Evening Tours of Lick Observatory - SOLD OUTThe event will last approximately 4 to 6 hours. Visitors should be prepared to walk about one mile during the evening, including taking stairs. Events are held rain or shine.The tour will start at the main building’s Visitor Center. Participants can learn about the unique history of the world’s first ...
Where: Mt. HamiltonCost: $75
Monday, 08/02/21
SETI Live: The Search for Technosignatures with TESS - LivestreamDr. Ann Marie Cody uses space telescope data to study variability associated with stars and the material surrounding them. This summer, she and her student Marlee Rapp are working with data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). TESS has observed tens of millions of stars over the past few ...
Where: Cost: Free
Tuesday, 08/03/21
How to Prepare for Climate Change - LivestreamYou might not realize it, but we’re already living through the beginnings of climate chaos. In Arizona, laborers now start their day at 3 a.m., because it’s too hot to work past noon. Chinese investors are snapping up real estate in Canada. Millennials have evacuation plans. Moguls are building bunkers. ...
Where: Cost: Free
SETI Live: Tracking Lightning from Space to Predict Weather on Earth - LivestreamLightning flashes can be excellent predictors of incoming storms, tornadoes, and other severe weather events and are used by meteorologists to warn local communities of oncoming severe weather many minutes in advance, protecting infrastructure and human lives. NASA’s two Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) spacecraft have cameras dedicated to capturing ...
This workshop will be a hands-on tutorial for the python pandas library. pandas is one of the popular tools used for manipulating, cleaning, integration and wrangling of tabular data. Data scientists spend significant amount of their time on such operations. This workshop aims to introduce how pandas can be used ...
Where: Cost: Free
Got Hormones? The Do's and Don'ts of Stem/Leaf Propagation - LivestreamTaking stem or leaf cuttings can be an easy and cheap way of obtaining more plants and we all want more plants. But knowing the basic science and why's behind this practice will help you become even more successful. This session will focus on the hormones, myths, tips and tricks ...
AI is becoming a reality in the form of robot helpers, e.g., robot vacuum cleaners, robot mowers and robot pets. SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping) enabled them to navigate around, computer vision powers the object and obstacle recognition. However, the robots are not perfect and there are limitations.In this talk, ...
Join us for a conversation between Jeffrey Kluger and astronaut Nicole Stott about Kluger's new novel Holdout, which tells the story of a principled astronaut who has to make a spilt-second decision to try to seek justice in the only place she knows how - the International Space Station. Watch ...
The pixel, the smallest element of a picture, has, with little fanfare, helped push forward the digital revolution to new heights over the past 2 decades. Today, nearly every picture in the world is composed of pixels - cell phone pictures, app interfaces, Mars Rover transmissions, book illustrations, video games - and these digital ...
Forget equations, calculators, and whiteboards. Come experience physics as energetic expressions of motion, color, and sound! Tonight we highlight the astounding interactions of materials large and small that define the basic laws of our universe - and don’t forget to investigate real phenomena with scientific tools and your own body.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95, Free for members
NightLifeCalling all creatures of the night: explore the nocturnal side of the Academy at NightLife and see what's revealed. With live DJs, outdoor bars, ambiance lighting, and nearly 40,000 live animals (including familiar faces like Claude the albino alligator), the night is sure to be wild.Step inside the iconic Shake ...
Where: Cost: $18.75 - $16.00
Evening Tours of Lick Observatory - SOLD OUTThe event will last approximately 4 to 6 hours. Visitors should be prepared to walk about one mile during the evening, including taking stairs. Events are held rain or shine.The tour will start at the main building’s Visitor Center. Participants can learn about the unique history of the world’s first ...
Five vans, one plane, two states, one thousand miles, four organizations, two hundred people and one... banana box. On average in a season this is what it takes to save one little life. Learn from the experts and volunteers saving - and flying - hundreds of baby sea turtles from ...
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 08/07/21
Nature Day on Codornices CreekDiscover and celebrate nature with your choice of strolling, hunting bugs, using free and easy cell-phone apps to identify plants and animals, and observing, magnifying, and photographing "tiny things" in nature. We'll end with snacks and sharing adventures! Attendance limited -- Details and registration here. Questions? Please email f5creeks@gmail.com.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Little Sap - Virtual Book ReadingJoin children’s book author Jan Hughes and the Environmental Volunteers in a special, virtual reading of Little Sap.Little Sap can’t wait to grow tall and strong and touch the sky. But growing takes time. With protection and wisdom from Mother Tree, the tallest and wisest in the grove, and a ...
Join 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 ...
