Labside Chats: A Conversation with a Scientist, featuring Stephanie Brodie, Ph.D. - LivestreamTune in for the next Labside Chat with Stephanie Brodie, project scientist at UC Santa Cruz and researcher with the Fisheries Collaborative Program. Learn why scientists track marine predators in the ocean and how this helps protect endangered species such as whales and sea turtles.Join the conversation! Submit your questions ...
Join author Enrique Salmón for a presentation on his recent book "IwÃgara: The Kinship of Plants and People". In this book he explores 150 plants of key importance to American Indians. Enrique Salmón reveals how the plants were traditionally used, why they were used that way, what their health and ...
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SETI LIVE: The End of Everything - LivestreamTake a look around. Everything you see, from this blue and green planet we live on to the stars and distant fuzzy galaxies in the sky, began with the Big Bang and, over billions of years, found its way to the shapes and forms they have now. But what is ...
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After Dark Online: Sustainable EnergyExplore technologies designed to harness renewable energy sources and lower the carbon footprint of energy use through building and transportation design. The first week of May, the vessel Energy Observer will be docked next to our Platinum LEED-Certified campus on Pier 15. This high-tech French sailboat is the first self-sufficient, ...
Explore the tropical rainforests of the world with a session dedicated to these iconic and important ecosystems, which are home to nearly half of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity and play a critical role in global weather. Learn how scientists are studying rainforest health - and get a bonus behind-the-scenes look ...
The anti-vaccine movement has broadened in scope over the past year, using arguments of “medical freedom†to bring in COVID-19 deniers and anti-maskers into the fold. Concerningly, the movement has also grown more politically polarized, as those who believe COVID is a hoax and masks don’t work tend to lean ...
Beyond the Great Reset - One-day Systems Change Summit - LivestreamJoin Richard Heinberg, Helena Norberg Hodge, Daniel Christian Wahl, James Quilligan, Sohail Inayatullah, Byron Joel and others on how we can create a world beyond “corporate sustainability†and move toward regenerative cultures and needs-based economies.See weblink for registration, agenda, and speaker information.
Dr. Chrissy Stachl’s journey to, and through, the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Chemistry contained many unexpected twists and turns. A trained chemist, she started out working in a physical chemistry lab, doing gas-phase research to understand how water molecules interact with each other and the ions they solvate. ...
One hundred years ago, Einstein predicted that light rays would bend in the space near a massive object - much as light rays refract in an optical lens. Today, we use this fact to weigh galaxies, to discover planets of other stars, and to “see†invisible black holes. How did ...
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Resolving the Local Universe with the JWST & Hubble - LivestreamIn his talk, Dr. Weisz highlights the amazing science and images produced by Hubble observations of local galaxies from the past three decades. The pinnacle of these studies is the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) program, an 800-hour Hubble survey of our sibling galaxy Andromeda, and one of the largest ...
Join 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 ...
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Sunday, 05/16/21
Bringing Back the Natives Virtual Garden TourIn a series of live garden visits passionate garden owners and the talented designers of the Bay Area’s most beautiful and inspiring landscapes will show us what’s happening in the garden now, feature their favorite natives, describe their great native plant gardening resources, and more.Check the weblink for the agenda ...
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Getting Under a Sea Otter’s Skin: The Anatomy of Sensitive Touch - LivestreamSea otters are in a race against time. To survive, they hunt for clams, crabs, urchins, snails, mussels, and abalone down to 100 feet deep. Otters must work quickly since they can hold their breath for only 1-3 minutes per dive, and their prey is often found in rocky crevices ...
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Solar Sunday Basics: Spots, Prominences, Filaments and More - LivestreamJoin us for this on-line event where we'll look in real time for prominences (often thought of as solar flares) and intricate texture within the Sun’s chromosphere (its atmosphere). We'll also provide an overview of how we observe the Sun in different types of light (such as red, H-alpha light), ...
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Monday, 05/17/21
Symbolic Systems Forum: Sohpie Regan and Xinlan Emily HuSemantic Adaptation in PreschoolersSpeaker: Sophie Regan, StanfordDoes Distance Matter at Scale? Extending the “Distance Matters†Framework from Distributed Teams to Distributed OrganizationsSpeaker: Xinlan Emily Hu, StanfordSee weblink for Zoom link
Nearly one century ago, the Navajo Nation government was created in response to the discovery of major oil reserves on Navajoland, a 28,000 square mile landmass that spans Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. The newly founded government accepted agreements with multinational companies in the hopes of bringing jobs and economic ...
Mid-century net-zero targets are abundant these days. But there are a few industries where this type of goal would seemingly be contrary to what is thought to be their core business. On March 23, 2021, SoCalGas became the largest gas distribution utility in the nation as they set a net-zero ...
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Tuesday, 05/18/21
Climate change: a risky business - LivestreamHow do we know how the climate is changing? How can we assess the risk to our lives, homes, businesses and communities? And how are people mitigating those risks in their everyday jobs, from engineering to finance?Join a panel of experts as they discuss the risks posed by climate change ...
