Silicon Valley Clean EnergyYou want to use clean energy.You don't like that the electricity you use comes from fossil fuel power plants that pump green house gasses into the air, contributing to global climate change.Silicon Valley Clean Energy can help electricity customers in Silicon Valley make the switch to using clean energy.Silicon Valley ...
Where: SaratogaCost: Free
Marinship Walking TourWalk back in time on this 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 workers, and ...
Graduate student Jenny Phillips will present on current research of how noise pollution affects songbird communication, using the model species of Nuttall's white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys nuttalli). Jenny has been working in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Point Reyes National Seashore for three years recording song and testing ...
After Dark Reinvent your Thursday nights at After Dark. Experience a fascinating array of unique, adult-only programs and events that change each week. Grab dinner by the Bay, play with hundreds of hands-on exhibits, crawl through our pitch-black Tactile Dome, sip cocktails, and explore.Tonight's Featured Programming:Textures and StructuresBy Cullen Miller and Gabriel ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General; $10 Member
SCIENCE ON SCREEN: A PRESENTATION BY DR. PASCAL LEE FOLLOWED BY A SCREENING OF THE MARTIAN 3DDr. Pascal Lee, planetary scientist at the Mars Institute, the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View. will give an illustrated presentation about planning and preparation for the first human mission to Mars. First steps are under way, as we plan for deep space journeys and explore extreme environments ...
Where: San RafaelCost: $11.25 Adult , $8.00 Child/Senior
7:00-7:25: Nicholas de Monchaux(UC Berkeley Architecture) on "Spacesuits and Cities"The frontier of urban design is as much physiological as physical...Read more7:25-7:50: Tom Abel(Stanford/ Physics) on "How Things in the Universe Came About & How They Ended Up Within Us"Computer animations to tell the story of our beginnings...Read more7:50-8:10: ...
A multimedia presentation and discussion, followed by participatory mapping.Apex predators are known to be regulators of ecosystems, a.k.a. keystone species. Come explore how rewilding California with wolves, grizzlies, cougars, wolverines and even jaguars could help restore an abundant wild food web to California's diverse landscapes. With Nik Bertulis and special ...
Twenty thousand years ago, the lands that make up Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore were interconnected in an area geologists call Sunda. As glaciers melted and the sea level rose, islands like Borneo, Bali, and Komodo were separated from the Asian mainland. Alfred Russel Wallace explored this area in the 19th century ...
