Everyone can contribute in wildfire risk mitigation with the right tool. This talk will share how an animal center, a wind farm and a smart city each apply artificial intelligence (AI) wildfire detection technologies to reduce their forest fire risks.Speaker: Andre Cheung, RoboticsCatsRegister at weblink to attend.
This engaging and detailed talk, first developed for an advanced biology/chemistry class at a private East Bay high school, provides a synopsis of mushroom poisonings in California and North America, including species involved, reasons for ingestions, symptoms, treatments and preventions.Come learn about what NOT to eat if you forage for ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Thursday, 10/27/22
The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes in the Early UniverseThe existence of luminous quasars hosting supermassive black holes within the first billion years of cosmic history challenges our understanding of black hole growth. An important piece of the puzzle is the lifetime of quasars - the time that galaxies shine as active quasars and during which the bulk of ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
SETI Live: Has Mars Ever Been a Good Place for Life? - LivestreamRecent research suggests that Mars was born wet, with a dense atmosphere allowing warm-to-hot oceans for millions of years. Modeling of Mars' atmosphere succeeded in creating a potentially habitable planet. SETI Institute research scientist Kaveh Pahlevan believes the team has modeled an overlooked chapter in Mars’ earliest history in the ...
Where: Cost: Free
A DAO-First WorldBlockchain technology has transformed the financial services industry over the past decade. The rise of cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) highlights shifts in how people, organizations, and governments spend, make, and understand the role of money in society. More recently, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) promise radical new forms of collective ...
Come learn about our CA native bats with Director of NorCal Bats Corky Quirk. In her presentation, you will learn about the nature of bats and the importance of bats in our environment. We'll also discuss the harmful myths that surround these animals. Live bats will be presented for viewing ...
In August 2020 through July of 2021, the CZU Lightning Complex fire burned 97% of Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Coast Range of California. The fire burned at high severity levels in areas where concentrations of hermit thrushes (Catharus guttatus slevini) were known to breed, including two field ...
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark: Death and LifeAutumn is a season of transition. As vital summer gives way to a quieter, more dormant period, we witness falling leaves and shortening days. Traditions from around the globe like DÃa de Muertos (and even Halloween) reflect this time of change by recognizing death and the role it plays in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Blowing in the Wind - LivestreamScience to help understand and help reduce wildlife impacts from wind energyA key challenge facing the wind industry is the potential for wind turbines to impact wild animals both directly, via collisions, as well as indirectly due to noise pollution, habitat loss, and reduced survival or reproduction.Learn about the efforts ...
Where: Cost: Free
NightLife of the Living DeadCalling all creatures of the night: We're dying to have you join us for our annual NightLife Halloween bash! Get into costume and come ready for a night dead-icated to mad science, killer music, and scary good drag performances by Reparations and Rice Rockettes.SCHEDULE OF EVENTSNightLife of the Living Dead ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.75
Goodbye Gas, Hello EVs! - LivestreamEverybody’s talking about electric vehicles right now - with good reason! EVs don’t pollute, cost less to fuel and maintain, and play a major role in fighting climate change. New models are being announced weekly. California’s ambitious climate policy and the new federal tax credits are making headlines. Come learn ...
Richard Crossley will talk about birding lessons learned from living on 3 continents to paying back through conservation initiatives and youth birding. He will also talk about the unique design of his books - some of it will surprise you! Come and get to know Richard in a beautiful setting; ...
Where: CupertinoCost: Free
Saturday, 10/29/22
Halloween: Spooky ScienceUncover the creepy crawlies of the night in our special Halloween science program. Learn about animals and insects that frighten us and get to see them up close. People of all ages are welcome to come in full costume, ready to trick-or-treat for a frightful collection of spiders, insects, bats, ...
Join us as we crawl and slither into the spooky world of bats, spiders, and snakes! Learn some animal tricks and make some treats as we explore these amazing animals and their importance in our ecosystem.
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
All About Bats - EcoCenter Family EventBring your family to the Environmental Volunteers EcoCenter, located on the Baylands Nature Preserve, for an afternoon of environmental education. Activities are intended for ages 6-11.Are you curious about bats? Join the Environmental Volunteers in our Community Program, All About Bats to learn about different types of bats, how they ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Halloween Hike & SipThe journey begins at sunset from the Center into the beautiful surrounding redwood forest. We’ll moderately hike 3-4.25 miles (90-120 minutes) along some of the most popular trails as you learn about the history of Oakland, local plants, and the majestic Redwood trees. We’ll stop to watch the first few ...
Where: OaklandCost: $30 General, $27 Members
Jazz Under the StarsJazz Under the Stars is amonthly public stargazing event! Join us on the 4th floor planetarium for a night of smooth jazz, bright stars, and a lot of fun! We play our jazz from CSM's own KCSM 91.1. Founded in 1964, KCSM has grown to become one of the top 35 ...
Experience hands-on science in the Fruitvale community with bilingual Cal scientists in celebration of Dia de los Muertos with Science at Cal and The Lawrence On-The-Go team!
Welcome to outer space. Life is harsh out here. We come from a beautiful, pale blue dot thriving with a wide variety of life. And now we're planning for lunar bases and heading off to Mars. These worlds - and others in our solar system - are not friendly to ...
In this talk I will discuss recent results from a collaboration between the Simon & Schuster labs, where we have developed techniques for assembling quantum matter from strongly interacting microwave photons. Beginning with a description of the platform - an array of capacitively coupled transmon qubits acting as a Hubbard-regime ...
Stars and star clusters in the distant Universe seen through Einstein’s LensGalaxy clusters are the most massive gravitational lenses Nature offers that really augment our observational capability to study celestial objects in the younger Universe using man-made telescopes. In recent years, a growing list of individual stars or clusters of stars that acquire large to extreme gravitational magnification factors have been ...
With the COP27 in Egypt and the G20 in Indonesia just weeks away, we will discuss some of the unique challenges facing developing countries pursuing energy transition. While cost declines for solar and wind technologies over the past decade have made renewable energy competitive with fossil-fuel based power, investment in ...
Market Street and Montgomery Street, parallel to the Salesforce Transit Center and Park - serve as two of San Francisco’s most significant transit arteries. Every day, cars, buses, cyclists, and pedestrians travel these streets, likely unaware of a neighbor that’s been present since the 1970s:the Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly. To ...
Long baseline clock atom interferometryAtom interferometry and atomic clocks continue to make impressive gains in sensitivity and time precision. I will discuss the potential science reach and feasibility of using such precision atomic sensors for gravitational wave detection and searches for dark matter. Excitement for these applications has driven the growth of an emerging ...
Why the Rational Believe the IrrationalLong a fringe part of the American political landscape, conspiracy theories are now mainstream: 147 members of Congress voted in favor of objections to the 2020 presidential election based on an unproven theory about a rigged electoral process promoted, in part, by followers of the mysterious QAnon community, itself a ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General $10 members live, $10/$5 online
Biodiversity Trivia Night with California Academy of SciencesCal Academy scientists and KQED Science reporter Laura Klivans team up to challenge you to trivia about local flora and fauna. Featuring short videos by Deep Look, a PBS/KQED video series that zooms way in to show us what we can't see with the naked eye.GuestsSarah Jacobs, Assistant Curator of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: In Person: $10.
Computers v. Crime with NOVAIn police departments and courts across the country, artificial intelligence is being used to help decide who is policed, who gets bail, how offenders should be sentenced, and who gets parole. But is it actually making our law enforcement and court systems fairer and more just?  NOVA explores these questions with ...
