Bay Area Environmental Education Resource Fair (BAEER)Discover the latest in classroom materials, environmental education programs, and field trip sites. Join in the fun and attend workshops introducing conservation and wildlife education, school gardens, and strategies for fostering environmental awareness! The event is specially designed for teachers, community educators, students, families, and all concerned about the environment ...
Where: San RafaelCost: $12 General, $10 HS Students & Seniors, $8 Youth
Living Machines, Greywater, Constructed WetlandsGreenbuilding consultant Roy Nordblom will present a talk on living machines, greywater, and constructed wetlands. He will lead a tour of the sustainable features at the ELSEE campus, including greywater and rainwater systems with edible native wetland species providing rootmass and biofilter in the greywater bog the garden sink, which ...
Discover the tools, techniques, and ingenuity of local Makers and make your own artistic and innovative creations. People in cities around the world rely on new inventions. Come make something new out of recycled materials that will positively impact your city. Featured Makers and activity leaders include: -Craig Hansen ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with admission
Central coasting, with emphasis on our diverse marine algae Join us for our popular series of free public lectures on a broad array of topics related to plants and natural history. Named in honor of its founder, the Wayne Roderick Lecture Series takes place in the Visitor Center of the Regional Parks Botanic Garden. These illustrated presentations are enjoyable for ...
Celebrate the 23 years of sea lions in San Francisco this month with special sea lion encounters at Pier 39's famous K-Dock.Pier 39, Aquarium of the Bay and The Marine Mammal Center invite you to enjoy this anniversary January 18-21 with free, 20-minute educational walking tours hosted by interpretive naturalists ...
Most people think that "seeing" is something that happens in the eyes, but many aspects of our perception of the world are determined by neural computations that occur in the brain. The visual cortex - the part of the brain that processes vision - takes up nearly a third of ...
In celebration of Underwater Parks Day, Aquarium of the Bay, together with Ocean Conservancy, will host a presentation by photographer and author Marc Shargel on Saturday, January 19, 2013. Shargel's images transport viewers to the state's newly protected underwater parks and give insights into the marine life that call them ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Jazz Under the StarsVisit our roof top observatory and see the moon and Saturn thru our telescopes, while listening to KCSM Jazz 91 FM. Dress warmly.No food or drinks in the observatory. Children are welcome and need to be attended at all times. Parking is free in lot 5, Marie Curie
Celebrate the 23 years of sea lions in San Francisco this month with special sea lion encounters at Pier 39's famous K-Dock.Pier 39, Aquarium of the Bay and The Marine Mammal Center invite you to enjoy this anniversary January 18-21 with free, 20-minute educational walking tours hosted by interpretive naturalists ...
Whales spend over 90 percent of their lives underwater and out of view. In order to understand how these ocean giants navigate, feed, socialize, and maneuver, scientists have engineered tags that allow a glimpse into their watery world. Dr. Friedlaender will share his experiences tagging humpback whales and recreating the ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
Salt Marsh WalkTake a walk with docent Gregg Aronson around the wetlands of the wildlife refuge and learn about their history. See examples of salt collection ponds and learn what is being done to convert them back to their original, natural salt marsh state. Hear how wildlife is affected by the two types of habitat and why ...
Celebrate the 23 years of sea lions in San Francisco this month with special sea lion encounters at Pier 39's famous K-Dock.Pier 39, Aquarium of the Bay and The Marine Mammal Center invite you to enjoy this anniversary January 18-21 with free, 20-minute educational walking tours hosted by interpretive naturalists ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Beginning Mushroom Identification IIUse Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora to identify actual mushrooms. You will be given a brief tutorial on how to use the keys in the book and receive help with guiding you through the identification process in a hands-on manner. Reservations required.Mycological Society of San FranciscoRoom 401
Where: San FranciscoCost: $5 General, Members free
What can black hole dynamics tell us about Quantum Gravity?Forty years ago, Jacob Bekenstein and Stephen Hawking showed that black holes are "hot," with characteristic temperatures and entropies that depend on properties of their event horizons. The Hawking temperature and the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy are quantum and gravitational -- they depend on both Planck's constant and Newton's gravitational constant -- ...
Responding to climate change involves both mitigation and adaptation, and these impacts prove to be particularly profound on the built environment. Come hear from two leading climate practitioners, Cole Roberts and Alisdair McGregor, both of Arup, as they present their recently released book. Two Degrees: The Built Environment and Our ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for Members
Synthetic biology was once-upon-a-time reserved for big pharma and the multimillon dollar chemical manufacturing industry. But today, startups and hackers in their garages and basements are using cloud based services and low cost labs, tools and equipment to manipulate organisms to produce materials and products of economic value.Startups like Lygos ...