 This talk will cover the following issues:-Measures of Central Tendency-Measures of Dispersion-Quantiles and the Interquartile Range-Understanding Variance-The Gaussian Distribution-Z Scores-Sampling Distribution to Estimate Population Mean-Covariance and CorrelationAgenda:11:40 am - 11:50 am Arrival and socializing11:50 am - 12:00 pm Opening12:00 pm - 1:50 pm Mustafa Yucel, " Interpreting Data Using Descriptive ...
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The Weird and Wonderful World of Parasites - LivestreamWhat if you had to make your living inside another organism? Better yet - if you had to move between two or three organisms, in different taxonomic groups with different immune systems, to complete your life cycle? What if you were able to alter the behavior or genetics of other ...
The Garden's rare Mexican Magnolia species bloom in the Garden this month. Join Curator Holly Forbes for an introduction to these beautiful species and the rest of the Garden's nationally accredited Magnolia collection, part of a system that joins together public gardens in an effort to preserve plant species.Register at ...
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Whole Earth Seminars - LivestreamSpeaker: Corinne Myers, University of New MexicoZoom information can be found on the EPS advising Google calendar
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Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception - LivestreamTracing an arc from the earliest humans to our digitized, synthesized present and future - Adam Rogers shows the expansive human quest for the understanding, creation and use of color. We meet our ancestors mashing charcoal in caves, Silk Road merchants competing for the best ceramics, and textile artists cracking ...
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The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception - LivestreamTracing an arc from the earliest humans to our digitized, synthesized present and future - Adam Rogers shows the expansive human quest for the understanding, creation and use of color. This journey has required millennia of remarkable innovation and a fascinating exchange of ideas between science and craft that’s allowed ...
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Wildfires, Climate Change, and PopulationWildfires have become a yearly event in California. Join us at this virtual event to learn about the connections between wildfires, climate change, and population growth in California. U.S. Geological Survey research scientist and UCLA adjunct professor, Dr. Jon Keeley, studies climate change impacts on future fire regimes and has ...
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Forbidden Planets: Alien Worlds in Science Fiction and Science Fact - LivestreamWe’ve all traveled to Tatooine, and some of us to Vulcan or Pandora, but how do these sci-fi worlds compare to the real life exoplanets like Kepler 16b, or the seven planets of TRAPPIST 1? Join us on a journey to alien landscapes, real and imagined, and see if you ...
SETI Talks: Why is Earth Still Habitable? - LivestreamEarth, a Pale Blue Dot in our solar system, is also the result of 4 billion years of evolution leading to a technologically advanced and intelligent civilization, humanity. When you look around almost anywhere on Earth, you see life. In the air, in the water, in the land and even ...
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 with ...
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Full-Spectrum Science Online: Big & SmallWhen you make things big or small, whether physical or biological, they change form. Spiders the size of minivans, or people the size of blood cells, are the things of science fiction, and would not survive in the real world. Come find out why in this edition of Full-Spectrum Science.Speaker: ...
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Bringing research into the clinic for children with cancer - LivestreamUCSC has made a vital, impactful leap into diagnostic testing with COVID-19. Now, we are on a path to leverage this work to bring a diagnostic genomics lab to UCSC. In this Kraw Lecture, we discuss how this diagnostic work at UCSC will impact the clinical environment. Dr. Sheri Spunt from Stanford ...
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Stronger, Higher, Faster: Big Wave Surfing and Climate ChangeThe impacts of climate change are felt all over the world, and Mavericks, the legendary surf break near Half Moon Bay, is no exception. Waves there can crest well above 50-feet during a big swell - and as climate change accelerates, they are changing, too. Becoming bigger, faster, and more ...
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COVID-19 Conundrum: Critical Insights on Cloud Security Posture of Enterprises - LivestreamIn the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a rapid uptick in demand for cloud services. Organizations globally increased their cloud workloads by more than 20%, leading to an explosion of security incidents. In this talk we'll review the latest cloud threat research from Palo Alto Networks elite ...
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Talkin' Trash - Myths and Realities of Recycling and Materials Management - LivestreamWhy do we recycle?Recycling has many benefits including:saving energy and waterconserving natural resourcesreducing air and water pollutionconserving landfill spacereducing greenhouse gas emissionsassuring the sustainable existence of human life on EarthReady to talk trash?! Join Sunnyvale’s very own myth busters, Mark and Karen, to learn about the realities of recycling. Did ...
Variable stars have always been the most intriguing (and fun) targets for observers, professional and amateur alike. Stellar variability provides unique insights in critical stages of stellar evolution, helps determine distances to nearby galaxies, and adds to our understanding of explosion physics and the Milky Way's chemical enrichment. I will ...
Physical activity is powerful medicine: it can promote health and change the trajectory of aging. Science has taught us much about the pathways of disease, the causes of aging, and the mechanisms by which exercise exerts its benefits. Now, targeted exercise strategies can slow the aging process and improve both ...
