'Science Fair' DocumentaryWinner of the audience award at Sundance and SXSW, Science Fair offers a front seat to the victories, defeats, and motivations of an incredible group of high school students on a path to change their lives, and the world through science.First showing on 8/28 is sold out.RSVP required
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Pliocene World: Earth's Climate 3 Million Years Ago and How it Relates to our FutureThree million years ago, during the late Pliocene, CO2 levels were similar to today, but global temperatures and sea level were much higher.Find out how we use microfossils to reconstruct temperature, salinity and more across the globe from this geological interval just before ice ages began. Using our reconstruction of the ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Friday, 08/30/19
Sculpting Photocatalysts on the Nano ScaleThe solar-driven photocatalytic splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen is a potential source of clean and renewable fuels. However, four decades of global research have proven this multi-step reaction to be highly challenging. The design of effective artificial photocatalytic systems will depend on our ability to correlate the photocatalyst ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Saturday, 08/31/19
Science Saturday: Funky FungiHave you ever wondered where mushrooms come from, what that “moss†is hanging from the branches in an oak tree, or what lies beneath the rotting logs on a Redwood forest floor? Find out when we explore the hidden kingdom of fungus! Try completing a mushroom cap craft, learn about ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Family HikesBring the whole family along as we take a gentle 2-3-mile round trip walk among the majestic redwoods. We’ll stop and tell stories about Oakland history, identify native plants and trees, and discuss wildlife and indicators of climate change. Due to heavy roots, routes are not accessible by strollers and/or ...
Membrane potential is a unique biophysical property maintained by every cell on earth. The importance of membrane potential is widely recognized in the context of specialized organs like the brain and the heart. Yet, our understanding of the ways in which membrane potential, and its coordinated, rapid changes across large ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Sonoma State Biology ColloquiumSonoma State University Biology ColloquiumSpeaker: Dr. Cecilia Chavana-Bryant, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Testing gravity with cosmology: efficient simulations, novel statistics and analytical approaches'In the era of precision cosmology, a wide range of cosmological surveys, such as the LSST, DESI, Euclid and WFIRST will precisely probe the large-scale structure of the universe, shedding light on the nature of the dark sectors. Given how sensitively the growth of structure depends on the nature of ...
Novel materials with by-design properties that can be grown down to the two-dimensional limit are considered important candidates for addressing computation and energy challenges of the twenty-first century. For instance, band gaps by design and enhanced transport properties give prospects for highly efficient solar energy conversion and low-loss optoelectronics and ...
