Science Bites: Discover Bay Predators (Sharks)Take a bite out of science and discover Bay predators at Aquarium of the Bay. Find out what's on the menu as we explore three of the Bay's top predators; from unassuming sea stars, keen river otters, and awe-inspiring sharks, these predators rule their ecosystems. We'll be having fun with ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Aquarium admission
The proliferation of mobile electronic devices and the emergence of applications such as wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Things have brought energy consumption to the fore of challenges for future information-processing devices. The energy efficiency of a digital logic integrated circuit is fundamentally limited by non-zero transistor off-state ...
The current set of rules within the global trading system that impact the technology industry were put in place a generation ago-before the Internet was of critical commercial significance, when cross-border digital trade was a fraction of what it is now, mobility was limited and "cloud" architecture unknown. How will ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for members, $5 Students
TEMBLOR AppRoss Stein, Ph.D., Co-Founder & CEO of Temblor. will give a demonstration and lead a discussion about Temblor, a mobile web app that provides personal, immediate and credible seismic risk understanding resources and solutions for everyone.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Good Friends: Growth and Flowering Responses of Eelgrass to Grazing by Brant GeeseEelgrass makes up nearly all of the diet of brant geese on west coast of North America and there are several lines of evidence indicating that this is a coevolved plant-animal relationship. Brant could therefore affect the ability of an eelgrass bed to support juvenile crabs and rockfish. But what ...
Where: TiburonCost: Free
Biodiversity dynamics in deep time, and the deep seaSpeaker: Julia Sigwart, Senior Lecturer in Marine Biology and Associate Director of Queens University Marine Laboratory, Queens University, BelfastEditor's Note: The subject matter for this lecture has changed from our original listing.
Christian Marc Schmidt is principal and founder of Schema, a creative design and technology studio based in Seattle. Schema focuses on the intersection of interaction design and data visualization. Clients range from corporations such as Bloomberg and Microsoft, to startups such as Actively Learn and institutions such as the University ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Geologic History of Mt. DiabloMt. Diablo is a large, actively growing anticline that has formed in a restraining stepover between two major dextral strike-slip faults of the San Andreas system. Uplift of Mt. Diablo anticline during the past 3-5 million years has produced unique 3-D exposures of normal faults that were active in the ...
Where: OrindaCost: $5, $1 student or K-12 teacher
A recently discovered symbiosis in the oceanFixed nitrogen is an essential requirement for the biosynthesis of cellular nitrogenous compounds. Some cyanobacteria can fix nitrogen, contributing significantly to the nitrogen cycle, agriculture and biogeochemical history of Earth. The marine N2-fixing cyanobacteria in the open ocean are diverse and include free-living cyanobacteria, several symbionts and the symbiotic unicellular (UCYN-A) ...
Science Bites: Discover Bay Predators (Sharks)Take a bite out of science and discover Bay predators at Aquarium of the Bay. Find out what's on the menu as we explore three of the Bay's top predators; from unassuming sea stars, keen river otters, and awe-inspiring sharks, these predators rule their ecosystems. We'll be having fun with ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Aquarium admission
The measurement of stellar masses in = 0.5 galaxies using the micro-lensing of quasarsWe measure the stellar mass surface densities of early type galaxies by observing the micro-lensing of macro-lensed quasars caused by individual stars, including stellar remnants, brown dwarfs and reddwarfs too faint to produce photometric or spectroscopic signatures. Instead of observing multiple micro-lensing events in a single system, we combine single epoch X-ray ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost:
Data-Driven Democracy: Technology, Data and 2016 ElectionIn the 2016 election, big data will drive the ads you see, the messages you hear and maybe even the way you vote. Will data choose our next president? Join the discussion with Dan Kreiss of the University of North Carolina, Jesse Baldwin-Philippi of Fordham University and Carol Davidson, Vice ...
Machine Learning Lightning Talks @ Strata5:30pm Doors Open, Food & Networking 6:00-7:30pm Lightning Talk Presentations 7:30pm Q&A, DiscussionEvent Details• Charis Loveland: "Gamification of Machine Learning in Neuroscience"• Bob Horton: "Viewing training set size as a learning parameter with learning curves, on airline dataset"• Alok Kirpal: "Time series Anomaly Detection in service health monitoring, KPI monitoring and IOT"• Amita Gajewar: ...
Test the limits of your cerebral cortex on a night dedicated to brain power. From animal intelligence to the human mind, discover what it really means to use your brain.From sharp-minded octopuses to insects that use camouflage to outsmart potential predators, discover fascinating stories of intelligence in the animal kingdom ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
Friday, 04/01/16
Birds and Botany HikeHike the forests, meadows and hills around Pine Flat and up Redhill with ACR Volunteer Patrick Woodworth & ACR Resource Ecologist Dave Self. We'll be watching (and listening) for birds on the hike out. After lunch, we'll botanize as we consider the seasonal interplay between bird foods, habitat history and current activity ...
