Sea change: Scaling up the emergent ecological effects of global changeMy research examines the ecological effects of climate change and ocean acidification on marine communities and ecosystems. This talk will focus on the importance of incorporating interactions - between multiple stressors and species - in the study of the emergent effects of global change, with examples from rocky intertidal, seagrass, ...
Rey (UCB ’96) is a scientist, entrepreneur, and investor. He specializes in the early commercialization stages of innovation, with a focus on startups working for a positive impact on society and the environment. He has successfully developed and commercialized new materials for industrial and consumer goods. Rey holds degrees in ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Black holes, BPS jumping, and special lociI discuss, in an elementary way, special loci in the moduli spaces of string compactifications where the numbers of BPS states jump. In simple examples, these loci are also related to natural objects in number theory. Understanding of these loci leads to new results or conjectures about refined BPS partition ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Four presentations at Romberg Tiburon CenterJillian Burns Examining larval longfin smelt diets in shoals and tidal marshes of the San Francisco Estuary Stephanie Owens Investigating the Impacts of Freshwater Flow Pulses on a Managed Floodplain Jessica Wilson Phytoplankton bloom composition in Drakes Estero before and after the removal of a commercial oyster farm Mandy-Tanita Brinkmann ...
When did our ancestors look the way we expect them to have looked? When did they behave in the way we expect them to have behaved?The search for what defines the genus Homo has spanned decades and is still debated among scientists today. In this talk, paleoanthropologist Dr. Bernard Wood ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members and Seniors
If ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the flim-flam man, join us, your friends. We are a group who informally discuss the latest in science or pseudoscience over good eats & ale. HOW:  Presented free by the Bay Area Skeptics.WHY:  Because science is fascinating!       ...
Where: MillbraeCost: Free- Pub is open for business
The basics of cancer invasion (with slime demo!)Cancer spreading to other parts of body is the cause of 90% of cancer-related death. Cancer invasion is the first key step in this process, in which cancer cells break through the tumor border and into neighboring tissues. Recent research from our group ...
