Gallery Talk with Anna LaurentLearn more about the process of capturing exquisite details of seeds from artist Anna Laurent. We’ll also discuss the collaboration between the artist and the UC Botanical Garden and some of the plants that were collected.Registration required
Global biodiversity change through past climate change events evident in the geological record provides the best proxy to understand challenges facing the marine environment today. But comparisons in deep time merit some caution. One of the great challenges of the “big data†era is reconciling different approaches to measuring biological ...
The recent joint study between Siemens and the San Francisco Department of the Environment (SFE), Reaching 80x50: Technology Pathways to a Sustainable Future, argues that the city will have to embrace both the glamorous (think: solar power and electric vehicles) and the boring â€" what Vox Magazine recently called “unsexy clean ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for members
Discover Marine LifeDid you know that organisms from all over the world make their home in Lake Merritt? A naturalist from the Rotary Nature Center will guide you through a hands-on experience with marine invertebrates that live on the boat docks. Come learn about sea squirts, sponges, flatworms, bubble snails, and more! We'll ...
All biological and physical processes in the ocean are governed by the physics of fluid motion. Understanding the constraints that the fluid environment places on organisms is an important step to understanding how marine systems function and how they will respond to a changing ocean. Fluid motion in the ocean ...
MicroBioblitz: Lake MerrittCome explore the microworld of the microcosm that is Lake Merritt in Downtown Oakland with Damon Tighe. The majority of the biological world lives at scales that we can not perceive, but with the aid of magnification we can peer into this world. We will have many tools (microscopes, dissecting scopes, etc) ...
Advances in computer science are continuing to help expand a new subfield of ecology based on computational analyses of complex ecological networks where the nonlinear dynamics of many interacting species can be more realistically modeled and understood. Â Research has recently elucidated how the network structure of feeding relationships both generally ...
Promoting critical thinking is challenging everywhere. But it is even harder when there are deeply rooted superstitions, widespread denial of science, and political pressures on freedom of speech. Dr. Isil Arican will explore the examples of growing skeptical movement across the world with a focus on skepticism and critical thinking ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #80: Queer History, Gene Editing, and Gravitational Waves!With Auld Lang Syne still reverberating in our ears, the first Nerd Nite SF of 2017 draws nigh. If your New Year’s resolution was to learn new things, meet interesting people, or kill more brain cells with beer then we have the event for you! A historian weaves a queer ...
