During the 2014 - 2016 North Pacific marine heatwave, unprecedented sightings of juvenile white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) emerged in Central California. These records contradicted the species established life history, where juveniles less than 2.5 meters in total body length (TBL) remained in warmer waters in the Southern California Current. This ...
This talk will describe the dramatic creation of the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) and the broad range of efforts, both inside and outside of the Semantic Scholar project, to garner insights into COVID-19 and its treatment based on this growing corpus of research papers.Speaker: Oren Etzioni, Allen Institute for ...
My research program is broadly focused on applied aquatic ecology with an emphasis on fishes. In general, my work aims to fill critical data gaps needed by fisheries and water resource managers to implement effective restoration and conservation measures for imperiled species and ecosystems. In particular, my work has focused ...
The Surprising Usefulness of the Single Decision TreeWhen data scientists think about decision trees it is usually in the context of ensembles of hundreds or thousands trees such as in the gradient boosting machine or random forests. In all the excitement about these powerful but complex learning machines most data analysts have forgotten about their extraordinary ancestor, ...
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Thursday, 11/05/20
Social Justice Series: Native American Health & Covid-19 - LivestreamThe Native American community has been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. Native Americans in Arizona, New Mexico and other States have death rates due to COVID-19 that are more than 100% higher than the general population in those states. Dr. Newland will discuss the immediate policies and long-term strategies needed to ...
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Towards Hardware Cybersecurity - LivestreamElectronic system security, trust and reliability has become an increasingly critical area of concern for modern society. Secure hardware systems, platforms, as well as supply chains are critical to industry and government sectors such as national defense, healthcare, transportation, and financial. Traditionally, authenticity and integrity of data has been protected ...
Have you ever considered putting up a birdhouse? Do you know what birds might use them, how to care for them, and what information we can get from monitoring nest boxes? As a volunteer, Lee Pauser has been building, installing, and monitoring nest boxes for 19 nesting seasons. In this ...
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Astronomy on Tap Santa Cruz: Fast Radio Bursts - LivestreamIn 2007, astronomers discovered a peculiar class of objects now called fast radio bursts (FRBs). These events emit light at radio wavelengths for less than a few milliseconds, yet can release as much energy as our Sun does in a day. Sunil Simha (UCSC) and Jay Chittidi (CU Boulder) will ...
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After Dark Online: Sustenance - Home Movies - LivestreamIndulge in a bit of joyful voyeurism as we screen and celebrate home movies. Created to capture the moments that become the almanac of a life lived, home movies have the power to link the past to the present and cultivate empathy for real people. While each home movie is ...
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Friday, 11/06/20
Bay Area Raptor Rundown - LivestreamJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), as we learn about birds of prey this fall with local Naturalist Jeff Caplan, director of Common Language Nature. Raptors play an integral role in the health of our ecosystems! Learn how to identify migratory and resident raptors when out on the coast or ...
In explaining extensive evidence for past liquid water, the debate on whether Mars was primarily warm and wet or cold and arid 4-Ga ago has continued for decades. The Sun’s luminosity was ~30% lower 4-Ga ago; thus, most Martian climate models struggle to elevate the mean annual surface temperature past ...
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November LASER Event - Artists at the border of art and science - LivestreamSachiko Kodama (Visual Artist) live from Japan on "magnetic fluid sculptures"Robert Buelteman (Cameraless Photographer) on "The Voice of the Biosphere Intruding on Human Unconsciousness"Register at weblink to receive connection information.
Nancy Falk will talk about her journey from her childhood in a rural Washington state community through her education and her technical career in the cleaning products industry, touching on some relevant technologies used in the industry. She will also reflect on work-life balance, technical society roles, outreach, and mentoring.Speaker: ...
Can we detect radio, infrared, or optical signals from other civilizations?Current and future SETI projects may provide an answer.Berkeley SETI Research Center chief scientist Dan Werthimer will describe the rationale for past and future searches and will show how new technologies are revolutionizing SETI.Dan will describe Breakthrough Listen, SETI@home, the ...
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You Can Almost Touch the Stars - LivestreamEven if you wanted to touch a star, they’re all impossibly distant. Despite these great distances, astronomers have learned an enormous amount about stars. How? The most common method to study the stars is called spectroscopy, which is the science of analyzing the colorful rainbow spectrum produced by a prism-like ...
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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 ...
