Birds & 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 ...
Finding Exoplanets with the Gemini Planet ImagerThe Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES), officially launched in November 2014, is an ambitious multi-year study dedicated to observing 600 young, nearby star systems to image young Jupiters and planet forming debris disks using the GPI instrument installed on the Gemini South telescope in Chile. The GPI instrument team ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Saturday, 09/02/17
GGRO Hawk Talk & Raptor Release - CANCELEDOur Hawk Talks and Raptor Releases occur every Saturday and Sunday from noon to 2 pm (weather permitting - heavy fog or rain cancels) during September and October, except for Fleet Week weekend. The Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and ...
GGRO Hawk Talk & Raptor Release - CANCELEDOur Hawk Talks and Raptor Releases occur every Saturday and Sunday from noon to 2 pm (weather permitting - heavy fog or rain cancels) during September and October, except for Fleet Week weekend. The Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and ...
The Changing BayPresentations and discussions about the SF Bay estuary: past, present and future.Part of Changing Landscapes Festival
Where: VallejoCost: Free
Being Human in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceWhat has artificial intelligence (AI) brought us? Where will it lead us? The story of AI is the story of intelligenceâ€"of life processes as they evolve from bacteria to humans, where life processes define their own software, to technology, where life processes design both their hardware and software. We know ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
'From the Ashes'From the Ashes takes an in-depth look at the coal industry and explores its role in climate change, while offering solutions that could help revive the struggling economies of dying mining towns and still safeguard the environment. It uses a public health lens to showcase the many individual stories of ...
Citizen science is “regular†people contributing to scientific discovery. Today, the time-honored practice of amateur science has developed into an exciting tool for helping save nature. And save it we must, as thousands of species are threatened with extinction.In Hannibal’s telling, citizen science is not only a platform for collecting data, but ...
Where: VallejoCost: Free
The evolution of tooth eruption in mammalsWhy do we have wisdom teeth? And why do so many people need to have them extracted? Teeth are extremely important biological structures that act as a physical interface between mammals and their environment. A great deal is known about the biology of how teeth erupt into the mouth. However, ...
Where: AlbanyCost: Free
Earth in Human HandsDr. David Grinspoon is an astrobiologist and Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute. His research focuses on climate evolution on Earth-like planets, potential conditions for life elsewhere in the universe and planetary-scale human influences on the Earth system.
Practical Aspects of Modeling Complex Analog Behavior in Modern Circuit SimulatorsAnalog simulators allow complex behavior to be modeled and are a critical part of Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) tools used by designers to predict circuit performance. Early generations of simulators were inseparable from the specific transistor models integrated in their program. Resource-limited commercial simulator vendors would pair off with university and industry ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Cafe InquiryMeet up with rationalists, skeptics, and freethinkers south of San Francisco
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
FOGG Trail Mixer @ The Tunnel Tops!Join FOGG for a Trail Mixer at The Tunnel Tops!Be the first to know what’s happening in the parks with an evening at the Presidio Tunnel Tops Design Lab! Check out the latest designs and videos of the Presidio Tunnel Tops project, take a guided tour of the Design Lab, ...
Find physics in full swing at After Dark.Learn how swinging legs loosen shoelace knots with mechanical engineer Christopher Daily-Diamond, and follow the curves of elite golf swings with Jessica Rose, Director of Stanford’s Motion and Gait Analysis Laboratory.Catch the physics of baseball with former Exploratorium Art Director David Barker, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15
Hunting for Black HolesBlack holes come in at least two varieties - small stellar-mass black holes and supermassive black holes. The stellar-mass black holes are predicted to form when a massive star dies in a violent supernova explosion. There should be 100 million to 1 billion of these star-sized black holes in our ...
