When scientists see changes in an ecosystem they can often hear them as well. Monitoring different species’ sounds or bioacoustics is one method to quickly detect environmental change. But urban underwater habitats like San Francisco Bay are dominated by ship and vessel noise, which can drown out most biological sounds. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free, (RSVP required for lunch)
Basics of Mushroom IdentificationKingman Bond-Graham discovered the incredibly vast world of fungi at the age of 10. While playing on his family property in Mendocino County, he noticed thousands of mushrooms. After crafting a science project for school, he continued with his fungi fascination into adulthood.Kingman has been collecting and studying the mushrooms ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Nerd Night SF #103: Novelty Catalog, Software Disasters, and Animal Astronauts!‘Twas the nite of the nerds, and all through the Rickshaw, many creatures were stirring, ‘specially the bartenders. The slides were projected on screen at fast pace, in hopes that some learning soon would take place. Three Nerd Nite alumni this month take the stage: the first on the best ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $8
taste of science: Human Genome and Travel to MARS!Checklist for Mars: how to get humans there and back again, in one piece?What happens to the human body in space, especially, on a three-year round trip to Mars, and what are we doing to avoid it? I will give a brief overview of some of the risks of spaceflight, ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: $5
Wings of Wonder: Saving Bats around the WorldDr. Winifred Frick is Chief Scientist at Bat Conservation International and an Associate Research Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz. Dr. Frick has studied bats for nearly 20 years and has worked around the world, including places such as Mexico, Rwanda, Guinea, Fiji, and Jamaica to study ...
How can we design a strategy for the search for life elsewhere - or to understand what the future will hold for life on Earth and beyond - without extrapolating from pre-biotic chemistry and evolution? The origin and evolution of life often seems an unpredictable oddity, based on the quirks ...
