Wonderfest: 'Linoleum'Wonderfest celebrates the 10th annual National Evening of Science on Screen with the new sci-fi comedy-drama LINOLEUM and with the expert commentary of planetary scientist Dr. Pascal Lee. LINOLEUM chronicles the reality-jarring challenges of a midwest dreamer who decides to build his own rocketship. Early reviews give the movie a ...
Where: St. HelenaCost: See weblink
Wednesday, 03/29/23
Guided nature walk at Bouverie PreserveExperience the beauty and rich natural history of Bouverie Preserve by signing up for a Guided Nature Walk Participants are paired with a trained volunteer to explore the mixed evergreen forest, flower-carpeted oak woodland and rugged chaparral.Visitors of all ages are welcome. Minors MUST be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian. Reservations ...
Where: Glen EllenCost: Free
Coastal Walk at Cowell-Purisima TrailJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful walk along the Cowell-Purisima trail that POST helped create by protecting adjacent farmland. While it may be foggy, we hope to catch gorgeous views of the ocean, nearby farmland, and glimpses of harbor seals, pelicans, hawks, rabbits, and whales during the winter ...
Most of us lead drab and colorless lives as drones and cogs in faceless organizations. With his tales of research around southern California oil and gas platforms, Milton (only his wife calls him Dr. Love) will enter your world like a bright and fanciful rainbow, or a swatch of William ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
March LASER EventChristina Jauernik (Architect and Artist) on "Touching Distance - Inter-Views with the Virtual" Hanna Haslaahti (Media Artist) on "Storytelling with Personal Avatars" Javier Ideami (Filmmaker and A.I. Scientist) on "Encounters of the third kind with Generative Artificial Intelligence" Register here or here
Where: Cost: Free
Centering Health Justice and Trans Well-Being - LivestreamIn celebration of International Transgender Day of Visibility, join two scientific presentations that will help raise awareness of systemic issues that impact trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse individuals, as well as those with intersecting identities.Generating Models of Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy While Centering the Needs of Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender-Diverse IndividualsGender-affirming ...
The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future - LivestreamOur predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance. The best we can do is try to absorb the lessons from futurism’s checkered past, perhaps learning to do a little better.Our next Skeptical Inquirer Presents event welcomes podcast host ...
Where: Cost: Free
Improving VR/AR Experiences by Understanding the Human Visual System - LivestreamVirtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) wearable displays strive to provide perceptually realistic user experiences, while constrained by limited compute budgets, hardware, and transmission bandwidths of wearable computing systems. This presentation describes two different ways in which a greater understanding of the human visual system may assist in achieving this goal. ...
Ribonucleic acids (RNAs) are one of nature’s most versatile biomolecules and possess a rich variety of functions, but why should we care about them? Because RNA has so much to teach us about our past, present, and future.In this talk, I will highlight how RNA has influenced our lives across ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Thursday, 03/30/23
Science on Tap: Science from 20 Feet UpJoin the Museum for a night of fun and science as we host Doctors Mara Orescanin and Stu Weiss with beverages from Dust Bowl Brewing Co! Mara and Stu will be discussing the work they do to help the planet’s ecosystems and populations, both human and non, from 20 feet ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $15 General, $10 members, Free for Students
After Dark: 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 ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Learn About:Why coral reefs around the world are in trouble.How there is some hope for these threatened ecosystems. What successful coral-reef restoration would look like and ideas to get there.Speaker: Ilsa Kuffner, USGS St. Petersburg Coastal & Marine Science CenterSee weblink for link to the lecture
Where: Cost: Free
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, our alligator with albinism), the night is sure to be wild.Step inside the iconic ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.25
Saturday, 04/01/23
Dìa de la Ciencia This is a community event for the Spanish-speaking public to participate in hands-on activities led by local scientists! This event will include: Hands-on exhibits & booths led by scientists and community partnersTalks and PresentationsSTEM StorytimeDirections here
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Morning Hike at San Vicente Redwoods - RESCHEDULEDJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a community hike at San Vicente Redwoods! This will be a moderate hike of 3.5 miles on fairly level trails with little elevation gain. Guests will be led by a POST ambassador, who will share about the human and natural history of this important ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
STEM Frenzy FestivalThe STEM Frenzy festival is a day where we bring the community of all ages together to celebrate and explore the wonders of Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Art.Enjoy 30+ engaging demonstrations and hands-on activities at our exhibitor booths hosted by local STEM professionals and learn how to enroll your ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Family Nature Walks - Baylands Nature PreserveEnvironmental Volunteers’ Family Nature Walks program is designed to help students and their families get to know our local open space areas. Small family groups will be guided by a knowledgeable environmental educator during an exploration of a local open space. These small groups will be introduced to fun nature-based ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
The Great Blue Heron ColonyNesting at Snow Lake for 30 yearsNancy DeStefanis presents slides of 30 years of Blue Herons at Stow Lake from 1995 to the present and screens the movie Great Blues of the Golden Gate. A question-and-answer session will follow. DeStefanis is the founder and executive director of San Francisco Nature Education.
