Cosmic Conversation - LivestreamEvery week, we’re featuring astronomy researchers and experts chatting it up with the Morrison Planetarium team. Brian Day from NASA Ames will be in conversation with M. Josh Roberts and they'll be sharing the latest on landing sites for our return to the Lunar Surface.Stream this program here on the ...
Mountain Lions are a critical part of Bay Area ecosystems. But how much do we understand about the lives of these mysterious cats, and the health of local populations? We’ll seek to answer these questions with the help of Chris Wilmers, founder of the Santa Cruz Puma Project and faculty ...
Where: Cost: Free
Star Stories: Learn the mythology behind the constellations! - LivestreamJoin us on Facebook Live and listen to Doug Olsen, expert stargazer and storyteller, explain the mythology behind the constellations. He will tell ancient stories from the night sky as seen throughout history and look for planets and other clues to help orient you to the night’s sky.See weblink for ...
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 05/30/20
Science Saturday: Water WildDive in for a refreshing look at rivers, creeks, and streams. We'll focus on freshwater wildlife, watershed science, and the Museum's role in studying the health of these important places. View projects from local students and make a craft to take home during this fun, family event!
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
NASA and SpaceX Launch Watch Party - LivestreamWatch along with Chabot’s astronomers virtually as we witness this historic launch. At 12:22 p.m. PST, watch the launch of the first astronauts from American soil since 2011. NASA astronauts will fly to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.Astronomers from Chabot Space and Science Center will be ...
Where: Cost: Free
Fox Stories: Indicators that Fox are in Your AreaDo you sometimes see paw prints in mud or scat (poop) on the trails and assume that a dog left it? It could be from something else. Come along and learn how to distinguish and identify the markings of a gray fox. Gain some insights into the fox’s nature and ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Free Telescope Viewing - LivestreamJoin our resident astronomers on Facebook Live every Saturday evening live from Chabot’s Observation deck! Each week, our astronomers will guide us through spectacular night sky viewing through Nellie, Chabot‘s most powerful telescope. Weather permitting we will be able to view objects live through the telescopes and our astronomers will ...
According to Dr. Vivian Lee, health care is killing our economy and, in many cases, killing us.Beyond the outrageous expense, the quality of care varies wildly, and millions of Americans can’t get care when they need it. This is bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for business.Dr. Lee ...
Where: Cost: Free
Identifying topological order through unsupervised machine learning - LivestreamThe traditional description of phase transitions, originally developed by Landau, relies on the identification of a local order parameter that indicates the onset of a symmetry-breaking phase. However, many physical systems evade this paradigm and exhibit topological phase transitions where states are distinguished by their global topological properties rather than ...
Beginning more than a decade ago, many large energy customers began to want to use more renewable energy than was available on their local power grids. A new wave of voluntary, direct, renewable energy procurement driven by non-residential customers has added more than 20GW of new renewable energy to the ...
Neutron stars are the remnants of supernova explosions. These stars have the mass of our Sun packed into a package the size of a city. When two of these tiny stars spiral in and crash into each other, the first evidence that humans can detect are gravitational waves and a ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
Tuesday, 06/02/20
Arepo-MCRT: Monte Carlo radiation hydrodynamics on a moving mesh - LivestreamI will discuss Arepo-MCRT, a Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) solver for the unstructured moving-mesh code Arepo. The method is designed for general multiple scattering problems in both optically-thin and -thick conditions. It incorporates numerous efficiency improvements and noise reduction schemes to help overcome efficiency barriers that ...
Where: Cost: Free
Free Biotechnology Webinar Mark Snyder is a Process Manager at Bio-Rad Laboratories for their Chromatography Division. Snyder has been generous enough to host a free webinar about biotechnology as well as answer any questions. No RSVP required just join this link at 4 pm! https://bio-rad.zoom.us/j/94709955446
Where: Cost: Free
Pictures of Distant Worlds - LivestreamIn the past two and a half decades, more than 4000 planets have been discovered orbiting other stars beyond our own Solar System. This has sparked a revolution in astronomy as we realize our Solar System is not alone. However, we still don’t know if our Solar System is rare ...
We will explore the most intriguing future “tourist destinations†among the planets and moons in our cosmic neighborhood. Our stops will include the 4,000-mile lava channel on Venus, the towering Mount Olympus volcano on Mars (three times the height of Mount Everest), the awesome Verona Cliffs on the moon Miranda ...
Until recently, the colors of ancient life forms existed only in our imaginations. In museums and on the big screen, we have seen fossil creatures portrayed in striking colors, but those reconstructions were based on very little scientific evidence. However, over the past decade or so, new fossil discoveries and ...
Where: Cost: Free
Wednesday, 06/03/20
Long-term Thinking in a Pandemic-Changed World - LivestreamCovid-19 is disrupting every human system on Earth, and the return to “normal†is highly unlikely after the virus subsides. The decline of the old system paradigm built on mechanisms of bureaucracy and control is accelerating, while a new paradigm built on biologic adaptability and telepathic technologies begins to take ...
Recipe for Action: Building Food Security in Insecure Times - LivestreamThe coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic, energy, and socio-political shocks have left tens of millions of American families food insecure, frayed or broken global food supply chains, and made it abundantly clear the need to build more localized, sustainable, and resilient food systems.In this 75 minute webinar we’ll speak with ...
Where: Cost: Free
COVID Conversations: COVID-19 Demographics and Public Health Updates - LivestreamJoin Exploratorium Senior Scientist Jennifer Frazier in conversation with Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco and Co-Founder of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. It’s well documented that African Americans, Latinos, ...
Where: Cost: Free
Invisible Women in the Workplace - LivestreamThe world has a major design flaw. It wasn’t built for half its users: women. Even in our minds, we are often conditioned to set men as the default. When environments - physical, political, and social - are not designed with women in mind, they prevent 50% of the population ...
Where: Cost: Free
Thursday, 06/04/20
Fast Radio Bursts - LivestreamFast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short (few millisecond) bursts of radio waves observed from cosmological distances. Their origin is presently unknown, yet their rate is many hundreds per sky per day, indicating a not-uncommon phenomenon in the Universe. In this talk, I will review the FRB field and present new ...
A Healthy Society Series: Healthier Rural America - Toward a Better Future - LivestreamMoving America forward will take more than a vaccine. As we are finding today, many parts of our nation have been left behind and are not able to share in the great American dream. Rural America is at the focus of attention now because it is our food production center, ...
How do you create a digital coral reef so large and complex it will fill a 75-ft. planetarium dome screen? Get a behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the Academy’s latest show, Expedition Reef, with production designer Mike Schmitt and animator Ken Ackermann - members of the Academy’s award-winning Visualization ...
Where: Cost: Free
BioFutures: Mandatory Genetic Fingerprinting - CANCELEDIf someone is arrested for a federal crime, law enforcement officials are allowed to take a sample of their DNA. And last fall, the Justice Department approved the collection of DNA from the tens of thousands of people detained in immigration detention centers. UC Berkeley Law professor Andrea Roth will ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with After Dark Admission
City Star Party - PresidioCome join us for our monthly San Francisco City Star Party. SFAA members provide telescopes for your viewing pleasure. Be sure to check the SFAA website for the latest updates…bad weather or overcast skies will cancel!
