BioBlitz at Hellyer ParkJoin Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful, Bioblitz.club, Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society, and POST for a BioBlitz! A BioBlitz is an event that focuses on finding and identifying as many species as possible in a specific area over a short period of time. At a BioBlitz, scientists, families, students, teachers, and ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Coastal Walk at Pillar Point BluffJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful walk at Pillar Point Bluff just north of Half Moon Bay!Join Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful walk at Pillar Point Bluff just north of Half Moon Bay! You will be guided by POST ambassadors who will share details about the ...
Where: Moss BeachCost: Free
Resilient Forest SeriesJoin Forestree Collective, Regenerative Forest Solutions and Audubon Canyon Ranch’s Fire Forward program for this series highlighting forest health practices, ecological stewardship, regional milling infrastructure, prescribed burning, and more.Each series date will engage participants in stewardship strategies employed at Green Valley Farm + Mill for improving the forest and watershed, ...
Where: SebastopolCost: $25
Molecular-Scale Engineering of Stimuli-Responsive Polymer HydrogelsPolymer hydrogels that respond to external stimuli including pH, light, and heat have attracted broad interest as soft materials with controlled release profiles, 3D printability, and sensing and actuation capabilities. This presentation will explore the molecular-scale engineering of two stimuli-responsive polymer hydrogels.First, we evaluate the impact of functional nanomaterials on ...
Accurate models of 2D materials and heterostructures: balancing between reciprocal- and real-space descriptionsFor more than a century, the notion of band structure remained the most important instrument for studying crystalline solids in the physics community. At the same time, an even older picture of chemical bonding, usually considered at an empirical level, continues serving the chemistry community. The Wannier function formalism provides ...
Two eclipses of the sun are coming to North America during the 2023 - 24 school year - an annular (“ring of fireâ€) eclipse on October 14, 2023 and a total eclipse on April 8, 2024. People in two narrow paths will have the full eclipse experience each time. Everyone ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members in person, 10/free online
Dark Energy with the Euclid Space Mission - LivestreamJoin the NASA Night Sky Network to hear Dr. Eric Huff from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory bring us up to date on the Euclid space mission to investigate the nature of dark energy and dark matter, and the accelerated expansion of the Universe.Launched on July 1, 2023, from Cape Canaveral, ...
In an exclusive Bay Area presentation, meet the driving force behind a re-examination of the 'wood-wide web', who, along with Dr. Melanie Jones and Dr. Jason Hoeksema, is challenging data and media inflation of claims about Common Mycorrhizal Networks.Few ecological concepts have affected academic and public discourse as much as ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Tuesday, 08/29/23
Creepy, Happy HalloweenOur annual Halloween party is back! Visitors wearing a costume can get free tickets to 3D films or Planetarium shows. Plus, meet creepy crawly critters in our Animal Discovery Zone, and learn to make pumpkins fly in our catapult activity. Members can decorate their own glow-in-the-dark pumpkins in our Member ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with admission
Volatile chemistry in planet-forming disks Planets form within disks composed of gas, ice, and dust in orbit around young stars. The composition and distribution of volatiles (gas+ice) within these disks profoundly impacts both the chemical and physical outcomes of planet formation - including the delivery of prebiotic building blocks to new worlds. In this talk, ...
Modern insights into wise exercise, sleep, and diet are enhancing healthspan, the years of healthy life that one actually enjoys. This presentation focuses on human clinical data with actionable recommendations for lifestyle choices that can maximize the healthy years of life.Speaker: Greg Tranah, UC San Francisco
Swim Down was Lilianna’s Master’s Capstone project at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. This digital, multimodal graphic novel explores the connection between neurodiversity and the deep sea. She collaborated with Scripps scientists Dr. Charlotte Seid, Dr. Lisa Levin, Dr. Peter Franks, and illustrator Freya Hammar to tell the story of Mari, ...
