A COVID-modified style bird walk at Mountain View's Charleston Slough with one the Bay Area's favorite bird walk leaders. Whether you are an experienced birder, or if this is your first bird-a-thon, the Go Gos welcome all birding levels. Space limited! Exact location provided upon registration.Register at weblink.
Where: Mountain ViewCost: $60 donation
A Cosmic Perspective: Searching for Aliens, Finding Ourselves - LivestreamAre we alone? Humans have been asking this question throughout history. We want to know where we came from, how we fit into the cosmos, and where we are going. We want to know whether there is life beyond the Earth and whether any of it is intelligent.Since the middle ...
Where: Cost: Free
Virtual 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 be ...
Eugenie C. Scott, Ph.D., will be presenting this online Forum on the topic of:"Why Kitzmiller v Dover should be remembered 15 years later"Kitzmiller vs Dover was a federal district court trial in 2005 over the legality of a small Pennsylvania town’s requirement of the teaching of “intelligent design theory†(ID). ...
Where: Cost: Free on-line
Monday, 10/05/20
Safe Learning in Robotics - LivestreamA great deal of research in recent years has focused on robot learning. In many applications, guarantees that specifications are satisfied throughout the learning process are paramount. For the safety specification, we present a controller synthesis technique based on the computation of reachable sets, using optimal control and game theory. ...
Where: Cost: Free
STARtorialist: the Cosmology of Astro-Fashion - LivestreamProf. Emily Rice is co-founder and CEO of STARtorialist, Inc., an astronomy fashion blog turned online shop. She will share the formation and evolution of the astro-fashion Universe from the STARtorialist perspective, as well as the impacts that science-infused style and shopping can have on the culture and community of ...
While we continue to feel the impacts of climate change in the form of wildfires and extreme weather events, California remains resolute in its commitment to decarbonizing our energy system. Much of our electricity is already carbon-free - and the electric grid becomes cleaner every year. This progress does not ...
Where: Cost: Free
Tuesday, 10/06/20
Election 2020 - Critical Technology Policy Issues - LivestreamThe 2020 Presidential election in the US comes at a critical juncture for technology, innovation, politics, and policy. From aeronautics to space exploration, and from semiconductors to the internet, history shows in no uncertain terms the fundamental connections between government policy, political priorities, and technological innovation. What are the key ...
Where: Cost: Free
SETI Talks: Who is the SETI Institute? - LivestreamYou’ve heard about us. Maybe you’ve noticed we were mentioned in a blockbuster Hollywood movie or in a sitcom on TV. Perhaps you used to run SETI @ home on your computer back in the day (for the record, we’d love to take credit, but that wasn’t us). If someone ...
A long-standing debate in the Earth Sciences bears on the question of whether top-down erosion processes govern mountain building processes, but how do we measure the topographic signature of the climate drivers independent of tectonics? We use two natural experiments to detangle a potential signature of climate and drivers of ...
Where: Cost: Free
Basic Science: Seeing Cells in a New Light - LivestreamRecent breakthroughs in biological imaging using adaptive optics and novel types of ultra-high-resolution microscopes have enabled watching live cells in action in the brain and other tissues. Pioneers of these approaches describe how Berkeley’s new Advanced Bioimaging Center will be a visualization and data-processing powerhouse for the biological sciences.Please register ...
In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and author Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions - clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips - and reveals how they shaped the human experience.Ramirez shows not only how materials were shaped by inventors but ...
Supermassive black holes are the most powerful persistent sources of energy in the Universe. They power the emission of radiation in every waveband that humans have learned to study, from long, low-energy radio waves to blistering gamma rays. Humans have learned to study these immense, mysterious objects using instruments designed ...
Live ScienceJoin Chabot Science Educators for a fun and interactive science experiment! Together, we will investigate and observe a phenomenon of science through a captivating demonstration.We’ll ask for observations and explanations of what YOU think is happening before revealing the science behind it. Then, we’ll end with a live Q&A for ...
Lauren Sallan, University of Pennsylvania, is a ‘next generation’ paleobiologist and ichthyologist applying cutting-edge developments in ‘Big Data’ analytics to reveal how evolution happens at the largest scales (macroevolution). Lauren uses the vast fossil record of fishes as a deep time database to determine why some species persist and diversify while others die ...
