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 ...
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 08/08/21
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, 08/09/21
Measuring and Improving Engagement in Online Learning - LivestreamWith a lot of learning shifting online, many students turn their cameras off, making it impossible for teachers to understand whether their students are engaged. Teachers feel that they are teaching a vacant wall of icons while students are unable to show that they are engaged without inviting discomfort. This ...
Robot ethicist Kate Darling offers a nuanced and smart take on our relationships to robots and the increasing presence they will have in our lives. From a social, legal, and ethical perspective, she shows that our current ways of thinking don’t leave room for the robot technology that is soon ...
Rethinking values based on science and traditional wisdom Indigenous, Buddhist, and Taoist traditions have held for millennia that all life is interconnected. Modern science has now validated their insight. What does this mean for how we should live? This groundbreaking new book weaves together the latest scientific findings and age-old ...
Where: Cost: Suggested Donation $5-$20.
Wednesday, 08/11/21
Perseid Meteor Shower Watch Party - Sold OutWitness the peak of the dazzling Perseid Meteor Shower during this special in-person viewing on Chabot’s Observation Deck. Stay up late as the shower makes it annual trip through our atmosphere and lights up the night sky. Our astronomers are watching the show and eager to answer questions. Hot chocolate ...
Where: OaklandCost: $15 Adults, $7 Youth, Members Free
Wearable technologies have the potential to transform healthcare by providing continuous measurements of physiological parameters. Sensors that passively monitor physiological pressure without using electronic components are ideal as contact lens type devices because they are easy to interface with the cornea and the external environment. In our group, we developed ...
Where: Cost: Free
Life Finds a Way and The Impacts of Food Trade - LivestreamProduct of Mexico: The Socio-Environmental Impacts of Food TradeStep into any supermarket in the US and you are likely to find crisp spinach, creamy avocados, and sweet raspberries year-round. As US supermarkets have become increasingly able to provide year-round access to popular produce, other countries - such as Mexico - ...
Salt marshes lay at the edge of the land and sea with animals in these habitats exposed to the pressures of both realms. This is especially true for sparrows breeding in California's coastal marshes where they must cope with high salinity and daily tidal flooding. Adaptations to these challenges drive ...
How can tools and technologies help us “see†aspects of the environment, both natural and built, that are otherwise hidden to the human eye? And how are these new visions of landscapes - from cities to forests to oceans - supporting a new understanding of the world around us? Tonight ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95, Free for members
This week at NightLife, explore Pop-Up Magazine’s FIELD GUIDE, a new audio experience and art project made for and inspired by the world around us. Roam the museum for a collection of stories that explore our natural environments in new ways. Plus, go behind the scenes with a Q&A session ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.50 - $22
Micromitigation: Fighting Air Pollution with Activated Carbon - LivestreamWe would like to invite new members to join Counter Culture Labs' Micromitigation Meetup alternate Thursdays. We will be discussing ways to deploy existing adsorption technology using commodity granulated activated carbon for the mitigation of air pollution. We welcome those interested in both the environmental justice and technical engineering aspects of ...
Misinformation is a complex problem pervading many aspects of society, with technological, psychological, social, and cultural aspects. Countering misinformation requires tackling the many-headed beast from a variety of disciplines and directions. The 4D Project synthesizes four research themes: Detect, Deconstruct, Debunk, and Deploy. Detection involves training machine learning models, in collaboration ...
