One of the most pressing issues in ecology is determining the drivers of ecosystem functioning and stability. Researchers and managers of ecosystems and populations of concern are often faced with determining the relative effects of top down forces (top predators and lower level consumers), and bottom up forces (nutrient loading ...
Imagine America without Los Angeles: Applying Science to Understand the Vulnerability of Modern Society to Natural DisastersAlthough many recent advances, such as building codes and construction techniques, have reduced some aspects of risk to natural disasters, other features of modern society- including population density and the networking of transportation, power facilities, and communications systems-have led to increased vulnerability to natural disasters in California and beyond. Jones ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Taking Ownership of Your Clinical Laboratory Test Results - POSTPONEDWhile we've changed what we put into our bodies, we have not been engaged with what is being done to our bodies. Roughly 70 percent of all medical decisions are based on clinical lab test results, yet we don't know what medical tests are ordered or how results are interpreted. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
7:00-7:25: Sasha Petrenko(Choreographer) on "A World without Nature"Choreography reflecting a more integrated planetary existence...Read more7:25-7:50: Pieter Abbeel(UC Berkeley/ Robotics) on "How to train your robot"The ideas behind two promising types of robot learning...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Space Entrepreneurship and Global MakersFrom Maker communities and space agencies in Europe, the United States and around the world, new ideas are finding developers and investors! Join Alex Cureton-Griffiths of SpaceGAMBIT, advancing crowdsourced aerospace innovation with focus on early stage, open source projects in synthetic space biotechnology, open satellite Internet, and 3D printing in microgravity ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Tour of Sparq Lab and ObservatoryThis October our guest speaker Kurt Kruger from Piner High School, has invited us to meet at the Piner High School Campus to enjoy a personal tour of the new SPARQ Lab and observatory! The SCAS board has agreed to do this.Editor's Note: This is a one time location change
