Trekking the ModelJoin a ranger guided tour of the Bay Model, a 1.5 acre hydraulic model of San Francisco Bay and Delta. Discover the stories of the two major operations that took place at this location between 1942 – 2000.
Where: SausalitoCost:
Fish Feeding FrenzyHelp Ranger Bill feed the hungry inhabitants of our fresh and saltwater tanks. Watch the different feeding styles of rock cod, sea stars, and steelhead trout.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Mad Science: Fire & Ice*Explore "magical" chemical potions, the wonders of dry ice, and the dynamics of air pressure. Some of the topics the mad scientists will investigate include: the three states of matter, a gassy taste test and asuper spectacular bubbling potion. Ages 5-12.
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Snakes and primates, an 80 million year-long dialog - with digressions about late 20th century MVZUC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) is hosting a public event of interest to all professional or budding natural historians and snake lovers! Dr. Henry Greene, a world-reknowned snake expert, biologist and author will be giving a public talk. Prior to the talk, at 3 pm, the MVZ will ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Jazz Under the Stars - CANCELLEDThis event is weather dependent. Latest weather updates.Visit our roof top observatory and view the moon and Jupiter thru our telescopes, while listening to KCSM Jazz 91 FM. Dress warmly and come by anytime between 6 & 10 p.m.Free parking in Marie Curie Lot 5. Directions here.No food or drinks in the ...
This month, we're hosting the nerds and exploring exoplanets and asteroids. Renowned UC Berkeley Astronomy Professor Geoff Marcy shares the latest research on exoplanets and staff astronomer, Ben Burress, explores the odds of asteroids colliding with Earth and the potential impact. Have fun competing against your fellow nerds in our ...
Where: OaklandCost: $18
Sunday, 02/09/14
Marine Science Sunday: Marine Mammal Parents and PupsIn preparation for Valentine's Day, The Marine Mammal Center celebrates love and Marine Mammal Parents and Pups in a fun, educational way for kids and adults. Tours at 11 am, 1 pm, and 3 pm of the hospital showcase some of the patients in our care and how veterinarians are ...
Where: SausalitoCost: $5 donation
'Looking for Darwin's Footprints in the World of ZomBees' Darwin Day Bagel Brunch"Looking for Darwin's Footprints in the World of ZomBees" -- Our distinguished speaker today is Prof. John Hafernik, SFSU; Interim Director, Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies; and Trustee and President, California Academy of Sciences. Prof. Hafernik, an entomologist, will share some of his research on a tiny parasitic fly--the zombie ...
Where: AlbanyCost: $10/pp
Quarterly Free Sunday at Academy of SciencesThe Academy is free to everyone on selected Sundays throughout the year. Admission is on a first-come, first served basis, and early arrival is recommended due to the likelihood of high demand. Please note that final entry to the museum is one hour before closing.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Monday, 02/10/14
Summit to SeeA monthly cross-country hike to a high point or other highlight of the sanctuary with natural history, photography, birding, etcPlease dress for the weather and bring at least one quart of drinking water. You may also wish to bring a hat, an extra layer, and a snack. There are no ...
Where: GeyservilleCost: Free
Rates of Evolution and Accumulation of Cultural VariationCulture can be viewed as as an array of learned attitudes or behaviors whose presence in an individual or a society is subject to biased transmission, innovation and random loss. We investigate the rate of evolution of such traits under different models of cultural transmission, and how these models produce ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
STAR IN A JAR: THE PHYSICS OF SINGLE BUBBLE SONOLUMINESCENCEDr. Doug Clarke, now retired from Lawrence Livermore National Lab, will discuss the brilliant flashes seen in single-bubble sonoluminescence, and the role of their group's computer simulations in studying the physics.
Improving the efficiency with which we use energy is often said to be the most cost-effective way to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, such improvements usually lower the cost of using energy-intensive goods and may create wealth from the energy savings, both of which lead to increased ...
The atmosphere affects light propagation in many ways. Temperature and density distributions, aerosols, and ice crystals produce many interesting optical phenomena such as mirages, "sun dogs," the fata morgana, light pillars, and the green flash. Atmospheric turbulence leads to the shimmering of objects, the twinkling of the stars, and especially the distortion of laser beams propagating through the atmosphere. A fundamental ...
