Walk with Obi: Burned Forests of The Sierra - LivestreamCalifornia has experienced its deadliest wildfire seasons in recent history. Looking across a scorched and blackened environment, we ache to make things better. But are our efforts to restore the land and prevent fires in fact making things worse?Produced by Heyday, this once-in-a-lifetime virtual walk with renowned conservationist/artist Obi Kaufmann, ...
Local Naturalist Jeff Caplan is back with a new class to teach us how to ID and connect to birds and their habitat for your next visit to Windy Hill. Whether you’re a regular at the preserve or planning your first visit, Jeff will teach us how to connect with ...
Where: Cost: Free
Planetary Defense: Avoiding a Cosmic Catastrophe - LivestreamOur planet has been continually bombarded by asteroids since its formation, 4.5 billion years ago. While the frequency of large impacts has decreased, many potential Near-Earth Object (NEO) threats remain undiscovered, so if or when they will impact Earth remains unknown.Most of the time, an impacting asteroid will simply burn ...
Did you know that California has a special holiday just to celebrate biodiversity? Let’s celebrate by having a month long bioblitz through INaturalist to help scientists document our local organisms. California is the nation’s most populous state and is home to more diverse species and ecosystems than anywhere in the ...
Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, Greater Farallones Association, and Shark Stewards invite you to join us for Sharktoberfest™ 2020!Our annual celebration of sharks is going virtual this year! Join us for an online celebration of sharks to raise awareness of the importance of elasmobranchs in our marine ecosystem, coinciding with the arrival of ...
Where: Cost: Free!
Family Science & Astronomy Festival + Makerspace - LivestreamCollege of San Mateo's Family Science and Astronomy Festival + Makerspace will be held virtually. Our annual festival brings CSM faculty and community members together to bring the enjoyment of the wonders of science to your family. This year it will be held virtually through Zoom, featuring both live sessions and on-demand recordings. Young scientists-in-the-making can tune ...
Where: Cost: Free
How Climate Change is Worsening California's Fires and What to do About it - Livestream2020 is already California's worst wildfire season on record, and it's only September. A perfect storm of events conspired to spark the August 2020 California fires - a persistent heat dome, a tropical storm, rare summer lightning storms, and dry conditions.Via Zoom, environmental scientist and climate journalist Dana Nuccitelli will ...
Where: Cost: Free
Lunar Landing Sites, Past and Future - LivestreamFifty years ago we were in the midst of human exploration of the Moon through the Apollo program. In this presentation, we will look back at each of the Apollo landing sites, why they were chosen, what made these locations so fascinating, and what we learned from them. He will ...
Join us for a special Virtual Telescope Viewing with our resident astronomers. We will go on a guided tour of the Moon for International Observe the Moon Night!International Observe the Moon Night is an annual worldwide public event that encourages observation, appreciation and understanding of our Moon and its connection ...
The Bird Photo Big Day Fall Challenge to Benefit the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO): Photograph bird behavior. We are looking for the best photos that depict bird behavior and activity; all species are in the game.Eating, flycatching, preening, bathing, vocalizing, flying, soaring, and hunting. Even the bird's attitude. ...
Where: Cost: $25
Sunday, 09/27/20
DÃa de la IngenierÃa/Latino Engineering Day 2020 - LivestreamJoin us for Latinx Engineering Day 2020 online!The SF Bay Area Chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and the Exploratorium present Meet the Engineers - a conversation with professionals working in a variety of engineering disciplines.This FREE, bilingual (Spanish/English) program is intended for audiences of all ages, from ...
Where: Cost: Free
San Francisco City Star Party: CanceledCome join us for our monthly San Francisco City Star Party. SFAA members provide telescopes for your viewing pleasure.Be sure to check the SFAA website for the latest updates…bad weather or overcast skies will cancel!
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Monday, 09/28/20
Ultrafast Domain Wall Dynamics in Metallic and Insulating Ferrimagnets - LivestreamA promising approach to encode bits of information for next-generation memory and logic is by using solitons, such as chiral domain walls (DW) or topological skyrmions, which can be translated by currentsacross racetrack-like wire devices. One technological and scientific challenge is to stabilize small spin textures and to move them ...
