Golden State Waters: San Francisco Bay and the World OceanJoin The Bay Institute for a 2-day action summit to address the protection and management of the waters where San Francisco Bay meets the Pacific Ocean.The waters on either side of the Golden Gate Bridge are some of the most biologically dynamic and productive in the world, hosting critical ecosystems ...
Nursery Series: Vegetative Plant Propagation - POSTPONEDCome learn the secrets of cloning plants by cutting off branches and encouraging them to root! Meghan Steinharter (Fort Funston and Oceana Nurseries Manager) and Robin Binaoro (Marin Headlands Nursery Assistant) will discuss the science behind clonal propagation: what's going on inside the plant and how rooting hormones work. There ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Donations encouraged
Trees of the Garden: From the Architecture of Life Tour SeriesHow are trees different from other plants? How do they adapt to their environments, make food from sunlight, grow, and reproduce? In what ways are they essential to life on our planet? Visit trees from around the world, including the kinds of trees that lived when dinosaurs roamed the earth, ...
In recent years, advertising has played an increasingly crucial role in our technology-obsessed world. It has not only created vast new companies like Google and Facebook, but it has also financed the explosive growth of the Internet around the world. For these reasons, advertising technology ("adtech") has been a very ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Go straight up spacey this week as NightLife celebrates cosmo-pioneer Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.Groove to an out-of-this-world live DJ set by Space Cowboys, a sonically-inspired SF collective and Burning Man favorite.Catch a space-tastic presentation from renowned astronomer Dr. Jill Tarter and planetary scientist Dr. Franck Marchis from ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
Our current understanding of the universe tells us things that are difficult to accept, some have called them absurd. The vast majority of the universe is so mysterious we call it "dark" and so poorly understood we just call it "matter" or "energy"? These extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence before ...
7:00-7:25: Alex Reben(Inventor) on "Engineering Psychology"Abstract forthcoming...Read more7:25-7:50: Michael Sturtz(Stanford dSchool) on "TBA"Abstract forthcoming...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to share their work. Please present your work as a ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Great American Total Solar Eclipse, Aug. 2017 -- How to See it !Most are aware of the upcoming total solar eclipse crossing United States in August 2017. Club member Albert Smith will explain total solar eclipses and start with a video of why we all should be excited. Al has seen a half dozen total eclipses around the world and from high ...
Astronaut Steve Smith will share highlights from his career and reflections upon how his environmental perspective has been influenced by his time in space. He will also discuss emerging technologies for long duration spaceflight that might spin-off technologies to enable us to live more sustainably on earth. A veteran of ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: $10 General, Free for members
