Wondering when the next big earthquake will rattle the Golden State? According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), there is a 72 percent chance that the San Francisco Bay Area will experience a magnitude 6.7 earthquake or greater within the next 30 years. If we don’t take steps now to ...
Calling 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, our alligator with albinism), the night is sure to be wild.Step inside the iconic ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.75
After Dark: Moon and StarsLook up at the night sky and you might be able to track the passage of time or navigate your way home - just as observers from Earth have done throughout history. What do we miss when we pollute our sky with light and crowd it with satellites? What can ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Wildlife need more than a patch of healthy habitat - they need connected landscapes in order to survive and thrive. Connected habitats are critical for animals to move safely across the landscape to find food, water, and shelter. They also need room to roam in order to mate and to ...
Where: Cost: Free
Friday, 01/20/23
King Tide Bair Island Interpretive WalkLearn about this beautiful protected space, and join us for a walking tour of Bair Island during the King Tide! Led by docent Vicki Martell, this hike will take you through ~1.5 miles of paved trails. Bair Island is part of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge.King tides ...
Planet Formation from a Dynamical PerspectiveRecent observational advances have allowed the discovery of thousands of exoplanets and an initial characterization of their orbital and physical parameters. As this population has grown, it is increasingly apparent that existing models of planet formation are incomplete. The Kepler/K2/TESS data have presented counterexamples to prevailing theories, including theories of ...
Where: LivermoreCost: Free
Saturday, 01/21/23
A Royal Walk with the King Tide Along the EmbarcaderoJoin Exploratorium and Port of San Francisco staff for a short stroll along the San Francisco waterfront to observe, photograph, and discuss the King Tides. “King Tide†is a popular, non-scientific term people use to describe exceptionally high tides.We’ll gather between Pier 3 and Pier 5 on the Bay side ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Wild In Marin - Third Annual Fungus FestivalThis wonderful event will engage, entertain, and educate the community about the benefits, joys, and culinary values of fungi!We will present a variety of booths showcasing all things fungi from mushroom kits, cookbooks, forage guides, textiles, apparel, mycocentric food, and more! Come learn about what mushrooms you can forage in ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: See weblink
Family Nature Walks - Baylands 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: Palo AltoCost: Free
Fort Point Candlelight TourThe Candlelight Tour of Fort Point is a popular guided program that allows visitors to experience the fort in a new light. This evening tour will maze through the shadows of the historic structure by candlelight and visitors will see the glimmering lights of the Golden Gate Bridge towering up ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Youth
An Introduction to Astrophotography - RescheduledHave you ever wondered how astronomers take a picture of another galaxy or celestial object? In this presentation, you will hear how amateur astronomers produce these images. This includes the required equipment, what an imaging session looks like, and finally, an overview of processing data into a final image. Whether ...
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 01/22/23
King Tides walk on Berkeley waterfrontIn the New Year, enjoy nature and consider the long term during one of winter's highest daytime tides. F5C President Susan Schwartz leads a smallish group (15 tops) along the Berkeley waterfront, starting at 10:30 AM Sun., Jan. 22, at Sea Breeze Deli (warm drinks available). We'll talk about the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
A Royal Walk with the King Tide Along the EmbarcaderoJoin Exploratorium and Port of San Francisco staff for a short stroll along the San Francisco waterfront to observe, photograph, and discuss the King Tides. “King Tide†is a popular, non-scientific term people use to describe exceptionally high tides.We’ll gather between Pier 3 and Pier 5 on the Bay side ...
Physics has always sought to deepen our understanding of reality, particularly our concept of matter. Today, city-size machines crash together particles - at nearly the speed of light - that are a trillion times smaller than a grain of sand. The resulting insights have both theoretical and practical value: a ...
Out-of-equilibrium systems preserve memories of their formation and training history in a variety of ways allowing for an innovative classification of material and dynamics. I will discuss one case where a cyclically sheared suspension of particles or a charge-density-wave solid (or even a walk in the park!) remembers multiple values ...
