California is currently experiencing the deepest drought in 500 years, yet its effects are more severe in some parts of the state than others. Learn how bad it is for the Bay Area and what's being done to stretch water supplies until the next wet year.+ Paula Kehoe / SFPUC + Mike ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for members
Get Your Goose On! Nature Program for KidsEver wonder about the San Francisco Bay wetlands and the wildlife in your very own backyard? Join us for an adventure here at your local library. You'll get up close and personal with real feet and beaks of birds while you play bird games and create your own wild craft. ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
For Goodness SnakesThis one-of-a-kind educational experience will introduce children to the fascinating world of snakes and other reptiles. Come enjoy the opportunity to hold and interact with the docile animals of For Goodness Snakes.
Where: San JoseCost: Free
SUPERBUGS AND DRUG-DESIGNHave you ever wondered how scientists discover the antibiotics that we take to fight bacteria? It might surprise you to know that when our grandparents were young, there really was no such thing as an antibiotic, when diseases like tuberculosis were invariably deadly. Two fortuitous occurrences in the middle of ...
Speaker: Michael Weisberg, Univ. of PennsylvaniaRoom 107
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Climate Change and a Shifting Sense of PlaceJoin the Institute at the Golden Gate for an engaging conversation on how biodiversity loss and climate change is already affecting how we engage with parks and open spaces. To make progress towards combating and adapting to climate change, and halting the loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystems, it ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Chronic SinusitisNasal and sinus problems are among the most common health conditions for which patients seek medical attention. Rhinosinusitis is the number one self-reported chronic health condition in the United States, affecting between 30 and 40 million people each year. This talk will explore current evidence based updates on the medical ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Unleashing Your Creativity SOLD OUT: Watch the live stream SOLD OUT: Watch the live stream at www.jccsf.org/live.As founder of IDEO, David Kelley built the company that created many icons of the digital age-the first Apple mouse, the first Palm Treo and the thumbs up/thumbs down button on your TiVo's remote control, to name a few. But what really intrigues ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $22.50 Members
Global and Local Negotiations on Climate MitigationDeputy Director General at the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, Mr. Meijenfeldt was also special Envoy for Climate Change at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2013 and chaired the Dutch participation in the global diplomatic activities to reach a climate agreement.Speaker: Hugo von Meijenfeldt
All of us know that tobacco advertisers prey on people. We even know that "light" cigarettes are a total joke. Tonight we'll hear the history of cigarette advertising targeting women and see how women are still so important to the tobacco industry. Bogus health claims abound even now in advertising, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: FREE
Friday, 03/14/14
Explore the Exploratorium for Free! Pi DayJoin us for Pi Day, the mathematical holiday founded at the Exploratorium and celebrated by number lovers around the world. To honor the never-ending number 3.14159... (and Einstein's birthday), we'll serve up pi-themed activities, rituals, antics, and plenty of pie. Find out what's so special about this famous mathematical constant, ...
Celebrate Pi DayCome celebrate the never ending number! Play games, make up Pi poems and songs and discover the fun of launching pies at far off targets using giant sling shots! While the Sun is shining, bake a delicious solar oven pie and be a judge in our pie tasting contest.
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
Celebrate Pi DayCome celebrate the never ending number! Play games, make up Pi poems and songs and discover the fun of launching pies at far off targets using giant sling shots! While the Sun is shining, bake a delicious solar oven pie and be a judge in our pie tasting contest.
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
Mind Matters: Mapping the Human Mind Through Neuroscience: Meet the CollaboratorsMind Matters is an interactive, visual and educational art exhibit to promote public information and general education about neuro-scientific discoveries. An interdisciplinary exhibit at the intersection of arts, technology and science, it is the fruit of collaboration of small groups of artists and scientists, working together and stimulating each other's ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Pi in the Sky Moonlight HikeThe brightness of the Gibbous moon guides our exploration of the redwoods on this easy 2-3 mile hike. After the hike, stay and view the night sky through our telescopes (weather permitting) or tour our Telescope Makers Workshop. Hike will take place rain or shine.
