Toward Cognitive Search - Using Machine-Learning on Digital Media Collections - LivestreamThe CHM collection contains a vast audio and video collection with more than a thousand video-recorded oral history interviews with technology pioneers and innovators. Since current users must painstakingly sift manually through each video to find what they’re looking for, the collection is vastly underutilized.Thanks to a grant from the ...
Lyn will take us on a journey through the solar atmosphere or Chromosphere, viewed best through the H-alpha line at the red end of the spectrum and thus visually produces a “red Sunâ€. Not only are we going to look at the usual features found in the Chromosphere, prominences, filaments ...
Persey's First Year on Mars - LivestreamSince landing inside the 45 kilometer (28 mile) wide Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, Persy has been busy observing the Mars environment, capturing images, and collecting samples for future retrieval. As we reach the first anniversary of Perseverance’s landing, members of the Mars Mission team will give a rover ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission, free online
X-ray astrophysics enabled by microcalorimeter spectrometers - LivestreamX-rays from astrophysical objects provide a view into some of nature’s most violent and extreme environments. Telescopes sensitive to 0.1-100 keV photons provide unique probes of accreting black holes and the warped spacetime around them, clusters of galaxies - the Universe’s most massive gravitational potential wells, the growth and evolution ...
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 02/19/22
Turtle Observer Program on Mt. Tam Marin Water is enlisting the help of community scientists to protect the western pond turtle by monitoring habitat conditions, recording their behavior, and educating the public during the spring when they are most visible. The Turtle Observer program is great for individuals, small groups or whole families. Kids typically make ...
Where: Cost: Free
#NoToPlastic Community Clean-UpsBe part of the solution! Join other wildlife enthusiasts to help our local wildlife by cleaning up important habitats in Oakland.Meet at the Lower Entrance to Oakland Zoo (in front of the Zimmer Auditorium) at 9:45am; shuttle departs at 10:00am sharp for cleanup site.Location of cleanup will be a different ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Mars Rover Landing Anniversary Party!Join us in celebrating the first anniversary of NASA's Perseverance rover landing on Mars! Since landing on February 18, 2021, Perseverance has been hunting for signs of ancient microbial life in order to collect and store samples of Martian rock and sediment to be retrieved by planned future missions for ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Investigating Space: Space TourismLook at the next big mission in private space travel and discuss the industry’s next steps with Space.com senior writer, Mike Wall.2021 was a big year for space tourism, as Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin both launched their billionaire owners to suborbital space and SpaceX flew the first-ever all-private crewed ...
In this talk, Don Macholz will introduce Charles Messier and the comets that he discovered. He will then move on to the Messier Catalogue and the previously missing objects. We will see where the Messier Objects are distributed throughout the sky. We recognize 110 Messier Objects but two major astronomy ...
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 02/20/22
Morning Hike at La Honda Open Space Preserve - FULLJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful hike at Lower La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve where you’ll experience the area’s sweeping views and gorgeous rolling grasslands! The preserve is over 6,100 acres, of which POST has contributed 5,200 acres. You will be guided by POST ambassadors on the ...
Where: La HondaCost: Free
Mars Rover Landing Anniversary Party!Join us in celebrating the first anniversary of NASA's Perseverance rover landing on Mars! Since landing on February 18, 2021, Perseverance has been hunting for signs of ancient microbial life in order to collect and store samples of Martian rock and sediment to be retrieved by planned future missions for ...
The Poetry of ScienceScience and art have long been closely linked together, from George Washington Carver to Maria Sibylla Merian. Today, scientists find avenues across disciplines and artistic mediums to convey scientific concepts to inform, engage, and inspire.The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to a conversation between four scientists who have connected ...
Are we alone? Avi Loeb, Harvard’s top astronomer, doesn’t seem to think so. He believes that our solar system was recently visited by advanced alien technology from a distant star. In 2017, scientists in Hawaii observed an object soaring through the sky, moving too fast along a strange orbit for ...
Where: Cost: $10 General, Free for Members and with code above
The Future of Quantum Materials - LivestreamQuantum materials, such as superconductors, graphene and topological insulators, are materials with "exotic properties" and great promise. A panel of experimentalists describes how these materials will enable many important technologies of the future, from energy to quantum computing.Register at weblink.
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 ...
Where: Cost: Free
Nutrient-sensitive transcripts as biomarkers of in situ physiological state in marine phytoplankton - LivestreamPhytoplankton impact ocean food webs, nutrient cycles, and global carbon biogeochemistry, yet traditional bulk methods to study them are often inadequate to measure relevant rates and dynamics that influence ecosystem function. Current methods lack taxonomic resolution and/or use sampling schemes with limited spatial or temporal resolution and therefore, the mechanisms ...
Science on Tap - Why was the weather forecast wrong? And what does that mean for climate change?The biggest challenge in weather forecasting is predicting whether it’s going to rain, and if so, how much. One reason for this difficulty is that the clouds that produce the rain are not well understood. This same challenge is important for predicting climate. Clouds affect climate in a variety of ...
Biomolecular NMR is widely applied to basic research in protein structure and dynamics, and can be exploited in a multitude of ways for drug discovery and manufacturing, including characterization of ligand binding for small-molecule drug development, and identification of structural changes in protein therapeutics during storage.Correspondingly, there are hundreds of ...
Where: Cost: Free
So You Want to Decarbonize a Building? - LivestreamIn the United States, approximately 35% of the nation’s 2019 carbon footprint was a result of energy use in buildings (and almost 50% when including embodied carbon). This number is even higher in densely populated public transportation-reliant regions like the Bay Area. Therefore, decarbonizing buildings themselves can play a massive ...
Panos Moutis will discuss how machine learning and artificial intelligence are fitting tools for operational control of hybrid renewable energy systems.Speaker: Panos Moutis, Carnegie Mellon UniversityRegister at weblink to receive Zoom information
Without phytoplankton, single-celled organisms that live in the water, life as we know it would not exist. Join our speakers to explore the histories of these fascinating organisms that cause beautiful, blue luminescent oceans or deadly red tides. Learn about the current state of phytoplankton in Monterey Bay and around ...
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark: Conversations About LandscapeSpark your curiosity at After Dark! As the sun sets, we’ll hit the rainbow lights, turn the music up, and open our doors, inviting you to take your imagination out to play. Tonight we feature practitioners from the fields of geography, ecology, environmental sciences, policy, design, and the arts who ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Do Droughts Affect Groundwater Quality? A California Story - LivestreamSpeaker: Zeno Levy, USGS Research Geologist Groundwater is an important source of drinking water for millions of Californians, and billions worldwide.Conventional wisdom is groundwater quality is "slow" to respond to drought. New study links rapid increases of agricultural contaminants in drinking-water wells to intensive pumping of California aquifers during drought. Results highlight vulnerabilities ...
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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 ...
Many of us have heard stories of people who got lost or injured in the wild and were able to survive for days. Have you ever wondered how they did it, and what you would do if you found yourself in a similar situation?Our local open spaces are designed to ...
