Afternoon Walk 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: Cost: Free
Monday, 11/15/21
Taking Stock of COP26 - LivestreamIn 2015, delegates from 196 nations entered into the legally binding treaty on climate change known as the Paris Agreement, which set a goal of limiting global warming to “well below 2 and preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels.†Yet in August of this year, the United ...
The fast growth of portable power sources for transportation and grid-scale stationary storage presents great opportunities for battery development. The invention of lithium ion batteries has been recognized with Nobel Prize in 2019. How to increase energy density, reduce cost, speed up charging, extend life, enhance safety and reuse/recycle are ...
Where: Cost: Free
Exploring the Cosmos with Superconducting Detectors - LivestreamOur group at JPL has recently deployed a state of the art SNSPD camera at the Palomar 200-in telescope for NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communication project. This camera will act as the downlink receiver for the Psyche spacecraft (launches in 2022) to demonstrate the viability of laser communication links for ...
Where: Cost: Free
Making the cells that make the face: Neural crest cell development across species - LivestreamDr. Crystal Rogers is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology at UC Davis. Dr. Rogers received her PhD from Georgetown University with Dr. Elena Silva Casey and did her postdoctoral work with Dr. Marianne Bronner at Caltech. The Rogers’ Lab studies the molecular mechanisms ...
Form Energy is a battery technology company founded in 2017 focused on developing a new class of multi-day energy storage systems that enable a reliable, secure, and fully-renewable electric grid year-round. At its founding, Form sought to understand the dynamics of deeply decarbonized grids to inform our battery requirements. Form ...
Where: Cost: Free
What must change for things not to stay the same? - LivestreamHave you ever felt that the more things change, the more they stay the same in relation to diversifying the scientific community? Indeed, over the past fifty years, while the demographics of the higher education science community have changed, those changes have far from kept pace with national demographic shifts, and the ...
Dr. Jens Madrian will outline NEOM Energy's strategy to develop the world's first 100% renewable energy system. The key focus areas will be system design goals, intermittency challenges, and key enablers for system stabilization and optimization.Register at weblink to attend.
Where: Cost: Free
Weekday Morning Hike at Rancho Cañada del OroJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for an excursion where you’ll explore the Mayfair Ranch - Longwall Canyon trails of Rancho Cañada del Oro! You will be guided by POST Ambassadors who will share with you the history of the preserve, the region, and the importance of conservation in the area. The ...
Where: Morgan HillCost: Free
CITRIS Day 2021: Celebrating 20 Years of Impact and Innovation - LivestreamCITRIS Day is an annual public showcase of emerging research, leading-edge applications, collaboration opportunities, and societal impact of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS).CITRIS will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a virtual public showcase of emerging research, leading-edge applications and ...
Rainfall-intensity thresholds for post-wildfire debris-flow initiation are the primary criteria for issuing debris-flow hazard warnings in burned landscapes. Yet, with the expansion of frequent wildfires into a wide range of hydroclimates, there is a growing need for accurate thresholds in landscapes with few to no observations of post-fire debris-flow activity ...
Technologies for electrochemical energy conversion, storage and hydrogen production, such as fuel cells, batteries and electrolyzers have evolved as a prevailing option in achieving environmentally neutral energy and transportation sectors. Global deployment of these technologies dictates perpetual demand for improved functionality and performance of employed materials that are mainly based ...
Weird morphologies, behaviors, and physiologies have long fascinated both the scientific community and the general public. For example, just try to get off the couch after turning on Planet Earth and seeing the male birds of paradise turn themselves into ultra-black dancing discs to attract mates. Yet, how such novel ...
Where: Cost: Free
All the Humpback Whales of the Pacific Ocean - LivestreamOver the past six years, Ted Cheeseman has led a team building the research collaboration and citizen science Happywhale project, gathering ID images of individual humpback whales worldwide. In the North Pacific, they have achieved a milestone: the project now has identified the majority of living humpback whales in the ...
In creating Mushrooms of Cascadia: An Illustrated Key. I wanted a book small enough to carry and use in the woods yet with a broad coverage of species, something far more reliable than existing apps, and something not dependent on cell phone coverage.    This talk will feature the mushrooms that ...
