OceanOneK: A Deep-Sea Robotic Avatar - LivestreamDistancing humans physically from dangerous and unreachable spaces while connecting their skills, intuition, and experience to the task promises to fundamentally alter the future of work and remote robotic operations in extreme environments. This has been thoroughly illustrated during the recent expeditions of OceanOneK, where its advanced autonomous skills for ...
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The peacebuilding potential of international ocean science cooperationA historical perspective provides a rich catalogue of examples of ocean science collaboration flourishing even in parts of the world facing a perfect storm of geopolitical tensions, overlapping and rapidly expanding ocean uses, unresolved maritime boundaries, and outright conflict. How do these collaborations emerge? How do they persist? And how ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Warming seawater and disease in iconic crustacean fisheries - LivestreamJoin us for the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory Seminar Series, featuring speakers from within the marine sciences community and beyond.Speaker: Maya Groner, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science, MaineRegister at weblink to receive connection information
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, various research groups - not UC Berkeley, which focused on optical lithography - started to work on next-generation lithography (NGL) technologies. The chief rationale was the “foreseeable” resolution limit of optical lithography being no better than 0.5 µm. In those days, excimer-laser-based deep-ultraviolet ...
In 2023, Stephanie Ellis, Wild Care's Executive Director was tasked with incubating two sets of Osprey eggs, raising the chicks and finding them suitable wild foster nests. In 2024, Stephanie gave a wonderful Birdy Hour talk for our Fall Challenge about this experience, which you can watch for free on our website.At this ...
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Technology for Good: Nonprofits Use Software & Data to Solve ProblemsJoin us to hear from a MacArthur genius awardee, former rocket engineer, and passionate leader in the social enterprise movement - Jim Fruchterman - about using technology for positive social change.To a lot of people in big business, the only worthy ideas are those that make a lot of money, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $27.33
Understanding Addiction Night 2 - the Overdose Epidemic and Recovery DebateIn late 1990s San Francisco, more than 100 people died of heroin overdoses a year. In the fentanyl era, those numbers seem quaint. At least 600 people have died of overdose every year since 2020, with a high of 810 in 2023.The unrelenting tragic pace - 358 more in the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $18 in person, $9 online
