Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, Free for Members, $7 Students
Nerd Night East Bay 45: Snakes, Breast Massage, AdoptionThe Only Good Snake is a Dead Snake,' and Other Myths About our Reptilian Cousins by Alex KrohnBreasts: Handle With Care by Anna SadovnikovaBuild vs Buy: What You Don't Know About the Adoption Market by Jennifer TharpAge 21+
Where: OaklandCost: $8 advance, $10 at door if available
Come learn about landscaping with natives, with special emphasis on drought tolerant plants that do exceptionally well in the Bay Area. Rebecca Blanck-Weiss (Presidio Nursery Assistant and Landscape Designer) and Desmond Murray (Presidio Nursery Community Programs Manager) will go over how to do site evaluations, picking appropriate plant communities, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged
A Terrestrial Exoplanet at Proxima CentauriDr. Anglada will discuss the new paper he is first author in reporting the presence of a 1.3 Earth mass exoplanet in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri. This finding was reported in Nature on Thursday 25 Aug 2016.http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v536/n7617/full/nature19106.htmlDr. Anglada will particpate remotely, and Dr. Franck Marchis of the SETI ...
The Youngest Planets and their Host Stars - RESCHEDULED to 9/6Thanks to numerous ground and space-based surveys, we are now aware of over 3300 planets orbiting other stars, with another nearly 2500 candidates from the Kepler Mission awaiting confirmation. The Universe is teeming with rocky and gaseous bodies. How did these planet systems form and evolve toward their present configurations? ...
In 2011 Alaskan artist Ray Troll and paleontologist Kirk Johnson were awarded Guggenheim fellowships to support their collaborative work on a book entitled Cruisin' the Eternal Coastline: The Best of the Fossil West from Baja to Barrow. The book will be published in the spring of 2017 along with five ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Transcriptomics in environmental physiology and finding the ‘genes that matter’ for environmental adaptationTranscriptomics (quantifying changes in the cellular mRNA pool) is a popular approach for exploring how organisms respond to environmental change. Broadly, my research uses transcriptomic approaches to determine the mechanistic basis of environmental tolerance and identify genotypes and phenotypes sensitive or resistant to abiotic change. Along with collaborators, I have ...
Google, Apple, Amazon, Uber: companies like these have come to embody innovation, efficiency, and success. How often is the environmental movement characterized in the same terms? Sadly, conservation is frequently seen as a losing battle, waged by well-meaning, but ultimately ineffective idealists. Joe Whitworth argues it doesn’t have to be ...
The Marine Mammal Center is the World's largest marine mammal hospital, responsible for rescuing an average of 600-800 sick and injured seals and sea lions each year from over 600 miles of California coast. With 40 years of experience, the Center has been able to give over 20,000 marine mammals ...
Where: PacificaCost: $5 donation
Balancing Demands at the Food-Water-Energy NexusThe growth of the world population towards 10 billion over the next 50 years will significantly increase the demand for food, water and energy, but these 3 necessities are frequently in competition with each other. In this talk, I'll discuss a pathway forward for balancing these 3 critical resources, while ...
Eureka! is an interactive science comedy show that demystifies science in a way that is relatable, educational, and hilarious. Our guest speakers lecture on fascinating topics while comedians riff and banter with them on stage. The audience can also win fun, silly prizes by correctly answering the guest scientist's questions.On ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15
Thursday, 09/01/16
Trends in Neuroscience TechnologyTwo recent major initiatives, the European Commission's Human Brain Project and the NIH's Brain Research through Advanced Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) have put a renewed focus on the development and application of innovative technologies for neuroscience. Our Fall event will highlight the use of neuroscience technologies especially with respect to applications ...
Where: South San FranciscoCost: Free
Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast: Book talk and author signing (Oakland)It’s nearly mushroom season, and this book will help you get started on identifying some fungal friends! "Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast" is a comprehensive and user-friendly field guide for identifying the many mushrooms of the northern California coast, from Monterey County to the Oregon border.Author Christian Schwarz will be ...
Where: OaklandCost: FREE!
5G Mobile Communications: The Vision for 2020 and BeyondWith barely 15% of the world’s mobile subscriptions served by 4G, the industry is already well under way in defining the next generation of wireless communications known as “5Gâ€. Envisioned for commercialization in late 2020, 5G will be “Amazingly Fast with Great Service in a Crowdâ€. It will have the ...
Wheels do it. Electrons do it. Even plants and planets do it. Explore a universal motion at Spin.Learn how physicist Carl Haber digitally maps old recordings to recover lost sounds, and hear how the spinning tendencies of electrons shape the entire physical world from physicist Robert Cahn. Find out what ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $10 Members
Cafe InquiryMeet up with rationalists, skeptics, and freethinkers south of San Francisco
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Exploring the Universe with Paperclips and a SupercomputerThirteen billion years ago (just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang), the first stars and galaxies began lighting up. Â Finding the "Cosmic Dawn" of our universe is one of the top goals of astronomy in this decade, and one of the most powerful techniques available takes ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast: Book talk and author signing! (Berkeley)It’s nearly mushroom season, and this book will help you get started on identifying some fungal friends! "Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast" is a comprehensive and user-friendly field guide for identifying the many mushrooms of the northern California coast, from Monterey County to the Oregon border. Author Christian Schwarz will ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: FREE!
Friday, 09/02/16
Birds and BotanyHike 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 ...
The skills that broadly fall under the umbrella of data science are becoming increasingly important to modern-day science. As demands upon researchers to apply and implement new methodologies and data analysis techniques rise, training scientists in these methods is becoming more of a priority.  The week of this talk, BIDS is ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Saturday, 09/03/16
Marshlands of DreamsJoin Paul Mueller on a 1-mile walk of the LaRiviere Marsh Trail to find traces of the past. Prior to marsh restoration, learn how Californians utilized the area for farming, quarrying, salt production, and transportation. Â There will be opportunities for bird watching as well.
The Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Midway through, a banding volunteer brings up a newly banded hawk, talks about the banding program, shows everyone the hawk, and lets it go in front ...
Where: MarinCost: Free
Solar Energy Training: Free Berkeley Workshop on How to Install Rooftop PVJoin others who are interested in helping save the environment one rooftop at a time! This workshop is offered by SunWork, a Bay Area nonprofit that installs rooftop PV systems on small-energy-footprint homes. You'll learn the basics of rooftop solar energy and gain insights on how to install rooftop photovoltaic ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: free
Sunday, 09/04/16
2nd Annual San Jose Mini Maker FaireJoin us for the 2nd Annual San Jose Mini Maker Faire.� Organized and executed by History San Jos�, this event is a family-friendly affair that will celebrate and showcase makers, inventors, tinkerers, artists, builders, crafters, and many more creative individuals!
The Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Midway through, a banding volunteer brings up a newly banded hawk, talks about the banding program, shows everyone the hawk, and lets it go in front ...