In the face of escalating climate risk, property insurance markets have a critical role to play in helping households and firms reduce risk exposures and recover from natural disasters when they strike. Performing these functions efficiently requires a detailed understanding of property-level disaster risk and pricing that accurately reflects the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
How to Protect Yourself from CybercrimeWe constantly hear about cybercrime in the news, but do you have the knowledge to protect yourself from it?In this talk, information security expert Dr. Carrie Gates will cover the clues that can alert you to something being a scam, along with some of the common types of attacks, such ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members
In 1977, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed the burial of biomass as a scalable, economical solution to the carbon dioxide problem. Today we know that harvested vegetation should be buried in an engineered dry biolandfill. Plant biomass can be preserved for thousands of years by burial in a dry environment with ...
Sharing the Cost of Wildfire Resilience - LivestreamMany of the country’s most damaging wildfires, including California’s deadly 2018 Camp and Woolsey Fires, Oregon’s 2020 Santiam Fire, and Colorado’s 2021 Marshall Fire, can be traced back to failure in the electric grid. Electric grids can also be damaged by wildfires in turn. Such an interplay between wildfires and ...
After Dark: Discover WonderThe Exploratorium is your playground for experiential learning! Tonight only, step inside the Kanbar Forum for an extended set by post-punk Sky Creature in collaboration with artist Tony Orrico. Sky Creature’s high energy and genre-crossing music creates the fuel for Orrico’s graphite drawings, which are created in response and in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Indigenous Communities in the United States: Leaders in Climate Adaptation - LivestreamLearn About:The effects of climate change on Indigenous communities. How Indigenous communities are adapting to climate change. The benefits of including Indigenous Knowledges in USGS science.Speaker: Aparna Bamzai-Dodson, USGS Physical Scientist; Nicole Herman-Mercer, USGS Social Scientist; Sheree Watson, USGS EcologistSee weblink to watch to the lectureÂ
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 60,000 live animals (including familiar faces like Claude, our alligator with albinism), the night is sure to be wild.Step inside the iconic ...
On the Point Bonita Lighthouse Sunset Tour, you will enjoy stunning sunset views and learn the compelling story of this landmark. The tour will include elements of natural and cultural history as well as thought-provoking guided discussion that ties the lighthouse’s history to our present. The tour does not include ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Colombia’s Biodiversity - LivestreamPlease join us for a special GGAS Travel Program Speakers Series Zoom talk. Our presenter will be Christopher Calonje, who founded Colombia Birdwatch in 2009 to promote sustainable tourism in his native Colombia.Boasting an eBird list of 276 species, Araucana is like a little version of Colombia itself, the birdiest ...
Protecting species’ habitats is the main policy tool employed across the globe in order to reduce biodiversity losses. These protections are hypothesized to conflict with private landowners’ interests. We study the economic consequences of the most extensive and controversial piece of such environmental legislation in US history - the Endangered ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
First Fridays: Stellar Ending, Death of Stars Just like people, every star has a distinct life cycle, but not every star’s story ends the same. Head to Chabot Space & Science Center’s First Friday for a journey on how stars die and all the factors that lead up to their fate. From white dwarfs to supernovae and ...
Where: OaklandCost: $15 General, $10 Kids/Seniors, $5 Members
PixInsight post-processing basics - Messier 13 The Great Hercules ClusterFrank will pick up where he left off in his last astrophotography presentation on December. 2, 2022. He will explain key fundamentals of post processing and walk through his approach to processing star clusters in PixInsight. He will cover the entire process from stacking to saving the final JPEG image. ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Saturday, 09/02/23
Plant Identification at SanbornJoin YSI as we walk through the Sanborn trails and look for a variety of plants and learn how to identify them! Are they native? Medicinal? Edible? Poisonous? Join us to find out! Ages 8 - 12 with registered adult.
Why are ideologies poisoning public discourse? Why is extremism on the rise? How did we get here, and what can we do about it? It turns out some influential assumptions are suppressing our culture’s “immune response†to dangerous ideas. These assumptions prevent us from normalizing critical thinking, and leave us ...