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 with ...
We live in a privileged time, when at last humans have been able to directly see other stars and planets as they are being born. Needless to say, this has enabled us to answer age-old questions about how the Sun and Earth were made. It turns out the process is ...
Ten missions have been successfully landed on Mars since 1976, including six rovers that have traversed across a total of nearly 50 km of terrain on the Red Planet.  Professor Jim Bell from Arizona State University has been the lead or deputy scientist in charge of the science cameras on the NASA ...
Where: Cost: Free
Science on Tap: Hunting for new minor planetsWhy study asteroids? The scientific interest in asteroids is due largely to their status as the remnant debris from the inner solar system formation process. The probability of an asteroid striking the Earth and causing serious damage is very remote but the devastating consequences of such an impact suggests we ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
SETI Talks: UAPs: Are they worth scientific attention? - LivestreamIn June of this year, an unclassified version of the U.S. Department of Defense released its preliminary report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). The report cataloged and investigated records of unexplained encounters seen in the sky by U.S. Navy ships and fighter jets. The report’s firmest conclusion is that the ...
Where: Cost: Free
Thursday, 11/18/21
Earth at the Crossroads: Can the Study of Other Worlds Help Us Save This One? - LivestreamTantalizing new discoveries suggest that we are probably not alone in the universe. And yet, as Enrico Fermi first put in 1950: where is everybody? Are habitable worlds rare, unlikely, and therefore cosmically precious? Or is life easily overwhelmed by changing planetary conditions? Do technological societies in particular face an ...
Where: Cost: Free
The Human and Economic Costs of Climate Inaction - LivestreamAchieving a climate-safe future for California will require massive investments, both public and private, in all sectors of the economy. But people across the state are already paying a heavy price for our tepid approach to the climate crisis today. This webinar will take a deep dive into the cost ...
Where: Cost: Free
Weekday Morning Walk 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: Cost: Free
AI Is Transforming Health, Space, War, and More - LivestreamWhether you consider AI a tool, a partner, or a rival, one thing is certain: AI will alter your experiences and permanently change your relationship with reality. The good news? We can still decide how.What you’ll learnEric Schmidt, former Google CEO and Chairman, and Daniel Huttenlocher, inaugural dean of the ...
Where: Cost: Free
Science at Cal - Microbiomes: From fields of leaves to under the seas - LivestreamAt this month’s Midday Science Cafe, we are going on a journey through the wonderful world of the microbiome. We’ll zoom in on the communities of tiny organisms that live everywhere, from the leaves of plants to the guts of tropical reef fish, and do everything, from connecting neighborhoods of ...
Over billions of years, plants and cyanobacteria changed the Earth’s atmosphere by inhaling carbon dioxide, storing the carbon in solid biomass and exhaling oxygen. Their release of oxygen into the air made animal life possible. But how, exactly, do plants produce oxygen? Scientists have been puzzling over this for decades. ...
Have you ever wondered about the coloration of intergrades in flickers? Dr. Stepfanie Aguillon will be talking about her ongoing work using genomic sequencing to understand coloration differences between (eastern) yellow-shafted and (western) red-shafted flickers using these iconic intergrades.Speaker: Stepfanie Aguillon, Stanford
Conventional wisdom suggests that knowledge and imagination - science and fantasy - are deeply different from one another. However, new insights into childhood development challenge this distinction. In fact, exactly the same abilities that allow children to learn about the world also allow them to imagine alternative worlds. Research in ...
Connect, play, and get inspired in the glow of luminous sculptures big and small, as eight artists turn up the radiance at Pier 15. Explore our spacious galleries to discover captivating light art by Michael Brown, CHiKA, Nick Dong, Alicia Eggert, Ekene Ijeoma, Luke Jerram, Burt Libe, and Ames Palms. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Calling 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 ...
North America’s bird populations have declined by approximately 3 billion birds since 1970 and two-thirds of North America’s bird species now face an even greater risk of extinction due to climate change. Mike Lynes will discuss the threats California birds face from climate change and how Audubon California is working ...
