Introduction to Maps, Compass Use, and OrienteeringEver feel lost in the woods just looking at a map? Ever get dizzy trying to figure out a compass? No wonder – there's a LOT of information on maps; and, like any tool, a compass can be very frustrating if not understood. In this introductory class, attendees will learn ...
Ecological surprises challenge science and society. While the nature and timing of abrupt changes in ecological organization and function remain poorly understood, emerging evidence points to the existence of regime shifts across a variety of ecosystems worldwide. Yet, unraveling the mechanisms governing their behavior is notoriously difficult because it requires ...
Where: TiburonCost: Free
Entrepreneurship and Climate ChangeSpeaker: Sue Carter earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a postdoctoral fellow and IBM Almaden Research Center as a visiting researcher before joining the faculty at UC Santa Cruz in 1995, where she also serves as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies. ...
April Update: The El Nino Effect-California Water, Snow Pack and DroughtJoin Michael Carlin, COO of San Francisco PUC Water and Power, Patrick Koepele and Peter Drekmeier, executive director and policy director respectively of the Tuolumne River Trust, for an end-of-April 2016 report on what has happened with El Nino, the weather and the snow pack, as well as the continuing ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Student
Balancing the needs of people and nature is among the central challenges of our time. Yet, it has been for millennia. Coastal ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest have sustained human-wellbeing for thousands of years. Consequently, indigenous people have exploited, overexploited and learned how to adapt to abrupt changes in coastal ...
If ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the flim-flam man, join us, your friends. Skeptics in the Pub is a group of like-minded people informally discussing the latest in science or pseudoscience over good eats & ale. 7PM 4th Wednesday each month (except November and December)
Where: MillbraeCost: Free
NEW IDRIA, Mine, Mill, and TownHow Quicksilver was produced at our nation's second largest mercury mine.Speaker: Gary Parson
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
'Lab Girl' by Hope JahrenHope Jahren visits Books on the Park to talk with Analee Newitz (founder of i09.com) about her highly touted debut memoir, Lab Girl. "Lab Girl made me look at trees differently. It compelled me to ponder the astonishing grace and gumption of a seed. Perhaps most importantly, it introduced me to a deeply ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
On the Vulnerability of Biodiversity to Climate ChangeClimate change is projected to emerge as a dominant cause of biodiversity loss. Let's take a journey through deep time and across the planet to critically evaluate the evidence for an impending climate-mediated extinction crisis. We'll travel back in time to examine evidence connecting past mass extinction events to climate ...