Where: Cost: Free
Macro-Energy Systems: Toward a New Discipline - LivestreamA proposal published in Joule for a new discipline called Macro-Energy Systems (MES) focused on studying the large-scale, systems-level, long-term aspects of sustainable energy planning. The article sparked interest from a wide range of researchers and students and they recently participated in a virtual workshop where they discussed ‘Why do we need ...
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Future Directions for Nuclear Energy - LivestreamFission energy is currently the largest source of zero-carbon electrical power in the United States, but expanded use has stalled due to high construction costs, long schedules, and lack of policies that credit the low carbon emissions from nuclear power. Â This talk will broadly review questions relevant to the future ...
In this talk, Matt will talk about his career trajectories after his PhD and postdoctoral research, transitioning to one of the top management consulting firms, and now working at Gilead Sciences as an Executive Director in the CEO Office, and how his academic background and scientific training still play a ...
Where: Cost: Free
Astronomy on Tap: Los Angeles - LivestreamJoin us for a virtual Astronomy on Tap, streamed over YouTube Live. We’ll hear from Dr. Konstantin Batygin: “The Planet Nine Hypothesis: An Update†and from Dr. Jackie Faherty: “Mapping our Solar Neighborhoodâ€. In addition, we will host interactive astronomically-themed pub trivia.The event is free and open to all ages. ...
Where: Cost: Free
Tuesday, 09/29/20
SynBioBeta 2020: The Global Synthetic Biology Conference - RescheduledSynBioBeta is where tech meets bio and bio meets tech. Join us September 29 - October 1, 2020 to see how synthetic biology is disrupting consumer products, food, agriculture, medicine, chemicals, materials, and more. The SynBioBeta Global Synthetic Biology Conference 2020 unites the leading biological engineers, investors, innovators, and entrepreneurs ...
Where: OaklandCost: $2,500 after Feb 21
Critical Thinking and the Psychology of Confidence - LivestreamReading the self-help literature could leave you with the impression that the goal in life is to maximize your confidence. On the other hand, research on overconfidence highlights all the ways in which people can get themselves into trouble by being too confident. Expert Don Moore will explore this tension ...
Where: Cost: Free
Wednesday, 09/30/20
SynBioBeta 2020: The Global Synthetic Biology Conference - RescheduledSynBioBeta is where tech meets bio and bio meets tech. Join us September 29 - October 1, 2020 to see how synthetic biology is disrupting consumer products, food, agriculture, medicine, chemicals, materials, and more. The SynBioBeta Global Synthetic Biology Conference 2020 unites the leading biological engineers, investors, innovators, and entrepreneurs ...
Where: OaklandCost: $2,500 after Feb 21
Global Energy Dialogues: Atmospheric Carbon Removal at the Gigaton Scale - LivestreamStanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy director, Prof. Arun Majumdar, leads a conversation on Atmospheric Carbon Removal with Ajay Mehta, General Manager of New Energies Research & Technology at Shell Oil Company; Chris Field, Director of Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment; and Stanford University Precourt Family Professor Sally Benson. ...
Where: Cost: Free
Live ScienceJoin Chabot Science Educators for a fun and interactive science experiment! Together, we will investigate and observe a phenomenon of science through a captivating demonstration.We’ll ask for observations and explanations of what YOU think is happening before revealing the science behind it. Then, we’ll end with a live Q&A for ...
Solomon Hsiang directs the Global Policy Laboratory at UC Berkeley, where researchers are integrating econometrics, spatial data science, and machine learning to answer questions that are central to managing planetary resources. He will discuss their work and its impact on policy-making, including the economics of climate change, UN treaties that ...
Michael is a professional engineer with the California Department of Water Resources and PhD Candidate in the UC Davis Hydrologic Science Graduate GroupRegister at weblink for Zoom information
How do scientists go from OMG to PhD? How do they turn their passion for science into their profession? What advice do they have for future scientists? If you are a 5th-12th grade student, undergraduate, teacher or parent, join us to ask these questions and more in a Q&A session ...
Vero’s work explores how “modern energy for all" - the internationally-supported goal to increase electricity access - came to be touted as a primary means of poverty alleviation in the Global South. Despite outsized amounts of money and support, electricity development goals have been largely unrealized and huge disparities in ...
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How do models learn? - LivestreamHow can we explain how deep neural networks arrive at decisions? Feature representation is complex and to the human eye opaque; instead a set of interpretability tools intuit what the model has learned by looking at what inputs it pays attention to. This talk will talk about interpretability tools for ...
