Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels - LivestreamBiodiversity for a Livable Climate is partnering with the Post Carbon Institute and many local community groups to bring you a series of events on transitioning our communities to manage our ecological crises. These events will take place virtually on Zoom and in-person at community events in 6 locations throughout ...
TinyFest California is a weekend festival celebrating tiny living! Come tour a variety of tiny houses, including tiny houses on wheels, van & school bus conversions, shipping container homes, ADUs/ backyard cottages, and more! This two day festival is a chance to gain insight and information from speaker presentations and ...
Where: PleasantonCost: $20 both days, $15 single day
Moving the Needle: How key interventions can increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEMAlthough African Americans make up approximately 13% of the US population, they are severely underrepresented in advanced degrees awarded in STEM disciplines. Currently, they hold ~2% of tenure/tenure track positions in research institutions in the US. Despite the overwhelming statistics, Dr. Jeffries-EL pursued and completed a doctorate in chemistry, obtained ...
Where: Cost: Free
Science at Cal - An Inside Look: UC Berkeley’s Center for the Science of PsychedelicsExactly two years ago, before the new Netflix documentary series, “How to Change your Mind†premiered, the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP) was founded to provide research, training, and public education on a long-standing taboo in our society: psychedelic drugs. BCSP brings together researchers from across ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
50th Anniversary Coastside Community CelebrationCome celebrate Midpen’s 50th Anniversary of public open space preservation, protection, restoration, access and education. This free-admission community celebration at the historical Johnston House in Half Moon Bay promises fun for nature lovers of all ages.Get your free tickets today!Event entertainment and activities include:Wildlife and conservation presentationsAgricultural talks and demonstrationsHistorical ...
On April 19, 2021, for the first time, humanity flew an aircraft on another planet. The vehicle was the Ingenuity helicopter. This 1.8 kg drone lifted up 3 m above the surface of Mars and flew for 39 seconds. Since then, it has flown 29 more times, flying for as ...
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 09/11/22
Blue Innovation 2022 Enjoy a day with 35+ companies exhibiting solutions for sea level rise and water ocean preservation. Food trucks, live bands, and speakers. Â Outdoors at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center of UC Santa Cruz. Â Free to attend!
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Solano Avenue StrollMeet & greet Cal scientists, participate in hands-on science activities, and enjoy over a mile of FREE family fun at the 46th annual Solano Avenue Stroll with Science at Cal and The Lawrence On-The-Go team! Create your own engineering project, learn more about current research at Berkeley, ask questions to real ...
TinyFest California is a weekend festival celebrating tiny living! Come tour a variety of tiny houses, including tiny houses on wheels, van & school bus conversions, shipping container homes, ADUs/ backyard cottages, and more! This two day festival is a chance to gain insight and information from speaker presentations and ...
Where: PleasantonCost: $20 both days, $15 single day
Hike at Calero County ParkJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) at Calero County Park, one of the region’s most beautiful oak woodlands just south of San Jose on the westside of Santa Clara Valley. You will be led by POST ambassadors who will share about the natural history of the area and about POST’s ...
Uncovering the spin-valley order of correlated phases in magic-angle graphene - LivestreamThe twist angle between adjacent two-dimensional layers provides a powerful tuning knob to tailor electronic properties. One archetypal example is magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), whose flat low-energy bands host a variety of broken-symmetry ground states. However, despite intensive effort, the spin and valley order of these phases and their ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
How to Decide Which Medical and Health Information You Should TrustFake news? Alternative facts? Overly hyped "breakthroughs"? Irreproducible scientific research results? Preprints? Gaslighting the medical literature? What to do?Finding and trusting the best published primary medical literature is the answer. Our speakers for the 12th Annual Lundberg Institute Lecture at The Commonwealth Club, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for Members
UC Berkeley Physics ColloquiaSpeaker: Andrea Young, UC Santa BarbaraSee weblink for Zoom information. In person attendance TBD.
