Planning for future ocean conditions requires historical data to establish more informed ecological baselines. To date, this process is largely limited to instrument records and observations that begin around 1950. Here, we show how marine macroalgae specimens from herbaria repositories may document long-term ecosystem processes and extend historical information records ...
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The Inclusive Workforce: Strategies to Enhance the Future of Public Sector Work - LivestreamWhile a strong body of research has emerged on the ways emerging technologies, especially artificial intelligence (AI), will disrupt private sector work, less attention has been given to understanding these effects on public sector work and workers. Yet these technologies are increasingly being deployed in the public sector to address ...
Speaker: Carlos Rinaldi, Univ. of FloridaSee weblink for connection instructions
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Experiment with Abseil Flags - LivestreamCommand-line interfaces are a good choice for enabling machine learning experiments. In Python, the argparse package is a common way to implement command-line arguments, but its naive use can lead to at least one anti-pattern that makes code hard to maintain and extend. Google’s Abseil Python package (as used in ...
¡Únase a nosotros para el DÃa de la ingenierÃa 2020 en lÃnea!La sede del Ãrea de la BahÃa de San Francisco de la Sociedad de Ingenieros Profesionales Hispanos y el Exploratorium presentan Conozca a los ingenieros, una conversación con profesionales que trabajan en una variedad de campos de ingenierÃa.Este programa ...
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September LASER Event - LivestreamThe Legacy of Frank PopperWe pay tribute to one of the most influential scholars in both art and science, who died recently. We invited his friend Roger Malina to discuss Popper's work and influence. Born in the Czech Republic in 1918, Frank Popper died in 2020 at the age of ...
Join us for a remarkable discussion about the intersection of the science fiction and science facts behind spacecraft, past, present and future. Two noted space artists and a space historian join forces to explore how the idea of plying the interplanetary and interstellar spaceways came to be, who designed the ...
As our nation prepares for a major election, After Dark takes a month-long look at some key factors that influence personal and collective decision making and the effect these influences have on the democratic process.What happens when our individual voices gather to make collective choices? Tonight, take a closer look ...
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NightSchool: Coast to Coast - LivestreamWhile one of the most biodiverse marine habitats in the world can be found in our own backyard, this virtual NightSchool event will allow you to travel from coast to coast, exploring the fascinating ecosystems that exist where water meets land.See weblink for connections.
The rise of Deepfakes has prompted intense coverage in the press, concern from government officials, and fear among the public. Deepfakes, along with GANs (generative adversarial networks), are a class of “generative†neural networks capable of creating highly realistic synthetic images. The widespread availability of open-source Deepfake tools means anyone ...
Advocates of science and critical thinking often shy away from using marketing to promote their passion. This talk examines several common marketing myths that often prevent us from gaining broad adoption and suggests some well-understood techniques that science advocates and scientific skeptics can use to promote critical thinking in society.Speaker: ...
Join Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) for a conversation with Richard Tejeda, founder of Saved by Nature, a South Bay nonprofit that works to provide all community members with equal access to environmental education and nature. Saved By Nature works to expose, teach, and enlighten people of all backgrounds and ...
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Green Friday: The Sierra Club and Point Reyes National Seashore - LivestreamKen Brower will present “The Sierra Club and Point Reyes National Seashore†about that unique, rich and important national park. Point Reyes is at a pivotal point in its history as the National Park Service considers continued ranching within its borders despite overwhelming opposition from commenters on the draft Environmental ...
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 09/12/20
Butterflies of the UC Botanical Garden - A Focus on Monarchs - LivestreamJoin our resident caterpillar lady Sal Levinson and butterfly guy Sarab Seth for an illustrated slideshow of butterflies found in the Garden at this time of year. We'll learn about their life cycle, host plants, and more! Our fun Zoom event is suitable for all ages and includes a live ...
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Virtual Telescope Viewing - LivestreamJoin our resident astronomers on Facebook Live every Saturday evening live from Chabot’s Observation deck!Each week, our astronomers will guide us through spectacular night sky viewing through Nellie, Chabot‘s most powerful telescope. Weather permitting we will be able to view objects live through the telescopes and our astronomers will be ...
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 09/13/20
Learning about Sport Psychology! - LivestreamWant to learn about Sport Psychology? Do you see yourself pursuing a career in Sport Psychology? If so, then this is the event for you!Professor Hayden-Blackburn shares her journey into Sport Psychology, discusses current issues facing athletes and students, and provides details on how to pursue a degree in Sport ...
Where: Cost: Free, but RSVP is required
Monday, 09/14/20
Microscopic evidence for a chiral superconducting order parameter in the heavy fermion superconductor UTe2 - LivestreamTopological superconductors represent a fundamentally new phase of matter. Similar to topological insulators, the non-trivial topological characteristics of a topological superconductor dictate the presence of a topological edge states composed of Bogoliubov quasiparticles which live inside and span the superconducting gap. The intense interest in these materials stems from the ...
Even after peer-review and publication, science papers could still contain images or other data of concern. Dr. Elisabeth Bik has done a systematic scan of 20,000 papers in 40 journals and found that about 4% of these contained inappropriately duplicated images. In her talk she will discuss how to identify ...
Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy hosts a conversation on Sustainable Energy Finance featuring Anne Finucane, Vice Chairman of Bank of America, in conversation with Richard Kauffman, Chair of General Capital. Stanford's Sustainable Finance Initiative managing director, Alicia Seiger joins Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy co-director, Aun Majumdar in hosting the ...
The Four Ways We Tell Machines What We Want, and How We Can Do Better - LivestreamIn our modern world, computers recommend movies they think we’ll like, remind us to order more laundry detergent, and answer our burning questions without breaking a sweat. But how do computer systems know how to do these things for us? It depends on how they were designed.Over two lectures, renowned ...
Responding to climate change by building hard infrastructures and favoring high-tech homogenous design, we are ignoring millennia-old knowledge of how to live in symbiosis with nature. Without implementing soft systems that use biodiversity as a building block, designs remain inherently unsustainable.There is a cumulative body of multigenerational knowledge, practices, and ...