Where: Cost: Free
Monday, 11/09/20
The Event Horizon Telescope: Imaging a Black Hole Through Global Collaboration - LivestreamWhat can medicine learn about collaboration and data sharing from one of the most successful team science projects of all time--creating a telescope the diameter of the earth to snap the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy?Black holes are cosmic objects so massive and ...
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Flat Bands in Flatlands - LivestreamIn a flat band system, the charge carriers’ energy-momentum relation is very weakly dispersive. The resultant large density of states and the dominance of Coulomb potential energy relative to the kinetic energy often favor the formation of strongly correlated electron states, such as ferromagnetism, nematicity, antiferromagnetism, superconductivity, and charge density ...
New polls show 7 in 10 Americans support legislation to eliminate fossil fuel emissions from the transportation, electricity, buildings, industry, and agricultural sectors by 2050. Then why is nuclear power - our largest and best source of carbon-free electricity in - in decline? In addition to growing concerns about the ...
Opus 12 is an emerging energy startup created by three Stanford alumni with an unconventional path to raising funds for the company. Opus 12 is developing a range of devices that recycles CO2 into cost-competitive chemicals and fuels that could impact a $300 billion market. The Opus 12 technology bolts onto ...
Covid-19: Pandemics, History and Science - LivestreamThe pandemic of Covid-19 has had an unprecedented impact on US society. This talk addresses the inequalities that the pandemic has revealed in our society specifically with respect to its disproportionate impact on African American communities. The impact of the pandemic on race relations within scientific communities has also received ...
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Tuesday, 11/10/20
How to Avoid Busting Up Your Furniture and Your Relationships During COVID-19 - LivestreamMonths and months in a sweet little bubble, with stresses and chaos on the outside, but warmth and safety on the inside . . . doesn't that sound great? But if this idyllic situation isn't yours right now, don't worry! Neuroscience and emotional resilience specialists Dr. Rick Hanson, psychologist and ...
The Mars Exploration Rover and Mars Science Lab missions have demonstrated that early Mars was habitable for (primitive) life as we know it. However, missions now on their way to Mars are shifting their objectives from the characterization of habitable environments to the search for prebiotic chemistry and biosignatures on ...
Two of the main questions in climate dynamics are: (1) what is the change in global mean surface temperature caused by a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, and (2) what is the change equator-to-pole temperature gradient for a given global mean temperature change. One hope is that paleoclimate records ...
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Harnessing Data Revolution in Quantum Matter - LivestreamOur desire to better understand quantum emergence drove the community's efforts in improving computing power and experimental instrumentation dramatically. However, the resulting increase in volume and complexity of data present new challenges. I will discuss how these challenges can be embraced and turned into opportunities by employing principled machine learning approaches. ...
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How Science Unlocks Copper's Hidden Powers - LivestreamIn particle accelerators, electrons are pushed to extreme energies by electromagnetic fields that oscillate inside evacuated metal cavities. Those cavities are usually made of copper. Even in SLAC’s most advanced accelerators, it is the strength of the copper material that determines how much field we can apply and how much ...
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Basic Science: Rising Stars of Berkeley Biology - LivestreamBerkeley’s renowned biological research carries forward in these early-career scholars, who are decoding cues of brain activity behind behavior; studying mitochondrial DNA’s links to metabolic diseases; and examining molecular bases of chemical coevolution in plants and insects.Please register in advance. To access the presentation, join the Zoom meeting.Matthew Welch, Francis Williams ...
BIDS Data Science Fellow Váleri Vásquez will be a featured panelist in a livestream conversation following BAMPFA's presentation of Woman and the Glacier (Audrius Stonys, Lithuania, Estonia, 2016), a portrait of portrait of Lithuanian scientist Aušra Revutaite, who has spent more than thirty-five years on the Tuyuksu glacier in Kazahkstan studying the effects of ...
Honeybees are regarded as one of the most important insects on our planet. Did you ever wonder about what really goes on inside a hive? Did you know that the colony is a finely tuned machine where every bee has a job and that these jobs are strictly divided by ...
Amory Lovins and Holmes Hummel, two thought-leaders with a track record of high-impact work on energy and sustainability, have returned to Stanford to invest in a new generation of scholars and innovators at the frontiers of the clean energy revolution.Speakers: Amory Lovins, author; Holmes Hummel, Clean Energy WorksRegister at weblink ...
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The Social Media Hype Machine: Disrupting Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health - LivestreamIn a perfect storm of social unrest, fake news, and a global pandemic, the 2020 election may be the most vulnerable yet to interference by foreign actors. And that’s only one of many warnings about the dangerous influence of social media from Sinan Aral, the MIT researcher who helped uncover ...
