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Antarctica is exceptional. The coldest, windiest, iciest, driest, and most remote of continents is widely celebrated for its rich history of exploration, science and diplomacy and for its exceptional beauty. However, fishing pressure - mostly for krill and toothfish - combined with cumulative impacts of climate change, jeopardizes the future ...
Where: Cost: Free
Planet Mixology: Stirring the Mantle of Water WorldsWater worlds are exoplanets ranging in size between Earth and Neptune that are predicted to be rich in water. The interior structure of a water world is assumed to have distinct layers: (1) iron core, (2) rocky mantle, and (3) water. This 3-layer model may work in smaller planets where ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
NASA's New Horizons Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt With its 2015 flyby and first up-close look at a new class of small icy planet, the New Horizons mission ushered in a new era of planetary geology for the Pluto system. A second flyby of the small Kuiper belt object Arrokoth at the start of 2019 did the same ...
Where: LivermoreCost: Free
Saturday, 05/20/23
NextGen HackathonJoin us for the NextGen Hackathon and tap into the cutting-edge power of Generative AI tools! This is your chance to build practical projects that enhance business productivity and enable data-driven decision-making. With a $15,000+ prize pool and additional investment opportunities up to $25,000, you won't want to miss this ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
5th Annual TinkerfestTinkerfest is a one-day event that celebrates the creative, curious, and inventive spirit in all of us. Tinkerfest will bring together makers, artists, and tinkerers to showcase their work and invite attendees of all ages to join in on the DIY fun. Activities are geared towards a family audience, but ...
Where: OaklandCost: $20 General $15 Kids, $10 Seniors, $5 Members
Green Home Tours are free, virtual tours of Bay Area homes. They are a chance to learn from your Bay Area neighbors what they are doing with their homes to combat climate change, improve air quality, generate clean energy, and move towards a safer, healthier, greener future. Green Home Tour ...
Where: Cost: Free
Easy Morning Walk at WavecrestEnjoy a refreshing morning hike along the bluffs of the Wavecrest Trail! This family-friendly hike is an easy 2-mile walk and great for all ages and levels of hikers.This serene space is surrounded by POST-protected agricultural land and open space. Many people enjoy this scenic hike because of the great ...
Life is full of challenges at each stage. Rajan will describe challenges he faced from his graduate school career, along with the skills he developed to overcome them. Moving to the US for his postdoctoral work presented a new set of challenges with the opportunity to develop new solutions, both ...
Where: Cost: Free
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
Living with Wildlife on Oona-pa’is (Sonoma Mountain)Meet the wildlife that lives around us on Sonoma Mountain and throughout Sonoma County. Did you know that wildlife has habitat and migration/movement corridors? Who are these animals and why should we care?Meet representatives from 13 bay area nature, environmental and rescue organizations to learn about our wildlife, their lives, ...
Where: Glen EllenCost: Free
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 ...
Are you having difficult discussions with people on the edge of falling into magical thinking rabbit holes? This workshop will provide you some skills to help with this problem that so many of us have experienced. We will discuss the concepts of debunking vs prebunking (also called innoculatin theory). We ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
An Astronomical Perspective on Globular Clusters and the Pale Blue DotGlobular clusters are beautiful and ancient structures that have been providing insight into the structure of our galaxy and the evolution of stars for more than 100 years. Each of these globe-like clusters contains some hundreds of thousands of stars in constant motion, and held together by their mutual gravitational ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Sunday, 05/21/23
Presidio: Changes Through TimeJoin the National Park Service and celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the GGNRA!This half-mile, level walk shows the historical changes to the Presidio, from the Spanish fort all the way to the new Tunnel Tops. Who benefitted from these changes, and who did not?Learn about the people who lived here, and ...
Are you interested in outdoor recreation and environmental conservation? Join us for an evening with James Edward Mills, a National Geographic Explorer and photographer with over 20 years of experience. He’ll be discussing his book, The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors, which was named by Outside Magazine ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Monday, 05/22/23
Evolving Shorelines TourLearn about how sea level rise is impacting Bothin Marsh and what One Tam is doing to help. The tour will be led by Evolving Shorelines project staff Rob LaPorte, Project Manager at the Parks Conservancy and Veronica Pearson, Senior Ecological Restoration Planner for Marin County Parks.Meets at the Tam ...
The dramatic increase of human population and consumption over the last 100 years has led to exponential growth, both in the use of natural resources and the production of waste streams. The use of fossil fuels and the emissions of greenhouse gases is one example, as are the use of ...