Where: StanfordCost: $40.00 - $50.00
Annual CES DownloadThis is one of our more popular meeting topics - a look at some of the latest and greatest, and sometimes weirdest new products shown at the Consumer Electronics Show. Both Gary and Tom have attended CES for over a decade each, and both are in Las Vegas for ten ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: $10 General, Members Free in advance, $5 at door
An Evening with Elon MuskElon Musk is living two ultimate boyhood fantasies: creating a sports car company and a rocket launch corporation. As co-founder of PayPal, Elon helped transform payment online systems and then, like a true revolutionary, set his sights on electric cars and space transport.Today Elon Musk is CEO of both Tesla ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: TBA
Dark Energy and the Runaway UniverseJoin us to hear Alex Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley, as he discusses the expansion of our Universe and how it is speeding up with time, driven by mysterious "dark energy." Dating back to 1998, observations revealed that the expansion rate of the Universe is speeding up with time, ...
Denis R. Benjamin, MD, grew up in South Africa, emigrating to the Pacific Northwest in 1970. He practiced pediatric pathology at the children's hospitals in Seattle, Washington and Fort Worth, Texas. He became an amateur mycologist soon after his arrival in the USA. He recently returned to the east slopes ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Wednesday, 01/23/13
Considerate Audio MEdiating Oracle (CAMEO): Improving teleconference callsThis talk will show that variance in conversational dominance can significantly be reduced with proactive aural feedback. Our experiments further reveal that such feedback can also reduce the impact of extraneous noise on conversations. The talk will start by framing the considerate system stance of social feedback to a user. ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Why Earthquakes are so GentleImplications of Strong-Rate-Weakening Friction for the Length-Scale Dependence of the Strength of the Crust.Speaker: Thomas Heaton, CaltechRoom 350/372
Science and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub, West BaySkeptics in the Pub, West BayFiddlers Green, MillbraeIf ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the film-flam man, and if ye drink, drink with us, your friends. If ye shun the brewer's art, at least help us lay waste to bangers & mash!Skeptics in the Pub is a monthly ...
Where: MillbraeCost:
Thursday, 01/24/13
Streams, Gardens, and Clouds: Visualizing Dynamic Data for Engagement, Education and the EnvironmentScientists, policymakers, business leaders, journalists-all seek to harness the deluge of data generated by the minute through sensing networks and social media. Aided by the increasing availability of high-speed Internet, wireless networks, and mobile devices, people with access to multimedia tools contribute to these data flows both intentionally and inadvertently. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Decoding Human Health Infectious Cures: Hijacking Viruses To Overcome Disease We've made substantial progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS over the past three decades, but the epidemic continues to ravage humankind-especially in the developing world. Everywhere, viruses such as HIV compete with their hosts in an evolutionary 'arms race'-building resistance to the latest therapies in order to maintain their deadly ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members
Jared Diamond, author of 'Gun, Germs & Steel' & 'The World Until Yesterday'Pulitzer Prize winning author Diamond draws extensively from his field work and examines how Amazonian Indians, Inuit, and other traditional societies have adapted and evolved for nearly 6 million years.He explains what we can still learn from these traditional societies regarding universal human problems like elder care, child rearing, physical ...
OMG, you've been colonized! But don't fret, this is nothing new. This week get to know the plethora of microbes that colonize our bodies at a series of hands-on demonstration stations manned by scientists from the Academy and Gladstone Institutes. Compare the hearts and brains of animals to those of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 members
Genomic MedicineDr. Thomas White, former Chief Scientific Officer of Celera will be giving a talk titled Genomic Medicine: The Development, Economic and Ethical Challenges of Translating Basic Research Into Clinical Practice. Reception immediately following.Room 105
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Origins & Evolution of Meaning: A Biological ViewDr. Herr will provide a naturalistic consideration of how sense-making may have originated and evolved on Earth. What does a close and considered observation of vertebrate mammals, insects, sessile polyps, or single-celled bacteria tell us about how each and all of these living creatures find and create functional meaning and ...
During the past century, scientists have dissected the outer layer of our planet with bold scientific investigations revealing the deep properties of the Earth's crustScientific creativity has fostered innovation in field measurements from the Tibetan Plateau to the deep Pacific Ocean, and beyondNew insights are providing clues to processes that ...
Brilliant!Science: Decoding Human Health; Body Art: An Evening Science Mingle Mix and mingle with Academy and Gladstone scientists while exploring the human body as an art form-from brain to bone. The evening's mingle will feature cutting-edge science displays from the Gladstone Institutes, U.S. home to research built on a breakthrough that won a Gladstone scientist the 2012 Nobel Prize in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $20 Members
How to Get to Mars... and What to Do Once You ArriveAn Evening with Dr. Pascal Lee of the Mars Instituteand "Packing for Mars" bestselling author Mary Roach Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Annual Dinner to support Science LiteracyOther participants include Alex Filipenko, Geoff Marcy, and Sandra Faber."Stardust" $100 ASP member / $125 non-member"Comet" $150 (preferred seating)"Mercury" $200 (premium seating)"Jupiter" $300 (dine ...
