Dr. Mouncey joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its 20-year history. He earned his Bachelor's of Science in Microbiology at University of Glasgow and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at University of Sussex. His team has developed production strains and fermentation processes for other ...
A carbon tax has been widely discussed as a way of reducing fossil fuel use and mitigating climate change, generally in a static framework. Unlike standard goods that can be produced, oil is an exhaustible resource. Parts of its price reflects scarcity rents, i.e., the fact that there is limited ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Black Hole Superradiance Signatures of Ultralight VectorsBlack holes are useful tools in the search for Physics beyond the Standard Model. A particle lighter than 10^-11 eV has a Compton wavelength comparable to the horizon size of astrophysical black holes, and can form bound states around the black hole, similar to an atom. If the particle is ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Three Estuary and Ocean Science Center talksNicholas Lee Carver Sea Surface Temperature Variability in Gulf of the Farallones & Surrounding Region Anna Costanza Participatory risk assessment of humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) and leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) bycatch in Northern PeruAlyssa EllsMarine Heat Waves in the San Francisco Bay Estuary
Where: TiburonCost: Free
The Century of Biology on Earth and BeyondAre we alone? We want to know whether there is life beyond Earth and whether any of it is intelligent. Since the middle of the twentieth century, we have had astronomical tools that permit us to embark on a scientific exploration to try to answer this age-old question. Join Dr. ...
Nanoparticles are of interest in a variety of biomedical applications that take advantage of their small size and unique properties. Iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles are one class of nanomaterials that respond to externally applied magnetic fields due to their superparamagnetism, enabling applications in targeted and externally triggered drug delivery, magnetic ...
The dominant food system is in crisis, producing adverse consequences for human health and the environment. Climate change, an intersecting crisis, threatens our ability to grow food in a manner that has been prevalent for the past several decades: that is to say, industrially, through large-scale monocrops of just a ...
Alan will be sharing recent finds from his four months of travel in Mexico this year including several new species of bioluminescent fungi, and the technology using Mushroom Observer, iNaturalist, and other internet forums and DNA sequencing.Speaker: Alan Rockefeller
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
SciComm Studio 020: Art, Activism & AIThe rapid expansion and deployment of today’s technology often comes with unanticipated consequences. Yet, critical insights into tech are prevalent in new media art projects that push boundaries into possibilities, limits, and impacts of tech on a human, social level. Is it time for industry, policy, and research to pay ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Technosignatures vs. Biosignatures: Which Will Succeed First?Thirty-five years ago, a group of entrepreneurs and scientists founded the SETI Institute â€" the first scientific institute dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life in the universe. We’re excited to commemorate this anniversary. We invited SETI Institute co-founder Jill Tarter and 2018 Drake Award Recipient Vikki Meadows to discuss ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Community Talk: Ildiko Polony, Literacy for Environmental JusticeIldiko Polony, Native Plant Nursery Manager for Literacy for Environmental Justice in the Bayview District of San Francisco, will discuss the awesome potential of restored habitat to sequester carbon, mitigate the impacts of climate change and restore our global carbon cycle. By restoring habitat we re-invigorate the biological systems wherein ...
Where: OaklandCost: free
Efficiently Protecting Software Innovations on a Global ScaleTo be competitive, software companies often employ designers and developers in different locations and countries to implement and update different versions of software. With this increasing workforce in other countries, software company competition can also stem from other countries, and can provide different flavors of a software product to different ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Learning from and about wild African great apes using indirect and non-invasive methodsPrimatological research continues to uncover the complexity of great ape ecology and behavior in the wild using direct observations, still discovering fascinating new aspects of their diet, sociality and culture. However, direct observations require to habituate the animals to human observers, which can take many years or even decades in ...
Discover how the history of celestial cartography has evolved into several pathways that have relevance for today’s amateur astronomer. Dr. Nick Kanas will trace the history of ancient star mapping traditions, discuss the beautiful images of constellations pictured in early atlases, and explain how the development and use of the ...