Where: Cost: Free
Slugs and Steins: How Conversational AI Virtual Assistants Learn to Work with Humans - LivestreamConversational AI virtual assistants (e.g., Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, chatbots for business etc.) are becoming popular in different channels (social media, text messages, voice, phone, email, in car, physical robots, etc.). They communicate with humans through natural language dialogs to achieve social, informational or task oriented goals. Drawing from her ...
Astronomers for Planet Earth (A4E) was founded in 2019 to empower and mobilize the global astronomical community to take action on the climate crisis. The network now includes more than 1500 astronomy students, researchers, amateurs, educators, and Nobel laureates from 70 countries. Members of this all-volunteer organization are united by ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
The Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium has finished the first truly complete 3.055 billion base pair (bp) sequence of a human genome, representing the largest improvement to the human reference genome since its initial release. The new T2T-CHM13 reference includes gapless assemblies for all 22 autosomes, plus chromosomes X and Y, corrects ...
Where: Cost: Free
The Vision for the EU’s Digital Decade - LivestreamIn this special presentation, guest speaker Roberto Viola, Director-General of the European Commission’s department for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT) will discuss how the EU is positioning itself in the face of fast digitalisation of our societies and our economies. How is Europe promoting strategic digital technologies and digital sovereignty in ...
It is critical to improve our understanding of the impacts of the ocean/atmosphere system on climate as Earth undergoes unprecedented change. Current models are limited in their treatment of marine aerosols, atmospheric chemistry, and clouds. A particularly challenging area involves determining the impact of ocean microbial emissions on the atmosphere. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric - and What It Means for America's Power GridAuthor Katherine Blunt provides what is being called a "revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications," exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires - including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise - and the human cost of infrastructure failurePacific Gas and Electric was ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General live, Free for students; $10 Online
Becca Fenwick will present on her work with the CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research (CIDER) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the first UC undergraduate drone training program. CIDER offers training and research support for the use of drone technology across academic disciplines and industry sectors. Students ...
Reverse osmosis modules comprised of composite polymermembranes represent a leading technology in desalination and purification of brackish water. Nanoporous polymeric membranes are key for prefiltering of such reverse osmosis systems, as well as for purification of biopharmaceutical products, such as monoclonal antibodies. The field has relied on intricate contro lof ...
Nathaniel Stinnett is the Founder & Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project, a non-partisan nonprofit that uses data analytics and behavioral science to mobilize environmentalists to vote. Named one of five global “climate visionaries†by The New York Times in 2018, and dubbed “The Voting Guru†by Grist magazine, ...
On this special 2nd Wednesday edition of Nerd Nite SF, we will learn about sand and sustenance. Is sand sustenance? Well no, but it is important to life on earth!Thanks, Sand! The miraculous story of how the sediment cycle enables life on earthSpeaker: Jeremy Snyder, Lawrence Berkeley National LabsSand is ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 advance, $12 at door
Thursday, 09/15/22
Coastal Walk at Pillar Point BluffJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for an afternoon walk at Pillar Point Bluff just north of Half Moon Bay! You will be guided by a POST representative who will share details about the area’s interesting natural history, from the coastal scrub habitat to the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve that hosts tide ...
Where: Moss BeachCost: Free
Science at Cal - Outer Space’s Hottest and Brightest Objects - LivestreamAt this month’s Midday Science Cafe, we’ll take a star-studded intergalactic journey to see some of the universe’s hottest and brightest objects. First stop: quasars. Berkeley Lab’s Dr. Satya Gontcho A Gontcho will explain how quasars - the most luminous astronomical objects in the universe - are used as “lighthouses†...
Where: Cost: Free
JWST Directly Images First ExoplanetsThe JWST's Early Release Science program is making a variety of observations during the first five months of science operations that will allow scientists to quickly learn how to use the instruments and produce scientific results. As a part of this program, a team is making high contrast images of ...
International Observe the Moon Night is an annual public outreach event sponsored by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and other NASA and astronomical organizations that encourages observation, appreciation, and understanding of our Moon and its connection to planetary science ...
