How to Drawdown NowJust as the climate community is freaking out about their news feeds on social media, author and advocate Paul Hawken says he has compiled a list of 100 climate solutions and technologies that are Trump-proof. These are proven approaches already being deployed by local and state governments, cities and businesses. The wide-ranging ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Ronald J. Deibert is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. The Citizen Lab undertakes interdisciplinary research at the intersection of global security, ICTs, and human rights. Â He is a former founder and principal investigator of the ...
Can Ectomycorrhizal Plants Choose Their Fungal Partners?Nearly all land plants rely on fungi to help them extract nutrients from the soil. This association, called mycorrhizal symbiosis, is an ancient interaction that probably began when early plants moved from the ocean to dry land around 400 million years ago. The fungi grow into or around the root ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Free Bay Currents talk: How Rivers and Lakes WorkThrough droughts and floods, rivers and lakes are California’s life blood, sustaining both wild nature and our huge economy. These ever-changing water bodies are shaped by the interplay of chemistry, geology, hydrology, and biology. Why, for example, can many plants and animals live in either lakes or streams but not ...
The complexity, criticality, and real-time demands of the energy sector make it a prime candidate to benefit from applying machine learning. This session presents two case studies of machine learning automating decisions for energy companies.For the largest windfarm operator in North America, machine learning applies predictive and prescriptive analytics to ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Mushrooms from a Korean PerspectiveAlthough the dynamic is shifting, thanks to the popularity of Korean Dramas and the current chef romance with our ingredients, many people in this country still don’t know much about our culture as distinct from the other East Asian countries of China and Japan. As a mushroom club president and ...
Predicted in the 1930s and discovered in the 1960s by X-ray and radio astronomers, neutron stars are now known to be the typical result of the evolution of a massive star. There should be nearly of a billion of them in our galaxy alone. Neutron stars have roughly ten km ...