The pursuit of more sustainable consumption and production of consumer goods has taken an inside-out turn. Instead of external stakeholders devising carrot-and-stick methods of influence, industry players like brands, retailers, and platforms are increasingly finding value in sustainability governance. Able to collect data streams inaccessible to stakeholders, with the market ...
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American Health Care: What's Left After COVID-19? - LivestreamJoin us for a virtual medical panel discussion about whether the COVID-19 crisis will end up trimming some of the waste out of America's health-care system or changing it more fundamentally.For this 10th Annual Lundberg Institute Lecture, previous TLI lecturers will join Dr. George Lundberg in a reprise of some ...
Where: Cost: Free
Thursday, 10/01/20
SynBioBeta 2020: The Global Synthetic Biology Conference - RescheduledSynBioBeta is where tech meets bio and bio meets tech. Join us September 29 - October 1, 2020 to see how synthetic biology is disrupting consumer products, food, agriculture, medicine, chemicals, materials, and more. The SynBioBeta Global Synthetic Biology Conference 2020 unites the leading biological engineers, investors, innovators, and entrepreneurs ...
Where: OaklandCost: $2,500 after Feb 21
Climate Justice: Radioactive and Toxic Waste, Racism, and Rising Oceans - LivestreamAt the recent Global Training in July 2020, former Vice President Al Gore and the Climate Reality Project continued their call to prioritize and center the environmental justice work of communities of color and indigenous communities. In this spirit, we invite you to learn about and engage with Greenaction for ...
Where: Cost: Free
Trends in Electronic Measurement - LivestreamElectronic measurement is critical for the advancement of the electrical engineering profession, and more broadly for addressing many of the challenges and opportunities facing the world today. Modern electronic measurement instruments are both beneficiaries and enablers of new technology, and as such their architectures and capabilities can provide insight on ...
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Basic Science: Consequences of a Changing Climate - LivestreamExperts on the atmospheric, oceanographic, microbial, and ecological connections to Earth’s climate share their big-picture perspectives on this urgent topic. How will climate change alter the cycling of carbon and methane in sea and sky? What is the outlook for the weather or biodiversity?Please register in advance. To access the ...
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Biochemistry and Artificial Intelligence - LivestreamThe event will include brief presentations on careers and research surrounding the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to solve complex biochemistry questions, followed by a Q&A.Register at weblink to obtain connection link.Panel: Kate Stafford, Atomwise; Murchtricia Charles, Univ. of Michigan; Joel Karpiak, GlaxoSmithKline; Jocelyn Sunseri, Univ. of Pittsburgh
A Special Edition Birdy Hour, a virtual science talk by Wild Care Executive Director Stephanie Ellis. Join Stephanie through a vivid photographic presentation of the eastern Galápagos Islands and learn why the unique flora, fauna and fragile ecosystems of the Galápagos are a must see for all wildlife enthusiasts and deserve our ...
Where: Cost: $10 Donation Requested
LASER - Paradoxes and illusions: innovative and disruptive concepts of art - LivestreamIlluminating the Depths: Artist at Sea"Speaker: Rebecca Rutstein, Interdisciplinary ArtistThe paradox of silence within a social and artistic frameworkSpeaker: Blanca Bercial, Artist3D meeets 2DSpeaker: Alexa Meade, Visual ArtistRegister at weblink for connection information
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Hardcore Natural History: Planting for MonarchsJoin us as we speak to Emma Pelton about what we should keep in mind while planting for monarchs, especially around over wintering sites. Emma is a Senior Conservation Biologist at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation where she leads western monarch conservation efforts including developing best management practices for ...
Where: Cost: $10 General, $5 Members
After Dark Online: WildfiresIn California, an extreme fire season has commenced early and caused cataclysmic effects on California's landscapes, residents, and air. At After Dark: Wildfires, learn about the science behind these wildfires and the ways climate policy can be used to advocate for environmental restoration and equity.This month’s After Dark Online is ...
Sharktoberfest celebrates two things dear to our hearts: the annual return of white sharks to our marine sanctuaries and the world’s annual salute to beer. Get a taste of shark science and Fort Point beer (plus a bonus combo of the two) during this year’s online Virtual NightLife celebration. Featuring ...
