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. ...