Intel® FPGAs enable real-time, low-latency, and low-power deep learning inference combined with the following advantages:I/O flexibilityReconfigurationEase of integration into custom platformsLong lifetimeIntel® FPGA AI Suite was developed with the vision of ease-of-use of artificial intelligence (AI) inference on Intel® FPGAs. The suite enables FPGA designers, machine learning engineers, and software ...
Where: Cost: Free
Nighty NightLifeEven us night owls could use a little more sleep. Hit the snooze button on life’s stressors and chill with us at our dreamiest NightLife yet.SCHEDULE OF EVENTSDream On African HallAt 7:30 PM, Learn what different animals find comfy (from sleeping upside down to floating) in an intimate chat and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $18.75
After Dark: See for YourselfThe Exploratorium is your playground after dark! Wander the galleries, sip a cocktail, and let a DJ from Hip Hop for Change set the vibe. New exhibits are constantly being developed at the museum, but can you spot some classics from decades past? For a hint, check out the 1974 ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Algae, Genetics, and iNaturalist - LivestreamAlgea Bloom updates, Genetic Sequencing updates, and a presentation on how to make observations in iNaturalist.Speaker: Damon TigheSee weblink for Zoom information
Where: Cost: Free
Fungi for BioremediationBioremediation refers to cost-effective and environment-friendly method for converting the toxic, recalcitrant pollutants into environmentally benign products through the action of various biological treatments. Fungi play a major role in bioremediation owing to their robust morphology and diverse metabolic capacity.Speaker: TBDAttend in person or online
Where: Santa RosaCost: Free
Hardcore Natural History - Pollinator ConservationOur popular Hardcore Natural History Panel series returns in September with a focus on pollination. Pollinators like bumblebees, wild bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, wasps, and beetles all fill vital niches in our ecosystems. All are also facing significant challenges from habitat loss, pesticides, disease, and stresses from climate change. What is ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $15 General, $10 Members, $5 Students
NightSchool: Swamp Party - LivestreamClaude, our beloved American alligator, is celebrating his 27th hatchday, so we’re throwing a party dedicated to the crocodilian icon himself and his swampy home. Tune in to learn about the plants and animals that live in Claude's native habitat, the swamps of the Southeastern United States.
Dr. Monika Fischer is a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Matt Traxler's at UC Berkeley. She collaborates with Prof. Tom Bruns and started exploring burned ecosystems after the 2013 Rim Fire burned through Bruns Lab field sites in Stanislaus National Forest. The Rim Fire was the first fire of its kind, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Friday, 09/16/22
Einstein!One-man show about the life of Albert Einstein.At the end of the play, you will have the chance to engage the playwright/actor and a UC Davis astronomer in a Q&A session.Â
Where: DavisCost: $50 General, $20 Student
The Evolution from Missing to DarkA century ago, the hot topic of the 1920's was the structure of the universe. Was the universe a single Galaxy or was the Milky Way just one of many galaxies? This was resolved by the late 20's and the general expansion was discovered. With the recognition that the galaxies ...
Where: LivermoreCost: Free
Saturday, 09/17/22
Family Nature Walks - Foothills Nature PreserveEnvironmental Volunteers’ Family Nature Walks program is designed to help students and their families get to know our local open space areas. Small family groups will be guided by a knowledgeable environmental educator during an exploration of a local open space. These small groups will be introduced to fun nature-based ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Investigating Space: Asteroid ImpactAsteroid Impacts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards is on it’s it’s way and will be impacting an asteroid soon. Learn more about this once in a lifetime event at this special program.
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
Sunday, 09/18/22
Connecting the Dots Between Sick Sea Otters and Land-Based Pollution - LivestreamHave you ever considered a sea otter as a canary in the coal mine? Sea otters are not only important species for the coastal ecosystem, but they also offer early warning signs of potential risks to humans. These charismatic marine mammals are affected by diseases associated with land-based parasites, fungi, ...
