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 ...
Julie Lythcott-Haims spent a decade as Stanford University's Dean of Freshmen where she was known for both her fierce advocacy for students and her equally fierce critique of the growing trend of parental involvement in the day-to-day lives of college students. Her New York Times best-selling book How to Raise ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: Free
After DarkReinvent 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.Featured Programs Pairings: Communal Cheese (free with After Dark admission; reservation required onsite)To ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 15
Interactive Virtual Reality ExperiencesVirtual reality allows brands, gamers, designers and artists to experience content immersively. Ewan Johnson, Creative Director at River Studios, will explore creative approaches to storytelling that move, thrill, excite and inspire with VR. Drawing from work with brands such as Coldplay, Björk, The Black Eyed Peas, Ludacris, NBC Universal, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
San Francisco City Star PartyCome join us for our monthly San Francisco City Star Party. San Francisco Amateur Astronomers (SFAA) members provide telescopes for your viewing pleasure.
Entanglement phenomena are the closest thing we have to reproducible magic, and even physicists can't agree as to what's really going on. Is it spooky action at a distance, or retrocausality, or conspiracies that govern our choices? And what is a good skeptic to do when every explanatory option seems ...
