California Coastal Cleanup Day - Marin County9 am – Noon • Beach Cleanup Noon – 3 pm • Celebration at the Bay Model Visitor Center Please check the Bay Model website for over 35 volunteer cleanup sites in Marin County.
Where: SausalitoCost: Volunteer
Guided Nature WalkExperience the beauty and rich natural history of this 535-acre preserve. Our half-day guided nature walks are on Saturdays throughout fall and spring. Participants are divided into small groups and paired with a trained Bouverie volunteer to explore the mixed evergreen forest, flower-carpeted oak woodland and rugged chaparral. Guided Nature Walks range ...
Where: GeyservilleCost: Free
Fall FluttersJoin a park docent for an easy 2-mile stroll to enjoy views of the wetlands, migratory birds, and other wildlife. Observe California's smallest butterfly, the Western Pygmy Blue, and learn how it thrives in a harsh, alkaline environment. Meet in the parking lot near the restrooms. Dress in layers with ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 for adults; discounts available
Piquant Investigations into Salt, Herbs, and SpicesRelish the rich world of seasonings in this free, outdoor festival. Get a taste for the historical uses of herbs, trace the geographic origins of common, culinary spices, and find out how the chemical defenses of certain plants can be so stimulating-and flavorful. You can also learn about local saltworks, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Water, Water, Everywhere – from the Earth, the Moon, Mars, and BeyondWater, essential for life as we know it, is an important indicator of the conditions present on other planets and moons throughout recent history and in the distant past. The presence and state of water and other similar volatile compounds throughout our own solar system provides insight into its formation, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
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 ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
A Musical World Premiere Inspired and Accompanied by AstronomyThe Mission Chamber Orchestra of San Jose will offer the world premiere of a new orchestral composition by composer Nancy Bloomer Deussen, entitled "The Transit of Venus." In June 2012, the composer participated in an event at NASA's Ames Research Center, featuring live images of Venus crossing the face of ...
Where: San JoseCost: $25 General, $20 Senior, $12 Student, $10 Children
Don't Lick That Doorknob: 'Contagion' movie screening and science talkYour evening begins at 6:30 in the lounge of San Francisco's luxurious Variety Preview Theater with great conversation and a cash bar.Then, at 7:30, take limitless free popcorn to plush theater seating for a special screening of "Contagion".Finally, at about 9 o'clock, Prof. of Microbiology and Immunology, Dr. Bob Siegel ...
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 ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Naturalist Know-howDo you know a young person interested in nature? Take them to Junior Academy: Naturalist Know-how! Learn to be a naturalist! September's skill is Flower/Plant Pressing. Variations of the monthly skill will be available each week. This program is designed for youth ages 8 to 11. Youth must be accompanied ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Monday, 09/23/13
DARK MATTER: AND HOW WE WOULD NOT BE ALIVE WITHOUT ITDr. Tom Abel from SLAC and KIPAC at Stanford University will explain how telescopic observations have convinced scientists that Dark Matter must exist. The talk will also discuss the importance of supercomputers in studying how Dark Matter influences the Universe.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
How (and Why) to 'Read' Big GraphsA graph consists of a set of vertices and edges, where each edge connects a pair of vertices. This mathematical construct is an extremely important theoretical object as well as a wonderful tool for modeling and analyzing real-life systems. For example, each vertex can represent a person, and an edge ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
On the topology and future stability of the universeThe current standard model of the universe is spatially homogeneous, isotropic and spatially flat. Furthermore, the matter content is described by two perfect fluids (dust and radiation) and there is a positive cosmological constant. Such a model can be well approximated by a solution to the Einstein-Vlasov equations with a ...
Energy use and conversion are important for the design of low-power electronics and energy-conversion systems. This is also a rich domain for both fundamental discoveries as well as technological advances. This talk will present recent highlights from our studies at the intersection of energy, nanomaterials, and nanoelectronics. We have investigated ...
Stem cells appear to have the capability of regenerating all cell types in the human body. Moreover, simple tissue structures generated by culturing these cells have been grown in vitro, suggesting the possibility of regenerating damaged, degenerated, or otherwise dysfunctional organs in vivo. Stem cells can be harvested from early ...
