Morning Hike at Skyline Ridge Open Space PreserveJoin POST for this guided hike at Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve! A POST Representative will share a few words about POST’s decades of conservation success before hiking groups leave to explore a moderate to strenuous 4.5 mile hike with 800 feet of elevation gain.POST has made many contributions towards ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
RocketfestBlast off to Chabot Space & Science Center for a day filled with hands-on fun! The Center is hosting our first-ever Rocketfest. These feats of engineering allow us to send satellites into orbit, study Earth’s upper atmosphere and eventually send humans to other planets. Discover more about rockets through hands-on ...
Where: OaklandCost: TBA
Junipers Junior Naturalist Family Flower DayWant to learn more about flowers? How to identify them? Figure out what pollinates them? Do some observational drawing? Join us for a day all about flowers at Bouverie Preserve. We will stroll through the various habitats of the preserve to find all the flowers we can. And who knows ...
Where: Glen EllenCost: Free
Native vs. Non-native at VasonaMeet various native and non-native animals of Santa Clara County. Learn about the critical roles the native animals play and the negative effects the non-native ones play. Have an up-close interaction with some amazing critters!Ages 7 - 12A registered adult must accompany their child(ren)
Take a relaxing walk in an area that often has striking sunsets while learning about the Don Edwards SF Bay Refuge. Image DetailsExperience the salt marsh at twilight on an easy stroll along refuge trails (about .6 miles). At the setting of the sun we will observe the beginning of ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Very Small Interplanetary Spacecraft - Crazy and Crazier - LivestreamThis research project began with a simple question: what is the smallest spacecraft that can deliver a cell phone camera to within one diameter of a near earth asteroid, take a few thousand pictures, and then return to earth and download the images? Two proposed solutions have emerged, both weighing ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
When Worlds CollideOur solar system used to be a much more violent place, with early planets crashing into each other to create the worlds we see today. The talk is about how we use supercomputer simulations to study these cataclysmic giant impacts, and how high-resolution advances are helping us to tackle unsolved ...
