Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) was characterized as the fourth most profitable illegal industry in the world in 2008, worth up to $21 billion dollars annually. However, now, more than 10 years later, illegal fishing alone has an annual worth up to $23 billion. Alarmingly, wildlife trade - legal and illegal ...
As tsunamis and large scale hurricanes can occur on centennial to millennial time scales, observational and historical records generally do not provide sufficient information to determine consistent patterns of event frequency and intensity. Coastal populations have been growing, making it even more important to better understand these coastal hazards and ...
You are what you eat and that includes the 60% of your body that’s made of water. Everything we eat was once a living organism largely composed of water, and many of the ways we cook rely on the properties of water. At Pairings: The Water We Eat, join Exploratorium ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95, 14.95 explO members, AD members free
Step into the wonderful world of mushrooms at this annual NightLife favorite, where you’ll learn how to spot, ID, grow, and cook mushrooms alongside fellow fungi enthusiasts.Gather ‘round for tales from photographer and mushroom ID specialist Alan Rockefeller as he shares new species of bioluminescent fungi and other recent finds ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Friday, 01/10/20
A Royal Walk with the King TideJoin Exploratorium and Port of San Francisco staff on San Francisco's waterfront for a stroll along the waterfront to observe, photograph, and discuss the King Tide. Learn about what causes the tides, why we have King Tides this time of year, and the Port's Waterfront Resilience Program and related sea-level ...
During one of winter's highest daytime tides, take a leisurely, level walk on the paved Bay Trail to look at the shoreline through many lenses. Discover a gritty history of railroads, frog farming, dynamite making, industry and toxic pollution. Bring binocs and camera to enjoy a growing wealth of wetlands ...
Challenges and pathways forward in supernova cosmology Using the DES photometric supernova cosmology analysis as groundwork, I will summarise our current analysis methodologies, from simulations, to transient classification, selection effect treatment, and cosmology. Despite recent improvements in analysis methods, there still exist fundamental challenges in areas spanning the initial empirical SN Ia model all the way to ...
46th annual Santa Cruz Fungus FairCome to Santa Cruz and explore the facinating world of Fungi. Learn interesting and fun facts about the hundreds of beautiful and fascinating species of mushrooms found in the Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay Area. Fungi will be beautifully displayed in a re-created woodland habitat. This unique Santa Cruz tradition features ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: $5
Green Friday: Human Caused Climate ChangeHuman impacts on the climate go back to the beginnings of civilization and from the beginning, changing climate has driven human history. The Mediterranean is the best place to watch this happen and our story begins with the first myth that we have from mankind--Gilgamesh. From the beginnings of civilization, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $3 donation requested
ONE GIANT LEAP: The scientific, technological, and social legacy of the Apollo program.50 years ago, humans first walked upon the moon. However, the scientific, technological, and social effects on broader society began well before and have continued long after that event. In this talk, Foothill College Astronomy professor Geoff Mathews will sample some of the highlights of the Apollo program's legacy, with ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking)
Saturday, 01/11/20
46th annual Santa Cruz Fungus FairCome to Santa Cruz and explore the facinating world of Fungi. Learn interesting and fun facts about the hundreds of beautiful and fascinating species of mushrooms found in the Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay Area. Fungi will be beautifully displayed in a re-created woodland habitat. This unique Santa Cruz tradition features ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: $10 General, $5 Seniors, under 12 Free
Exploring the DunesAntioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge is home to three endangered species: two gorgeous flowering plants (Antioch Dunes Evening Primrose and Contra Costa Wallflower) and a delicate butterfly found nowhere else on the planet - Lange’s Metalmark butterfly! Generally, this refuge is closed to the public to protect them. However, once ...
Where: AntiochCost: Free
King Tides bird walk on Cerrito CreekJoin Golden Gate Audubon and Friends of Five Creeks on a conservation-themed bird walk along tidally-influenced Cerrito Creek just north of Albany Hill. We'll look for waterbirds and winter songbirds and talk about restoration and what sea-level rise may mean for habitat and the flood-prone adjacent neighborhood. Cameras welcome; photos ...
Where: AlbanyCost:
A Royal Walk with the King TideJoin Exploratorium and Port of San Francisco staff on San Francisco's waterfront for a stroll along the waterfront to observe, photograph, and discuss the King Tide. Learn about what causes the tides, why we have King Tides this time of year, and the Port's Waterfront Resilience Program and related sea-level ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Trekking the ModelJoin a Ranger or docent on a guided tour of the Bay Model, a 1.5-acre hydraulic model of the San Francisco Bay and Delta. Discover the stories of the two major operations that took place at this location between 1942 - 2000.