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.Have you ever heard of an element that can cry, or get a disease? Tin does ...
Just when the world was finally getting used to only having eight planets orbiting the Sun, the presence of a new ninth one is slowly coming into view at the edge of the solar system. This planet -- Planet Nine -- is inferred from of its gravitational effects shaping the ...
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Thursday, 11/12/20
ML Basics 1: Linear Regression Models WorkshopIn this workshop, you will explore linear regression models. You will learn about data preprocessing, predicting model parameters, bias, and variance trade-off, regularization, Ridge and Lasso Regression models, evaluating model performance, and how to tune up your models.Agenda:11:50 am - 12:00 pm Arrival and socializing12:00 pm - 12:10 pm Opening12:10 ...
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November LASER Event - Music from Other Worlds - LivestreamHeather Spence (Marine Biologists and Composer) on "Underwater Sound Research: Music of Marine Biology"Cheryl Leonard (Composer and Instrument Builder) on "Phantom Limbs: Composing Music Amidst the Sixth Extinction"Register at weblink to receive connection information.
Eric Hupperts is a houseplant enthusiast. He is also a horticulturist at UCBG caring for the Asian Collection, which includes favorites such as begonias, gingers, and rhododendrons. As a child, Eric was enthralled with the family houseplant, a dragon tree (Dracaena marginata) that provided a gateway into the world of ...
Where: Cost: $20
History and Mystery of the Refuge and the Bay - Livestream The Refuge was created in 1972, but this story starts 200 years earlier when Europeans discovered San Francisco Bay. Learn about the Bay’s history and the answers to mysteries such as: Why are mercury and gold a lethal duo? How did silver mining in Nevada affect the bay? Why was ...
Did you know that some birds of prey and ducks can use nest boxes? As a volunteer, Lee Pauser has been building, installing, and monitoring nest boxes for 19 nesting seasons. In this presentation, he will focus on the 6 species that he has had nest in large (Barn Owl, kestrel, ...
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Hardcore Natural History: Small But Mighty: Monarch Butterfly Migration and OverwinteringEvery fall, thousands of monarch butterflies migrate to Monterey County from all across the western United States to spend the winter clustering together at special overwintering sites.  But how do they get here? And why do they spend the winter in certain groves of trees, but not others? How ...
What do animals know, and how do they know it? Author Peter Godfrey-Smith discusses his latest book, an inquiry into the origins of animal intelligence considering ocean creatures from sponges and shrimp to octopuses and whale sharks. These animals hold surprising lessons for some of philosophy's most vexing puzzles: how ...
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Astronomy on Tap Seattle - LivestreamHave you ever wondered how exactly we can avoid the dinosaurs’ fate? Join as Dr. Siegfried Eggl talks about the science behind how we could deflect asteroids and keep the planet safe from interstellar objects. The event will begin at 7pm (note the early start!), and there will be lots ...
Jellies have no hearts, brains, or lungs, and are made up of 95% waterâ€"how interesting can they be? Find out during an evening with venomologist Anna Klompen, science writer Juli Berwald, and Academy biologist Riah Evin.See weblink for YouTube and Facebook Live buttons.
The observable universe is made of stars and galaxies and gas. However, it is commonly held in the astronomy community that our universe is also made of an invisible substance called dark matter that is five times more common than ordinary matter. However, dark matter has never been observed, and the ...
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Friday, 11/13/20
Past, Present and Future on the Bay Area Ridge Trail - LivestreamJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) and the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council for a discussion of the history and future of our region’s most ambitious trail network. We will hear from Elizabeth Byers, a founder of the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council and author of Bay Area Ridge Trail: ...
Green Friday: Extinction Rebellion on 'What To Do About the Coming Extinction' - LivestreamFounded by youth in Britain in 2018, Extinction Rebellion is a global movement that uses non-violent civil disobedience in an attempt to halt mass extinction and minimize the risk of social collapse. It has spread like wildfire across the globe - our local chapter XR SF Bay is aimed at ...
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Saturday, 11/14/20
Here Come the Suns: The statistics and habitability of planets in binary star systems - LivestreamMost planet searches focus on single stars, like the sun. But half of all sun-like stars actually live in binary or multiple stellar systems, whose planet-hosting capability may be quite different. Although planets in binary systems are common in pop culture (think Tattoine in Stark Wars, or Gallifrey from Doctor ...