The Colossus Project: Designing an optical/IR instrument to detect life outside the solar system This talk describes an effort to detect life, and even conduct a planetary census, in our cosmic neighborhood. I'll describe some results from the Colossus group, an interdisciplinary science and engineering team, working to show how telescopes much larger than the TMT or EELT could be built today by relaxing ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Can We Cope with Sea Level Rise?Climate change is affecting sea levels around the world. In Australia a rise of around a meter by the end of the century is predicted. The impacts of this are likely to be significant in a number of ways. Planners need to carefully consider the location of future coastal developments. ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Shock-Bubble InteractionWhen a shock wave propagates across the interface between fluids of different acoustic impedance, two fundamental events follow: the refraction of the shock wave across the non-uniformity, and the baroclinic generation of vorticity on the interface. This latter, in turn, causes the development of distinct vertical structures which lead to ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Changing Shores: What the Bay's Past Can Tell Us about Its FutureThe Save the Bay moment of the 1970s was a premier regional effort at environmental protection and presented a model to the world. It remains an unfinished project, however, for the San Francisco estuary, like all shores, is what Rachel Carson called an "elusive and indefinable boundary," which can never ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 non-members, $8 members, $7 students
Things should be things and not computersWho wants to reboot their thermostat? Garage door opener? That's where we're heading because most Internet of Things (IoT) vendors have taken a "Honey, I shrunk the computer" design approach. That's wrong. The danger is that the commonly used Internet architecture, that was designed in ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: $10 General, $5 members at door, free in advance
Since 1999 Judith Selby Lang and Richard Lang have collected more than two tons of plastic trash from 1000 yards of Kehoe Beach along the Point Reyes National Seashore. For Finding Meaning in the Mess, their exhibit at the Bay Model, they have transformed this debris into engaging works of art that raise awareness of the sheer ...
Dr. Shaffer's uses novel smart technologies to study long-range movements, distribution, and behavior of wild seabirds and marine mammals in Alaska, Antarctica, the Arctic, and the tropical Pacific. This new form of biotechnology is shedding light on the secret lives of marine animals that range widely over the open sea. ...
Northern Sierra Nevada Water FundMuch of the northern Sierra Nevada provides water supply to California and Nevada. Climate change predictions in this region call for less snow and more rain, and increased catastrophic wildfires. In addition, US Forest Service lands contain many overly dense forests at risk of high intensity fire, but without funding ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
History of MarinshipJoin Ranger Bill as he facilitates an in-depth discussion on the history of the Marinship Shipyard at the Bay Model built by the Bechtel Corporation at the request of President Franklin Roosevelt in March of 1942. Learn about the 93 ships built here during WWII.
Who Owns The FutureStanford EE Computer Systems ColloquiumRoom B03Speaker: Jaron Lanier, Microsoft Research
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Solar Enlightenment: Why Solar Energy is a Bright IdeaAre you bummed about climate change? Think there's nothing you can do to make a real impact? Do you wish solar energy was a tangible solution, but remain unsure? Then make sure you come to this installment of Rooted and Rising to learn how solar energy is changing the ways ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
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 ...
George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral, the On the Same Page selection for 2013, will give the keynote lecture to kick off this fall's program.Dyson is an author, boatbuilder, designer, and historian of technology whose interests have included the development (and redevelopment) of the Aleut kayak (Baidarka, 1986), the evolution ...
The Dark Side of the UniverseThe Universe appears to be dominated by an unknown form of matter, known as "dark matter", responsible for pulling matter together and for holding together galaxies such as our own Milky Way, and by an even more mysterious form of energy, known as "dark energy", which governs the fate and ...
Three years ago, browsers started to add Do Not Track features, and users flocked to the Do Not Track approach. Business, however, was not so eager. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) gathered over 100 stakeholders to come to a consensus decision of what a site should do when a ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Forensic Medical Examiner InvestigationsForensic investigator Rosa Vega from the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner's Office will come to San Jose State to deliver a seminar on death investigation.
As part of the On the Same Page program, distinguished panelists will discuss the Turing test and how it fosters the exploration of the boundaries between human and artificial intelligence. Panelists will describe the development of Berkeley's own version of the test, the Turing Test Tournament, and discuss how being ...
This week, NightLife travels back in time to the roaring 1920s in honor of Steinhart Aquarium's 90th anniversary.Old-timey cocktails and the vintage vinyl stylings of DJ Tanoa set the mood, while African Hall transforms into a swinging speakeasy with swing dancing lessons nearby from Lindy in the Park.Artifacts from the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
'Rabid' talk and book signing with Bill Wasik and Monica MurphyA maddened creature, frothing at the mouth, lunges at an innocent victim... It's a scenario that underlies our darkest tales of supernatural horror, but its power derives from a very real virus, a deadly scourge known to mankind from our earliest days. In this fascinating exploration, journalist Bill Wasik and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: FREE
Sleepless Nights: Sleep Problems and DisordersLearn about sleep and sleepiness, how to recognize common sleep problems and sleep disorders, and receive treatment for them. Dr Kushida will also share some do's and don'ts for good sleep.Speaker: Clete Kushida, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine
