The Regional Cabled Array (RCA) is a component of the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative (NSF-OOI) and spans sites across the southern half of the Juan de Fuca Plate in the Northeast Pacific. The combination of 900 kilometers of submarine telecommunications cable and seven primary nodes, with eight kilowatts ...
To understand why a world-wide C-section epidemic has developed and the consequential long-term health implications to mother and child. How existing fetal monitors have contributed to the C-section epidemic and how the technology being developed by Raydiant Oximetry could help reduce the unsustainable C-section rates that currently exist.Raydiant OximetrySpeaker: Neil Ray
There is an accelerating effort among scientists, forest and wildlife managers as well as technologists and interest groups from NASA, Google and the Jane Goodall Institute to harness new technologies. These technologies, which range from satellite sensors, drones, camera traps and DNA detectors, can be used to improve and maintain ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, Free for students
The 2017 Solar Eclipse and the Cassini Grand FinaleMembers of the Sonoma County Astronomical Society will share their images and experiences of observing the Great American Eclipse from Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming.Robert Ferguson Observatory members will report on the Saturn Cassini Space Craft Success and the September 15, 2018 Finale when it is scheduled to crash into Saturn.
If ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the flim-flam man, join us, your friends. We are a group who informally discuss the latest in science or pseudoscience over good eats & ale. HOW:  Presented free by the Bay Area Skeptics.WHY:  Because science is fascinating!       ...
Where: MillbraeCost: Free- Pub is open for business
Stirred Genome and Cell's hangoverHave your genome like Mr Bond: stirred, not shaken.Our genome is a mix of our two parents' genome: we're half our mom, and half our dad. And your siblings are too, but they don't look exactly like you, do they?In this talk, we'll discover why we look like our siblings ...