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 ...
Witness a nearly total lunar eclipse! On this special night, the Moon will be darkened by the Earth’s shadow will occur for much of North America. Join our astronomers for a live stream on Facebook or YouTube through Chabot’s most powerful telescope, Nellie! Event ends Friday at 2:30 AM
Lawrence Berkeley Lab Virtual TourIn response to COVID-related social conditions, Berkeley Lab is offering virtual tours of its facilities to the public. These are pre-scheduled, live, interactive, one-hour long presentations by Lab staff and scientists. Participants will learn about the Lab's fascinating history, ground-breaking discoveries, and contributions to COVID-19-related research.Join a Zoom Webinar to ...
Speaker: Gautam Gowrisankan, Columbia UniversitySee weblink for Zoom information, or attend in person
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
From Astrometry to Discovery - LivestreamThe unprecedented high precision of astrometric data released by the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission provide us a new map of nearby stars and the Milky Way we have never seen before. In this talk, I will discuss a brief history of astrometry, the importance of astrometry, and new discoveries ...
Where: Cost: Free
Introduction to modern narrow band filters & Coloring with Narrowband Images using Pixel Math- LivestreamFor this meeting we will have two speakers. Gert will talk about narrowband filters, and Kai will talk about Coloring with Narrowband Images using Pixel Math.Amateur astronomers in light polluted areas like our region in northern California use filters to reduce the effect of light pollution and give better visual ...
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 11/20/21
Water Management in The Era of Climate Change: California and Michigan Experience - LivestreamIt is recommended that participants prepare for this event by reading The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here - by Hope Jahren. The panel event will convene panelists from Michigan and California. Both states are experiencing the effects of climate change, ...
Where: Cost: Free
Holiday Rock, Gem, and Lapidary Show and SaleThe Santa Cruz Mineral and Gem Society invites you to the annual holiday sale organized by members of the club. Come and see wonderful gifts of nature and art from around the world - gems, jewelry, rocks, minerals, and lapidary arts. Browse the bargains and pick up some great gifts ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: FREE
Saturday Cinema: Trip the Light FantasticIn celebration of the opening of Glow: Discover the Art of Light, we put a spotlight on short, kinetic films that dance! These exuberant films express joyful movement in luminous and colorful ways. Featuring:Light Play: Black/White/Gray by artist Laszlo Maholy-Nagy (1930, 6 min.) The ephemeral elements of light play off of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
The Group 70 Amateur Telescope Project - LivestreamThirty years ago, a group of EAS telescope makers had the crazy idea of obtaining the 70 inch backup mirror blank originally cast for a very well known telescope here in California. It wasn’t just talk; they actually bought it and founded a California non profit called “Group 70â€, and ...
Where: Cost: Free
Mars 2020/Perseverance Rover: Searching for Life on Mars - LivestreamIn this event, Pablo Sobron, SETI Institute, will talk about his experience as a member of NASA’s Mars 2020/Perseverance Rover Science Team and their mission to seek signs of ancient life on the Red Planet.Register at weblik to receive connection information
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 11/21/21
Holiday Rock, Gem, and Lapidary Show and SaleThe Santa Cruz Mineral and Gem Society invites you to the annual holiday sale organized by members of the club. Come and see wonderful gifts of nature and art from around the world - gems, jewelry, rocks, minerals, and lapidary arts. Browse the bargains and pick up some great gifts ...
Bull kelp forests experienced unprecedented losses along 220 miles of coastline in Northern California beginning in 2014 after the onset of a large marine heatwave and the local extinction of sunflower sea stars (sea urchins primary predator). These losses have had devastating consequences to the region’s communities, economies, and fisheries. ...
Where: Cost: $10 General per household, Free for members
Monday, 11/22/21
What the Infrastructure Deal Means for Climate - LivestreamThe biggest piece of climate legislation in U.S. history has just been signed into law. To be sure, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework) got pared down significantly from what was first put on the table, but the bill President Biden signed still ...
