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 ...