Where: Cost: Free
Monday, 09/19/22
Cosmology and astrophysics with the extragalactic light: background and fluctuationsThe aggregate light emitted by all extragalactic sources can be measured either as an absolute intensity or through its spatial fluctuations; these are known as line-intensity mapping (LIM) when a particular line transition is targeted. I will discuss how these measurements can be used both to learn about galaxy evolution ...
Van Hove charge density waves on hexagonal lattices and kagome superconductorsI show that the charge density waves (CDWs) can realize a host of unconventional phenomena at the Van Hove singularity on the hexagonal lattices, especially in the recently uncovered kagome metals AV3Sb5 with A = K, Rb, and Cs. According to a renormalization group analysis, the imaginary CDW can develop ...
Quantum systems are notoriously unpredictable. Whether Schrödinger’s cat will end up dead or alive is as unpredictable as a coin flip. On the other hand, if you don’t go in and measure things, quantum systems evolve in an apparently very simple way, according to the Schrödinger equation. This apparent simplicity ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Cosmology: What we know, what we don’t know and what we don’t know we don’t knowFor most of the last century cosmology was the province of astronomers (mostly in California) and concerned itself with galaxies in an expanding universe. Beginning around 1980, ideas from particle physics began to enter cosmology, focussed on events that took place during the first microsecond. Circa 2000, with the discovery ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Science from Across the Solar System and Beyond: NASA’s Deep Space Network - LivestreamNearly every image of another planet that was taken by a NASA spacecraft has been transmitted to us through one or more antennas of NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN). For almost the past 60 years, the DSN has been guiding spacecraft to their destinations across the Solar System, sending them ...
Most populations of migratory birds are now threatened. It is estimated that the populations of 1 out of every 2 songbirds are declining in the Western Hemisphere with impacts predicted to worsen with climate change. However, because migratory birds have breeding, migratory, and wintering areas and may move vast distances ...
Where: Cost: Free
Tuesday, 09/20/22
Impacts of Fire on Reptiles and Amphibians in Sonoma County - LivestreamHow are amphibians and reptiles, known collectively as herpetofauna, impacted by fire? Some species may be particularly vulnerable to negative impacts from fire due to their relatively low dispersal abilities compared with other groups of animals. In order to effectively plan prescribed burns and prioritize mitigation for potential wildfires, ecologists ...
Where: Cost: $15 General, $10 Members
Weekday Morning Hike at Rancho Cañada del OroJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for an excursion where you’ll explore the Mayfair Ranch - Longwall Canyon trails of Rancho Cañada del Oro! You will be guided by POST Ambassadors who will share with you the history of the preserve, the region, and the importance of conservation in the area. The ...
Physicists do their best to discover the deepest rules of reality. Renowned physicist and author Sean Carroll - formerly at Caltech, now at Johns Hopkins - has just published the first of three books on The Biggest Ideas in the Universe for the physicist in each of us. In this Commonwealth ...
When a material absorbs the energy of a photon, individual electrons within itsstructure can change in a myriad of ways, resulting in macroscopic changes to the material’s properties and generating new out-of-equilibrium phases. Many emerging phenomena in quantum materials stem from competing ground states in different, often coupled, degrees of ...
In this talk, Michael will provide an introduction to his latest book, What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make, which was just published by Princeton University Press. For this fungi-versed and fungi-loving audience of the San Francisco Mycological Society, he will explore how we might think ...
Transparency reforms instituting sunshine laws and open public meetings have been actively promoted in recent decades as means of keeping elected officials and bureaucrats more accountable to the public. Advances in communication technologies have enabled a new generation of such transparency-enhancing reforms and practices - including open data portals, posting ...
TBA(affiliation) on "TBA"Abstract forthcoming...Read more Suyash Joshi(Engineer and Magician) on "S.T.E.A.M. Magic for Education & Entertainment"Magic tricks and illusions using science and emerging technologies...Read moreBREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to share ...
The population of black holes left over from dead stars in the Milky Way is almost entirely unexplored. Only two dozen black holes are confidently known in our galaxy - all in binaries. As a result, many basic properties of black holes remain uncertain at the order of magnitude level, ...