The study of animal communication challenges our ideas of intelligence and informs the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Among the most fascinating and sophisticated of vocalizations are the songs and sounds of humpback whales. Laurance Doyle, Ph.D, Research Scientist with SETI Institute will share his studies of humpbacks to understand ...
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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 ...
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 11/15/20
Butterflies of the World - LivestreamOur Caterpillar lady Sally Levinson and Butterfly guy Sarab Seth are going global with this month’s virtual butterfly walk. Sarab’s travels and stunning photography will reveal butterflies from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, India and Panama.Register at weblink for connection information
Where: Cost: $10 General, $5 Members
The Math Magi: Seminal figures in Western mathematics - LivestreamThis presentation outlines the development of mathematics in the West with a focus on "God Created the Integers" by Stephen Hawking. It spans more than two thousand years from Pythagoras to Turing with spotlights on Archimedes, Descartes, Newton, Boole, and Cantor. Bob Burchfield will present material from the text along ...
Rivers, Time, and Collaborative Research - LivestreamRivers are icons of climate change. They are also highly sensitive indicators of present climate conditions, recorders of historical climate, and predictors of climate in the future. Climate scientists research all of these factors by observing watersheds and the ecosystems they sustain.Conceived by Jonathon Keats, River Time is a multifaceted ...
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The fall and rise of the mass on a spring - LivestreamSince antiquity, the mass on a spring and other simple mechanical systems have been used in everyday applications, like time-keeping clocks. But at one time, they were also employed in smarter information technologies such as calculators and computers, technologies now ruled by silicon-based microelectronics. In recent years, thanks largely to ...
 Information about the late-time Universe is imprinted on the small scale CMB as photons travel to us from the surface of last scattering. Several processes are at play and small scale fluctuations are very rich and non-Gaussian in nature. I will review some of the most important effects and I ...
LA’s Green New Deal, released by Mayor Garcetti in April 2019, sets a global model for upholding and exceeding the Paris Climate Agreement by prioritizing urgency, equity, and prosperity. Uniquely, the city of Los Angeles runs the largest municipally owned electricity and water utility in the country, the second busiest ...
Hierarchical materials - materials that include a hierarchy of bonding interactions because their basic building block are more complex than those of individual atoms - present a wide array of underexplored phase behaviors and emergent properties. Examples include many current functional materials comprised on molecules or small particle building blocks, ...
Throughout a 45-year career as an environmental regulator, Mary Nichols has been called everything from “Trump's nemesis†to “the most influential environmental regulator of all time.†A powerful climate champion for advancing climate action and limiting emissions, Nichols has taken on automakers and collaborated with them. Environmentalists have cheered her ...
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Walk with Obi: Coast Redwoods on Fire - LivestreamTake a once-in-a-lifetime virtual walk with Obi Kaufmann as he explores habitat recovery & restoration of a burned coast redwood forest.The story of the coast redwood is the story of a genetic lineage that stretches back to a time before the dinosaurs. Having evolved over the past several hundred million ...
Fish are the most diverse group of vertebrates on the planet today, and the type and abundance of fish present in the marine ecosystem depends on the environmental conditions and food web processes in that area. Ichthyoliths - isolated microfossil fish teeth and shark scales - preserve a unique history ...
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Frontiers in Optical and CMB Survey Cosmology - LivestreamObservations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the galaxy-filled sky provide images of the universe at its various stages that are sensitive to its physics from the earliest moments to recent times. These observations are key to expanding our understanding to the physics of inflation, neutrinos, dark matter, and dark energy - some ...
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Basic Science: Quantum Information's Imminent Revolution - LivestreamUshering in the era of quantum computing, UC Berkeley serves as headquarters for the new Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Present and Future Quantum Computation. A panel that includes three of its scientific directors explores the institute’s research priorities and the campus vision for an integrated initiative across quantum science ...
How can you adapt your landscaping to better protect your home from wildfires? Fay Mark, a UC Marin Master Gardener will offer guidance on how to plan and maintain healthy fire-smart landscaping. With photos, videos, and real world examples of recommended best practices she will explain how to have ...
Nadia Eghbal is particularly interested in infrastructure, governance, and the economics of the internet - and how the dynamics of these subjects play out in software, online communities and generally living life online.Eghbal, who interviewed hundreds of developers while working to improve their experience at GitHub, argues that modern open ...
