Midwater ecosystems are the most substantial on Earth, containing swimming fishes, crustaceans, cephalopods, and gelatinous organisms. These animals live in perpetual twilight and inhabit an important position within oceanic food webs, forming dense vertically migrating groups. These daily migrations are critical to the ocean’s ability to absorb atmospheric carbon. Techniques ...
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Historical role of fire and land management in the Klamath Mountains, California - LivestreamIn this talk, Dr. Clarke Knight, USGS, will discuss her most recent paper from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Knight, along with co-authors from the Karuk and Yurok Tribes, found strong Indigenous influence on forest conditions in the Klamath Mountains over the last millennium. As restoration ...
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 ...
Phytoplankton organisms are fascinating and can be considered a benefit or a nuisance for the economy. In this seminar, I will present my research at BahÃa Fosforescente, where dense populations of bioluminescent phytoplankton (i.e., Pyrodinium bahamense) have made this ecosystem an important tourist attraction in Puerto Rico. However, fluctuations with ...
Grounds for ScienceGrounds for Science, our public program featuring Cal STEM graduate students, is back live & in-person! Join us as we launch our collaboration with MudLab, a cafe and store with a mission: to envision and build a world beyond waste.Speaker: Jessica Heiges, UC Berkeley
Where: OaklandCost: Free
To eat or not to eat? Is that the (only) question? How environmental chemicals contribute to obesity - LivestreamMultigenerational disease research has shown links between some non-communicable diseases, their environmental origin, and lifestyle decisions our ancestors made. Defining those links will provide us with a better understanding of how our life choices can help preserve the health of our descendants. Raquel Chamorro-Garcia, assistant professor of microbiology and environmental ...
Join us for a talk about Becoming Universal: A New History of Modern Computing (MIT Press, 2022) by Thomas Haigh and Paul Ceruzzi. Professor Haigh will introduce the book and discuss the challenges involved in creating a comprehensive, synthetic narrative about the history of computing between 1945 to 2020. For more information ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Computational Tools for Sustainable (Urban) Energy Systems - LivestreamJacques de Chalendar will discuss computational tools used for (1) tracking emissions in the US electricity system and (2) experimenting with buildings on the Stanford campus in the context of the COOLER Research Program. COOLER’s goal is to make large, modern buildings more energy-efficient, flexible, low carbon, and resilient using ...
Demand for internet data capacity has been growing exponentially for more than 30 years and shows no sign of slackening. In the last 20 years, wireless bandwidth demand has tracked with wireline demand resulting, even with advanced modulation schemes like OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing), in increasing congestion of the ...
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Not All Killers Are Bad: How Natural Killer Cells Protect You from CancerDavid Raulet's research addresses how the immune system recognizes and responds to cancer cells and virus-infected cells. While his early work focused on T lymphocytes, current research emphasizes another immune cell, the natural killer cell. Related to T cells, natural killer cells employ completely different strategies to attack cancerous and ...
The San Francisco Peninsula spawned the technology-centric marvel known today as "Silicon Valley". The early history of amateur radio on the Peninsula played a crucial role in preparing for the emergence of "Silicon Valley". In the 1930’s entrepreneurial efforts of amateur radio enthusiasts drove the development of high power vacuum ...
SARS-Cov-2 and other RNA viruses are formidable natural foes of humanity. To fight them, we must understand them better, especially their main component, RNA. Although we can sequence viral RNAs to learn their chemical structure, many details of their function depend on their 3-D shape and how this shape helps ...
