Drop-in at Palo Alto BaylandsDrop-in anytime between 9 am and 11 am to bird with us! SCVAS volunteers will be stationed at Palo Alto Baylands on the north side of the duck pond with binoculars and scopes to help you identify the huge variety of shorebirds and ducks that call the Bay Area home. ...
Let’s celebrate the return of Pacific Grove's monarch butterfly population during Science Saturday: Monarch Madness. Join us at the Museum on November 26th and listen to the Monarch-themed musical stylings of the 5M’s Band, get an up-close view of butterflies, follow their migration, and learn about other pollinators. We encourage ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Monday, 11/28/22
Insects of the Night - LivestreamSpeaker:Â Kevin Munroe, The Nature ConservancyClick here to register and receive connection information.
Infant research faces all the same issues that negatively affect replicability and reproducibility in psychology at large. In addition, it deals with a vulnerable population that is challenging to recruit and not terribly compliant once in the lab. These factors potentially increase noise and pose challenges for obtaining adequate sample ...
Clock for quantum and fundamental physicsPrecise control of quantum states of matter and innovative laser technology are revolutionizing the performance of atomic clocks and metrology, providing opportunities to observe emerging phenomena and explore fundamental physics. Recent advances include measurement of the gravitation time dilation over sub-millimeter distances and incorporating spin entanglement in clock operations.Speaker: Jun ...
Commissioner Darcie L. Houck was appointed to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) by Governor Gavin Newsom on Feb. 9, 2021. She formerly served as Chief Counsel for the California Energy Commission since 2019.Commissioner Houck was an Administrative Law Judge at the CPUC from 2016 to 2019, a Partner at ...
Cosmic Explorer - a next-gen gravitational-wave observatoryWith almost 100 gravitational-wave sources detected to-date, and the first-generation facilities now over 20-years old, there is growing momentum towards the next-generation of gravitational-wave observatories. Projects are underway in Europe, Australia, Japan, India and the US to bring new ground-based observatories online. These audio-band observatories will be complemented by a ...
Speaker: Yuxin Zhou, UC Santa BarbaraThis event has been rescheduled for January 24, 2023
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Wonderfest: The Mathematics of LanguageIf your native language (Irish, Igbo, Ilocano, . . .) is threatened by competition from another language (likely English!), and if preserving that language is important, what options do you have? Which approach to language preservation is most likely to be effective? Or... How much time do you have before ...