Where: Cost: Free
Imaging quantum materials with scanning SQUID microscopy - LivestreamNovel quantum phenomena are often driven by cooperation or competition between different electronic properties with similar energies. Probing coexisting or competing electronic orders requires versatile probes which are sensitive to the multiple aspects of the system, such as magnetism, conductivity and superconductivity. In my talk I will describe two systems ...
Where: Cost: Free
Missions to Near Earth Asteroids - LivestreamThis talk will describe the two recent missions which have taken samples at Near-Earth Asteroids, Hayabusa-2 at Ryugu and OSIRIS-REx at Bennu. Hear about the scientific results from the orbital phases of the missions, the dropping of surface landers, and how the material is returned to Earth. The talk will ...
Where: Cost: Free
Electrically charged skyrmions and superconductivity - LivestreamSkyrmions, first proposed in the context of nuclear physics, elegantly realize Kelvin’s dream of understanding particles as topological defects in an underlying field. When skyrmions arise in 2D materials with band topology, Berry-phase effects can endow them with an electric charge in addition to their magnetic moment, with intriguing implications for ...
Join professor Lew Feldman to learn the botany behind the celebrated plant changes associated with the fall season. We'll explore why (and how) some leaves appear to change color--exhibiting reds, yellows, and oranges--and the environmental influences that affect the brilliance of those colors. In addition, Dr. Feldman will explain the ...
Our galaxy is full of Earth-sized, potentially Earth-like, planets, yet we still barely know what these planets are actually like. I will use several examples to show how the rapid exploration of exoplanets offers unique opportunities for Earth Science, and how exoplanets are in turn helping us better understand Earth. ...
The current resurgence of artificial intelligence is due to advances in deep learning. Systems based on deep learning now exceed human capability in speech recognition, object classification, and playing games like Go. Deep learning has been enabled by powerful, efficient computing hardware. The algorithms used have been around since the ...
Where: Cost: Free
Friday, 11/26/21
Black Friday Hike at Rancho San VicenteJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful hike at Rancho San Vicente where you’ll explore the newest addition to Calero County Park, a beautiful oak woodland that POST recently helped expand! You will be guided by POST ambassadors who will share details about our contributions to the park, and ...
Join Edward Saltzberg, Executive Director of The Security and Sustainability Forum, and Richard Heinberg in a free discussion about the urgent need to transition to not just a different energy regime but a different basis for human habitation on the planet. The conversation features Richard’s new book, Power: Limits and Prospects for ...
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a versatile technique for studying proteins and other biological molecules in a wide variety of different conditions. However, the field is predominantly confined to academia with the result that commercial software packages are not geared towards its needs and are usually inadequate for the data ...
Speaker: Marynel Vazquez, Yale UniversitySee weblink for Zoom information
Where: Cost: Free
The Black Hole Information Paradox in the Age of Holographic Entanglement Entropy - LivestreamThe black hole information paradox - whether information escapes an evaporating black hole or not -Â remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of theoretical physics. The apparent conflict between validity of semiclassical gravity at low energies and unitarity of quantum mechanics has long been expected to find its resolution ...
With increasing frequency, AI algorithms are making high-impact decisions: When should a self-driving car slam on the brakes? Can an MRI scan reliably detect a tumor? Will facial recognition software identify your son as a Most Wanted fugitive? AI algorithms need to be aware of their confidence level - to ...
The story of Earth is a 4.5-billion-year saga of dramatic transformations, driven by physical, chemical, and - based on a fascinating growing body of evidence - biological processes. The co-evolution of life and rocks unfolds in an irreversible sequence of evolutionary stages. Each stage re-sculpted our planet’s surface, while introducing ...
Strategies for rapidly and inexpensively identifying neurological/psychiatric weakness and distortion - combined with genomics and increasingly more sophisticated chemical analyses of blood and other body fluids - now provide us with simple, scalable strategies for delineating specific aspects of preclinical stages of neurological and psychiatric disorders. In parallel, we have ...
Join one of the USA's most impactful environmental lawyers Robert Bilott for a conversation about his latest work followed by an intergenerational World-Cafe style dialogue aimed at inspiring hope and action. Rob is the protagonist in the recent award-winning film "Dark Waters" featuring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway and participants are highly encouraged ...