Spark your curiosity at After Dark! As the Sun sets, we’ll hit the rainbow lights, turn the music up, and open our doors, inviting you to take your imagination out to play. Fuel up with a cocktail and prepare to roam free through six spacious outdoor and indoor spaces. Be ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
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 ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19 - $17 depending on entrance time
Old specimens, new research: a century of stories from our Galápagos collections. More details coming soon!See weblink for YouTube and Facebook Live links
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 04/09/22
TEDxBerkeley 2022: KaleidoscopeThe kaleidoscope, a delightfully simple object, offers us a new lens to the world. Take a peek through this assortment of mirrors, shapes, and colors, and your ordinary surroundings are cast in a light that seems nothing short of extraordinary.Shift the lens, just a bit. A whole new spectrum leaps ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $40 - $99
A Life in Chemistry Shaped by Diseases and Medicine In Sub-Saharan AfricaSpeaker: Richmond Sarpong is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California Berkeley where he and his group specialize in synthetic organic chemistry. Richmond became interested in chemistry after seeing, firsthand, the effectiveness of the drug ivermectin in combating river blindness during his childhood in Ghana, West Africa. Richmond ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Urban Hikes: San Bruno MountainSpecial hike through Buckeye Canyon and dense oak forests with spectacular views, led by mountain protector David Schooley! LIMITED ATTENDANCE!RSVP required: shaping@foundsf.org to obtain specific location information.
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How to Find Earth 2.0 - Livestream5000 exoplanets have been confirmed or validated to orbit other stars over the past 30 years. This revolution in our understanding of our Universe is driven by a multitude of advances in data analysis techniques and engineering to achieve unprecedented precision and accuracy. I will provide an overview of the ...
During World War II, Americans of Japanese ancestry were removed from their homes and placed into confinement camps throughout the western US. This presentation overviews the methods and results of six seasons of landscape archaeology at one of those sites - Amache - located in southeastern Colorado. The site contains ...
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Electronic correlations and topology across Tc in a magnetic Weyl semimetal - LivestreamCo3Sn2S2 is a magnetic Weyl semimetal below its Curie temperature (Tc) of 177K. I will discuss our recent spatial and temperature-dependent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) studies in this system. Across Tc, we observe signatures of a topological phase transition, but also observe changes in bulk bands which are inconsistent with ...
Commissioner Siva Gunda is serving his first term on the California Energy Commission.Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Gunda in February 2021 to serve as the Energy Commission’s public member. Gunda was later appointed to Vice Chair in September 2021. He is the lead commissioner on energy assessments.Gunda served as manager of ...
Where: Cost: Free
What Physicists Do - LivestreamSpeaker:TBAChance Hawkins, alluxa Optical Filters and Thin-Film Coatings, originally scheduled to speak today, will not be available.See weblink for Zoom link
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Mining the transient sky in the new era of Time Domain Multi-Messenger investigationsAstronomical transients are events that appear and disappear in the night sky, and are signposts of catastrophic events in space, including the most extreme stellar deaths, stellar tidal disruptions by supermassive black holes, and mergers of black holes and neutron stars. Thanks to new and improved observational facilities we can ...
As we approach the 52nd celebration of Earth Day on April 22nd, it is an opportune time to take stock of our collective progress towards addressing human-induced global warming. Fortunately we understand better than ever the causes and consequences of recent climate change, and we are amid a world-wide dawn ...
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 zoologist Erin Person on What's the Point? Animal Behavior and the Value of Niche Science - We share ...
Where: Cost: Free
Tuesday, 04/12/22
How Beavers Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Chance - LivestreamDr. Fairfax will share her research finding that beavers are both irrigation managers and firefighters. She will explain how the presence of beavers in riparian habitats benefit other riparian organisms.Speaker: Emily Fairfax, California State University Channel Islands
One of the core metrics for climate change is the steady-state increase in global surface air temperature with doubled concentrations of CO2 known as the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS). Best estimates of ECS remain uncertain to factors of O(3) despite intensive research since the first comprehensive assessment of global warming ...
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Mary Roach: Packing for Mars for Kids - LivestreamMary Roach is back again and witty as ever in the young readers adaption of her best-selling book Packing for Mars. From the awe-inspiring and curiously gross details, Roach unpacks the facts about space.A beloved authority on all things science, Mary Roach provides a humorous, accessible, exciting and perfect resource ...