We know that our Universe is expanding, but how fast? Is it getting faster or slowing down? And why? The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a state-of-the-art instrument on the Mayall telescope in Arizona, is equipped with 5,000 robotic optical fibers to capture the lights from 5,000 galaxies at one ...
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Sea Otter Conservation and Ecology in the 21st Century - LivestreamHaving nearly been forced to extinction throughout much of their range in the 18th and 19th centuries, sea otters have made a remarkable comeback. Through their recovery, we are learning new things about their basic biology and ecology, which is forcing coastal scientists and managers to rethink the role of ...
Where: Cost: $10 Donation Requested
Thanksgiving on Mars: Exploration & Human Missions Beyond Earth Orbit - LivestreamHumankind has always dreamt of traveling to new places and exploring new frontiers. When the Pilgrims’ arrived in the New World on wooden sailing ships in the 1600’s, they celebrated the first Thanksgiving with Native Americans and began settling into life in their new home.  Over time, the exploration ...
Langdon Cook is an author, instructor, and lecturer on wild foods and the outdoors. We are pleased to announce that he will join MSSF on November 17th to present at our virtual general meeting. He says “I’ll guide participants through four seasons of mushroom hunting and cooking on the ...
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Wednesday, 11/18/20
Going Negative to Create Positive Futures - Livestream2020 has been a historic year. While the world has experienced a major economic downturn during a global pandemic, there has been, however, explosive growth in carbon friendly strategies, initiatives, and rounds of funding whether large banks, multinationals, and venture investors. These opportunities in the growing regenerative economy value human ...
Alex Szalay is a Distinguished Professor in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also a professor in the department of Computer Science, and the director of the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES). He also leads the Open Storage Network ...
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AI and ML to Support and Improve Health Among African American Caregivers - LivestreamYoon will present her recent AI and machine learning projects to support and improve health among African American and Hispanic dementia caregivers using Twitter and public population-level data. Yoon will briefly discuss the lessons learned, challenges, and potential solutions for executing AI and machine learning projects.11:50 am - 12:00 pm ...
In this new series Behind the Scenes, from Truhlsen-Marmor Museum of the Eye, we’ll examine curious medical objects in the museum’s storage cabinets.If you’re interested in medical oddities, you’ll want to join Museum Director Jenny Benjamin for the launch of Behind the Scenes. In this new series, we’ll examine curious medical ...
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Big Tech vs. Healthcare wearables: A Goliath and Goliath Story - LivestreamConsumer wearables have been at the forefront of ‘quantified self’ trends over the last several years, and vendors have taken strides in the depth, breadth and accuracy of the data they feed back to consumers. With wearable stakeholders such as Apple, Fitbit, Google and Garmin all seeking to navigate a ...
Jill Tarter has spent more than 40 years trying to answer the question, “Are we alone in the universe?†An astronomer and co-founder of the SETI Institute, she was the inspiration for Ellie Arroway, the alien-hunting protagonist made famous by Jodie Foster in the 1997 Robert Zemeckis film adaptation of ...
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 session. Parents ...
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New kids on the block: Emerging contaminants in aquatic systems - LivestreamChemicals from human sources such as agriculture, urban runoff, and waste from domestic and industrial sewage are pervasive in freshwater and coastal systems. New chemicals are continually being developed, but testing for toxicity prior to use is typically done under controlled laboratory conditions on one or a few species. When ...
DIGITAL DEPUTY ACT: A commitment to digital ethics by Software Professionals - LivestreamCalifornia Preposition 24 tries to add more fines, to create more data rules and to approve more agency to over a basically software professional's ethic practice when one creates applications for a client either it is a large or small corporation, or uses consumers' data. DIGITAL DEPUTY ACT is a ...
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Life on Venus? Or much ado about nothing? - LivestreamFor decades, we thought of Venus as a completely uninhabitable planet because of the hellish environment on its surface. Yet, several scientists have championed the idea that life could exist in the thick cloud decks that shroud the planet.Several weeks ago, a team of astronomers reported the detection of phosphine ...
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Peninsula Gem and Geology Society General MeetingCliff Imprescia will give a talk on the Plumas County collecting locality called the MT Pit #1. Found in 1979 by Charles Trantham and Jeanne Mager, the site has produced numerous specimens of Quartz, Epidote, Albite, Axinite-Fe, and Titanite. The photo presentation will include locality info, site details and mineral ...