Watershed explores the future of the heavily dammed and diverted Colorado River in an era of rising population and climate change. Presentation of the film on February 10 will be followed by a Q&A session with producers James Redford and Jill Tidman.This screening is part of the yearlong film series ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Earth Matters: Antarctic Mysteries-Icy Clues to Earth's Past, Present, and FutureIn early 2013, Rob Dunbar embarked on his latest research voyage to Antarctica's Southern Ocean, his first ever as summer turned to an icy and turbulent fall. He was exploring what happens to the carbon-rich base of the food chain when seasonal ice forms, including how much might return to ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Tuesday, 02/11/14
Is Planetary Defense Feasible - DE-STAR: A Planetary Defense and Exploration SystemDr. Lubin will discuss how his team has proposed an orbital planetary defense system that is capable of beamed power allowing a number of directed energy (DE) possibilities including planetary defense, propulsion allowing relativistic probes and interstellar communications using existing technologies. Recent developments in photonics allow such a system whereas ...
Genomic Consequences of Climate Change: A Fish's PerspectiveGlobal climate change translates into an increase in ocean temperatures and ocean acidification, with far-reaching consequences. In this talk, Dr. Giacomo Bernardi of UC Santa Cruz will explore genomic changes due to warming and acidification. In Mediterranean waters, warming has resulted in an increase in biological invaders coming from the ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Rising Seas, Rising CostsSwelling sea levels used to be a concern associated with future generations and far away lands. Then Superstorm Sandy poured the Atlantic Ocean into the New York Subway. Cities and states are starting to realize they need to start planning and paying now for tides heading their way. San Francisco ...
6:30-6:55: Bernie Lubell(Kinetic Artist) on "Intimacy and Entanglement"Exploring the conflicted relationship we have with machines via interactive artworks derived from the mechanistic physiologies of E.J. Marey... Read more6:55-7:20: Katherine Sherwood(Visual Artist) on "How a Cerebral Hemorrhage Altered my Art"Abstract...Read more7:20-7:40: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the ...
ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager originally designed by Sun Microsystems (now a part of Oracle). The features of ZFS include protection against data corruption, support for high storage capacities, data compression, snapshots and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair, RAID Z (RAID 5) ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Conversations on Science: The Neurobiology of Mind & BehaviorAntonio Damasio is a professor of neuroscience and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. His research helped uncover the neural basis for emotions and has shown that they play a central role in social cognition and decision-making. Since antiquity, artists and philosophers have ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $27 General, $25 Members
In this lecture, I will argue that a century of lived experience in the political economy of expansive capitalism in the rich countries of the world has led to a habituation to not only high levels of materials and resources used in everyday practices, but to a habituation to expansion ...
Extreme Weather in a Changing ClimateAs average temperatures continue to rise due to human changes to the composition of the atmosphere, cases of "extreme" weather are very likely to occur with greater frequency and severity, with serious impacts on human and ecological systems. Learn about the science of climate change, current areas of research, and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $10, Free to UC Berkeley students and staff
David Reiley will present the results of a randomized experiment with 1.6 million customers measuring positive causal effects of online advertising for a major retailer. The advertising profitably increases purchases by 5%. 93% of the increase occurs in brick-and-mortar stores; 78% of the increase derives from consumers who never click the ads. This ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Life History and Behavior in a Primate Hybrid ZoneHybridization in nature is a process central to understanding genetic introgression, speciation, and reproductive isolation; it can create either evolutionary dead ends or evolutionary opportunities for the organisms experiencing it. Recent studies of hybridization have been enhanced by the advent of sensitive, genetic marker-based techniques for inferring the degree of ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Trusted Detection of Malicious Activities on Mobile PhonesFor example, members of BGU cyber security labs have recently demonstrated, on Android based devices, how traffic which is tunneled via VPN can be intercepted before it has been encrypted. In this seminar, two ongoing research studies at BGU cyber security labs will be reviewed. The studies focus on trusted detection ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Science for YouthScience for Youth promotes the love of science through exciting demos, interesting videos, and thought-provoking hands-on activities. Past topics include: Chemical Bonding, Weather and Natural Events, Genetics and DNA, Renewable Energy, Newtonian Motion, and the Solar System. (Most appropriate for youth, ages 8-12)
The talk emphasizes the technical challenges with the automation of ultra-clean semiconductor factories, and discusses cleanroom robotics as an example. Topics include cleanliness requirements, design guidelines for cleanroom robots, kinematics and dynamics, as well as the installation and test of cleanroom robotic systems. Beginning with early substrate-handling robots, the speaker ...
