Discovery Station: Chocolate and VanillaDoes chocolate really grow on trees?! Did you know vanilla comes from an orchid?! Come discover where two of our favorite foods come from, learn about the process of making chocolate, and find out how animals, such as monkeys, help these plants in their native tropical habitats. Docents will have ...
The modern day National Airspace System (NAS) is powered by System Wide Information Management (SWIM) which is a real-time digital data sharing infrastructure that provides a high fidelity view of the lifecycle of a flight. The newly available data within the SWIM feeds can be leveraged to help drive efficiencies ...
Recent advances in perception technology, fueled by progress in deep learning, have materially changed the degree of situational awareness one can expect from robots engaged in the real world: in addition to perceiving the geometry of the world around them, robots can now also reason about its semantics, and communicate ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Investigation of the Feijao Tailings Dam Failure near Brumadinho, BrazilAt approximately 12:28pm local time on January 25, 2019, tailings dam B-1 at Vale S.A.’s Corrego do Feijao Iron Ore Mine, located 9 kilometers north-east of Brumadinho, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, suffered a sudden failure resulting in a catastrophic mudflow that travelled rapidly downstream resulting in significant ...
Professor Kate O'Neill discusses how wastes have become globalized, but also how a single move by one country - China's decision not to import paper and plastic scrap - can affect all of us right down to weekly chores such as taking out the trash.Free for OLLI@Berkeley members, UC Faculty, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $10 General
Four Graduate Student Research in Progress TalksLaura Hollander (Boyer Lab) Effect of salt marsh plant species diversity on community response to sediment augmentationChristian Tettelbach (Boyer Lab) Effects of climate change on the herbivory of eelgrass (Zostera marina) by an invasive grazer in San Francisco BayCarl Hendrickson (Boyer and Nielsen Labs)Pisaster disaster and other tales from the ...
As American society continues to have a growing older population, understanding all aspects of aging is a critical national priority. Perhaps no subject is more important than understanding what happens to our brains as they age and what people can do to enhance cognition as they get older. And there ...
