The Words We Choose As Naturalists - LivestreamWhen we use words like “nativeâ€, “non-nativeâ€, or invasive, what heavy meanings might they have? What does it mean that some species’ names are being changed? Let’s discuss the meanings of loaded terms and how our language might evolve.Learn how to teach Nature Journaling! Join our weekly discussion and idea-sharing ...
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Building Organizational Engagement and Advocacy - LivestreamThe fourth and final lecture in this series will focus on empowering organizations to take action for their employees, stakeholders and communities around environmental engagement. Featuring a panel discussion format, our experts will discuss how companies can advocate for climate policy with employee engagement and corporate campaigns and provide resources ...
Data-driven modeling and deep learning present powerful tools that are opening up new paradigms and opportunities in the understanding, discovery, and design of soft and biological materials.Speaker: Andrew Ferguson, University of Chicago
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
New Variant Discovery in the Era of Complete GenomesGenomic scientist Karen Miga, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, was named one of the 100 most influential people of 2022 by TIME Magazine for her work co-leading an international team of scientists known as the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium to complete the first gapless sequence of a human genome.Please ...
On October 27th 2022 NASA captured a now-famous image of the Sun “smiling†on its solar system [see image above]. But the Sun is not always happy! It can unleash violent “space weather†-- storms that can radiate X-rays and even gamma rays into space, send giant clouds of magnetic plasma ...
These last 2 years have been really difficult regarding photography. Travel has been severely curtailed and being at home has not been very conducive to finding interesting subjects for photography. With shelter in place starting in March, 2020, I was getting pretty stir-crazy by the fall. In an attempt to ...