Where: Cost: Free
Wednesday, 12/01/21
Climate + Justice: Young Activists Speak Out - LivestreamAs the devastating effects of climate change take hold around the world, young people are demanding action from global leaders and, increasingly, taking action themselves. Ask a teenager or young adult which issues they think are most pressing in the world today, and climate will often top the list.One of ...
International scientific collaboration has helped to overcome the knowledge gaps in the largely vast and unexplored Mexican deep sea. Important processes, new habitats, new species, and some unique genes have been described from collaborative research cruises in the ETP and Gulf of California. Telepresence experience, knowledge transmitted through teaching and ...
Archaeological research is only made possible by the collaboration and cooperation of dozens if not hundreds of individuals in the field and in the laboratory world-wide. Like other field sciences, teamwork is at the core of our practice. To that end, archaeologists have been early adopters of many computational and ...
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 with ...
Speaker: Shaama Sharada, University of South California
Where: Cost: Free
Lost Landscapes 02021 Earth, Fire, Air, Water: California InfrastructuresThis year LOST LANDSCAPES radiates out from San Francisco, extending its archival gaze to the infrastructures, people and landscapes of California north, south, east and west. Made from newly rediscovered images of San Francisco, cities and towns, and places throughout California where nature and culture meet, 02021's all-new show fixes ...
Soils store over three times as much carbon as our atmosphere, and as soils warm, they have the potential to become a large positive feedback to climate change. Over half of this organic carbon is stored in deeper soils, but most climate change experiments have only focused on surface soils. ...
Ravens are known to scavenge from wolves and people, but the degree to which they exploit these and other sources of food has not been studied in detail. In 2019, Matthias Loretto and John Marzluff began tagging ravens in Yellowstone National Park with long-lasting GSM transmitters. After tagging >60 ravens ...
Watch science come to light at After Dark. Light is all around us, bringing energy and color to our world in a whole spectrum of ways. At this After Dark, encounter bioluminescent creatures, musical LASERs, and glowing bacteria. Learn about the science of what makes things glow and experience demos ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
The museum will host Jared Childress, coordinator of the Central Coast Prescribed Burn Association, who will speak on the past, present, and future of prescribed burns in the Central Coast area.Childress will address the current situation and exciting future of “good fire,†and its relationship to ecology and people in ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $15
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 ...
Who among us hasn’t gazed up at the stars and wondered what other life might exist in the vast expanse of the universe? The Academy’s new, award-winning planetarium film Living Worlds transports viewers across space and time in the search for life in our Solar System and beyond, and unearths ...
Where: Cost: Free
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 ...
Why do things give off light? There are many ways to make light, and all of them involve exciting atoms and molecules in some way. Join Exploratorium physicist Ron Hipschman to investigate some of the more colorful ways to make things glow. Using electricity, heat, and light, he’ll conduct a ...
Embracing Change, Everett in Transition: 3rd Annual Everett Student Showcase Join us in person, on zoom, or watch on youtube livestream for the Everett Program (EP) 3rd Annual Student Project Showcase to celebrate our students’ 2021 projects despite the challenges and obstacles highlighted by the pandemic. The EP Student Showcase is an annual celebration of the personal and technical accomplishments ...
Join Exploratorium educator Lori Lambertson and Port of San Francisco staff for a stroll along the San Francisco waterfront to observe, photograph, and discuss the king tide. Find out what causes the tides and why we have king tides at this time of year, and learn about the Port's Waterfront ...
See science come to light at GLOW Fest! At this all-ages celebration, dig into the art and science of light. Enjoy hands-on activities that help illuminate the how of light. Catch a glimpse of bioluminescent creatures and learn why they glow. Experience demos from artists and makers who harness light ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Help the King Tides Project photograph the highest tides of the year!King Tides are winter's highest tides, and they will arrive on December 4 and 5 and January 2 and 3. The California King Tides Project needs your help to photograph these high tides to visualize the impacts of future sea level rise. Visit California.kingtides.net to find your local high tide ...
