Access to affordable and reliable energy has been a cornerstone of the world's increasing prosperity and economic growth since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Our use of energy in the twenty-first century must also be sustainable. This talk will provide a techno-economic snapshot of the current energy landscape and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
How Cheap is Cheap Natural Gas? Characterizing the Effects of Hydraulic Fracturing on Electricity Production'Hydraulic fracturing extraction has dramatically lowered the price of natural gas. As a result, natural gas is being used for a larger percentage of electricity production in the United States. Using a large dataset spanning 2000-2011, this research identifies the effects of lower natural gas prices on electricity production in ...
Seismic forces that shaped the citySan Francisco is famous for its hills, which lend the city its character and breathtaking views. On this tour, we'll explore the unique qualities that have shaped San Francisco's distinctive terrain, while munching through edible seismic activities and getting up close and personal with the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 with discount code 'Schmooze'
African Safari....Live, Exotic MammalsBonnie Cromwell's presentation will feature a Clouded Leopard, Ring-tailed Lemur, and a Serval, just to name a few. There will be a $10., prepaid fee, and seating is limited. The event will begin at 7 P.M.
70% of the Earth's landmass is vegetated, and comprehensive vegetation mapping, monitoring, and analysis are critical to provide a better understanding of the agricultural crop and natural vegetation properties.
Seismic forces that shaped the citySan Francisco is famous for its hills, which lend the city its character and breathtaking views. On this tour, we'll explore the unique qualities that have shaped San Francisco's distinctive terrain, while munching through edible seismic activities and getting up close and personal with the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 with discount code 'Schmooze'
Saturday, 09/01/12
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Hawk Talk and Banding DemoCome to Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands and get an up-close view of the fall raptor migration with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory (GGRO), a cooperative program of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and National Park Service.A GGRO docent gives an hour-long talk about hawk monitoring and identification ...
Science and creativity in the city of innovationSan Francisco's creative nature inspired innovation long before the silicon chip: Some of the world's most influential inventions were dreamed up by San Franciscan tinkerers. On this tour, we explore seven surprising stories of innovation that exemplify San Francisco as a hotbed of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 with discount code 'Schmooze'
Explore the evening magic of Muir Woods, learning about the secret nightlife of an old-growth redwood forest.This special walk begins one hour before sunset and will conclude with the dark of night!We'll listen for owls, look for bats, and use our senses to guide us along the trails.This is an ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Sunday, 09/02/12
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Hawk Talk and Banding DemoCome to Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands and get an up-close view of the fall raptor migration with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory (GGRO), a cooperative program of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and National Park Service.A GGRO docent gives an hour-long talk about hawk monitoring and identification ...
Seismic forces that shaped the citySan Francisco is famous for its hills, which lend the city its character and breathtaking views. On this tour, we'll explore the unique qualities that have shaped San Francisco's distinctive terrain, while munching through edible seismic activities and getting up close and personal with the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 with discount code 'Schmooze'
Monday, 09/03/12
Open House at Crab CoveCelebrate the holiday with a variety of fun nature activities and crafts throughout the day for the whole family. 9am - 10am: come early to catch the Low Tide Exploration.
Science and creativity in the city of innovationSan Francisco's creative nature inspired innovation long before the silicon chip: Some of the world's most influential inventions were dreamed up by San Franciscan tinkerers. On this tour, we explore seven surprising stories of innovation that exemplify San Francisco as a hotbed of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 with discount code 'Schmooze'
Dan Wells has wandered the Seashore with a camera throughout this past summer. He will share his images and experiences. Visit his blog This Tardiest Explorer to preview some of his photographs.
Where: Point Reyes StationCost: Free
A graphics performance wishlist: What we would like hardware to be good atAlgorithms in computer graphics and numerical simulation often possess high intrinsic parallelism, and should be well suited to hardware acceleration on GPUs or similar devices. To explore how well current hardware achieves this goal, I will discuss several representative problems taken from these two fields. For each one, I'll present ...
Alan M. Turing (1912–1954) was a mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. In honor of this pioneer of our digital age, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing are presenting a lecture by Andrew Hodges, the author of the acclaimed biography Alan Turing: ...
Why do the Jetsons remain the high bar of futurist thinking when it comes to the places we live in? Panelists Tom Chi, experience lead at Google X; architect Michelle Kaufmann; Ronald Rael, architect, author and assistant professor at UC Berkeley; and moderator Allison Arieff, contributing columnist to The New ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free members
Find out what ideas are percolating in the mind of William Gibson, one our greatest contemporary science fiction writers. Author of the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, Gibson described the Internet before it existed and coined the term "cyberspace." His first collection of nonfiction writings, Distrust That Particular Flavor, offers provocative ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $20 Members, $15 Students
Coronal heating and acceleration and NASA's Solar Probe Plus missionThe thermodynamic temperature of the Sun's atmosphere rises from ~6000K at the visible surface to millions of degrees in its outer atmosphere, the corona. This hot coronal plasma then expands supersonically to become the solar wind; this wind acceleration process is ongoing to very high altitudes (~10 solar radii) There ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Emerging Wireless Applications In BiomedicineIn recent years, we have become fascinated by the idea of tiny surgical robots that can be introduced into a blood vessel, travel through the patient's body, exchange information with an external controller for detailed diagnosis, and perform local interventions. They might even be permanently resident in the body for ...
Understanding the Deep Sea - Oceanography Meets BusinessOur community is increasingly asking demanding questions on the prediction of the natural world. What useful chemicals will be discovered from the ocean and ocean mud? Will the steady trend in movement of California precipitation from snow to rain continue, or accelerate? What is the average recurrence time for earthquakes ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 standard, $8 members, $7 students
Tim O'Reilly - Birth of the Global MindTim O'Reilly presents: Birth of the Global Mind"The history of civilization is a story of evolution in our ability to build complex 'multicellular minds,'" says Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media (books, conferences, foo camps, Maker Faires,Make magazine.)Speech allowed us to communicate and coordinate. Writing allowed that coordination ...
Finding paths for sustainable energy production is one of the foremost challenges as worldwide demand is quickly growing and increased concern of climate effect due to increased concentration of greenhouse gasses. One promising direction, especially for production of liquid transportation fuels, is re-engineering the metabolism of microbes like baker's yeast ...
