A chance encounter with an undiscovered coral reef system became Antal Borcsok’s life mission. With perseverance and lots of help this reef system went from unknown in 2010, to being a Marine Protected Area recognized by the Honduran Congress in 2018. Today Antal and his wife Alejandra co-own the first ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Commercial Kitchens in an Electric Era - LivestreamWith California's ambitious climate goals in the balance, scaling up electrification beyond new residential construction is an important priority for many businesses. As businesses are bringing employees back to the office, it’s the right time to consider electrifying break rooms, cafeterias and other dining areas. Hear from pioneers in the ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has focused on a paradigm in which intelligence inheres in a single agent, and in which agents should be autonomous so they can exhibit intelligence independent of human intelligence. Thus, when AI systems are deployed in social contexts, the overall design is often naive. Such a paradigm ...
International Dark Sky Week eventWhat is light polution? How you can help. Why it matters.Featuring Don Jolley: "The Ground Overhead and the Stars Underfoot"
Where: Point Reyes StationCost: Free
SETI Talks - Do ETs Watch Us? What Do They See?Let’s assume that extra-terrestrial civilizations exist in our galaxy. Like us, they are conducting their own SETI research to find us, see us and study us. What would they see? What methods could they use to learn about us? What technologies have they invented to see and listen to us. ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
'Field Guide to North American Flycatchers' - LivestreamMeet the author and illustrator behind the brand new in-depth field guide on the two challenging genera of North American Flycatchers. Lee and Birch will discuss their many projects over the years, why they work so well together. They will give us a tour of their new publication and show ...
Virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) wearable displays strive to provide perceptually realistic user experiences, while constrained by limited compute budgets, hardware, and transmission bandwidths of wearable computing systems. This presentation describes two different ways in which a greater understanding of the human visual system may assist in achieving this goal. ...
The modern “paleo†diet movement makes many assumptions about what our ancient human ancestors ate. But are these assumptions based on actual evidence? Presenting a variety of lines of evidence for prehistoric human diets including early human, animal, and plant fossils, ancient stone tools, DNA, and living human and chimpanzee ...
Peter is a long-time Bay Area mycologist and microscopist, and has studied mycology at University of Washington and SFSU. He has been very active in microscopy outreach and education around the SF Bay Area, and is an emiritus president of the San Francisco Microscopical Society and a former instructor in ...
Cannabis Toxicology: The Good, The Bad, and The Risky by Dr. Echo Rufer(Legal) cannabis is more popular (and available) than ever, but how do you make decisions about healthy use? Is natural safer than synthetic? Does a super high THC concentration actually matter? What was the deal with the “Vapegate†...
