California energy policy supports an ambitious transition from conventional fossil generation to renewable and other clean resources. Low-carbon, variable and distributed generation provide many benefits to the state, but also present new circumstances for our traditional energy integration and reliability tools to respond to. Some of the resources that California ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Silicon Valley 2.0Silicon Valley 2.0 is a regional effort to understand the potential impacts of climate change on Santa Clara County and to develop adaptation strategies to improve community resiliency. Launched in mid-2013, the project will be completed in June 2014. Come find out more about what the team has learned through ...
Where: San JoseCost: $10 General, Free for members
Because of dramatic declines in monarch butterfly, honey bee and bumblebee populations in North America, some ecologists and farmers are concerned that the risk of "food web collapse" is becoming more probable in insect-pollinated fruit, vegetable and forage crops in North America. To achieve "food chain restoration" of sufficient magnitude ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Two Lectures at Romburg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies"Detecting chimerism in lab reared colonies of Botryllus schlosseri"; Joseph Spaulding, RTC"Using genetic variation at the major histocompatability complex for conservation applications in the salt marsh harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys raviventris)"; Anastasia Ennis, RTC
The film, by the acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Pete McBride, takes viewers on a 1,500-mile journey down the Colorado River to its arid terminus in the Mexican desert, many miles short of its historical connection with the Gulf of California.Auditorium
Where: StanfordCost: Free with advance registration
Science and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub, West BayIf ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the film-flam man, and if ye drink, drink with us, your friends. If ye shun the brewer's art, at least help us lay waste to bangers & mash!Skeptics in the Pub is a monthly meeting for discussion of topics of science, ...