Where: OaklandCost: $17
Ask a Scientist's PI DAY Puzzle PartyTrying to decide how you're going to celebrate Pi Day (3.14) this year? Avoid the congested airports and typical math holiday madness, and join us instead for Ask a Scientist's Pi Day Puzzle Party - a boisterous math and logic puzzle competition, hosted by the inimitable Wes Carroll. You can compete ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Green Friday: Fracking in California: Can We Still Be a Climate Leader!The Sierra Club "Don't Frack California" team will explain what "fracking and acidizing" is and why the oil industry's attempt to greatly expand its efforts in California poses major risks to the water we drink, the air we breathe, our climate, and our future, driving California backwards instead of forwards as ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Suggested donation $3
STEM: Inventing Future EntrepreneursThe U.S. is ranked 52nd in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematic (STEM) education. With a continual decline in Americans pursuing advanced education in STEM fields (> 67% of engineers receiving Ph.D.'s in the U.S. are not U.S. citizens), there is an undeniable need to foster and culture 'home-grown' innovators. The ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: $8 General, $5 Students (includes parking)
Snacking, Gorging, and Cannibalizing: The Feeding Habits of Black HolesA new generation of telescopes is coming online. Operating at wavelengths from radio, through optical, to gamma ray, they are particularly well-suited to time-domain survey science: essentially, making large-format movies of the sky. These telescopes will have the capability to tell us about how black holes grow: through cannibalizing each ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking charge)
Saturday, 03/15/14
Eye-Opening Science: The Changing Oceans: Ocean AcidificationIn addition to global climate change, one of the consequences of increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is that this gas is dissolving into the world's oceans, creating ever more acidic conditions. Many organisms that use calcium carbonate minerals to build skeletons and shells are vulnerable to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $35 General, $25 Members and Seniors
Presidio Birdlife Come see what birds hang around the Presidio in March and learn about our diverse birdlife on a moderate 2-mile walk. Meet ranger Will Elder in front of the Beach Hut located on East Beach on Crissy Field. Reservations required; call (415) 561-4323.
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Ocean BiodiversityLearn about our ocean's biodiversity from two great presenters!David McGuire-Swimming with Sharks: Cal Academy's ocean adventurer will show videos and tell stores about our local sharks and explain the importance of saving them.Greg Cotten-Local Harbors to the Arctic: Underwater photographer and marine biologist will share photos and stories from his field ...
Marine Science Institute loves sharks! This special Shark Day invites one and all to learn about these amazing creatures, from the great whites that swim just off these ocean shores, to the gentle leopard sharks that are common in the Bay. You will be feeding and touching local leopard sharks ...
Mechanical engineers often try to understand how changing a machine's design affects its performance. After a hundred years of designing internal combustion engines, for example, we now have the ability to optimize parameters such as fuel efficiency and horsepower. Far removed from the macroscopic world with which we are all ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
NOVA Making StuffMake stuff wilder, safer, faster, and colder at this series of events inspired by NOVA's MAKING STUFF on PBS. Whether you design a mechanical eagle claw or a cooling device to take on your next tropical vacation, what stuff can you make out of your ideas?
The Albatrosses of Midway: Ecology and Conservation of Pacific Ocean WanderersAlbatrosses travel thousands of miles across ocean basins, returning to land only to nest. Midway Atoll, a tiny island in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian chain, is one of the world's largest albatross colonies, hosting more than a million birds. Sharing his experiences from 20 years at Midway, Breck will tell ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
Junior Academy: Naturalist Know-howCalifornia Academy of SciencesSundays at 2pm – 2:45pm (sign-up at 1:30pm) Naturalist Center / Lab (Level 3 across from the Planetarium exit)This program is designed for youth ages 8 to 11. Youth must be accompanied by an adult. Space is limited to 20 youth with attending adults. Onsite registration is ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Academy admission
Advances in Early Detection Science: Finding Infant Markers of AutismThis talk will focus on early detection of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in infants and young toddlers, summarizing existing research and describing new results from an ongoing prospective study. Developmental challenges beyond ASD that may occur in siblings will also be discussed. The talk will conclude with recurrence risk of ...
