Drone technology has been increasingly used by public agencies for emergency and disaster response, including the recent devastating wildfires in California. However, the volume of information drones can collect quickly has resulted in a pressing need for rapid data processing and visualization. This lecture will walk through the use of ...
Regardless of the application, calculating a particular statistic and associated p-value is not necessarily the biggest challenge in designing an experiment, especially given the availability of open source software packages such as scipy and statsmodels in Python. Instead, ensuring that the assumptions required for a statistical test are actually satisfied ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Testing Fuzzy Dark Matter and Fifth Forces with Binary Pulsars I will show how properties such as spin, mass, and couplings of ultra-light (fuzzy) dark matter can be tested with binary pulsars by searching for secular variations in the orbital parameters. In particular, if fuzzy dark matter is a carrier of a vector fifth force, for example B-L, the constraints ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Understanding Aquatic Communities Through Remote Sensing Rosenberg Institute Seminar SeriesAquatic macrophyte communities play an important part in the Sacramento-San JoaquinDelta ecology. Part of the lower food web, they are ecosystem engineers that impede recreational and commercial use of the Delta waterways and cost millions of dollars in herbicide control programs every year. Remote sensing offers a ...
Capture and permanent geologic sequestration of biogenic CO2 emissions may provide critical flexibility in ambitious climate change mitigation. However, most bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) technologies are technically immature or commercially unavailable. Here, I evaluate low-cost, commercially ready and/or small scale BECCS technologies. These include CCS at existing ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
New Forms of Reading / New Forms of DesignIn her wide-ranging practice, Swiss designer Julia Born explores new ways of engaging with textual and visual material on the printed page and in the exhibition site. She has works in close dialogue with artists, such as Uta Eisenreich, Shannon Ebner, Moyra Davey, Michael Auder, and Wendelien van Oldenborgh, to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Talk on California Native FernsCCNH naturalist Angela Pai will give a talk on California native ferns for San Pablo Neighbors Education and Restoration Society (SPAWNERS) covering ecology, basic identification, and common ferns in the area.Join SPAWNERS for this fascinating look at local ferns.
