Coyote Valley Earth Day Celebration!This Earth Day, celebrate with us at Spreckels Hill for this free special event for the whole community.During this celebration you can enjoy family-friendly crafts, games, and an opportunity to share why you love Coyote Valley. Spreckels Hill was permanently protected as open space in 2019 and is not yet ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Earth Day at the RefugeThis year, the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge and partners are celebrating Earth Day and 50 years of Endangered Species Act in a big way - and it will be fun for the whole family! The event will be an open house, with time to explore, learn ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Earth Day Seabird Science Family Workshop - First SessionJoin us at our Pier Classroom over the water near Crissy Field for a feather-filled seabird experience in celebration of Earth Day. Activities include identifying seabirds from the pier using binoculars and learning about seabird life cycles and adaptations. We will have seabird artifacts and a giant chutes and ladders ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15
Earth Day: Seeing Earth from SpaceFor Earth Day we invite you to a showcase of science, both on Earth and from space.  The first Earth Day in 1970 successfully channeled the spirit of activism into a global movement towards environmental action and awareness of what we now call climate change. The issue of climate change persists ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
Landscape Is Homeland FestivalThis Earth Day weekend, come together for a day of celebration and programming presented in partnership with the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone and the American Indian Cultural District. Join Indigenous artisans and community members as they share practices, stories, and food that are deeply rooted in the California landscape. Enjoy ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Morning Hike at La Honda Open Space PreserveJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful hike at Lower La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve where you’ll experience the area’s sweeping views and gorgeous rolling grasslands! The preserve is over 6,100 acres, of which POST has contributed 5,200 acres. You will be guided by a POST Ambassador on ...
Where: La HondaCost: Free
Berkeley Bay FestivalConnect with the Bay and our local community through live music, performers, food, hands-on educational activities and free boat rides.This free family-focused event celebrates the Bay, its local wildlife, and the people and agencies dedicated to its protection. Over 30 environmental and wildlife conservation organizations from around the Bay will share ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Earth Day Seabird Science Family Workshop - Second SessionJoin us at our Pier Classroom over the water near Crissy Field for a feather-filled seabird experience in celebration of Earth Day. Activities include identifying seabirds from the pier using binoculars and learning about seabird life cycles and adaptations. We will have seabird artifacts and a giant chutes and ladders ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15
Home Electrification FairThere are plenty of good reasons to switch from gas to electric: Health. Safety. Longterm savings. And of course, climate. And there are a lot of good questions:Where do I start? Oven? EV charger? Heat pump?Do I need to upgrade my electrical panel?How do I find contractors I can trust?What ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Free National Parks DayAdmission to most US National Parks is free today, the first day of National Park Week
Join Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, Santa Clara Open Space Authority, and Santa Clara County Parks as we co-host the Wild & Scenic Film Festival. The film program will also be available virtually to all who register for the event, available to watch from the ...
Using Research for Regulatory Development: Direct Potable Reuse in CaliforniaIn several places throughout the world, water scarcity is driving communities to pursue new water resources such as the potable reuse of wastewater. The State of California has long been a leader in the field of indirect potable reuse, where purified effluents are routed through environmental buffers (e.g., aquifers or ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
A brain-inspired electronic learning machineContrastive learning algorithms have recently been proposed for training physical networks such as mechanical, flow and electrical networks to perform arbitrarily complex machine learning tasks not by minimizing a global cost function as in artificial neural networks, but in a manner more similar to the brain, using only local information. ...
Molly Schumer is an Assistant Professor in Biology. She is interested in genetics and evolutionary biology. After receiving her PhD at Princeton, she did her postdoctoral work at Columbia and was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and Hanna H. Gray Fellow at Harvard Medical School. Current ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
What Physicists DoSpeaker: Tomi Akindele, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Nuclear fusion powers the stars, and the goal of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is to bring this game-changing energy source to Earth in a controlled laboratory setting. After many decades of research by a cast of thousands, for the first time ever, a laser-driven ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Tuesday, 04/25/23
Shaded Fuel Break: Lessons Learned Post Wildfire in the San Vicente Redwoods - LivestreamWhat to learn more about how four land trusts implement land conservation and fire resiliency? Join a variety of practitioners who come together to manage fuels on private conservation land critically located adjacent to high-fire risk communities in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Susie Petrie, Senior Stewardship Project Manager at Peninsula Open ...
Amy Westervelt has made a career out of exploring the underbelly of the oil industry through complex and compelling storytelling. From her investigative series Drilled to her latest project Light Sweet Crude, focused on the new wave of "oil colonialism," Westervelt dives deep into the true crimes of the fossil ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members in person
Groundwater Rise Adaptation: Insights from Miami and San Rafael - LivestreamSea level rise has increased the urgency of adapting to groundwater rise. As the Bay Area experiences higher and higher water tables, it must contend with a greater frequency of flooding, potentially compromised underground infrastructure and structural foundations, increasing liquefaction risk during earthquakes, and movement of soil contaminants. Join us ...
Anomalous hydrodynamics of low dimensional quantum systemsThe field of hydrodynamics of quantum systems has experienced a revival in the past decade, as an effective theory describing how many-body quantum systems evolve from local to global equilibrium. This has been largely driven by the advent of new experimental platforms, from strongly interacting ultracold gases to pristine solid-state ...