Join our resident caterpillar lady Sal Levinson and butterfly guy Sarab Seth for our final virtual butterfly program of the year! Sarab will present a slideshow of butterflies he has photographed in the wild, in the US but outside the Bay Area.Register at weblink to receive connection information
Where: Cost: Free
Afternoon Hike at Mindego HillJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful 5-mile hike from the Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve to the top of the POST-protected Mindego Hill. You will be guided by POST ambassadors who will share details about how we protected this beautiful property featuring panoramic views of redwood ridges and ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Help the King Tides Project photograph the highest tides of the year!King Tides are winter's highest tides, and they will arrive on December 4 and 5 and January 2 and 3. The California King Tides Project needs your help to photograph these high tides to visualize the impacts of future sea level rise. Visit California.kingtides.net to find your local high tide ...
Where: Cost: free
Monday, 12/06/21
Black holes in the Universe: where, what, and why? - LivestreamIn 2015, a merging pair of black holes was directly detected for the first time. Since then, the number of detections has grown substantially. This talk will describe the new catalogue of black holes and highlight some surprising features that pose new challenges for our understanding of these elusive objects.Register ...
Where: Cost: Free
Optimal Transport and the Geometry of Collider Data - LivestreamCollider experiments probe physics at the shortest distances by smashing protons together and measuring the debris produced by the collisions. However, it is challenging to infer the detailed short-distance physics from the distribution of debris measured by the detector. Over the past two years, the mathematical field of optimal transport ...
You wore a mask. You sheltered in place and avoided travel. You got the vaccine. You thought we would soon be on the other side of the pandemic. Then the Delta variant came and caused a surge over the summer.Now, although the number of new cases and hospitalizations have been ...
Speaker: Sambeeta Das, University of DelawareSee weblink for Zoom information
Where: Cost: Free
Deciphering the prion codePrions are proteinaceous infectious particles that allow the propagation and inheritance of structural information by proteins. Prions populate the tree of life, propagating as fibrils both in laboratory strains and in the wild. Disease-causing prions are responsible for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, a wide range of neurodegenerative disorders affecting a variety ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now Beyond his position as chairman of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr rose to global prominence in the business world with his development of OKRs (objectives and key results), which he popularized in his best-selling book Measure What Matters. Could the same set of management tools be applied ...
Where: Cost: $10 General, Free for Members.
The Future of Filmmaking: AI for Volumetric Capture and Reconstruction - LivestreamOne picture is worth a thousand words, so what have been told with videos? What about 100 simultaneous videos to reconstruct every frame of life in a[masked] sq. ft dome? Is it enough to reconstruct and digitize us realistically? Similar to other industries, the entertainment industry is also being reshaped ...
Where: Cost: Free
Astronomy on Tap: Los Angeles - JWST Edition - LivestreamJoin us for a special Astronomy on Tap celebrating the imminent launch of the James Webb Space Telescope streamed over YouTube Live. We’ll hear from Dr. Christina Williams: “The Search for the First Galaxies with JWST†and from Dr. Justin Spilker: “Magnifying the Earliest Galaxiesâ€. In addition, we will host ...
The talk will explain the difficulty in conducting security audits in organizations, specifically enterprises whose services and networks span multiple domains/boundaries, use cloud and on-premises services, and are hosted across several geographies. This will include using our proposed conceptual security audit framework to show how organizations can conduct appropriate security ...
Polyelectrolytes have unique properties that make them advantageous for the design of nanomaterials for drug delivery. These polymers are water-soluble, have a large number of easily modified reactive side chains for attachment of ligands, and can exhibit charge that can be designed to be sensitive to physiological conditions such as ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Lawrence Berkeley Lab Virtual TourIn response to COVID-related social conditions, Berkeley Lab is offering virtual tours of its facilities to the public. These are pre-scheduled, live, interactive, one-hour long presentations by Lab staff and scientists. Participants will learn about the Lab's fascinating history, ground-breaking discoveries, and contributions to COVID-19-related research.Join a Zoom Webinar to ...
