Voluntary Carbon Markets Symposium - LivestreamA large and increasing number of companies have voluntarily committed to science-based targets to reduce carbon emissions pursuant to the Paris Agreement. While abating current carbon emissions is the highest priority, many companies have also incorporated carbon offsets into their strategy, particularly for near-term, hard-to-abate emissions. As a result, Voluntary ...
Where: Cost: Free
Gladstone Institutes Industry Partnership ForumWhere Science Discoveries, Entrepreneurs, and Investors ConvergeGet a sneak peek at the transformative biomedical research happening at Gladstone. In this first Industry Partnership Forum, you’ll get a chance to talk to Gladstone scientists, learn more about our research programs that are ready for translational opportunities, and discover how you can ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Honoring Silent Spring: Stories from the Frontlines of the Fight for a Pesticide-Free Future - LivestreamSixty years ago, Rachel Carson released her seminal book, Silent Spring, the publication of which gave birth to the EPA, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and sparked the ban on the toxic insecticide DDT and the movement for organic agriculture. Six decades on, the threats Carson warned about are still very real.Pesticides are a ...
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October Butterfly Walk - First SessionJoin Sally Levinson, 'caterpillar lady', and Sarab Seth, 'butterfly guy,' for a guided, family friendly, one hour walk through the Botanical Garden in search of butterflies. Bring binoculars if you have them. This walk follows uneven terrain, with areas of paved and unpaved trail. While masks are not required ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $18 General, $14 Members
October Butterfly Walk - Second SessionJoin Sally Levinson, 'caterpillar lady', and Sarab Seth, 'butterfly guy,' for a guided, family friendly, one hour walk through the Botanical Garden in search of butterflies. Bring binoculars if you have them. This walk follows uneven terrain, with areas of paved and unpaved trail. While masks are not required ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $18 General, $14 Members
From free electrons to bound electrons: attosecond science with X-ray free-electron lasersX-ray free-electron lasers have recently broken the femtosecond barrier, which separates the motion of nuclei from the much faster motion of electrons in molecules and solids. Evolving from a cutting-edge R&D project to a new scientific program, attosecond XFELs are now producing time-resolved observations of coherent electronic phenomena with atomic ...
Southern Mexico and Central America (SMCA) is a geographically connected region that shares climate features as well as human livelihoods. The latest compilation of scientific work on the region (IPCC, 2021) is inconclusive regarding heavy precipitation trends during the observational period, both in direction and anthropogenic attribution. In contrast, case ...
What can the private behavior of chimpanzee society teach us about human evolution and our own societal development?Biologist Liran Samuni from Harvard University’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology specializes in the study of underlying mechanisms of cooperation and intergroup relations in chimpanzees. In this lecture, she’ll explore some of the ...
The most distant galaxies in the universe cannot be seen from the Earth, and are invisible at the optical wavelengths seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. This means that understanding the earliest history of our universe requires a space-based telescope that can see infrared light. In this lecture, Dr. Suess ...
Join us for an enthralling presentation by Dr. Scott Veirs who will summarize Orcasound, a project that began as a cooperative effort to listen for the calls, clicks, and whistles of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales within the inland marine waters of Washington State. More recently, Orcasound has been ...
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Wonderfest: Neuroplasticity, Sensitive Periods, & the Adolescent Brain - RESCHEDULEDExperiences at different times in life may alter aspects of personality: appetite for risk, tolerance for delayed gratification, interest in music, etc. Our brains seem to develop particularly rapidly during a staggered sequence of "sensitive periods" that stretch late into the second or third decade of life. Such periods of ...
 Beyond hunger and energy-demand, food cues can strongly influence the urge to eat. These sights, sounds, and smells of food can trigger cravings that promote over-eating. What are the neurobiological mechanisms of cue-triggered food craving? How are we susceptible to diet-induced obesity via consumption of sugary and/or fatty “junk foods�Speaker: ...
