NASA Lunar Science ForumThe NASA Lunar Science Institute is pleased to announce the 4th annual NASA Lunar Science Forum, to be held July 19-21, 2011. This year's forum will feature sessions on the latest scientific results from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Lunar Crater Observation Sensing Satellite, a side conference for lunar graduate students ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
The Science of Bread and Cheese Walking TourThese two ancient foods owe their glory to microscopic magic. Explore the role of unseen organisms in creating flavors and textures, get your hands on some gluten, and admire the microbes on some bloomy rinds. By the end of this tour, you'll be able to play cheese science expert at ...
In the 2007 Cosco Busan oil spill that dumped 53,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay, 31 species of oiled and traumatized birds were rescued and taken to the Oiled Wildlife Care Network's 12,000-square-foot center in Fairfield, where veterinarians and trained volunteers cleaned and rehabilitated the birds, eventually saving ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $5 General, Members Free
Fix or Nix: The Environment & Technology How can technology best be used to foster environmental sustainability? Journalist Mark Hertsgaard – the environment correspondent for The Nation and author of the recent book, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth – will raise that question and others at what promises to be a provocative dialogue ...
Vanished Waters and the History of Mission BayChris Carlsson, Director of Shaping San Francisco, will tell the story of the gradual filling-in of a vast tidal cove. Mission Bay once was a tidal salt-marsh fed fresh water from meandering Mission Creek. Learn of the would-be settlers, speculators and visionary planners it has attracted over the last 130 ...