Social Media and the Havoc on Our Minds - LivestreamDo we really understand the reach and impact that social media has on our lives? We all have a vague sense that social media can be bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies. Yet that doesn't stop us from constantly using it.New York Times investigative reporter ...
Where: Cost: $10 General
Making Science Count: Lessons from an Accidental Marine Scientist - LivestreamThe Coral Triangle is the most diverse marine ecosystem on the planet, and among the most threatened. Through application of genetics, genomics, geology and oceanographic modeling, we explore the origins of this biodiversity hotspot, providing important data to support conservation efforts in this region. Importantly, we collect this data through ...
Is seeing believing? Data and observation begin to tell scientific stories, but it takes a keen interpreter to make sense of the evidence at hand. Tonight, get curious about how we know what we know. Join us for the opening of the temporary exhibition Einstein Was Right, which explores how ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
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 ...
 Did you know 50 million+ people in Washington, Oregon, and California now have access to ShakeAlert - powered earthquake early warning alerts? The ShakeAlert System is a people-focused earthquake early warning system - optimizing how humans interact with it helps people live more safely and thrive in earthquake country.Learn about this ...
Where: Cost: Free
Birds and Ohlone’s Past, Present, and Future - LivestreamGregg Castro and Beverly R. Ortiz will share with you the significance of birds in the cultural, material, and spiritual lives of Ohlones past, present, and future. They’ll also describe how Ohlone land management practices increased the numbers and health of the birds on which Ohlones relied.See weblink for Zoom ...
Metalloproteins catalyze some of Nature’s most amazing and difficult chemical transformations. One such transformation, of interest to our laboratory, is the use of a high valent Fe-based oxidant to facilitate the functionalization of a traditionally inert Câ€"H bond. Since this chemistry is vital to a variety of biochemical pathways, metalloproteins ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
First Results From NASA's James Webb Space TelescopeThe 21-foot-diameter James Webb Space Telescope was launched in December 2021 after 14 years of delays. The telescope has reached its final destination, one million miles from Earth. This past July, NASA released its first full-color images. Check out these stunning images in detail and learn about future studies with ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Sunset Science: Mysteries of Deep SpaceEnjoy an autumn night with a festive gathering for the whole family that will explore the deepest regions of our universe in our family friendly program followed by telescope viewing on our observation deck. Engage in hands on activities that explore nebulas, galaxies, star formations and black holes and learn ...
Where: OaklandCost: $15 General, $5 Youth, Members Free
Astro 101: Sights of the Cosmos, Intro to AstronomyThis event provides a different introduction to astronomy than our Intro to the Night Sky talks. During this hour, you'll gain an appreciation for the size and scale of the cosmos and our place within it. You'll see many examples of the beautiful objects visible in the night sky, learn ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
In Town Star PartyCome join San Jose Astronomical Association (SJAA) for an evening of stargazing.Events are held at the parking lot of our headquarters, Houge Park San Jose. Event duration is 2hrs. SJAA volunteers will share night sky views from their personal telescopes.Please refrain from bringing your own telescopes (Binoculars are welcome).
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Saturday, 09/24/22
Family Nature Walks - Foothills Nature PreserveEnvironmental Volunteers’ Family Nature Walks program is designed to help students and their families get to know our local open space areas. Small family groups will be guided by a knowledgeable environmental educator during an exploration of a local open space. These small groups will be introduced to fun nature-based ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Family Science Day at College of San MateoEvent Schedule:12:00 - 6:00 PM: Science Workshops and planetarium shows in Science Building 36. Science demonstrations by CSM faculty; astronomy workshops by SMCAS, SLAC, and KIPAC; planetarium shows, telescopic observation of celestial bodies, and much more!1:00 - 4:00 PM: Makerspace. The CSM Makerspace welcomes you to our free, drop-in crafting ...
