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 ...
Tours are given periodically throughout these open house hoursBattery Townsley, at Fort Cronkhite, was San Francisco's most extensive - and most secret - World War II military fortification.From 1940 to 1948, it mounted two massive battleship guns and housed more than 100 soldiers in an extensive network of underground tunnels; ...
SCVAS Learn: Warblers 2023 - Part 1 - Green, Yellow and Gray - LivestreamThe fall migration of Warblers is an exciting event for birders. It can also daunting because many of these tiny tree-top insectivores lack the distinctive breeding plumage that makes them so memorable. How do we sort through the many similar features and identify the individuals we find? Why are there ...
The human proteome is extremely complex, comprising > 10,000 proteins and 100 times proteoforms for each gene product. In cancer and other diseases, several new protein variants may result from mutations, fusions and posttranslational modifications (PTMs) that further influence the functions and structure of proteins. This necessitates the identification of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Past and Future of Robotics & Machine Intelligence: 250 Years of Research ExperienceThe Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences invites you to a special panel on AI led by Distinguished Professor Emerita Ruzena Bajcsy, joined by colleagues Claire Tomlin, Shankar Sastry, Jitendra Malik, Rodney Brooks, and Ken Goldberg.Are robots on the verge of becoming human-like and taking over most jobs? When ...
Famed astronomer Avi Loeb returns to The Commonwealth Club to answer some of the biggest questions facing humankind: How do we prepare ourselves for interaction with interstellar extraterrestrial life? And can our species itself become interstellar?Loeb, the longest-serving chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, shook the scientific community when he theorized ...
Where: Cost: Use code WonderfestPromo for free ticket
In a 1967 episode of the iconic television series Star Trek, Mr. Spock explained:“If I let go of a hammer on a planet that has a positive gravity, I need not see it fall to know that it has in fact fallen.†Mr. SpockSpock’s idea to see with your mind’s ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Revolutionizing Risk: How Sensors, Data and AI Are Reshaping the InsuranceInsurance is one of the world's most ancient businesses. It is also the cornerstone that holds economies firm. Yet, as the number of sensors and the amount of data continue is on the brink of an unprecedented transformation. In today's interconnected landscape, data forms the very fabric of our daily ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Creating the Science, Covering the ScienceJoin us in-person and online for a discussion with journalist Katie Hafner, who covers scientific advances, especially those by women, and her husband, Dr. Robert Wachter of UCSF, who is on the forefront of the digital transformation of health care and has been influential in advancing public understanding of the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General in person, $10 General online
IEEE Computer Society Chapter Open house, Award ceremony, and talk AI and Conversational CommerceIn today's fast-paced digital landscape, conversational commerce has emerged as a game-changer, and AI is at the heart of this transformative shift. Through AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants, businesses are revolutionizing the messaging space, enabling customers to engage in seamless conversations while making purchases and completing transactions right within their ...
As recognized in science and increasingly in politics and business water will play the role of the “main fuel†for future conflicts. The former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, referred to water as “the conflict material of the 21st century†already in 2003. Verstraete et al. (2009) summarize ...
In this talk I will discuss the use of monkeyflowers to probe the genetic and molecular bases of floral trait variation among species, to characterize the developmental mechanisms of pattern formation, and to test the adaptive significance of floral trait variation in the evolution of pollination syndromes.Speaker: Yaowu Yuan, Associate ...
We are excited to hear from The Scobee Education Center’s Rick Varner: “SATX Solar Eclipses: Don’t be Blinded by the Light†and Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. William Kosmann: “Voyager’s Family Portrait of the Solar Systemâ€!Watch on Youtube or Facebook with links at the weblink