Our human lives involve remarkable forms of practical organization: diachronic organization of individual activity; small-scale organization of shared action; and the organization of institutions. A theory of human action should help us understand these multiple forms of human practical organization and their inter-relations. I argue that a key is our ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Swiss Cyber Night at RSA2023 is set to be pivotal for digital technologies, presenting significant opportunities as well as potential risks. On one hand, we are seeing tremendous advances reaching the masses, like ChatGPT and generative AI.On the other hand, the global discussions around the regulations of technology and the volatile global geopolitical environments ...
Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things â€" each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and documenting their discoveries. Ultimately, they lost their lives in a 1991 volcanic explosion, leaving a legacy that forever enriched our knowledge of the natural ...
Where: Cost: Free
What Feces Can Tell Us About the Health of the Endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales - LivestreamThe Southern Resident killer whales are one of the most studied and well-known endangered species on the planet, yet efforts to save them have been largely unsuccessful. How can research be translated into meaningful policy or action to guide their recovery to reverse the declining trend in the population? In ...
 The geometry of the ancient Greeks took place on an ideal, infinite, flat plane. In the millenia since then, mathematicians have opened our minds to the more general and flexible geometries of curved spaces - from the fabric that makes up our clothing, to the spacetime around a black hole. ...
Where: NovatoCost: Free
Wednesday, 04/26/23
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 ...
Killer whales are not universally loved. Through history and in many different places of the world their story is one of fear and persecution. Marine mammal biologist and cofounder of The Whale Center in Andenes, Norway Hanne Strager talks about her research in Norway and her book The Killer Whale ...
The question that has intrigued copyright professionals since the mid-1960s is whether computer-generated texts and images would be eligible for this law’s protection. Early on, the consensus was that artificial intelligence (AI) is just a tool, like a camera, so humans could claim copyright in machine-generated outputs to which they ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Revealing connections in the sea: insights into the processes shaping the spatial distribution of marine fishesUnderstanding the spatial distribution of species, as well as identifying the underlying mechanisms influencing these patterns, are essential to properly understand how biodiversity is generated and maintained in the sea. The scale at which these patterns occur can illuminate evolutionary and ecological processes influencing these patterns, which in turn are ...
'Social Forestry' by Tomi Hazel VaardeThe Ecology Center and book publisher, Synergetic Press, presents the official release of Tomi Hazel Vaarde’s book, Social Forestry: Tending the Land as People of Place with an intimate book signing with renowned author, Tomi Hazel Vaarde. This book is a must for anyone who wants a reciprocating relationship with their communities, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Lessons from the Covid WarAs the formal COVID-19 emergency comes to an end nationally and locally, a growing number of reports and investigative bodies are beginning to explore what went wrong and right with the country’s response to the COVID crisis. One of the most important is the COVID Crisis Group (CCG), a team ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $15 Members in person, $5/Free web
Peninsula Gem & Geology SocietyNeil Delfino will be giving us a presentation on field trips that are near to the Bay Area. These are locations where agates, jaspers, magnesite, agatized magnesite, and possibly a few other useful rocks are found. None of the sites involve 4X4 travel. Examples of the rocks to be found ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
The Legendary Alto and Research at the EdgeWhat if we had a time machine that could help us invent the future? In 1973, the innovators at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) had exactly that. The Alto computer transported computing 15 years into the future with its groundbreaking features and functions. A half century later, how we live ...
The James Webb Space Telescope was launched on Dec. 25, 2021, and commissioning was completed in early July 2022. With its 6.5 m golden eye, and cameras and spectrometers covering 0.6 to 28 μm, Webb is already producing magnificent images of galaxies, active galactic nuclei, star-forming regions, and planets. Scientists ...
Nature makes a variety of small molecules with unique chemical structures and sometimes useful biological activities to enhance and improve human health. However, naturally-occurring small molecules can also have detrimental effects on human health and the environment as a whole. One major example of this are harmful algal blooms that ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Thursday, 04/27/23
Educator Workshop: Unstable Table (K-5) - LivestreamBuild your own Unstable Table! Experience a classic Exploratorium tinkering project, then bring it back to your classroom. In this activity, tinker with objects on a platform to figure out how to balance them in ways that don’t always look like they should be possible. Arrange and rearrange objects on ...
Henry Gonzalez, Deputy Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), will discuss the GCF's climate projects, specifically focusing on climate mitigation and adaptation perspectives.See weblink for stream information
Where: Cost: Free
Videogame Science and UFOs - LivestreamWhat’s a videogame programmer doing analyzing UFO videos? And why should people trust what a programmer has to say when people with PhDs in physics disagree with him? In many ways, videogame programmers make ideal UFO investigators: the simple math used to make 3D objects move in a virtual setting ...
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark: Genetic GhostsParents share more than just DNA with their children; they pass down biological information from past lives: genetic ghosts. These ghosts come in many forms, from cells to antibodies to bits of ancient DNA. Children inherit cells from their mothers - actual cells that persist through their lives. Offspring can ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Gravity Never Sleeps - Landslide Science and Risk Reduction - LivestreamLandslides contribute to the cascading hazards from wildfire, flooding, earthquakes, and climate change.Learn about the latest science and technologies for detecting, survelling and forecasting landslides.Learn about the new National =Strategy for Landslide Loss Reduction.Speaker: Jonathan Godt, USGS Landslide Hazards Program CoordinatorSee website for link to Microsoft Teams to attend.Â
Throughout the millennia, total solar eclipses have instilled fear in some people while inspiring others, as the Sun’s wispy corona reveals itself in fleeting moments lasting anywhere from seconds to under 7 minutes. The recognition that the Sun’s corona is the extension of the solar atmosphere into space, together with ...
