Milkweeds of the Mayacamas & Monarch Butterfly Watch Join ACR Resource Ecologist Dave Self to try and find and photo-document four milkweed species that have been reported from along Pine Flat Road in the Modini Mayacamas Preserves. We'll also watch for monarchs (and other butterflies). Bring extra water, camera and a hat!Register through the Modini Mayacamas Preserves Meetup page. Limit 10
Where: GeyservilleCost: Free
Botany Series: Plant Families in the Field (Muir Beach to Pirates Cove)Stretch your legs and get out your hand lens! Spend the morning in the northern Marin Headlands and the mouth of Redwood creek for a botanical-oriented hike examining several plant families. Expect a range of weather, sun, wind, and fog; dress appropriately. Bring water, snacks and or lunch. Hike will ...
Speaker: Dr. GuhaThakurta is a faculty member at UC Santa Cruz and researcher at UCO/Lick Observatory.His research focuses on observational studies of galaxy formation and evolution with a particular interest in the Andromeda galaxy, Milky Way galaxy, and dwarf galaxies. He leads the SPLASH (Spectroscopic and Photometric Landscape of Andromeda's ...
Where: Mt. HamiltonCost:
Sunset and Sunrises are Beautiful and Happen Every DayIn this talk we will explore some of the over 100 different Sun-related phenomena that can be seen in the sky and look at photographs of over three dozen examples (green flashes, blue flashes, Sun dogs, 22 degree arcs, Sun pillars, belt of Venus, etc.). There will be some discussion ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking fee)
San Francisco City Star PartyCome join us for our monthly City Star Party. San Francisco Amateur Astronomers (SFAA) club members provide telescopes for your viewing pleasure.
Where: San FranciscoCost: FREE
Spiders, Scorpions, Moths and More: Night Hike at Joaquin Miller ParkThe rhythms, sounds, and active wildlife are totally different at night, so join us for a night hike at Joaquin Miller Park in the Oakland hills! We'll find spiders, moths, and nocturnal creatures like scorpions that glow under UV light. Bring your headlamp, drinking water, warm layers, and hiking attire. ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free, $20 suggested donation
Saturday, 07/09/16
Sunrise Solitude & Early Morning WildlifeMeet ACR Resource Ecologist Dave Self at the junction of Pine Flat Rd. and Red Winery Rd., 3/4 mile 'east' on Pine Flat Rd from Hwy 128 at Jimtown. We'll drive up to the Preserve, with each person claiming an individual sit-spot. We'll each settle in to appreciate the summer ...
Where: GeyservilleCost: Free
The Bay Model Wants You!!! Become part of Sausalito's very own attraction known around the world! We have a variety of volunteer positions that are suited for people just like you! Greet visitors, lead tours, work with school groups, and more! Come and be a part of one of the largest working hydraulic models in ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Volunteering
Design and Assistive Tech WorkshopDo you want to make the world a better place for everyone? If so, join us to learn about the challenges that people with disabilities and older adults experience, hear about a process for creating assistive technology devices that improve the quality of their lives, brainstorm your own design concepts, ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Family Sundown SafariIs your family ready for a WILD campout? Grab your camping gear, your family, a few friends, and get ready for an overnight adventure at Oakland Zoo.Family Sundown Safari is a unique overnight program for the whole family. This program includes dinner, a nighttime and morning guided tour of the ...
Where: OaklandCost: $85.00 per person for non-members / $75.00 per per
The Mystery of Dark Matter rescheduled to Aug 5th 2016rescheduled to Aug 5th 2016 Dark matter is believed to pervade our universe, and drives the growth of structure across cosmic times. Yet we have few probes to hunt for this mysterious stuff that does not emit any light. Dr. Chakrabarti will talk about how astronomers first inferred the existence of dark ...
Where: OaklandCost: $15
'Are you Solar Powered ?' Public Astronomy Program On Mt DiabloPlease join Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society for the July 9th. astronomy program.Discover the real power of the Sun. Excitement for the whole family! Participate in hands-on astronomy activities followed by supervised observing through the many different telescopes of MDAS members. See stars, nebulae, galaxies, clusters, the moon and planets through member ...
Where: ClaytonCost: Free + $10 park entrance fee.
Habitability and Life Beyond EarthDr. Cabrol will discuss the current scientific revolution in astrobiology, with the latest updates from current missions, the existing plans for new ones, and where we stand on our quest to understanding habitability and finding life beyond Earth.Speaker: Nathalie Cabrol, SETI
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Jazz Under the StarsSee the first quarter moon, the rings of Saturn, and more through our telescopes, while listening to KCSM Jazz 91 FM. Dress warmly. Free parking in Marie Curie Lot 5.
Dr. Martin Gaskell specializes in understanding the tremendous outpourings of energy from the centers of galaxies as their supermassive black holes devour nearby gas and stars.Martin will describe how our understanding of the remarkable happenings in the extreme enviroments around supermassive black holes has grown in the century since Lick ...
