Summit to SeeA monthly cross-country hike to a high point or other highlight of the sanctuary with natural history, photography, birding, etcPlease dress for the weather and bring at least one quart of drinking water. You may also wish to bring a hat, an extra layer, and a snack. There are no ...
Where: GeyservilleCost: Free
Rates of Evolution and Accumulation of Cultural VariationCulture can be viewed as as an array of learned attitudes or behaviors whose presence in an individual or a society is subject to biased transmission, innovation and random loss. We investigate the rate of evolution of such traits under different models of cultural transmission, and how these models produce ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
STAR IN A JAR: THE PHYSICS OF SINGLE BUBBLE SONOLUMINESCENCEDr. Doug Clarke, now retired from Lawrence Livermore National Lab, will discuss the brilliant flashes seen in single-bubble sonoluminescence, and the role of their group's computer simulations in studying the physics.
Improving the efficiency with which we use energy is often said to be the most cost-effective way to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, such improvements usually lower the cost of using energy-intensive goods and may create wealth from the energy savings, both of which lead to increased ...
The atmosphere affects light propagation in many ways. Temperature and density distributions, aerosols, and ice crystals produce many interesting optical phenomena such as mirages, "sun dogs," the fata morgana, light pillars, and the green flash. Atmospheric turbulence leads to the shimmering of objects, the twinkling of the stars, and especially the distortion of laser beams propagating through the atmosphere. A fundamental ...
Watershed explores the future of the heavily dammed and diverted Colorado River in an era of rising population and climate change. Presentation of the film on February 10 will be followed by a Q&A session with producers James Redford and Jill Tidman.This screening is part of the yearlong film series ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Earth Matters: Antarctic Mysteries-Icy Clues to Earth's Past, Present, and FutureIn early 2013, Rob Dunbar embarked on his latest research voyage to Antarctica's Southern Ocean, his first ever as summer turned to an icy and turbulent fall. He was exploring what happens to the carbon-rich base of the food chain when seasonal ice forms, including how much might return to ...
