Field Botany DayJoin ACR Resource Ecologist Dave Self every second Friday for a drive and walk to appreciate (and photograph) plants of the season, flowers, seeds, fall colors, habitat - and to learn of their ecology and uses by wildlife and by people.Bring your smart-phone (or other camera), extra water, hat, and dress ...
The use of radiation detectors as an element in the so-called “Internet of Things†has recently become viable with the availablity of low-cost mobile radiation sensors capable of streaming geo-referenced data. New methods for fusing the data from multiple sensors on such a network is presented. The traditional simple and ordinary Kriging methods present a challenge for such ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Green FridayFor September's Green Friday we are giving our guests the opportunity to participate as presenters. Do you have a hot environmental topic that you'd love to talk about? You don't have to be an expert or have formal education in your topic area, just passion for your topic and the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $3 donation requested
Saturn's Rings - New Discoveries from the Cassini MissionNASA's Cassini spacecraft, launched in 1997, has been in orbit around Saturn since 2004. During that time, it has taken over 80,000 pictures and millions of spectra of Saturn's rings. This unprecedented amount of information has led to the discovery of many new features, such as a "wobble" in the ...