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Science on Tap: A New Tool to Map Entire Galaxies - LivestreamAll the popular images of galaxies, while beautiful, do not provide the information that astronomers need to measure the galaxies’ inherent properties, like the dynamics and composition of their stars and gases. Using the latest technological advances, Dr. McGurk is building a new, custom-designed instrument for Carnegie Observatories' Magellan Telescopes ...
A single gamma ray carries millions of times the energy of a single photon of visible light. This means that gamma rays are produced only in the most convulsive environments in the universe; pulsars spinning inside magnetic fields, stars in binary systems devouring their partners and black holes at the ...
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Stop Walking on Truffles: The Cryptic Life Underground - LivestreamCalifornia has an amazing diversity of hypogeous fungi (truffles and false truffles), and was the birthplace of North American truffle taxonomy. Although truffles are renowned for their culinary properties, very few species are highly prized edibles. This talk will highlight some of the common species, and how to find and ...
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Thursday, 11/19/20
Social Justice Series: The Death Gap - In the Wake of COVID-19 - LivestreamThe US, one of the most developed countries in the world has the most persistent gaps in life expectancy across racial and ethnic groups. Dr. Ansel will provide an overview of the social determinants and structural racisms that contributes to the gaps in life expectancy and discuss policies and solutions ...
Refuge Rails and Tales - LivestreamBehind the peaceful refuge and beautiful bay are many fascinating tales: the little rail vs. the big rail, the mouse with the mighty tail, the amazing mistake that led to the discovery of the bay, the marsh named after Chicago, how the bay was nearly destroyed (twice!), how three women ...
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'Symphone of the Soil' Film Screening and Discussion - LivestreamJoin us in this screening of the film “Symphony of the Soil†and a short, follow-up discussion on carbon farming in home gardens. The film is created by Deborah Koons Garcia and Lily Films Studio. Symphony of the Soil Beautifully illustrates the complex life that exists in healthy soil ecosystems, the role ...
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November LASER Event - LivestreamSummer Praetorius (USGS Geologist) on "The Heliocene"Miriam Dym (Pattern Artist) on "Decision Fields and Embodied Algorithms: working with infinitely variable and interactive pattern systems"Register at weblink to receive connection information.
As a vital form of intelligence, creative thinking takes many shapes. Tonight, we’ll dig into the creative mind; hear from creators about their processes; and uncover what neuroscientists have discovered about the brain, creativity, and the nourishing effects of both producing and experiencing creative outputs.This program features:Hear from Psyche Loui, ...
Two-toed or three-toed, giant or pygmy - we know you love the tree-dwelling, slow-moving mammals, but what do you know about sloth science? Learn about the coevolution of sloths and algae, a prehistoric giant sloth boneyard, and what wild sloths do when they sleep.Ages 21+See weblink for YouTube and Facebook ...
This dialogue with the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Dr. Fatih Birol, and Dr. Jonathan Pershing, program director of environment at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, will discuss the US energy and climate policy's impact on the rest of the world.Please join us for this session ...
The radiation belts of Jupiter are populated by energetic charged particles (electrons, ions) trapped by the gigantic magnetic field of the planet. The distribution and fluxes of these particles are sculpted by their interaction with the inner magnetosphere environment, including the environments induced by the volcanic moon Io and the ...
The waters surrounding the iconic Pigeon Point Lighthouse on the San Mateo Coast have many stories to tell. In addition to being a regional port since the Gold Rush period, the area was also home to a major shore whaling operation from 1862 to 1896. In this online webinar, CA ...
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Friends of Butte Creek Wild and Scenic Film Festival - LivestreamJoin Friends of Butte Creek on Friday, November 20th, at 6:30 pm, for a VIRTUAL Wild and Scenic Film Festival evening of exciting films about wild places, wildlife, and the amazing people that are helping to keep things wild. All 12 short films are streamed virtually in HD. Watch on ...
Where: Cost: $12 General
How the Visions of Sci-Fi Led the Way to Space - LivestreamLong before a rocket carried the first person into space, people journeyed to the Moon, Mars, and other worlds on flights of fancyâ€"imaginative voyages of fictional storytelling. Beyond entertaining us, science fiction tales have sometimes foreshadowed real events of space exploration and may even serve to shape future voyages. Speaker: ...
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You Can Almost Touch the Stars - LivestreamEven if you wanted to touch a star, they're all impossibly distant. Despite these great distances, astronomers have learned an enormous amount about stars. How? The most common method to study the stars is called spectroscopy, which is the science of analyzing the colorful rainbow spectrum produced by a prism-like ...
