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? ...
