Socioecological Approaches to Marine Resource Management in Small-Scale Fisheries - LivestreamCoastal and marine ecosystems produce more services related to human well-being than most other ecosystems making sustainable management of marine resources a global priority. The Convention on Biological Diversity called for a network of marine protected areas (MPA) covering at least 10% of the world’s marine habitat, a goal that ...
About the speaker: Caitrin Chappelle is an associate director of TNC’s California Water Program, leading the Healthy Rivers and Springs strategy. Prior to joining TNC, she managed research and operations at the Public Policy Institute Water Policy Center and conducted research on natural resource management and California water policy. She ...
Where: Cost: $10 Donation Requested
Science on Tap - That's a moray: Untangling the mysterious lives of California moray eelsIf you've been snorkeling in southern California, there's a good chance you might have spotted the grinning face of a California moray eel peering out at you from the reef. These long-lived fish (yes, eels are fish!) are common in reefs from Santa Barbara down to the tip of Baja, ...
Wonderfest Science Envoys are early-career researchers with special communication skills and aspirations. Following short talks on provocative modern science topics, these two Science Envoys will answer questions with insight and enthusiasm:• UC Berkeley botanist Chandler Sutherland on It's Not Easy Staying Green: Understanding Plant Immune Systems -Every day, plants resist an onslaught of viruses, bacteria, ...
Join us for a night of Black storytelling through food, wine, music, and nature. Hear from local Black leaders and long-standing champions of these spaces as we celebrate the rich histories of the diaspora.FEATURED EVENTSRegeneration and Liberation: How Black Freedom and Ecology IntersectAfrican Hall, 7:30pmIt’s no secret that California's wild ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $17.75 - $15.75
Hardcore Natural History: Planning for Climate Resilience in Monterey CountyJoin us for a panel discussion on how the County is currently being affected by climate change, what we anticipate for the future, and their vision for effective climate planning.Panel: Norm Groot, Monterey County Farm Bureau; Hillary Angelo, UC Santa Cruz; Ashley Paulsworth, Monterey County
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $20 General, $15 Members, $5 Students
Watching the Grass Grow - For Over a Decade - LivestreamThe San Francisco Bay provides important habitat for both migrating birds and resident species that live in these ecosystems year-round. Unfortunately, ~90% of tidal marshes along the edge of the San Francisco Bay have been severely fragmented or destroyed by human activities since the 1800s. Along the margins of these ...
Where: Cost: Free
Stewart Brand and Silicon Valley’s SoulFor decades Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter John Markoff has chronicled how technology has shaped our society. In his latest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand, Markoff delivers a biography of one the most influential visionaries to inspire technological and cultural revolutions of the last six ...
Celebrate April Fool’s Day with captivating, colorful and sometimes confusing mind tricks. We’re altering reality with (insert activities). Learn about how your senses work together to understand the world around us while enjoying whimsical perception-bending fun!
Where: OaklandCost: $15 General, $10 kids/seniors, $5 members
Extraterrestrial Life and Where to Find it - LivestreamWhat are we, and are we alone in the universe? For hundreds of years, philosophers and scientists have been trying to answer this question. Today, we explore this question in astrobiology, a multidisciplinary field that involves astronomy, geology, chemistry, biology, and engineering. In this presentation, Xinnan will be discussing our ...
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 04/02/22
Trans Day of VisibilityCelebrated on March 31, Transgender Day of Visibility is an international day of awareness that highlights transgender achievements and greatness in response to intentional exclusion of transgender people, voices, and actions in the current societal culture and discourse. Transgender people exist in all corners of the world so it is ...
A tale of two intercalated TMDs - LivestreamAntiferromagnetic spintronics holds the potential to enable faster computing with lower energy requirements, although two major hurdles are the difficulty of manipulating and reading out details of antiferromagnetic order. FexNbS2 is an ising-like antiferromagnet for which these hurdles have been overcome. Its sister compound, CoxNbS2, is similar to FexNbS2 in ...
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Coexisting phases in triangular antiferromagnet- LivestreamFrustrated systems have energetic landscapes with many local minima and nearly degenerate states.This makes them ideal for exploring the competition and interactions between phases and their excitations at finite temperature. In iron-intercalated niobium disulfide, an antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice, two symmetry-breaking ordered ground states coexist in complicated ways, and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Electric field control of thermal magnons in BiFeO3 - LivestreamSpin transport through magnetic insulators has been demonstrated in a variety of materials and is an emerging pathway for next-generation spin-based computing. To modulate spin transport in these systems, one typically applies a sufficiently strong magnetic field to allow for deterministic control of magnetic order. Here, we make use of ...
The launch and deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope went flawlessly. The telescope and instruments began cooling as soon as the sun shield was deployed, and once the temperature of the short wavelength detectors in NIRCam dropped below 120 K, the telescope alignment process began. This process will result in the ...
Equivalent to a small city of 30,000, the Stanford campus is an ideal environment for testing new research ideas and concepts. This talk will discuss results from recent “Living Lab†experiments with building Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems on the Stanford campus in the context of the COOLER Research ...
One of the grandest and most enduring questions in human history has been whether we are alone in the Universe. While previous generations could only speculate about the possibility of life around other stars, in the coming decades NASA will develop and deploy the telescopes required to begin exploring the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
Today’s world is unpredictable and full of contradictions. Navigating its complexities while trying to make the best decisions is far from easy.Join award winning broadcaster and Ri favourite Jim Al-Khalili as he explores 8 short lessons on how to unlock the clarity, empowerment, and joy of thinking and living a ...
An audit is a tool used to verify compliance with regulations and controls. This requires in-depth analysis to understand the functioning of the object of the audit. If the object of the audit is an artificial intelligence-based system, understanding how the system came up with its results may be a ...
In understanding how the Universe began and grew up, we find ourselves in the dark ages, both literally and figuratively. Empty of life and structure, space suddenly illuminated with the light of the first stars, as they roared to life 200 million years after the Big Bang. This time represents ...