Learn about the latest shark research and visit outdoor booths of shark experts, artists, and conservationists. Enjoy beverages, popcorn, a food truck and live music. Bring a low-back chair for the outdoor screening of shark films that will start promptly at 7:30 pm. Don't forget layered clothing, weather can be ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Jazz Under the StarsJazz Under the Stars is amonthly public stargazing event! Join us on the 4th floor planetarium for a night of smooth jazz, bright stars, and a lot of fun! We play our jazz from CSM's own KCSM 91.1. Founded in 1964, KCSM has grown to become one of the top 35 ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Monday, 09/26/22
Probes of galaxy interactions: from the Magellanic Stream to lensed supernovaeWe have been working on a variety of projects, which are generally connected by trying to understand the distributions of dark matter. First, we used hydrodynamic simulations of the Magellanic Stream to estimate the mass of the MW potential. The simulated streams are sensitive to the MW potential because the ...
DART: Can We Change an Asteroid’s Course and Save Planet Earth?NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, is the world’s first full-scale planetary defense test, demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection technology. True to its name, DART is a focused mission to prove whether a spacecraft can autonomously navigate to a target asteroid, intentionally collide with it and protect Earth ...
A new neural network for optimal time series processing - LivestreamWe have recently discovered a new kind of neural network, called a Legendre Memory Unit (LMU) that is provably optimal for compressing streaming time series data. In this talk, I describe this network, and a variety of state-of-the-art results that have been set using the LMU. I will include recent ...
Managed recharge is increasingly applied to enhance groundwater supplies and also offers opportunities to improve groundwater quality. Key considerations include the nature of water sources, the composition of soils, the potential presence of legacy contaminants, and biogeochemical processes that can reduce contaminant loads during infiltration. This presentation will summarize California's ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Cybersecurity Futures 2030: Looking Around the CornerThe need for long-term strategic foresight in cybersecurity has never been greater.The emergence of Web 3.0. A proliferation of inexpensive tools available to cyber criminals and malicious actors. Global supply chain frictions and shocks. Powerful new technologies, which raise fundamental questions about our digital health and safety even as they ...
The Big Bang theory tells the story of the beginning of the Universe, our cosmic home for the last 13.8 billion years. But how does the story end? In this lecture, Prof. Mack will share what modern astrophysics tells us about the ultimate fate of the cosmos, and what the ...
What do the songs of the rorqual family of baleen whales tell us about their ecology - how they live and interact among themselves and within their environment? In this fascinating presentation, Dr. John Ryan, Senior Research Specialist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, will share what we are ...
Could frightening claims of world-wide climate change be mistaken? Do we really know that climate change is happening, and that humanity is the cause? In optimistic and pessimistic scenarios, how bad could it get? ... even in the Bay Area?! Finally, have we passed a global climate-change "tipping point," or ...
Where: NovatoCost: Free
Wonderfest: The Mathematics of Language - RescheduledIf your native language (Irish, Igbo, Ilocano, . . .) is threatened by competition from another language (likely English!), and if preserving that language is important, what options do you have? Which approach to language preservation is most likely to be effective? Or... How much time do you have before ...
Coupled human-environment systems are characterized by uncertainty, limited predictability, bounded rationality, indeterminate causality and evolutionary change. To determine the impact of specific policy intervention, an integrated analysis approach is needed that provides a holistic view of complex interactions within such systems. In this seminar, Kaveh Madani, the head of the ...
Where: Cost: Free
Cocktails and Conservation: Oakland's Official BirdIt takes a flock of humans to save the Black-Crowned Night Heron - the official bird of Oakland! Join us to hear from Golden Gate Audubon, International Bird Rescue, and the Oakland Zoo Heron Rescue Team, an alliance of orgs that are Taking Action for Wildlife to keep this funky ...
Where: OaklandCost: $10
A big passion for 'little animals'We are surrounded by millions of invisible microbes that play important roles in everything from our daily routines to global nutrient cycles. For generations, scientists have dedicated themselves to the study of these invisible microbes or ‘little animals’ as they were once known. Today, popular science and news articles abound ...