Integrated assessment models are widely used in economic analysis for deriving best-response policies to the threat of anthropogenic climate change. In this paper, we investigate how the degree of capital malleability influences the optimal climate policy design for alternative assumptions on climate damages and the timing of net-zero emissions policies. ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Ethernet @ 50On May 22, 1973, a young researcher at Xerox PARC named Bob Metcalfe sent a memo outlining his concept for connecting the research center’s computers. He called it Ethernet and teamed up with hardware wizard Dave Boggs to make it real. Fifty years later, Ethernet connects us all - to ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost:
Tuesday, 05/23/23
May Butterfly Walk - Second SectionJoin Sally Levinson, ‘caterpillar lady’, and Sarab Seth, ‘butterfly guy,’ for a guided walk through the Botanical Garden in search of butterflies. Bring binoculars if you have them. Registered children welcome. Pre-registration is required, space is limited.Includes admission to the Garden.
Morphogenesis is a developmental process through which plants and animals acquire their shape and form. Although Biology has identified many of the key genes and cellular mechanisms of morphogenesis, the question of how Living Matter encodes the geometry of the shapes that it generates remains an open problem. This talk ...
It is intuitively obvious that our conscious experiences play a part in rationalizing our behaviors, at least sometimes. How is this possible? Theories that explain consciousness in terms of mental representation have an easy answer. If conscious states are reducible to mental representations, then it is the contents of these ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Destination: Moon - LivestreamThe Artemis missions will include a mix of crewed and robotic landings. Thirteen regions near the South Pole of the Moon have been identified as candidates for human exploration. Some of these same regions have also been targeted for precursor robotic landings through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program. ...
Where: Cost: Free
Nutritional EpigeneticsNutritional epigenetics is the science of how nutrition affects genes. Stanford researcher Dr. Lucia Aronica investigates how environmental factors can affect the function of genes and one's health and longevity. Unlike genetic factors, epigenetic modifications are flexible and can store cell memories of life exposures such as diet, stress or ...
Join us for an evening with award-winning wildlife photographer, Jodi Frediani who introduces us to Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago located north of the Arctic Circle, not far from the North Pole. This cluster of islands is home to polar bears, walruses, reindeer, and arctic foxes, and provides breeding and nesting ...
Where: Cost: $10 suggested donation
Wednesday, 05/24/23
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 ...
Using energy more productively has delivered half of the past two decades’ global decarbonization. IPCC says efficient use could also deliver 40 - 70% of future decarbonization. (In the Pacific Northwest, efficiency met 60% of 1980 - 2015 growth in service demand and projected 70% to 2035. IEA has just ...
Where: StanfordCost:
SETI Live - A Sign in Space - Simulating First Contact - LivestreamWhat would happen if we received a message from an extraterrestrial civilization? Daniela de Paulis, Artist in Residence at the SETI Institute and the Green Bank Observatory (GBO), brought a team of international experts together, including SETI researchers, space scientists, and artists, to stage her latest project, A Sign in ...
Recent advances in artificial intelligence are raising hopes of a U.S. productivity boom by automating mundane tasks, improving decision-making, and opening up new business models and opportunities. At the same time, many workers are skeptical, fearing that the new tools may make them obsolete. What impact will AI have on businesses ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Thursday, 05/25/23
Insects in Crisis - LivestreamInsects can seem to be everywhere, all at once - sometimes to an annoying degree. After all, three out of every four known animal species on Earth are insects. But these dazzlingly adept creatures - which pre-date the dinosaurs - are suffering a silent and hugely consequential crisis, with their ...
Time to get back to the basics! Throughout history, humans have strived to understand the foundations of matter. From the time humans began identifying wind, water, and fire as building blocks of Earth through our current understanding of the periodic table, scientists have sought to identify units of matter and, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Harnessing Our Greatest Life Force - LivestreamSwim with us through water data for the nation.Learn how to:Explore all USGS water data, from historical through present dayCheck the status of near real-time water conditions nationwideReceive personalized alerts of changing water conditionsAutomate unique, customized displays of water dataSpeakers: Shawna Gregory and Mat Rhoads, USGSClick at weblink to attend
Where: Cost: Free
Jurassic NightLifeGo big or go home. Get ready for a NightLife of Jurassic proportions celebrating our newest exhibit, The World’s Largest Dinosaurs. Be one of the first to experience this mega-sized exhibit and meet the largest land animals that ever lived: long-necked and long-tailed sauropods (some of which grew to be ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Faster! Catching up to Electrons on the Move - POSTPONEDElectrons are tiny particles that hold together the atoms in molecules. When sunlight interacts with a molecule, it first transfers its energy to the electrons. Then, as the electrons move, the molecule changes form, reshaping itself or even breaking apart. We do not fully understand how electrons affect the molecules ...