Drop-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 to help you identify the huge variety of shorebirds and ducks that call the Bay Area home. No RSVP ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
The Fascinating Influential Electric Wizards of the Enlightenment!You never had so much fun learning about science! Kathy, author of The Lightning Tamers and host of the popular science YouTube channel "Kathy Loves Physics" will tell a tale about how electricity developed in the 1700s that you will have to see to believe.In this spoken word performance, Kathy ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $7.18
Monday, 04/03/23
Yerba Buena Island Natural History WalksYerba Buena Island is unknown to over 99% of San Franciscans, even less by denizens of the greater Bay Area, who may only know it when they drive over the Bay Bridge which spans are connected by the tunnel that traverses the island. Even if city dwellers have ventured over ...
Salinity Intrusion in Northern San Francisco Bay: Observations and ModelsThe problem of predicting how the salinity field in estuaries responds to freshwater inflows is one that draws attention from both physical oceanographers and hydraulic engineers since it has both scientific and practical dimensions. In Northern San Francisco Bay, examination of 20+ years of data spanning the estuary shows that ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Using proxies to assess anthropogenic effects on under-monitored equatorial Pacific reefs - RescheduledCoral reefs are struggling as anthropogenic warming fuels an increase in the frequency and intensity of Marine Heat Waves, causing widespread bleaching and coral death. Yet some reefs, including those in the bullseye of El Niño’s impact, endure. Uncovering their secret could shed critical new light on the mechanisms by ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Correlated Structural Inhomogeneity in Oxide SuperconductorsSuperconductivity has been a major scientific topic for more than a century, yet in many important materials this macroscopic quantum phenomenon remains poorly understood. From nonlinear magnetic response and other experiments, we have uncovered that superconductivity emerges in an unusual manner upon cooling in three well-known families of complex oxides ...
Lauren O'Connell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University. She studies amphibians to learn how animals adapt their behavior and physiology to changing environments. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and then started her own lab at Harvard University as ...
I will be talking about my research on supernovae from conducting preliminary research, writing code, data analysis/visualization to synthesizing all of it into a research paper. My hope for the talk is to showcase my journey from Capstone to finished paper with the hope that it might serve as a model and/or inspiration ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Quantum optics with organic molecules: cavity QED, optomechanics, and cooperativityLaboratory manipulation of single quantum emitters and single photons has matured to a routine procedure over the past two decades. These activities have motivated new emerging topics such as coherent cooperative interactions among several quantum emitters and the development of quantum networks. In this presentation, I summarize our efforts of ...
Electrochemical energy storage devices such as batteries will play a dominant role in electrification of transportation and clean electricity from renewables for reaching the ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. Li-ion batteries (LIBs), the current dominant technology, is facing an increasing pressure on maintaining a stable supply-chain and their ...
OpenAI’s question-and-answer chatbot ChatGPT has shaken up Silicon Valley and is already disrupting a wide range of fields and industries, including education. But the potential risks of this new era of artificial intelligence go far beyond students cheating on their term papers. Even OpenAI’s founder warns that “the question of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General in person, $10 online
Alaska artist Ray Troll will share the twists and turns of his unique aquatically inspired career as an artist and an educator, and how marine science came to be an important focal point for his unconventional body of work.Settling in the rainswept, coastal town of Ketchikan, Alaska he began producing ...
Biologic and Resource Analog Investigations in Low Light Environments (BRAILLE) is a multi-year, NASA-funded Mars analog project centered around fieldwork in volcanic caves at Lava Beds National Monument in Northern California. We are motivated to search for evidence of life on Mars beneath its surface - and one way to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