Join Christine Manoux, UCBG Education Director, for a fun talk about the plants we eat! We'll explore plant parts, and learn surprising botanical facts about fruits and vegetables. (Did you know potatoes aren't roots and strawberries aren't fruits?) Plus, discover what their color might tell us about their ...
Where: Cost: $10 per family
San Francisco City Star Party - CanceledCome 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!
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Armchair Star Party (Online)Join San Jose Astronomical Association (SJAA) astronomers in our third Armchair (virtual) Star Party. We will take you on a guided tour of the current night sky and introduce you to the tools of astronomy. SJAA members will share live views (weather permitting) as well as long exposure photos of ...
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 ...
Broken symmetries in living matter - LivestreamActive processes in living systems create a novel class of non-equilibrium material composed of many interacting parts that individually consume energy and collectively generate motion or mechanical stress. In this talk, I will discuss experimental tools and conceptual frameworks we develop to uncover laws governing order, phase transitions and fluctuations in systems in which individual components break ...
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The Alignment Problem - LivestreamThe real risk with AI is not that it will "turn on us," but rather, the danger has always been about being careful what we wish for. The real risk is the Midas Curse: that we build a powerful system able to learn by example but are somehow imprecise or ...
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Astronomy on Tap Los Angeles - LivestreamWe’ll hear from Casey Honniball: “Water on the Sunlit Moon†and from Kishalay De: “How Merging Stellar Corpses are Connected to the Calcium in Your Bonesâ€. In addition, we will host interactive astronomically-themed pub trivia.
Data Science for Managers Workshop - LivestreamThe AI Era: Opportunities and Challenges A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning Models:Decision TreeKNeighbours ClassifierRandomForest ModelGradient Boosting RegressorSVMNeural NetworksAgenda:10:50 am - 11:00 am Arrival and socializing11:00 am - 11:10 am Opening11:10 am - 12:50 pm Abdullah Karasan, " Data Science for Managers Workshop"12:50 pm - 1:00 pm Q&ASpeaker: Abdullah Karasan, ...
Let’s celebrate the return of Pacific Grove's monarch butterfly population during Science Saturday Magnificent Monarchs. Get an up close view of live butterflies, follow their migration, and learn how to garden with butterflies in mind.See weblink for Zoom button.
Where: Pacific GroveCost: 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 ...
The computer revolution, known by the moniker Moore’s Law, is rolling past its fifty-year march. As one of the most significant advancements of human civilization, this revolution has been enabled by a confluence of breakthroughs in science and engineering. Now this progress is at cross-roads facing slowing down of traditional ...
Studying Hot QCD with Jets - LivestreamThe phase diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) has been studied with ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been delivering heavy ion collisions (Pb+Pb) along with reference data of pp and p+Pb collisions since 2010. With its unprecedented reach in energy, LHC explores new regions of the ...
Follow the inspiring journey of environmental activist ​Greta Thunberg, who also has Asperger’s Syndrome, as she impresses everyone from UN delegates, to Hollywood A-listers in the intimate documentary "I Am Greta". The story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is told through compelling, never-before-seen footage in this intimate documentary from ...
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Phasing Out Fossil Fuels in Bay Area Buildings - LivestreamCalifornia has declared a goal of being carbon-neutral by 2045. To reach that goal, buildings will need to transition to using electricity rather than natural gas. But the state has lagged on enacting the necessary regulatory changes. In that leadership vacuum, the Bay Area has picked up the slack, with ...
 Join us for a virtual conversation with Lisa Feldman Barrett to explore fundamental questions, like why we even have a brain and what that means for all of us.When we think about the larger issues in our own society, and for humanity as a species, we don't often focus on ...
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The persistent sediment delivery problem in rivers - LivestreamMoving sediment from continents to coasts is a fundamental job of rivers. However, humans have dramatically altered how rivers move sediment leading to declining suspended sediment delivery in many rivers around the world. Rarely are we able to look both upstream and downstream of basin outlets to measure where and ...
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Histories of Communicating Science Beyond the Recent West - LivestreamWe are often told science communication originated alongside professionalised science in Western Europe a few hundred years ago. Yet cultures all over the world and throughout time developed unique conventions for communicating their knowledge within their own societies and with others.This webinar will discuss how we might rethink science communication ...
The afterglow of the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), is one of our best tools to study the beginning of the Universe and how it works. Find out how we look at this “baby picture†to infer how our Universe works, what it has taught us, and what ...