Over the centuries, storytellers have written tales of flights to the Moon. Mr. Garfinkle will discuss these fantasy flights in a PowerPoint-enhanced presentation. The presentation will include illustrations from the old books the stories were, in most cases, first published in. The images show the various methods the space travelers ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
My top 10 stories of 2019 in meteor astronomyAn informal re-telling of ten stories I worked on and were published in 2019:- Tunguska eye witness accounts, injuries and casualties-Saricicek meteorite traced back to Vesta crater Antonia- The Alpha Monocerotid outburst- Phoenicids from the breakup of comet Blanpain- Search for the meteoroids from asteroid Bennu- June epsilon Ophiuchids from ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Sunday, 01/12/20
46th annual Santa Cruz Fungus FairCome to Santa Cruz and explore the facinating world of Fungi. Learn interesting and fun facts about the hundreds of beautiful and fascinating species of mushrooms found in the Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay Area. Fungi will be beautifully displayed in a re-created woodland habitat. This unique Santa Cruz tradition features ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: $10 General, $5 Seniors, under 12 Free
Is a mosquito (phenomenally) conscious? This is a difficult question, but given our concept of consciousness, it seems that the answer must be determinately yes or no. There can be no vague cases of consciousness. This makes trouble for many of the leading theories of consciousness. In this talk, I ...
Neural networks have revolutionize many tasks in computer vision and interpretation, and will have significant rolein earth science tasks such as inversion, geological interpretation, prediction of earth parameters and water discovery.The talk will be divided into two parts. In the first part we will show that deep neural networks can be interpreted ...
Quantum devices and materials have exceptional promise for energy, computation, communication, and sensing. To realize this potential, scientists and engineers must find the right physical systems. Emergent phenomena in quantum systems often exhibit magnetic signatures. Superconducting QUantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) can map superfluid density and quantum vortices to reveal unconventional ...
We know that planets are born in the protoplanetary disks that surround stars when they are young. How these disks evolve into planetary systems is a fundamental question in Astronomy. Observations have revealed remarkable structures in disks that may indicate the presence of newly born planets. This talk will review ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
How does the structure of the critical zone - especially below shallow soils and into saprolite and weathered rock - control water storage and release to California forests and streams? In this talk, I will address this question with a synthesis of observational and modeling results from three intensively studied ...
A real scenario: A high voltage 15,000 Volt electrical cable suddenly faults interrupting power: a factory halts production; a city is darkened; or the failure starts a wildfire's storm of destruction. Sudden utility cable failures can be massively destructive events. Yet, an impending failure is typically internal to the cable, ...
Where: MilpitasCost: Free
Smart Cities, Smart Cars, Smart People: Hope or Hype?Foresee the near future with panelists Shekar Ayyar, Joxel GarcÃa, Paul Gupta and Mike Weber. The number of Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices is expected to increase from 20 billion to 55 billion over the next five years. What will that mean, in terms of new opportunities and new ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
The primary focus of image capture technologies have been focused on capturing a moment for a person to view, store, share or revisit. This has driven the focus on image capture to initially provide an image that mimics the scene as closely as what the user was viewing, and now ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free
Sustainability by Design: Innovation for a Circular EconomyJoin us for a discussion on the role of designers in actively shaping the path towards a more equitable planet. Alongside design experts from the Bay Area and Switzerland, we explore the question of social responsibility around consumer goods - and how design can incentivize people to live and act ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10
Healing a Trashed World- At 25 Cents a Cup?Martin Bourque, executive director of Berkeley’s Ecology Center, takes us on a tour through the gritty world of the international trash trade, why it isn’t working- and how Berkeley, despite its small size, can continue to be a force steering things right.
7:00-7:25: Lisa K Blatt(Photographer) on "Seeing the Invisible"'Photography and video to explore how landscape may be defined by what is not visible...Read more7:25-7:50: Adrienne Mayor(Stanford/ Classics and History and Philosophy of Science) on "Gods and Robots"Who first imagined robots, automatons, human enhancements, and Artificial Intelligence?...Read more7:50-8:10: ...
Human beings tend to prefer cross-species measurements that put us at the top of the scale. Intelligence is one such measure. Are humans really the most intelligent creatures on the planet? Should this be obvious given our problem-solving ability and big brains? This presentation will look at some examples of ...