Where: Cost: Free
First results from the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter searchUnveiling the true nature of dark matter is one of the most significant challenges in modern particle physics and astrophysics. Determination of the dark matter particle mass and interactions will shed light on a wealth of physics beyond the Standard Model, and will have a fundamental impact on our understanding ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Tuesday, 01/24/23
How Ignition and Target Gain > 1 Was Achieved In Inertial FusionFor many decades the running joke in fusion research has been that `fusion’ is twenty years away and always will be. Yet, this year we find ourselves in a position where we can talk about the milestones of burning plasmas, fusion ignition, and target energy gain greater than unity in ...
A century ago, John Dewey observed that '[s]team and electricity have done more to alter the conditions under which [people] associate together than all the agencies which affected human relationships before our time'. In the last few decades, computing technologies have had a similar effect. Political philosophy's central task is ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Hearing the Stars: New Insights into Stellar Interiors - RescheduledSpace-based observations have provided a remarkable new tool for studying stars within our galaxy, the Milky Way. Simply by measuring how bright a star is over many years, we can now directly measure its mass and radius, as well as the properties of its deep interior, such as the rate of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Astronomy Picture Of The Day: Postcards from the Universe 2022 - LivestreamJoin the Night Sky Network and Robert Nemiroff for a tour of the highlights from the Astronomy Picture of the Day archive for 2022.Along with Jerry Bonnell, Robert Nemiroff has written, coordinated, and edited NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) since 1995. The APOD archive contains the largest collection ...
Gaelin Rosenwaks is a marine scientist, explorer, photographer, filmmaker, and author of the newly published "Sperm Whales: The Gentle Goliaths of the Oceansâ€. Please join us as Rosenwaks takes us on a journey exploring ocean ecosystems around the globe, culminating with and highlighting her latest project on Sperm Whales. She ...
Safety concerning human performance in complex multitask environments relies heavily upon the fundamental psychological principles of limited-capacity attention and top-down mechanisms of attention allocation. To develop a suitable model for distraction and safety with automobiles, Spencer Castro’s team at UC Merced implements converging measures from established physiological, behavioral and subjective ...
Recent advances in sequencing DNA have opened up new opportunities to use genetic data to improve our understanding of human history and evolution. For example, genetic data can be used to reconstruct migration patterns, understand how genomes change across different species or lineages, and understand how our evolutionary history impacts ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Altering the course of wildland fire through anyalytics and shared stewardship - LivestreamDue to a variety of factors including a century of fire suppression, climate change and past management practices, we are experiencing larger and more severe wildland fire. These fires are impacting communities, critical infrastructure, habitat and more. To alter that trajectory, we are needing to think and act at larger ...
Estimating impacts due to earthquakes - whether rapidly for emerging disasters or planning for future scenarios - entails the direct interface of seismological and civil engineering expertise and tools. Both endeavors require considering uncertain models and data since the main components of loss estimation - namely shaking, exposure, and vulnerabilities ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Data Behind Deep Fakes - LivestreamA Deepfake is a photo, video or audio file that has been digitally altered or created to misrepresent reality [1]. In this talk I will describe the consequence of Deepfake technology, new challenges and propose a way to describe training datasets.Last summer, I joined Reality Defender [2], working closely with ...
Where: Cost: Free
U.S. CHIPS & Science Act: What It Means for the Future of, Well, EverythingMajor tectonic shifts, decades in the making, are taking place across the globe right now. Russia's illegal war against Ukraine drags on, inflation has not yet been tamed, recession is looming, supply chains are being uprooted, China is shifting inward with an uncertain economic trajectory, and Taiwan is a growing ...
Algorithmic intermediaries govern the digital public sphere through their architectures, amplification algorithms, and moderation practices. In doing so, they shape public communication and distribute attention in ways that were previously infeasible with such subtlety, speed, and scale. From misinformation and affective polarisation to hate speech and radicalisation, the many pathologies ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Farm to Table: Busting the Myths of our Food Systems - LivestreamWant to grow your knowledge of the agricultural industry? Join Dr. Sarah Taber to learn how our food systems came to beDr. Sarah Taber, Crop Scientist, will teach you about the history of our food systems, environmental land protection, debunking farm mythsand much more.Register here for this event! Â
Where: Cost: Free
The Universe of Galaxies, James Webb Space Telescope, and STEAM Research Opportunities for Young PeopleMy Science on Tap presentation will touch upon highlights from my group's research on galaxies. We tend to focus on nearby spiral galaxies like the Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies and the smaller galaxies that orbit around these two large galaxies. I will also present results from our ongoing research on ...