The theoretical concept of 'supersymmetry' (SUSY) remains the focus of many theoretical, and experimental particle physicists. This presentation discusses unexpected evidence buried deep in its mathematical structure that suggests it may have links to a concept in genetics.Speaker: Sylvester Gates, Univ. of Maryland
Exoplanets discovered to date show a wide range of orbital eccentricities; the angles between their spin equators and orbital planes are still quite unknown, but these "obliquities'' may range widely as well. Both eccentricity and obliquity can have profound effects on a planet's seasons, as well as on its cycle ...
Though threatened by pollution and development, San Francisco Bay is also home to the largest habitat restoration effort on the West Coast. Come hear how an ambitious new effort will offer voters an opportunity to establish steady funding to restore the bay's health for people and wildlife, while improving its ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for members
GMOs - A Budding Promise Or A Growing Concern?Panel: David Zilberman, Robinson Chair in the Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley; Nathanael Johnson, Journalist; Sam Mogannam, Owner of the Bi-Rite Family of Businesses
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Fritjof Capra: Learning from Leonardo Capra, a physicist and systems theorist well-known for his highly influential The Tao of Physics, presents Leonardo Da Vinci's scientific work – his fluid dynamics, geology, botany, mechanics, aerodynamics and anatomy. Most of his astonishing discoveries and achievements remain virtually unknown, as has Leonardo's focus on understanding the nature of life, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 members, $7 students
Conversations About Landscape: The Science and Politics of PreservationOceans are vast ecosystems teeming with life, but because we can't readily see what's beneath the surface, we tend to forget the importance of oceans and their vulnerability to pressures resulting from overfishing, pollution, and climate change. One strategy for ensuring healthy oceans is to create and maintain coastal and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: free- RSVP required by phone
Dobsonian Telescope Making Class at the Randall MuseumContinuing the tradition of John Dobson teaching telescope making, San Francisco Amateur Astronomers offers telescope making classes at the Randall Museum in San Francisco. Learn how to make your own telescope by grinding and polishing your own telescope mirror, and design and build the entire telescope.What to ExpectLearn how a ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $225 for class; $200 - $500 for supplies
Lab and Lunch: Native American Conservation LeadershipHear how a consortium of Native Californian tribes worked with conservation planners to develop a statewide network of Marine Protected Areas to preserve wild coastal and riverine habitats.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free; RSVP
OpenROV: Open Source Underwater Robots for Exploration and EducationOpenROV is a open-source underwater robot. But it's so much more. It's also a community of people who are working together to create more accessible, affordable, and awesome tools for underwater exploration. The backbone of the project is the global community of DIY ocean explorers who are working, tinkering ...
The basic concepts of key limiting nutrients in the sea are derived from agricultural practices derived from Leibig and Blackman. With the 1934 paper, Alfred Redfield, an animal physiologist, suggested that the ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus in the ocean was set by the stoichiometry of the sinking flux of ...
East Bay Green Drinks: Wild and Scenic Film Festival PreviewJoin us when we sponsor the monthly East Bay Green Drinks. Meet other environmental movers & shakers in the East Bay, mingle with Rose Foundation staff, and buy your film fest tickets in person. You can RSVP here.
Ever wonder how Earth materials and processes directly impact the distribution and health of living organisms? Academy geologist Jean DeMouthe will present a richly illustrated lecture on the nature of geologic materials and how they affect living things. She will provide examples of how geologic processes affect ecosystems, from a ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Seniors, Free for Members
Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe; massive structures that contain up to 100s of billions of stars. Galaxies in today's Universe show a striking diversity among their properties, with large variations in their appearance, age, size, weight, and stellar birth rate. Despite this diversity, galaxies can broadly be ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #46: Jug Band Music, Quackery, and the Manual for Civilization!If on the third Wednesday of this month, one finds oneself desirous of getting jugged up and hearing a person of authority quack on about creating a library of books one would like to have around when restarting civilization, WELL, then do come to the Nite of the Nerds, at ...