After Dark: See for YourselfThe Exploratorium is your playground after dark! Wander the galleries, sip a cocktail, and let a DJ from Hip Hop for Change set the vibe. To experience some of our more time-sensitive exhibits in action, you’ll have to check your watch. Will you let yourself be enveloped by Fog Bridge ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
The ToNightLife Show Starring BigPictureGooood evening, San Francisco! We’re inviting you to be our live ‘studio’ audience at the first ever ToNightLife Show. This evening's show stars BigPicture, an exhibition of breathtaking nature photography, and features a special performance by the one-and-only Parangal. With a mix of in-depth interviews, special performances, and eclectic music, ...
Engineering Polymeric Materials to Study Cancer DynamicsCell-induced matrix remodeling is a hallmark of both disease and regeneration. My lab develops biomaterials and matrix characterization methods to study these dynamic cell-matrix interactions. In designing our biomaterials, we employ protein engineering methods with simple polymer physics models to create biomimetic extracellular matrices for culture of patient-derived ...
We all need sleep to survive. It is essential to our physical and mental wellbeing and just as important as food, water and oxygen. So why do so many of us struggle to get a good night’s rest?Dr. Aric Prather runs one of the world’s most successful sleep clinics and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General live, $10 online
Saturday, 10/01/22
TinkerfestTinkerfest brings together makers, artists, and tinkerers to showcase their work while inviting attendees of all ages to join in DIY fun. During the daylong event, the entire Center will be filled with activities that highlight creativity and curiosity.
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
An Astronomical Perspective on Globular Clusters, Planet Earth, and the Climate Crisis - Livestreamevolution of stars for more than 100 years. I will describe the role that binary stars play in their fascinating internal dynamics and provide examples of how a cluster's binaries can be revealed using space-based observatories. The unusual perspective that astronomical studies such as these provide on our home planet ...
Where: Cost: Free
Jazz Under the StarsJazz Under the Stars is amonthly public stargazing event! Join us on the 4th floor planetarium for a night of smooth jazz, bright stars, and a lot of fun! We play our jazz from CSM's own KCSM 91.1. Founded in 1964, KCSM has grown to become one of the top 35 ...
Layer by Layer: Adventures in Thin Films Nanometer-scale thin films are both vital to current and future technology and can also yield fascinating physics that differs from macroscopic material properties. Perovskite oxide materials in particular are a ripe playground for interesting effects since a wide variety of materials sharing similar crystal structures means that they can be ...
NASA's VIPER lunar mission (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) is a mobile robot that will go to the South Pole of the Moon to get a close-up view of the location and concentration of water ice that could eventually be harvested to sustain human exploration on the Moon, Mars - ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
State-selective manipulation of atoms and molecules with electric and magnetic fields has been crucial for the success of the field of molecular beams. Originally, this manipulation only involved the transverse motion. In the first part of my Lecture, I will present an historical overview of the development of the Stark-decelerator, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Grounds for Science: Illuminating the Brain and Programming Viruses to Harvest Solar EnergyIlluminating the Brain: How light, color, and a jellyfish protein help us study the mind How do we study our own brains? What's going on in our neurons? A fluorescent protein from jellyfish revolutionized how we study what goes on in our cells. Learn the history of how we've ...
More people know that sharks face conservation challenges and need our help more than ever before, but much of what they “know†about shark conservation is misleading, extremist, or just factually incorrect. Interdisciplinary marine conservation biologist Dr. David Shiffman studies public knowledge and attitudes about ocean conservation, and works on ...
Innovative approaches to technology-mediated health care require holistic, patient-centered interventions to address health challenges. Emerging telepresence and social robots have the potential to transform the health experiences of people who are restricted to their homes due to medical conditions or disabilities. Use of these robots may promote social inclusion and ...
The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) began in 1991 sponsored by the World Bank and the World Health Organization to fill a critical gap in global health information. It has grown steadily to become an active collaboration of more than 8000 scientists, researchers and policy-makers from 156 countries working ...
Have you ever wondered how chicks develop within an egg? This informative lecture will take you through avian reproduction, how eggs are produced, egg incubation and the development of a chick within the egg. Stephanie will also touch upon the different types of development within the bird world. You will never look at an egg the same waySpeaker: Stephanie ...
Christian Schwarz is a mushroom enthusiast and taxonomist and citizen science advocate from Santa Cruz, the land of milk (caps) and honey (mushrooms). He studied at UCSC, and now spends his time photographing, teaching about, and making scientific collections of macrofungi. He is co-author of “Mushrooms of the Redwood Coastâ€, ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Thursday, 10/06/22
Coastal Walk at Cowell-Purisima TrailJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful walk along the Cowell-Purisima trail that POST helped create by protecting adjacent farmland. While it may be foggy, we hope to catch gorgeous views of the ocean, nearby farmland, and glimpses of harbor seals, pelicans, hawks, rabbits, and whales during the winter ...
Sea-level rise is climate change’s sleeper impact. By the end of the century, flooding could displace 80,000 homes, subject 30,000 socially vulnerable residents to daily flooding and expose bayshore communities to resurfaced toxic waste. But because the results of gradual increases in water levels are not immediately visible, these risks ...
The low-cost Internet of Things architecture is well suited for remote environmental monitoring. This talk covers a device designed to be low cost, solar powered, and used outdoors, for critical stream level monitoring in the drought stricken North Bay. The “open source†Stroud Water Research Center's "Modular Sensors" software and ...
The world has lived through 2+ years of the COVID-19 pandemic heightening the awareness of the links between health and other aspects of life including education and the economy. Future pandemics are a real risk but there are a number of other threats to human health and well-being as well. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
After Dark: RiskAre you willing to risk it? Everyone has a threshold when it comes to the chances they’re willing to take. From confronting superstitions to facing fears, calculating the difference between actual and perceived danger is a complex decision-making challenge we all undertake. Tonight, explore the science of risk with experiments ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
To transform our energy sources to carbon neutrality, we need to power as much of modern society as possible with clean electricity. In doing so, electricity generated from solar and wind sources requires energy storage. To meet today’s tough demands, however, energy storage designs must do many things - store ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost:
NightSchool: The Invisible ForestThey live anywhere and everywhere there’s water, they're invisible to the naked eye, and they're essential to life on Earth: They're diatoms!Sometimes called “floating solar panels†and “nature’s glass houses,†diatoms are likely the most under-appreciated (and strikingly beautiful) organisms responsible for the air we breathe. Take a tour through ...
President Biden recently stated that the Pandemic is over. The resumption of travel and in-person activities seems to corroborate this view. Meanwhile, the current COVID death rate in the US puts us on track for nearly 150,000 excess deaths (per year) and a marked lowering of overall life expectancy. This ...
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine in February, an energy crisis has started to worry many countries dependent on Russian gas. The upcoming winter is expected to be a test not only for the French and European governments, but also for the climate and energy policy of the ...
First Friday- Science FictionScience fiction writers, filmmakers, and artists have inspired us to think beyond the Earth and work towards traveling to the stars, and to pursue space exploration. Explore hands-on activities and learn about synthetic biology, learn all about liquid nitrogen, and what happens to objects in ultra-low temperatures. Make a sci-fi ...
Where: OaklandCost: $15 General, $10 Youth/Seniors, $5 Members
Discovering Wonders of The Night SkyStar Chaserz is a non-profit organization dedicated to promote public awareness, education, appreciation, and preservation of one our most precious, wonderful and often overlooked natural resources - the night sky. To achieve this goal they offer both live and virtual events through their website (Starchaserz.org). Live events include scheduled star ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Saturday, 10/08/22
Nature’s Toxic Defenses: Why Don’t Poison Frogs Poison Themselves?While we might be most familiar with rattlesnakes, black widows, and poison frogs (oh my!), toxins are produced or acquired by organisms in nearly every major group of life. This means that animals must avoid toxins or adapt to them. In this talk, Dr. Rebecca (Becca) Tarvin of UC Berkeley’s ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Autumn Arachnids!Come on a short walk and search for autumn arachnids! You'll learn why spiders and scorpions are beneficial friends! Rain cancels. Meet at the Visitor Center.
