Science Sundays: Fascinating Fish Bones: Archaeology for the Future of Fishers and Fisheries - LivestreamAt coastal archaeological sites, thousands of fish bones represent the discarded remains of past meals. Fish bones provide important clues about how people of the past lived and how their daily activities shaped the identity of coastal residents, their relationships, and their interaction with the surrounding environment. Plus, an understanding ...
Where: Cost: $10 General, Free for Members.
Afternoon Hike at Pillar Point BluffJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for an afternoon Hike at Pillar Point Bluff just north of Half Moon Bay! You will be guided by a POST representative who will share details about the area’s interesting natural history, from the coastal scrub habitat to the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve that hosts tide ...
Where: Moss BeachCost: Free
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, 08/16/21
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 ...
Where: Cost: Free
Tuesday, 08/17/21
Two Talks: Popping the Science Bubble - LivestreamFriendships Across Space and Time: Looking at Plants and their Microbial PartnersSpeaker: Anna Scharnagal, UC BerkeleyCan I Pick Your Brain? Computational Methods for Brain Network AnalysisSpeaker: Jennifer Cummings, UC Berkeley and UCSF
Long Now is delighted to welcome back speakers Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley to be our first in-person talk of 02021. Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, is the subject of their new book and their talk for us; a timely and resonant topic that they began ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, Free for members
Climate change has shifted from a looming global threat to a pervasive contemporary challenge to the resilience of marine ecosystems and the communities they support. Environmentally-informed decisions across time horizons - from days to decades - are critical for meeting this challenge. Current global models yield skillful predictions of basic ...
Where: Cost: Free
Afternoon Hike at Rancho Cañada del OroOn this moderate to strenuous 4-mile excursion, you’ll explore the Mayfair Ranch - Longwall Canyon trails of Rancho Cañada del Oro. Expect around 500 ft. of gradual incline/elevation.This wonderful preserve rests in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountain Range and is a hub for wildlife, such as deer, bobcats, ...
Where: Morgan HillCost: Free
Peering into the body - with less risk - LivestreamMost medical imaging devices - X-rays and CT scans, for example - use radiation to peer into the human body to produce images and other data that can help care providers arrive at a clinical diagnosis. But there are health risks associated with too much exposure to radiation, even in ...
Where: Cost: Free
SETI Talks: Can we define life? Should we? - LivestreamWhat is the difference between you and a rock? Are stars alive? Is a computer virus a living being? These may seem like easy questions, but scientists have struggled to formulate a universal definition of life, to draw the line between the living and the inanimate. Can life even be ...
Where: Cost: Free
A robot CHIP (COVID Help Intelligent Patro) to enforce social distance & serve - LivestreamThe entire world is hurting because of COVID-19. We must stop its spread, stabilize its curve, and make better preparations for future outbreaks. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, counties have published safety guidelines that prompt people to socialize responsibly, and several cities are instituting social distancing circles in public parks. Many ...
Where: Cost: Free
How Your Family Can Land on Mars and Explore the Solar System - Using NASA’s Solar System Treks - LivestreamRight now, NASA’s Perseverance rover is beginning its epic exploration of the ancient lakebed in Mars’ Jezero Crater while the Curiosity rover continues its investigations in Gale Crater. Using NASA’s Mars Trek data visualization portal, we’ll fly to Jezero and examine up close the amazing terrain that is Perseverance’s new ...
Where: Cost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #119: A clock, some milk, and a dash of fungal affliction!Hello friends. Ever wonder what it’s like to get suffocated by your own skin? Well then do we have the talk for you! Gordon Lau will explain chytrid fungus and make you feel better about not being an amphibian. We’ll also be learning about another animal phenomenon perhaps a bit ...
Have you ever wondered how oceanic buoys operate and what they measure, or what critters cling to their undersides? Join marine scientists, technicians, and educators as they pull a one-ton NOAA carbon dioxide (CO2)Â buoy out of the water and explore its scientific instruments and the organisms that have colonized ...
The New Space Race: Who will own the stars? - LivestreamAmerican Experience presents a virtual PAST FORWARD conversation around the history of space exploration, and what the future of space travel and tourism might look like. This event is inspired by our streaming documentary films Chasing the Moon and Space Men.As the Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic space programs successfully ...
San Francisco Bay is a dynamic, active system that supports all sorts of ocean organisms. Dive below the surface at tonight’s After Dark and see what’s living underneath. Meet the algae and creatures that live underneath our data collection buoy during this once-a-year dry-docking. Find out what historical records of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95, Free for members
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
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 ...
Islands play a key role in both the evolution of new avian species and the extinction of others. Because of their isolation, birds that arrive on islands evolve separately from their parent group and eventually become unique… thus a new species is born! But that isolation also makes them vulnerable ...
 The California coast is a dynamic, active system that supports all sorts of ocean organisms. Dive below the surface at tonight’s After Dark Online inspired by the Exploratorium’s once-a-year dry-docking of our data collection buoy and examination of the organisms that have taken residence on its underside over the past ...
Have you ever wondered how oceanic buoys operate and what they measure, or what critters cling to their undersides? Join marine scientists, technicians, and educators as they pull a one-ton NOAA carbon dioxide (CO2)Â buoy out of the water and explore its scientific instruments and the organisms that have colonized ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Double Stars: Observing Double - LivestreamAbout half the stars in the sky are multiple stars. They are fun to observe, particularly the ones with a wide range of temperatures which results in different colors. They are also very important scientifically as they are the only way we can measure the mass of the stars. Some ...
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 08/21/21
Every Bird has a Story - LivestreamLearn about local birds and their stories through a presentation and accompanying photography all provided by guest speaker Judy Kramer.Join Judy Kramer and the Environmental Volunteers to learn about the stories of local birds, told through their photographs in “Every Bird Has a Storyâ€. Explore their fascinating lives and behaviors; ...
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 ...
