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 ...
Where: Cost: Free
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: ...
Where: Cost: Free
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 ...
