Ranger-Guided Hike: Main LoopHave you ever wondered what a ranger looks at when they go for a walk in the woods? You’re invited to come with us!On Sept 19th, Ranger Ryan will be leading a 2-mile guided hike along the Redwood Creek Trail and Hillside Trail. The tour should last approximately two hours, ending at 12:00 ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Coastal Walk at Pillar Point BluffJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful walk at Pillar Point Bluff just north of Half Moon Bay! You will be guided by POST ambassadors who will share details about the area’s interesting natural history, from the coastal scrub habitat to the Fitzgerald Marine Preserve which hosts tide pools ...
Where: Moss BeachCost: $10 Donation encouraged
Lunch Break Science - LivestreamLunch Break Science is a dynamic live web series featuring fascinating short talks, engaging interviews, and lively Q&A with Leakey Foundation scientists. Each episode digs deeper into the latest human origins discoveries, with topics like Neanderthals, chimpanzee behavior, and more! Even better, you can interact with researchers during the show ...
Where: Cost: Free
The ecological effects of lightning in a tropical forestLightning is common in many tropical forests, but its ecological effects are not well documented. Data from a decade of lightning monitoring on Barro Colorado Island, Panama (BCI), show that lightning is an important agent of tree mortality; the average strike kills 5 trees and damages 21 others. Collectively, lightning ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Seti Live: New Exoplanets Just Dropped! - LivestreamAnd Citizen Scientists Helped Find Them Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. We've been finding potential exoplanets more often since the Kepler and TESS spacecraft were launched. But confirming these planets takes time, and telescope time is limited. To speed up the process, amateur astronomers are ...
In this presentation, first, a brief history of the production and evolution of electricity will be presented, then an overview of our body of work on the application of artificial intelligence (AI)-based control techniques and Internet of things (IoT) for control and management of microgrids (MGs), which are considered the ...
The first commercial 5G deployments were in March of 2019 - barely three years ago and the path to 6G is already a few years under way. It is without a doubt that 6G will be evolution and revolution beyond 5G, but some of the differences are already quite clear. ...
Artist Jane Kim is best known for creating monumental works of public art that celebrate the natural world. From the Wall of Birds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to From Sea to Sky at Occidental College's Moore Lab of Zoology, birds play a central role in her dramatic storytelling. What's her secret to ...
Discover the science behind sound and the role it plays in the environment. Join us for a screening of The Last of the Nightingales, a short documentary about pioneering sound ecologist Bernie Krause, and hear from Bernie, his wife Katherine, and the filmmaker afterward. Then dive deeper with the exhibits ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95 General, Free for members
Join SOMA to kick off the mushroom season. Many of our board members will be present andwe will have a casual potluck followed by a presentation by Gordon Walker & Harte Singer about the "early" season fungi and unusual findings of cool Summer fungi.
Where: SebastopolCost: Free
NightLife: FalastinShare in the rich culture, art, and stories of Falastin (Palestine). By the community for the community.
Where do we turn to when the sky is falling? When even as we mask to stay safe, we expose ourselves to a long history of othering? Retreating inward by looking and listening outward, Amy Tan found solace in her backyard, the birds that are her neighbors, and the joy ...
