Meet the Birds at Lake MerrittMigrating birds are here! See what winter visitors are currently at Lake Merritt, the nation's oldest wildlife refuge. A naturalist from the Rotary Nature Center will lead a short walk along the lake. Learn about the Pacific Flyway and how to identify some winter migrants as well as year-round residents.We'll begin ...
Latest Exoplanet Results from NASA's Kepler/K2 MissionThe all-sky TESS mission will soon revolutionize our view of planets transiting the nearest, brightest stars to the Sun, just as the four-year survey by NASA's Kepler mission transformed our understanding of exoplanet demographics. Using the repurposed Kepler spacecraft, the ongoing K2 mission provides a natural transition from Kepler to ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
EuroSoviet: Chernobyl to Moscowâ€'The nadir and the zenith of Soviet science and technologyThe Soviet Union was the largest country ever.  Rising from the revolutionary ashes of the Russian Empire, for 7 decades, through 1990, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a major world power.  Soviet forces helped the USA and Allies to defeat Germany in Eastern Europe in World War ...
Traditional server systems where compute, storage and network reside in a single server box or blade have been around for quite some time. With the emergence of hyper-scale data centers with multi-cloud requirements and management of these servers have become more complex to support different types of cloud workloads. This ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Will Trump Force One Run Clean?While many people concerned about climate disruption have changed their cars and their diets, few have changed their flying habits. The greenhouse gas emissions from air travel often blows away all the carbon savings from other lifestyle changes. That could be about to change. The airline industry has agreed to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Mycological Society of SF General MeetingThe combined talk will consist of either each taking a turn speaking or a cumbaya panel discussion. Speakers: Larry Evans, Daniel Winkler, and Britt Bunyard (FUNGI Magazine)
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Porpoises, Dolphins, and Whales of the BayHarbor porpoises and bottlenose dolphins are back in the Bay, and humpback whales frolic close to shore. How is the Bay ecosystem changing to lead to this, what does it mean for our coast, and what can we do to help?Exciting tales and great photos from naturalist and environmental lawyer ...
An ongoing collaboration between the speaker and an international team of professional astronomers has demonstrated the scientific potential of using modest aperture, commercially produced, semi-robotic telescopes situated under steady dark skies and affordable off-the-shelf astronomical cameras to reveal extremely dim, diffuse structures on the outskirts of distant galaxies that shed ...