Where: Mt. HamiltonCost: $45 General, $40 Under 16, over 65
Sunday, 07/10/16
Sunrise Solitude & Early Morning WildlifeMeet ACR Resource Ecologist Dave Self at the junction of Pine Flat Rd. and Red Winery Rd., 3/4 mile 'east' on Pine Flat Rd from Hwy 128 at Jimtown. We'll drive up to the Preserve, with each person claiming an individual sit-spot. We'll each settle in to appreciate the summer ...
People from all segments of our community will be walking around Lake Merritt throughout the day as families, couples, and individuals. They will read signposts stationed around the Lake with information on the natural history of Earth during the last billion years. The goals of the Billion-Year Walk are to ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
What Are Marine Mammals Saying?Marine mammals make the craziest sounds! Ranging from the loudest noises of any animals (blue whales) to the songs of humpback whales to elephant seals which sound kindof like evil chickens, each marine mammal has their own voice. Come learn more at What Are Marine Mammals Saying and test your ...
Join Green Film Fest & Roxie for an encore screening of the Festival's 2016 Audience Award winner, The Babushkas of Chernobyl.To us it may be a radioactive "Exclusion Zone", to them it's their ancestral homeland. In this remarkable tale, a defiant community of women scratch out an existence on Chernobyl's ...
7:00-7:25: Cere Davis(Media Artist) on "Kinetic Design Patterns Produced Through Motion"Methods to visualize, model and ultimately create life-like kinetic forms of motion...Read more7:25-7:50: Beibei Song(Essinova) on "Exodus, influx and residencies"What exactly is going on between art and technology in the Bay Area?...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Tuesday, 07/12/16
Large Hadron Collider, Stage 2: the search for new particles and forcesIn 2010, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the laboratory CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, began its exploration of physics at distances 10,000 smaller than an atomic nucleus. The first data-taking period of the LHC ran from 2010 to 2013, colliding protons at energies of 7 and 8 TeV (trillion electron ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
A Series of Catastrophes and MiraclesJournalist Mary Elizabeth Williams was one of the first people in the world to get a new form of treatment for her stage 4 cancer diagnosis that's revolutionizing cancer care: immunotherapy. In October of 2015, her treatment protocol became the first immunotherapy combination approved by the FDA; it's the same ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Proof that passion, hard work, and guts matter more than the cost of your gear or where you went to school, Pete McBride has taken pictures from the cockpit of a WWI-vintage biplane and the underside of an iceberg, working in over 70 countries. Named a "freshwater hero" by National ...
New Harvest, the 501(c)(3) research institute advancing the technologies to make foods and fibres from cell cultures is hosting the world's first conference on cellular agriculture. Pioneers in growing agriculture products from cell cultures will talk about their technologies, which you can see, touch, taste, in the Prototype Room. As an example, the world's first cell ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $250 General, $50 students
Ice Cream Day at the Hall Use chemistry to mix cream and sugar, and create your own handmade ice cream, then enjoy the classic Bay Area taste of Fenton's Ice Cream.Ice Cream Day is part of Chill Out Week and Summer Fun Weeks at the Hall.
Is California Entering a Megadrought?California storms and droughts are getting more extreme, according to new research from Stanford examining recent rainfall patterns. The result is a new normal, with fewer average years and more dry times and also more wet times. Other forecasters warn that California might be entering an extended period of drought ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Student
Researchers from Point Blue Conservation Science will be analyzing the diets of Least Terns, examining dropped fish, feces, and regurgitated pellets collected from local bird colonies. Least Tern diets are being used as indicators of the success of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). By comparing the diets of tern colonies inside MPAs ...
Over the past decade, an international movement of artists, designers, advocacy groups, and progressive city governments has been reclaiming city streets by experimenting with new models of urban space, such as pop-up parks, guerilla gardening, and open streets initiatives. Such experiments-variously referred to as tactical urbanism, urban prototyping, or iterative ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Citizen Science Workshop: Introduction to iNaturalist Have you ever seen a flower, tree, bird, mushroom, or insect and wished you knew what it was? Well, now you can find out with iNaturalist! This online platform allows you to tap into a global community of naturalists, biologists, and other nature enthusiasts to help you learn about nearly ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Bay Area Science Communication MeetupOur first Sci Comm Meetup was such a success, let's do it again!Let's get together for a drink on Palomino's patio to meet some people, find out who's doing what kind of science communication, where, how and why. Palomino has a great, mingle-enabling outdoor space that lets us meet different people ...
Since the mid-01980s Kevin Kelly has been creating, and reporting on, the digital future. His focus is the long-term trends and social consequences of technology. Kelly's new book, THE INEVITABLE: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, is a grand synthesis of his thinking on where technology ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16.52 General, Free for members
