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Diagnostic Fracture Injection Tests (DFITs) are used to measure stress, permeability, and fluid pressure in low permeability formations. A relatively small volume of water is injected, fracturing the formation. The well is shut-in, and pressure is monitored for days or weeks. The pressure transient is interpreted to estimate formation properties. Preclosure interpretations are ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
New Frontiers In Computing 2018: Accelerating Smart and Connected CommunitiesPlease join us for the 20th annual New Frontiers in Computing Conference on Accelerating Smart and Connected Communities. This year, NFIC will provide through keynotes, panelists, and presentations, a means to enhance your understanding of the problems and solutions that are at trial in communities and the workplace. We will ...
Where: OrindaCost: $5 General, $1 Teachers/Students
Conversations About Landscape: Beyond the Polar BearAl Gore’s 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth propelled climate change into the mainstream - this big-screen portrayal of a “planetary emergency” moved what had been a largely scientific discussion to dinner tables around the world.Since then, efforts to educate citizens about climate change have mushroomed. The past decade has seen ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free, RSVP Required
taste of science: Sex differences and icy planetary bodiesIce Penetrating Radar: a Window into Ice Sheets and Icy MoonsRadio echo sounding is a uniquely powerful geophysical technique for studying the interior of ice sheets, glaciers, and icy planetary bodies.Speaker: Dustin Schroeder, StanfordLet’s talk about sex: male-female differences in the immune systemScientists have long known that women are more ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $5
The Postgenomic ConditionSJRC Director and Sociology Professor Jenny Reardon will discuss with us her new book, The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice & Knowledge After the Genome. Reardon’s research draws into focus questions about identity, justice and democracy that are often silently embedded in scientific ideas and practices, particularly in modern genomic research. Her ...