Wildlife Conservation Network 2020 Virtual Fall ExpoExpo is an annual event that welcomes you into the vast, thrilling world of wildlife conservation. Because this has been a year like no other, we are bringing you a special Expo experience where you’ll embark on an adventure filled with unprecedented stories from conservationists in the field. Expo will ...
George Leopold is a veteran science and technology journalist  writing extensively about human spaceflight. His work has appeared in the New York Times, New Scientist and a variety of other science and technology journals. His biography of astronaut Gus Grissom was published by Purdue University Press in 2016.The book “The Right Stuff,†and especially ...
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 ...
Dave Johnston will discuss zoonotic diseases and the relationship between bats and coronaviruses, the race to discover the true origin of SARS-CoV2, how viruses quickly evolve while jumping from one animal group to another, why scientists do not believe that SARS-CoV2 came directly from a bat, and why bat researchers ...
Where: Cost: $20 Donation
Monday, 10/12/20
Fluctuating superconductivity on a partially flat band - LivestreamPhase coherence is considered to govern the superconducting Tc in underdoped cuprates. However on the overdoped side, magnetic and optical evidence of diminishing zero temperature superfluid density are mounting in La2CuO4 cuprates. We combine magnetic and thermodynamic probes with angle-resolved photoemission, and show evidence of superconducting fluctuation substantially above Tc ...
In 2019, New York passed a groundbreaking climate law, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. The climate law codified Governor Cuomo’s climate vision, committing New York to among the most ambitious climate objectives in the world, including 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040 and an 85 percent reduction in ...
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Overcoming Barriers to Engagement of Underrepresented Students in STEM PhD Programs - LivestreamThe level of participation by underrepresented minority (URM) and female students in STEM PhD programs is low: in physics and astronomy URMs earn only 6% of PhDs v. 30% in the general population; women earn only 20% of PhDs v. 50% in the general population. I present research into why ...
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Slugs and Steins: From the Emergence of Planets to the Destiny of Black Holes - LivestreamThree most frequently asked big-picture questions by the general public are: 1) are we alone?, 2) what is going on inside black holes?, and 3) what happened before the big bang? While there is no shortage of philosophical speculation, scientifically-proven insights of these age-old profound and fundamental conundrums remain elusive. ...
You are invited on a spectacularly illustrated Tourist Tour of the Solar System and the Galaxy with astronomer Andrew Fraknoi.* Tuesdays, 12:30 PM - 2:15 PM, Oct. 13 through Nov. 3 (Four Meeting Days)* Offered through the SF State Osher Life-long Learning Institute (OLLI), but open to anyone over age ...
The Perseverance rover on the Mars 2020 mission launched on July 30 and is set for a rendezvous with Mars in February 2021. The rover will land in Jezero crater to search for signs of ancient microbial life and select samples for eventual return to Earth. In this talk I'll ...
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October LASER Event - Santa Cruz - LivestreamUC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to join us for a special online LASER Talk featuring David Stork, Ari Friedlaender, and Yolande Harris. From computer vision and pixel painting to immersive sound and video work exploring the underwater world, these wide-ranging presentations will reflect on ...
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An Evening Cruise to the Center of the Milky Way (and back) - LivestreamWe’ve all be stuck at home recently, so what better way to escape than taking a cruise to the center of the Milky Way! Our luxury space liner will speed us out of the solar system with barely a nod to the laws of physics, and marvel at alien worlds, ...
Where: Cost: Free
Wednesday, 10/14/20
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 ...
Neuroscience has made tremendous leaps and bounds in the last three decades. Sadly, the outcomes for people with epilepsy have not changed significantly with costs more than tripling to 28 billion dollars per year. Why the big divide between research and clinical care? We will explore the barriers to translation ...
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 ...
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Brian Christian: The Future of AI - LivestreamTime and time again we have created artificial intelligence (AI) systems to help solve our problems, but what happens when the AI systems become the problem?Artificial Intelligence systems have been created to help humans work faster, respond more justly, manage more and make fewer mistakes, but now the solution has ...