Where: Cost: Free
Winter Conifers Virtual TourFrom the ‘noble fir’ to the ‘humble pine’, join us for a virtual tour highlighting the Garden’s remarkable collection of conifer trees. We’ll explore via Zoom the unexpected origins, distinguishing features, and unique uses of this special group of plants. Get to know these winter plant friends.Register at weblink to ...
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 with ...
The March 11, 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami sent an unprecedented volume of marine debris into the North Pacific Ocean which began to come ashore in North America and the Hawaiian Islands in 2012. Between the spring of 2012 and the winter of 2016/2017 we found nearly 400 living Japanese ...
Where: Cost: Free
December LASER EventSummer Praetorius (USGS Geologist) on "The Heliocene"Amelia Winger-Bearskin (Media Artist, University of Florida) on "Visual Storytelling with Bleeding-edge Technologies"Eran Kahana (Stanford Law School) on "The Metaverse and its Potential Impact on Agency for Artificial Intelligence Entities"Register at weblink to receive connection information
Where: Cost: Free
Thursday, 12/09/21
After Dark: Light PlayWhen our eyes are open, light streams into them continually. Can you describe how that light arrives, and how the images you see are formed? Tonight at After Dark, play around and test your assumptions about what you know about light. Experiment with reflection, shadows, mirrors, and more at our ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
UC Berkeley CLEAR Pub Science: The Wood-Wide Web Fourth year graduate student Lorenzo Washington will present on the role that fungi play in ecosystem health and interactions - sure to be an exciting talk, especially for all of us amateur mycologists & mushroom admirers!The CLEAR Project its composed of a group of young scientists at UC Berkeley who ...
Archaeological finds are often interpreted in popular science through the ‘lost civilization’ trope: once great metropolises and their people that mysteriously vanished in history. Although ruins suggest the abandonment of a specific location at a point in time, they do not suggest that its occupants and their culture disappeared; most ...
Where: Cost: Free
Virtual Telescope ViewingJoin our resident astronomers on Facebook Live and YouTube 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 available ...
Join artist, author, and educator John Muir Laws for a virtual walk in the woods to explore how to observe with the eyes of a naturalist, discovering and celebrating the signs of the Bay Area season in a nature journal.Join us for a deep dive on mushrooms and enjoy just watching or ...
Where: Cost: suggested donation $20
Free Telescope ViewingsJoin Chabot astronomers on the Observatory Deck for a free telescope viewing! Weather permitting, this is a chance to explore stars, planets and more through Chabot’s historic telescopes. Chabot’s three large historic telescopes offer a unique way to experience the awe and wonder of the Universe. Our observatory deck offers ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
The James Webb Space Telescope: Great science will be launching soon! - LivestreamThe James Webb Space Telescope will be the most powerful and complex astronomical space observatory ever built. It will launch in December and will unfold itself before arriving in its final orbit in the Sun - Earth system about a month later. The large 6.5-m diameter JWST primary mirror and ...
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 12/11/21
Saturday Cinema: Luminous Stories In recognition of Glow: Discover the Art of Light and in celebration of the holidays, these animations capture winter’s cool gleam and the heart’s warm glow.FeaturingThe Arctic by Wenting Zhu (2018, 3 min.) This film captures crystallization, revealing radiant growth patterns of different salts. It serves as a reminder of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Free Telescope ViewingsJoin Chabot astronomers on the Observatory Deck for a free telescope viewing! Weather permitting, this is a chance to explore stars, planets and more through Chabot’s historic telescopes. Chabot’s three large historic telescopes offer a unique way to experience the awe and wonder of the Universe. Our observatory deck offers ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Sunday, 12/12/21
Afternoon Hike at Mindego Hill - CANCELEDJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful 5-mile hike from the Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve to the top of the POST-protected Mindego Hill. You will be guided by POST ambassadors who will share details about how we protected this beautiful property featuring panoramic views of redwood ridges and ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Monday, 12/13/21
Geminid Meteor Shower Watch Party - CANCELEDJoin us on our observation decks and be dazzled as we make our annual trip through the Geminids Meteor shower. The Geminids, named for the radiant or location where the shower appears to originate, is one of the best meteor showers to catch this year. The culprit and source of ...
