An emerging regional consensus in the Bay Area? Many of the most pressing planning questions of our day occur at the regional level: How do we address sea-level rise? How should we alter our land-use patterns to combat climate change? Join leaders of the Bay Area's four regional agencies to discuss planning for our region's collective future. With ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $5 General, Free Members
The Boething Lecture Series, in honor of John and Susan Boething, addresses forests and the human predicament. This year, Alan H. Weisman, an American author, professor and journalist will be talking about his fifth book, The World Without Us - "A fascinating nonfiction eco-thriller...Weisman's gripping fantasy will make most readers ...
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) uses arrays of piezoelectric transducers to actuate and sense guided waves for the detection of material defects. It is a very attractive vision to embed such arrays into smart materials and structures that are "aware" of their own states. With advances in materials science and manufacturing ...
The Felidae Conservation Fund aims to advance the conservation of wild cats and their habitats planetwide through a combination of groundbreaking research, compelling education and cutting-edge technology.Felidae collaborates on strategic research studies that clearly define a process to understand human impact on wild cats and wild places. There are important ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
A Sustainable (Re)Building Solution for HaitiBerkeley architect Martin Hammer will show slides and discuss the recent construction of a sustainable prototype house in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The "Ti Kay Pay" (Small Straw House) is the first strawbale building in Haiti, and offers a safe, affordable, sustainable, and culturally appropriate (re)building solution for Haiti, as it recovers ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Unraveling the Mystery of Avian Navigation For nearly 40 years, biologists have been unable to agree on how birds find their way over great distances during homing or migrational flightsDo birds use their olfactory senses, the Earth's magnetic field, or low-frequency acoustic (infrasonic) signals to navigate by?New findings indicate that birds use infrasonic signals radiated from ...
