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 ...
The Youngest Planets and their Host Stars - Rescheduled from 8/30Thanks 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? ...
Upwelling ecosystems provide vital services to society, yet are at risk due to increasing stratification, acidification, and deoxygenation, and changes in mixing. Unprecedented variation in fisheries and other aspects of the pelagic ecosystem of the central California Current System (CCS) has prompted renewed attention on upwelling, its drivers, and change relative ...
Despite decades of reforms, poverty and vulnerability continue to be associated with the absence of regular access to safe water and energy sources for hundreds of millions globally. In the water sector, reforms have focused on decentralization and privatization infrastructure in the name of improved efficiency and financial performance of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Watching the universe grow up Snapshots through time using radio wavesHow did the first generation of stars and galaxies form in our Universe? Astronomers don’t know. They have ideas, to be sure, which are hard to confirm with observations because prior to the formation of the first stars and galaxies, it’s not clear what they can look at! In the ...