I will cover several recent papers: In Tschofen et al. (2019) we compute economy-wide gross external damages (GED) due to premature mortality from air pollution. We find that: GED has decreased over time; damages from farms are now larger than those from utilities; 4 sectors, comprising less than 20% of ...
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The Hunt for Dark Matter in the Universe: New Experiments - LivestreamAstronomers today understand that the universe is full of a mysterious substance they call “dark matter†(because it doesn’t give off any light or other radiation we can detect.) Dr. Shutt will discuss the motivation behind the multi-decade, world-wide effort to test the idea that dark matter is in the ...
PICTURE A SCIENTISTÂ chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks, and geologist Jane Willenbring lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights. Along the ...
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Thursday, 10/15/20
An Interview with Dr. Ken Caldeira on Climate Change - LivestreamInteractive session with renowned scientist Dr. Ken Caldeira. All are welcome. Questions will be invited from audience.Ken Caldeira serves as Senior Advisor, Climate Change for Gates Ventures and is a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, where his job is “to make important scientific discoveries.†He also serves ...
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Ocean Buoy Live Exploration: Cleaning and Servicing a CO2 Buoy Have you ever wondered how to move and service a full-sized scientific ocean buoy? Or what critters and seaweed cling to its underside? Watch live online as we lift our one-ton, 20-foot-tall carbon dioxide (CO2) buoy out of the water and explore its scientific instruments and the organisms that have ...
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The COVID Economy: How the Pandemic is Impacting Inequality and Local Economies - LivestreamThe pandemic has sped up unsustainable and unjust trends in our economy. Tens if not hundreds of millions of Americans are struggling to cope with the economic fallout, while billionaires have only grown more disproportionately wealthy. Communities of color have been hit especially hard. Enormous multinational corporations like Amazon have ...
Is There a Future for Carpooling? - LivestreamIn the Bay Area, carpools carry nearly as many commute trips as public transit. As the Bay Area region struggles to meet state-mandated greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, carpooling remains an important alternative to single-occupant vehicle travel. Prior to the pandemic, new options emerged to match up riders and drivers, ...
Where: Cost: $10 General, Free for Members
The Science Behind Forest Restoration in the Sierra Nevada - LivestreamFire suppression and past logging have increased fire hazards in the forests of the Sierra Nevada. Climate change makes this situation worse but is not the dominant factor. We will look at a long-term study to see what forest restoration activities can be used today to increase the resilience of ...
 This year we are celebrating 20 years of continuous human presence in space, onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Did you know that the ISS is a U.S. National Laboratory? The ISS National Lab is accessible to commercial companies, entrepreneurs and startups, and academic and government institutions for groundbreaking science, ...
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Translating Data into a Shared LanguageBeing a talented data scientist who can program in multiple languages and analyze massive data sets is not always enough to get your work recognized by decision-makers. Often, we focus on building impressive visualizations and models only to find our audience confused about what we need them to learn, or ...
Hardcore Natural History: The Price of PesticidesJoin us for a discussion of recent research on pesticide contamination of milkweed in California's Central Valley led by Sarah Hoyle. A research team including Xerces Society staff and scientists from University of Nevada, Reno, sampled milkweed plants from various landscapes in the Central Valley and analyzed them for pesticide ...
Organic matter, part of what makes up living organisms, can be defined as material in the process of decay. Though life may be gone, it’s not forgotten, as this matter cycles back through the ecosystem - creating new opportunities for life. Tonight, scale down to the smallest forms of life ...
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NightSchool: WildLife in the City - LivestreamJoin us for a NightSchool session examining the wild landscape of cities: how living with wildlife has shaped the design of where we live - and how we are shaping wildlife. Featuring talks by Elizabeth Carlen, Max Lambert, PhD, and Dr. Christopher Schell.