Drink like a fish with Pacific Brewing Laboratory and Aquarium of the Bay during Octopalooza Beer Night as a part of San Francisco Beer Week. Get your beer fix with crafted brews from Pac Brew Lab including Squid Ink, Nautilus, bourbon barrel aged Squid Ink, Belgian Pear and Super Tramp. Nerdy by nature? You're in the ...
7:00-7:25: Dave Deamer(UC Santa Cruz/ Biomolecular Engineering) on "Meteorites, soap bubbles and the origin of cellular life"RNA -based microorganisms may have been the first forms of life...Read more7:25-7:50: Mark Applebaum(Stanford CCRMA) on "Visual Music and the Rehabilitation of Archaic Technologies"Visual music is enabled by archaic technologies... Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Science of BeerWhether it's a lager or ale, sour or bitter, dark or light, most beer has one thing in common: yeast. And yeast can be explained by science! Join us tonight in partnership with KQED Science, and in celebration of SF Beer Week, for a night of learning, tasting, and educational ...
California-based and globally-working wild cat conservationist Zara McDonald, Executive Director of Felidae Conservation Fund, will give an engaging and inspiring presentation about mountain lions and the work currently underway to study and protect them. Felidae Conservation Fund is a non-profit that aims to advance the conservation of wild cats and ...
Induced seismicity and hydraulic fracturingAbstract: Hydraulic fracturing induces seismic events, sometimes even felt at surface. Despite long history of various scientific investigations there is lack of understanding of how the hydraulic fracturing induces the seismicity in general and specifically microseismicity, i.e. small events with Mw<0. We agree that only small fraction of injected energy ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Visualizing Sudden Oak Death - A Session with the ExpertsWe'll be having a lively discussion with three of the top Phytophthora ramorum researchers around, and you are invited to watch. Join Janice Alexander (outreach coordinator for the California Oak Mortality Task Force) in a moderated discussion withe Matteo Garbelotto, Jennifer Parke, and Gary Chastagner. Submit your questions now to ...
Where: Cost: Free
TOURING ANTIQUE TELESCOPES AND OTHER ASTRONOMICAL SITES AROUND THE WORLD The Antique Telescope Society was organized in 1992 to study the history of astronomical and other kinds of optics and their impact on the study of astronomy. In addition, many of the members collect, and in many cases, restore and use these fine old instruments for personal use. Each year, ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Crave NightlifeWhat does it mean to want? This week, NightLife pays tribute to Valentine's Day while exploring the science of cravings-from quirky desires to total taboos.'Fess up to Personality Hotels' anonymous confession box (don't worry, we won't tell!) and learn where and how to get a room.Beer, sex, and chocolate-oh my! ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
Coming to Terms with Where You Are: Finding Peace in the Midst of ChaosThe Ernest Rosenbaum Cancer Survivorship Lecture Series is open to all cancer patients and their support. The series covers topics relevant to physical, emotional and practical issues of cancer patients in any phase of treatment and survivorship.Speaker: Sangeeta Agarawal, MS, RN, CAS
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
My Furry ValentineNaturalist and Zookeeper Patrick Schlemmer describes some of the more colorful mating strategies in the animal kingdom.
Please join skeptic Kernan Coleman for a personal recollection of a ten-year journey out of magical thinking, alt med, new age, and fear-based denialism, and learn how the woo of Wooville still affects him even though he knows better.Presented as a public service by the Bay Area Skeptics
Sunset/Full Moon Walk to the Point Bonita LighthouseJoin park staff and docents for a tour down the Point Bonita Trail, through the hand-carved tunnel and out to the Lighthouse.We will walk along a half-mile trail, which is steep in places.Arrive early as parking is limited. Meet at the Point Bonita Lighthouse trailhead.Dress warmly and bring a flashlight.Limited ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Climate Risk, Sustainability, and Global Policy DialogAverage temperatures in the Earth's atmosphere have begun an upward trend that is largely irreversible over the next century. Whether these trends lead to moderate or extreme climate change will depend on policy. In this talk, learn about the risks we face around the world, as well as the state ...
