The story of Earth is a 4.5-billion-year saga of dramatic transformations, driven by physical, chemical, and - based on a fascinating growing body of evidence - biological processes. The co-evolution of life and rocks unfolds in an irreversible sequence of evolutionary stages. Each stage re-sculpted our planet’s surface, while introducing ...
Strategies for rapidly and inexpensively identifying neurological/psychiatric weakness and distortion - combined with genomics and increasingly more sophisticated chemical analyses of blood and other body fluids - now provide us with simple, scalable strategies for delineating specific aspects of preclinical stages of neurological and psychiatric disorders. In parallel, we have ...
Join one of the USA's most impactful environmental lawyers Robert Bilott for a conversation about his latest work followed by an intergenerational World-Cafe style dialogue aimed at inspiring hope and action. Rob is the protagonist in the recent award-winning film "Dark Waters" featuring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway and participants are highly encouraged ...
Where: Cost: Free
Wednesday, 12/01/21
Climate + Justice: Young Activists Speak Out - LivestreamAs the devastating effects of climate change take hold around the world, young people are demanding action from global leaders and, increasingly, taking action themselves. Ask a teenager or young adult which issues they think are most pressing in the world today, and climate will often top the list.One of ...
International scientific collaboration has helped to overcome the knowledge gaps in the largely vast and unexplored Mexican deep sea. Important processes, new habitats, new species, and some unique genes have been described from collaborative research cruises in the ETP and Gulf of California. Telepresence experience, knowledge transmitted through teaching and ...
Archaeological research is only made possible by the collaboration and cooperation of dozens if not hundreds of individuals in the field and in the laboratory world-wide. Like other field sciences, teamwork is at the core of our practice. To that end, archaeologists have been early adopters of many computational and ...
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 ...
Speaker: Shaama Sharada, University of South California
Where: Cost: Free
Lost Landscapes 02021 Earth, Fire, Air, Water: California InfrastructuresThis year LOST LANDSCAPES radiates out from San Francisco, extending its archival gaze to the infrastructures, people and landscapes of California north, south, east and west. Made from newly rediscovered images of San Francisco, cities and towns, and places throughout California where nature and culture meet, 02021's all-new show fixes ...
Soils store over three times as much carbon as our atmosphere, and as soils warm, they have the potential to become a large positive feedback to climate change. Over half of this organic carbon is stored in deeper soils, but most climate change experiments have only focused on surface soils. ...
Ravens are known to scavenge from wolves and people, but the degree to which they exploit these and other sources of food has not been studied in detail. In 2019, Matthias Loretto and John Marzluff began tagging ravens in Yellowstone National Park with long-lasting GSM transmitters. After tagging >60 ravens ...
Watch science come to light at After Dark. Light is all around us, bringing energy and color to our world in a whole spectrum of ways. At this After Dark, encounter bioluminescent creatures, musical LASERs, and glowing bacteria. Learn about the science of what makes things glow and experience demos ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
The museum will host Jared Childress, coordinator of the Central Coast Prescribed Burn Association, who will speak on the past, present, and future of prescribed burns in the Central Coast area.Childress will address the current situation and exciting future of “good fire,†and its relationship to ecology and people in ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $15
NightlifeCalling all creatures of the night: explore the nocturnal side of the Academy at NightLife and see what's revealed. With live DJs, outdoor bars, ambiance lighting, and nearly 40,000 live animals (including familiar faces like Claude the albino alligator), the night is sure to be wild.Step inside the iconic Shake ...
Who among us hasn’t gazed up at the stars and wondered what other life might exist in the vast expanse of the universe? The Academy’s new, award-winning planetarium film Living Worlds transports viewers across space and time in the search for life in our Solar System and beyond, and unearths ...
Where: Cost: Free
Micromitigation: Fighting Air Pollution with Activated Carbon - LivestreamWe would like to invite new members to join Counter Culture Labs' Micromitigation Meetup alternate Thursdays. We will be discussing ways to deploy existing adsorption technology using commodity granulated activated carbon for the mitigation of air pollution. We welcome those interested in both the environmental justice and technical engineering aspects of ...
Why do things give off light? There are many ways to make light, and all of them involve exciting atoms and molecules in some way. Join Exploratorium physicist Ron Hipschman to investigate some of the more colorful ways to make things glow. Using electricity, heat, and light, he’ll conduct a ...
Embracing Change, Everett in Transition: 3rd Annual Everett Student Showcase Join us in person, on zoom, or watch on youtube livestream for the Everett Program (EP) 3rd Annual Student Project Showcase to celebrate our students’ 2021 projects despite the challenges and obstacles highlighted by the pandemic. The EP Student Showcase is an annual celebration of the personal and technical accomplishments ...
Join Exploratorium educator Lori Lambertson and Port of San Francisco staff for a stroll along the San Francisco waterfront to observe, photograph, and discuss the king tide. Find out what causes the tides and why we have king tides at this time of year, and learn about the Port's Waterfront ...
See science come to light at GLOW Fest! At this all-ages celebration, dig into the art and science of light. Enjoy hands-on activities that help illuminate the how of light. Catch a glimpse of bioluminescent creatures and learn why they glow. Experience demos from artists and makers who harness light ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Help the King Tides Project photograph the highest tides of the year!King Tides are winter's highest tides, and they will arrive on December 4 and 5 and January 2 and 3. The California King Tides Project needs your help to photograph these high tides to visualize the impacts of future sea level rise. Visit California.kingtides.net to find your local high tide ...
Join our resident caterpillar lady Sal Levinson and butterfly guy Sarab Seth for our final virtual butterfly program of the year! Sarab will present a slideshow of butterflies he has photographed in the wild, in the US but outside the Bay Area.Register at weblink to receive connection information
Where: Cost: Free
Afternoon Hike at Mindego HillJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful 5-mile hike from the Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve to the top of the POST-protected Mindego Hill. You will be guided by POST ambassadors who will share details about how we protected this beautiful property featuring panoramic views of redwood ridges and ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Help the King Tides Project photograph the highest tides of the year!King Tides are winter's highest tides, and they will arrive on December 4 and 5 and January 2 and 3. The California King Tides Project needs your help to photograph these high tides to visualize the impacts of future sea level rise. Visit California.kingtides.net to find your local high tide ...
Where: Cost: free
Monday, 12/06/21
Black holes in the Universe: where, what, and why? - LivestreamIn 2015, a merging pair of black holes was directly detected for the first time. Since then, the number of detections has grown substantially. This talk will describe the new catalogue of black holes and highlight some surprising features that pose new challenges for our understanding of these elusive objects.Register ...
Where: Cost: Free
Optimal Transport and the Geometry of Collider Data - LivestreamCollider experiments probe physics at the shortest distances by smashing protons together and measuring the debris produced by the collisions. However, it is challenging to infer the detailed short-distance physics from the distribution of debris measured by the detector. Over the past two years, the mathematical field of optimal transport ...
You wore a mask. You sheltered in place and avoided travel. You got the vaccine. You thought we would soon be on the other side of the pandemic. Then the Delta variant came and caused a surge over the summer.Now, although the number of new cases and hospitalizations have been ...
Speaker: Sambeeta Das, University of DelawareSee weblink for Zoom information
Where: Cost: Free
Deciphering the prion codePrions are proteinaceous infectious particles that allow the propagation and inheritance of structural information by proteins. Prions populate the tree of life, propagating as fibrils both in laboratory strains and in the wild. Disease-causing prions are responsible for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, a wide range of neurodegenerative disorders affecting a variety ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now Beyond his position as chairman of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr rose to global prominence in the business world with his development of OKRs (objectives and key results), which he popularized in his best-selling book Measure What Matters. Could the same set of management tools be applied ...
Where: Cost: $10 General, Free for Members.
The Future of Filmmaking: AI for Volumetric Capture and Reconstruction - LivestreamOne picture is worth a thousand words, so what have been told with videos? What about 100 simultaneous videos to reconstruct every frame of life in a[masked] sq. ft dome? Is it enough to reconstruct and digitize us realistically? Similar to other industries, the entertainment industry is also being reshaped ...
Where: Cost: Free
Astronomy on Tap: Los Angeles - JWST Edition - LivestreamJoin us for a special Astronomy on Tap celebrating the imminent launch of the James Webb Space Telescope streamed over YouTube Live. We’ll hear from Dr. Christina Williams: “The Search for the First Galaxies with JWST†and from Dr. Justin Spilker: “Magnifying the Earliest Galaxiesâ€. In addition, we will host ...