Where: GeyservilleCost: Free
Science Bites: Discover Bay Predators (Sharks)Take a bite out of science and discover Bay predators at Aquarium of the Bay. Find out what's on the menu as we explore three of the Bay's top predators; from unassuming sea stars, keen river otters, and awe-inspiring sharks, these predators rule their ecosystems. We'll be having fun with ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Aquarium admission
25 Years of Cheetah ConservationDr. Laurie Marker will share her experiences in developing innovative and integrated approaches to saving the cheetah. The Cheetah Conservation Fund operates from the principle that only by securing the future of the communities that live alongside the cheetah can you secure a future for the cheetah. Lecture and Q&A. ...
Greg Petroff is the Chief Experience Officer at GE Software and General Manager of the User Experience Center of Excellence (UX CoE) for GE. The UX CoE is charged with elevating the quality of digital experiences created by GE for its customers. At GE, Greg is leading efforts to define the ...
Join the California Center for Natural History for an easy hike learning about the grasslands of Knowland Park.Californian grasslands contain incredible native plant diversity, but are also some of the most extensively altered ecosystems in our state. Knowland Park is home to a now-rare assemblage of native grass species, as ...
Where: OaklandCost: $20 Suggested Donation
Science Bites: Discover Bay Predators (Sharks)Take a bite out of science and discover Bay predators at Aquarium of the Bay. Find out what's on the menu as we explore three of the Bay's top predators; from unassuming sea stars, keen river otters, and awe-inspiring sharks, these predators rule their ecosystems. We'll be having fun with ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Aquarium admission
Conservation comes to life every fall at the Wildlife Conservation Expo when wildlife lovers join together as a community for the one of the biggest wildlife events of the year. Now, for the very first time, you can dive even deeper into conservation at the inaugural Wildlife Conservation Spring Expo ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: $50 Adults, $25 Students
Marinship Walking TourWalk back in time in this 1½ hour guided tour of Sausalito's historic Marinship. The Bay Model and surrounding area was a major WWII shipyard, which had a significant role in winning the war and influencing social changes in Marin County. Come and learn about the history, the extraordinary Marinship ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Sunday, 04/03/16
Science Bites: Discover Bay Predators (Sharks)Take a bite out of science and discover Bay predators at Aquarium of the Bay. Find out what's on the menu as we explore three of the Bay's top predators; from unassuming sea stars, keen river otters, and awe-inspiring sharks, these predators rule their ecosystems. We'll be having fun with ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Aquarium admission
Nature sketching workshop @ the Rotary Nature CenterLearn techniques for sketching animals with Julia Blume, an MFA candidate at the San Francisco Art Institute. In this workshop, you will work from specimens in the Rotary Nature Center and from animals we find around Lake Merritt. We will talk about strategies and techniques for all sorts of drawings ...
FlashBlade – The Cloud-Scale All-Flash Data PlatformPure Storage FlashBlade is a recently announced all-flash rack-scale storage platform designed to store the biggest, the fastest unstructured data of today and tomorrow. FlashBlade is an elastic scale-out system that delivers all-flash performance to multi-petabyte-scale data sets at economics of less than $1/GB usable. It is a true co-designed ...
Energy Transitions are changes in the states of how and what energy forms we use in terms of quantity, quality, and structure. The historical focus of energy transitions research has been on energy supply, concluding that pervasive system changes take many decades, even up to a century to unfold, which ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Accentuating Ecologies, Structuring UrbanismThe lecture will present the work of RUA (founded 2009), where design research through extensive archival and fieldwork underscores the importance of local geographies and geologies as a means to develop strategies that are context-embedded. It will primarily focus on projects in Vietnam where climate change challenges rival those of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Tiny Moons Around AsteroidsAfter decades of speculation, the existence of multiple asteroids---asteroids with one or several companions around them---has been observationally confirmed. Today more than 200 companions of asteroids are known, and half of them were discovered by large worldwide network of professional and amateur astronomers equipped with small and medium size telescopes. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $8 Members, $10 Seniors
Tuesday, 04/05/16
Moon Express 2017 - A Private Lunar Mission Enabling Science & CommerceThe health of our home planet and the survival of our species will only be secured through the use of space resources and the expansion of Earth's economic sphere to the Moon and beyond. Creating an off-Earth economy and multi-planet civilization will safeguard the long term prospects of humanity.Bob Richards ...
Quantifying the Resilience of Civil Infrastructure SystemsProfessor Bozidar Stojadinovic, Ph.D., Chair of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, will present a supply/demand approach to modeling the resilience of a civil infrastructure system that involves component vulnerability and recovery functions and a model of system operation. Using this model, Prof. Stojadinovic will evaluate the seismic resilience of ...
Breast cancer is among America's most feared diseases, and also one of its most politicized. Decades of public education have encouraged women to get annual mammograms, and diagnoses typically trigger surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. But not everyone agrees that this conventional approach serves women best. The U.S. Preventive Services Task ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
After El Nino: Now What?Does this year's wet winter mean we can go back to having green lawns and eating almonds in the shower? History suggests people quickly snap back to their regular ways after a drought. The state has loosened water restrictions this year and it might appear that the drought has eased ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Nerd Nite goes part biology, part philosophy and part Moby Dick with lessons on cultivating your own unique obsession and eccentricity. From the firetruck-chasing (and possibly insane) star athlete who become a huge media sensation in the early 1900s, to the navigator who dragged himself to the brink of death ...
