The 5th Annual A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders Conference: Engineering Innovation by DesignFrom 3-D printers and flexible electronics to nanotech water filters and high-efficiency solar films, today's designers and engineers are taking a hands-on approach to invent products that meet real-world needs. At the 2012 Global Technology Leaders conference, you will meet researchers, industry leaders and even 'maker movement' enthusiasts who are ...
Climate Change Impacts in the Arctic Ocean Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is in rapid decline. This reduction in ice extent and thickness has resulted in a longer open water season and higher marine productivity. Until recently, phytoplankton blooms on continental shelves were thought to be restricted to waters free of sea ice.However, during the summer ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
History of MarinshipJoin Ranger Bill as he facilitates an in-depth discussion on the history of the Marinship Shipyard at the Bay Model built by the Bechtel Corporation at the request of President Franklin Roosevelt in March of 1942. Learn about the 93 ships built here during WWII.
Three Bodies: Rethinking Environmental Health and Food Production in a Mohawk CommunityEnvironmental health conditions tied to industrial contamination, as well as lifestyle related illnesses like diabetes, are two major health concerns facing many Native American communities. One such community is Akwesasne, a Mohawk nation downstream from one federal and two state Superfund sites, that has been the subject of over two ...
The global water crisis is real, and many parts of the world are on track to quickly reach "peak water." To conserve this critical resource without harming the economy or public health we must adopt new management techniques and policies. Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute and author of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free members
Louise Yarnall, Ph.D., senior research social scientist in the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International, will be discussing a study that involved prototyping a new assessment to track how well community college students are learning "big ideas" in the first two years of college and how well they ...
Outspoken musician and environmentalist Bernie Krause has been recording nature's vibrant chorus – hippo grunts, birdsong and even a tree's bursting cells – for decades. Author of The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places, he says "a complex and vital beauty emerges hearing ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members, $10 Students
Mushrooms and Climate Change: Fungi in a Changing WorldDr. Rytas Vilgalys' talk will be about our studies at Duke University in North Carolina on environmental mycology using molecular approaches. At his lab, research is focusing on sampling DNA directly from the environment using state-of-the-art technologies such as high-throughput sequencing, microarrays, and bioinformatics to study how microbial communities respond to ...
There is at least as much underneath Paris as there is above it. The secretive members of the Paris Urban eXperiment, known internally as "The UX", have spent the last 30 years surreptitiously probing into this world - and improving it. A few years ago these underground hackers and artists ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $11.49
The Science Behind Taming the Deepwater Oil SpillFollowing unsuccessful attempts in May-June 2010 to contain the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and with the relief well not expected to be completed until September, plans were drawn up to install a capping stack on top of the Macondo well to shut the flow of oil. This strategy was not ...