Decoding Innovation - The Innovation Delusion and the Maintenance Mindset - LivestreamWithout doubt, technological innovations are tremendously important. We also hear about innovation everywhere: books, magazines, white papers, blogs, classrooms, offices, factories, government hearings, and the list goes on. But for all this discussion, do we really have a good understanding of what “innovation†means, and its proper place in society? ...
 Python, pandas, scikit-learn are essential tools for any Data Scientist today. They are user friendly and rely on the popular Python syntax that is easy to read and implement for Data Science work. However, any Data Scientist who has used them knows that the limits they have are real when ...
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Integrating Planning with Nature - LivestreamOver the next century, the San Francisco Bay Area is poised to face three major challenges: adapting to a changing climate, adding infill development to accommodate a growing population and maintaining natural and working lands in the face of development pressure. Despite appearing to be disparate, these problems are deeply ...
Above our life sustaining atmosphere resides an international team of scientists living onboard an orbiting complex we know as the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS is the crowning achievement of many nations. It symbolizes a new beginning in the exploration of space. In the early days of space travel, ...
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Thursday, 12/03/20
Climate & Clean Air Zoomposium #2On October 1, we convened 11 elected officials, environmental luminaries and environmental justice leaders to discuss the potential creation of a statewide ballot measure ahead of November 2022 that could generate significant new funding to accelerate the deployment of transportation, infrastructure and other technologies to finish cleaning our air and ...
Where: Cost: Free
Equitable Practices in Distance Learning - LivestreamJoin us for a stimulating discussion with a diverse panel of educators and non-profit leaders about the impact distance learning has on the educational landscape and challenges moving forward.Register at weblink to receive connection information.
Underwater Happy Hour - LivestreamJoin us Atlas Obscura and expert hosts Stephanie Joseph and Ethan Angelica as we explore the underwater world of the New York Aquarium's one-of-a-kind exhibits. During this one hour online experience, you'll get to take a look at some of the aquarium's incredible exhibits, including the new exhibit dedicated to ...
From the ‘noble fir’ to the ‘humble pine’, join us for a virtual tour highlighting the Garden’s remarkable collection of conifer trees with UCBG horticulturist Gideon Dollarhide. We’ll explore via Zoom the unexpected origins, distinguishing features, and unique uses of this special group of plants. Get to know these winter ...
Where: Cost: $5 General, Free for members
Challenges & Opportunities in Plastic Recycling & Disposal - LivestreamBased on his decades of experience in the industry, Mike Biddle, Evok Innovations, will share his perspectives on plastic end-of-use options, the plastic pollution crisis, and where he sees opportunities for researchers and entrepreneurs to make an impact.Register at weblink to receive Zoom information.
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December LASER Event - LivestreamIan Hodder (Stanford/ Anthropology) on "What we learn from studying Çatalhöyük, one of the world's earliest societies"Miriam Dym (Visual Artist & Systems Thinker) on her visual art based on infinitely variable and interactive pattern systemsVijaya Nagarajan (Univ. of San Francisco/ Theology and Religious Studies) on "Embedded Mathematics in Southern India's ...
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Astronomy on Tap Santa Cruz: - LivestreamWe can't typically see black holes, but this month we will be discussing the exciting events that light them up.At the center of most galaxies lies a supermassive black hole (SMBH), larger than our entire solar system and millions of times more massive than our Sun. Despite the considerable influence ...
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Global Habitat Restoration documentaries and Panel Discussion - LivestreamThree short documentaries about the success of Indigenous people around the world who are restoring their marine habitat. Enjoy three short films, then join filmmaker Gemma Cubero del Barrio and EOS Center's Habitat Restoration expert Dr. Kathy Boyer on December 3 at 6:30 PM PST for a panel discussion of ...
After Dark Online: Celestial - Rising Tides - LivestreamIn December and January, San Francisco Bay will see king tides, extreme tides caused by three colliding factors: the sun and moon aligning - a full moon - while both are at their closest points to Earth. However, the sea level in the Bay is constantly rising, and today’s king ...
Learn about mountain lions and bobcats, our fellow west coast residents, and the habitat they roam - from the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s historic use area in the Olympic Peninsula down to the Santa Cruz mountains.Ages 21 +See weblink for connections to Youtube and Facebook to watch.
How can we explain humanity's extraordinary evolutionary success? In this talk, psychologist Jan Engelmann will explain and explore a series of experimental studies comparing humans to one of our closest living relatives, chimpanzees. He will argue and present evidence that - maybe surprisingly - humans are not individually but are ...
