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 ...
