Speaker: Ellen Czaplinski, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Cocktails and Conservation: Wild WolvesPacks of Gray Wolves have returned to California with a little help from their human friends. Find out what it takes to ensure their legacy in our state with our special guests: California Wolf Center and Working Circle.Zimmer AuditoriumRegister at weblink
Where: OaklandCost: TBA
Near Infrared Camera on the James Webb Space TelescopeOn December 25, 2021 the James Webb Space Telescope launched into space aboard an Ariane V rocket from French Guiana. The observatory carries four science instruments that will enable observations and measurements to achieve an ambitious science program spanning from observing the first light in the universe and the formation ...
Where: LivermoreCost: Free
Saturday, 10/22/22
Morning Hike at La Honda Open Space PreserveJoin 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 a POST Ambassador on ...
Where: La HondaCost: Free
Birds of the Bay with Friends of Rengstorff HouseFriends of “R†House and Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society invite you to the historic Rengstorff House and its grounds for our second "Birds of the Bay" collaboration this year. Join us to learn more about our avian neighbors, a walkthrough of the museum's period interiors, and activities in the ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost:
Bat FestIt's our biggest and most exciting event of the year - Bat Fest! Join Saved By Nature for an evening festival celebrating local animals of the night, with live bats, owls, and other creatures. It's a fun time under the stars! With a special guest speaker, food trucks, live music, ...
Where: Morgan HillCost: Tickets for ages 16+ are $20 each. Tickets for ch
Monday, 10/24/22
Mariage(s) Made in HeavenThe coming decade will see a plethora of large area astronomical surveys, from both the ground and space and across the electromagnetic spectrum. Combining these data is a wonderful example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. We will discuss two examples: gains from combining the ...
The Bay Area is rich in varying habitats that are home to many bird species. Some birds are here throughout the year, but fall marks the return of a number of species that had gone elsewhere to breed. We’ll talk about many bird species that can be found in our ...
As AI-based technology has rapidly expanded into high-impact, user-facing domains, we have observed myriad ways in which it can perpetuate harmful biases, embed problematic values, or entirely fail. In the face of these errors, we are starting to see that algorithmic fairness and explainability methods may not be sufficient fixes ...
Around 2008 our peer reviewers held these beliefs to be true: "No one will use computational research-based app to analyze or guide experiments. No one will use such apps in education. Such apps are not publications!" Today we measure how experimentalists, researchers in adjacent fields, and education researchers cite nanoHUB ...
The harnessing and manipulation of electronic states in quantum materials has the potential to revolutionize computation, sensing, storage, and communications, thus impacting multiple facets of our everyday lives. In this talk I will discuss my group’s recent experiments with monolayer graphene (MLG), Bernal stacked bilayer graphene (BLG), and trilayer graphene ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) as scientific supercomputersGoogle's TPUs were exclusively designed to accelerate and scale up machine learning workloads, amid the ongoing planet-wide race to build faster specialized hardware for artificial intelligence. But one must surely be able to use this hardware for other challenging computational tasks, right? We explored how to turn a TPU pod ...
Pathways to carbon neutrality in California: the bioenergy opportunityCalifornia has an abundance of biomass-based resources derived from the state’s diverse agricultural, urban waste and forest streams. These biomass resource types can be converted to bioenergy products that have many potential applications across California's energy system. However, today, most of the ...
Where: Cost: Free
Introduction to the Ray AIR for Scaling AI/ML and Python Workloads - LivestreamExisting production machine learning systems often suffer from various problems that make them hard to use. For example, data scientists and ML practitioners often spend most of their time-fighting YAMLs and refactoring code to push models to production.To address this, the Ray community has built Ray AI Runtime (AIR), an ...
Where: Cost: Free
Tuesday, 10/25/22
Voluntary Carbon Markets Symposium - LivestreamA large and increasing number of companies have voluntarily committed to science-based targets to reduce carbon emissions pursuant to the Paris Agreement. While abating current carbon emissions is the highest priority, many companies have also incorporated carbon offsets into their strategy, particularly for near-term, hard-to-abate emissions. As a result, Voluntary ...
Where: Cost: Free
Gladstone Institutes Industry Partnership ForumWhere Science Discoveries, Entrepreneurs, and Investors ConvergeGet a sneak peek at the transformative biomedical research happening at Gladstone. In this first Industry Partnership Forum, you’ll get a chance to talk to Gladstone scientists, learn more about our research programs that are ready for translational opportunities, and discover how you can ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Honoring Silent Spring: Stories from the Frontlines of the Fight for a Pesticide-Free Future - LivestreamSixty years ago, Rachel Carson released her seminal book, Silent Spring, the publication of which gave birth to the EPA, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and sparked the ban on the toxic insecticide DDT and the movement for organic agriculture. Six decades on, the threats Carson warned about are still very real.Pesticides are a ...
Where: Cost: Free
October Butterfly Walk - First SessionJoin Sally Levinson, 'caterpillar lady', and Sarab Seth, 'butterfly guy,' for a guided, family friendly, one hour walk through the Botanical Garden in search of butterflies. Bring binoculars if you have them. This walk follows uneven terrain, with areas of paved and unpaved trail. While masks are not required ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $18 General, $14 Members
October Butterfly Walk - Second SessionJoin Sally Levinson, 'caterpillar lady', and Sarab Seth, 'butterfly guy,' for a guided, family friendly, one hour walk through the Botanical Garden in search of butterflies. Bring binoculars if you have them. This walk follows uneven terrain, with areas of paved and unpaved trail. While masks are not required ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $18 General, $14 Members
From free electrons to bound electrons: attosecond science with X-ray free-electron lasersX-ray free-electron lasers have recently broken the femtosecond barrier, which separates the motion of nuclei from the much faster motion of electrons in molecules and solids. Evolving from a cutting-edge R&D project to a new scientific program, attosecond XFELs are now producing time-resolved observations of coherent electronic phenomena with atomic ...
Southern Mexico and Central America (SMCA) is a geographically connected region that shares climate features as well as human livelihoods. The latest compilation of scientific work on the region (IPCC, 2021) is inconclusive regarding heavy precipitation trends during the observational period, both in direction and anthropogenic attribution. In contrast, case ...
What can the private behavior of chimpanzee society teach us about human evolution and our own societal development?Biologist Liran Samuni from Harvard University’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology specializes in the study of underlying mechanisms of cooperation and intergroup relations in chimpanzees. In this lecture, she’ll explore some of the ...
The most distant galaxies in the universe cannot be seen from the Earth, and are invisible at the optical wavelengths seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. This means that understanding the earliest history of our universe requires a space-based telescope that can see infrared light. In this lecture, Dr. Suess ...
Join us for an enthralling presentation by Dr. Scott Veirs who will summarize Orcasound, a project that began as a cooperative effort to listen for the calls, clicks, and whistles of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales within the inland marine waters of Washington State. More recently, Orcasound has been ...
Where: Cost: Free
Wonderfest: Neuroplasticity, Sensitive Periods, & the Adolescent Brain - RESCHEDULEDExperiences at different times in life may alter aspects of personality: appetite for risk, tolerance for delayed gratification, interest in music, etc. Our brains seem to develop particularly rapidly during a staggered sequence of "sensitive periods" that stretch late into the second or third decade of life. Such periods of ...
 Beyond hunger and energy-demand, food cues can strongly influence the urge to eat. These sights, sounds, and smells of food can trigger cravings that promote over-eating. What are the neurobiological mechanisms of cue-triggered food craving? How are we susceptible to diet-induced obesity via consumption of sugary and/or fatty “junk foods�Speaker: ...
Everyone can contribute in wildfire risk mitigation with the right tool. This talk will share how an animal center, a wind farm and a smart city each apply artificial intelligence (AI) wildfire detection technologies to reduce their forest fire risks.Speaker: Andre Cheung, RoboticsCatsRegister at weblink to attend.
This engaging and detailed talk, first developed for an advanced biology/chemistry class at a private East Bay high school, provides a synopsis of mushroom poisonings in California and North America, including species involved, reasons for ingestions, symptoms, treatments and preventions.Come learn about what NOT to eat if you forage for ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Thursday, 10/27/22
The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes in the Early UniverseThe existence of luminous quasars hosting supermassive black holes within the first billion years of cosmic history challenges our understanding of black hole growth. An important piece of the puzzle is the lifetime of quasars - the time that galaxies shine as active quasars and during which the bulk of ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
SETI Live: Has Mars Ever Been a Good Place for Life? - LivestreamRecent research suggests that Mars was born wet, with a dense atmosphere allowing warm-to-hot oceans for millions of years. Modeling of Mars' atmosphere succeeded in creating a potentially habitable planet. SETI Institute research scientist Kaveh Pahlevan believes the team has modeled an overlooked chapter in Mars’ earliest history in the ...
Where: Cost: Free
A DAO-First WorldBlockchain technology has transformed the financial services industry over the past decade. The rise of cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) highlights shifts in how people, organizations, and governments spend, make, and understand the role of money in society. More recently, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) promise radical new forms of collective ...
Come learn about our CA native bats with Director of NorCal Bats Corky Quirk. In her presentation, you will learn about the nature of bats and the importance of bats in our environment. We'll also discuss the harmful myths that surround these animals. Live bats will be presented for viewing ...
In August 2020 through July of 2021, the CZU Lightning Complex fire burned 97% of Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Coast Range of California. The fire burned at high severity levels in areas where concentrations of hermit thrushes (Catharus guttatus slevini) were known to breed, including two field ...
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark: Death and LifeAutumn is a season of transition. As vital summer gives way to a quieter, more dormant period, we witness falling leaves and shortening days. Traditions from around the globe like DÃa de Muertos (and even Halloween) reflect this time of change by recognizing death and the role it plays in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Blowing in the Wind - LivestreamScience to help understand and help reduce wildlife impacts from wind energyA key challenge facing the wind industry is the potential for wind turbines to impact wild animals both directly, via collisions, as well as indirectly due to noise pollution, habitat loss, and reduced survival or reproduction.Learn about the efforts ...
Where: Cost: Free
NightLife of the Living DeadCalling all creatures of the night: We're dying to have you join us for our annual NightLife Halloween bash! Get into costume and come ready for a night dead-icated to mad science, killer music, and scary good drag performances by Reparations and Rice Rockettes.SCHEDULE OF EVENTSNightLife of the Living Dead ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.75
Goodbye Gas, Hello EVs! - LivestreamEverybody’s talking about electric vehicles right now - with good reason! EVs don’t pollute, cost less to fuel and maintain, and play a major role in fighting climate change. New models are being announced weekly. California’s ambitious climate policy and the new federal tax credits are making headlines. Come learn ...