How do scientists go from OMG to PhD? How do they turn their passion for science into their profession? What advice do they have for future scientists?If you are a 5th-12th grade student, undergraduate, teacher or parent, join us to ask these questions and more in a Q&A sessionParents must give ...
Where: Cost: Free
Mediation of trophic cascades by anti-predatory responses - LivestreamTrophic cascades, the positive indirect effect predators have on the basal resource, are a key component of predator-prey interactions. The strength of trophic cascades is determined by both the predators’ consumption of prey and the extent to which predators induce an anti-predatory response in prey - colloquially termed a ‘fear ...
Where: Cost: Free
Combatting Misinformation by Introducing Peer-Reviewed Journals into the Science Classroom - LivestreamIn an age of misinformation, it is essential that students develop the scientific literacy and critical thinking necessary to discriminate between science and pseudoscience. Peer-reviewed journals are the most reliable source of information but are often full of intimidating jargon and have limited accessibility, while misinformation is generally free and ...
Preventing catastrophic climate change will require a rapid shift to transportation powered by clean electricity, and shared vehicle services (including taxis and ride-sourcing) can serve as a crucial beachhead market for battery electric vehicles. In this talk, Gordon will present his research on how to electrify these services, including infrastructure ...
Where: Cost: Free
Meta-skills for Data ScientistsThe talk will cover meta-skills for data scientists to include methods to identify and mitigate bias, as well as strategies to improve cognitive performance.Agenda:4:50 pm - 5:00 pm Arrival and socializing5:00 pm - 5:10 pm Opening5:10 pm - 6:50 pm Wes Barlow, "Meta-skills for Data Scientists"6:50 pm - 7:00 pm ...
Come be in your elements with Exploratorium host and scientific raconteur Ron Hipschman - follow tales of intrigue and invention, join in dynamic demonstrations, and uncover fascinating connections between individual elements and our collective human experience.Not named after the subcontinent of India, but rather for the bright blue-violet (that is, indigo) light emitted ...
Where: Cost: Free
Thursday, 10/08/20
How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives - LivestreamOver the last several years, and especially since the 2016 election, the extraordinary impact of technology, particularly social media, on our privacy, democracy, economy, kids and families, race and gender roles, climate change and mental health, among other topics, has become an issue of urgent national concern. These are all ...
“The Forests of California†Artist talk and book release with Obi Kaufmann - LivestreamJoin us in welcoming author and artist Obi Kaufmann for a special Q & A celebrating his newest book "The Forests of California" "The Forests of California" features an abundance of Obi Kaufmann's signature watercolor maps and trail paintings, weaving them into an expansive and accessible exploration of the ...
Where: Cost: Free
Social Justice Series: Addressing Upstream Determinants - What Makes Us Sick? - LivestreamWhy do health inequities persistent over time? Dr. Fuller will provide an overview of the upstream determinants of health that are responsible for many of the pervasive health inequities in the United States and will discuss the inequities she is confronted with in her practice as a pediatrician in Solano ...
Where: Cost: Free
Viewing the Beginning of Time from the Most Remote Places on Earth - LivestreamShortly after the birth of the universe, space was filled by a plasma that was literally red-hot. The light radiated by that plasma has traveled the vast emptiness of space for billions of years, with the expansion of the universe slowly stretching its waves until today it appears as microwave ...
Where: Cost: Free
Lockheed's Spy Satellite ProgramsCORONA was America's first eye-in-the-sky space mission replacing the U-2 flights ended by the shooting down of a flight in 1960. Lockheed Missiles and Space Systems (Lockheed) here in Silicon Valley was the system integrator of the Corona payload which included new camera, film and recovery capsule as well as ...
Facilitated Communication (FC) is a technique used on people with severe communication difficulties as an alternative to valid Augmentative and Alternative Communication methods. Proponents claim that simply by providing emotional and physical support, people with disabilities can unlock inner language and literacy skills. However, controlled studies of the technique repeatedly ...
Dig into deep time and glimpse geologic processes that form our planet and its habitable conditions. From the Big Bang onward, elements and atoms have been colliding, combining, transforming, and deteriorating, resulting in our current snapshot of the universe. In this program, explore evidence that reveals the story of this ...
Chile isn’t called “the astronomy capital of the world†for nothing: During a NightSchool event highlighting the Academy’s newest planetarium show, Big Astronomy, learn about Chile’s long history of astronomical discovery, its epic mountain observatories, and the diverse collaboration of scientists working there to help us understand the true expanse ...
