Impacts of Fire on Reptiles and Amphibians in Sonoma County - LivestreamHow are amphibians and reptiles, known collectively as herpetofauna, impacted by fire? Some species may be particularly vulnerable to negative impacts from fire due to their relatively low dispersal abilities compared with other groups of animals. In order to effectively plan prescribed burns and prioritize mitigation for potential wildfires, ecologists ...
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Weekday Morning Hike at Rancho Cañada del OroJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for an excursion where you’ll explore the Mayfair Ranch - Longwall Canyon trails of Rancho Cañada del Oro! You will be guided by POST Ambassadors who will share with you the history of the preserve, the region, and the importance of conservation in the area. The ...
Physicists do their best to discover the deepest rules of reality. Renowned physicist and author Sean Carroll - formerly at Caltech, now at Johns Hopkins - has just published the first of three books on The Biggest Ideas in the Universe for the physicist in each of us. In this Commonwealth ...
When a material absorbs the energy of a photon, individual electrons within itsstructure can change in a myriad of ways, resulting in macroscopic changes to the material’s properties and generating new out-of-equilibrium phases. Many emerging phenomena in quantum materials stem from competing ground states in different, often coupled, degrees of ...
In this talk, Michael will provide an introduction to his latest book, What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make, which was just published by Princeton University Press. For this fungi-versed and fungi-loving audience of the San Francisco Mycological Society, he will explore how we might think ...
