Two talks: StorageX International Symposium - LivestreamThermal Battery Failures and Designing for Safety: Analyses and Case StudiesSpeaker: Troy Hayes, Practice Director, Director of Asia Offices and Principal Engineer, ExponentUpscaling and Automation: Pushing the Boundaries of Multiscale Modeling of Thermal Runaway through Symbolic-Numeric ComputingSpeaker: Ilenia Battiato, Associate Professor, Energy Science & Engineering, Stanford UniversityRegister at weblink to ...
Where: Cost: Free
Coastal Walk at Cowell-Purisima TrailJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful Sunday 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 ...
Where: Half Moon BayCost: Free
Saturday, 09/23/23
Coastal Clean-up Day 2023Join us as we celebrate California Coastal Clean-up Day! With beach clean-ups scheduled at Ocean Beach and various sites in Marin, there's something for everyone. Bring yourself, your friends, and your family! Registration required. Coastal Clean-up Day is a statewide effort hosted by the California Coastal Commission. For additional sites on the ...
Where: Cost: Free
National Public Lands Day 2023Join us as we celebrate National Public Lands Day! With habitat restoration, landscaping, and maintenance programs, there is something for everyone. Bring yourself, your friends, and your family! Registration required.See weblink for locations or different projects.
We’ll be at Shoreline Park (Mountain View) from 9 to 11:30 am. Visit our birding station at the Charleston Slough observation deck, where our volunteers will help you identify ducks, shorebirds, and more. No need to sign up - come by anytime we’re there! This event is wheelchair accessible.See weblink ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
The Physics Show - SOLD OUTThe Physics Show is a fun science show for kids and their families. This year we will have two weekends of shows in September and two weekends of shows in January.  What is The Physics Show?Saturday September 16, 2023 at 10:00 am and 1:00 pm [SOLD OUT]Sunday September 17, 2023 at 1:00 pm [SOLD OUT]Saturday September 23, ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: $6
Kitchen Chemistry at VasonaYou don’t need to be in a lab to see chemistry in action! Join us as we show you fun experiments that you can do with things found in your kitchen! Make a lava lamp out of oil, explode diet coke with Mentos, and make elephant toothpaste! Prepare for a ...
Where: Los GatosCost: $25
Family Nature Walks - Foothills 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: Los AltosCost: Free
Fall Equinox Family Lunch +Â Learn with Dr. Bryan MendezBring your lunch and picnic outside next to our Sun Stones II exhibit, a sculpture offering unique viewing opportunities of a variety of astronomical events and phenomena. Planetarium Director Dr. Bryan Mendez will give a family-friendly talk about the seasons and the equinox, including movement and storytelling. Then, observe the ...
Join the Young Birders Club for a casual bird photo walk at Shoreline Lake for the Bay Area Bird Photo Big Day, a fundraiser for the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO)! Since 2020, Bay Area birders have banded together to photograph as many birds as possible for the Bird Photo ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Jazz Under the StarsJazz Under the Stars is a FREE monthly public stargazing event! Occurring on the Saturday nearest the 1st quarter moon (check our Events Page), join us on the 4th floor observatory for a night of smooth jazz, bright stars, and a lot of fun! We play our jazz from CSM's own ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Free National Parks DayAdmission to most US National Parks is free today, National Public Lands Day
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 09/24/23
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
Latinx Engineering Day 2023Join us for a family-friendly collaboration between the Exploratorium and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE).Our 24th annual DÃa de la IngenierÃa/Latinx Engineering Day combines a panel discussion, presentations on the science and engineering heritage of Latinx people, and playful hands-on activities. This annual program is conducted bilingually in Spanish ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
The Cultural Significance of Sea Otters to the OhloneJoin Sea Otter Savvy’s Heather Barrett and Cafe Ohlone co-founders Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino in our Outdoor Nature Lab for a special Sea Otter Awareness Week event! Vincent, Louis, and Heather will discuss the significance of sea otters to Ohlone people and tradition.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with museum admission ($20 for guests 3+)
City Public Star PartyCome join the San Francisco Amateur Astronomers for free public stargazing of the Moon, planets, globular clusters and more!SFAA members with telescopes are encouraged to attend and share their views of the stars with the general public.Dress warmly. Due to the pandemic, social-distancing and masks are encouraged, but not required.Rain, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Monday, 09/25/23
How to Avoid Obliteration: Disability as a Model for First Contact - LivestreamBecause humanity is a young (and presumably vulnerable) technological species, many of the models we use for first contact are decidedly grim. Our most prevalent examples of conflict between civilizations with different military/economic/technological force are the horribly destructive historical encounters between the 'old' and 'new' worlds. Drawing from these examples, ...
As part of The Marine Mammal Center’s Sea Otter Awareness Week 🦦 celebrations, our experts will be LIVE on Facebook and YouTube sharing their knowledge and experience with the smallest marine mammal. Text JOIN to 65179 to receive a reminder text with an event link. With over 25 years of ...
Substrate-driven assembly of a translocon for multipass membrane proteinsBob Keenan is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at UChicago, where he has been a member of the faculty since February of 2005. He obtained his PhD in Biochemistry and Biophysics from UC San Francisco. His research interfaces biology and chemistry to understand molecular mechanisms that underlie fundamental ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Black Hole Information ParadoxStephen Hawking's black hole information paradox is a conflict between gravity and quantum mechanics, and it has been both a crisis and a guiding light for theoretical physicists for over 40 years. I will describe recent work showing that wormholes in quantum gravity lead to a new formula for entropy  --  this formula ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
eWEAR SymposiumSpeakers:Dr. Chun-cheng Piao“Sensors - Opportunities and challenges in buildingâ€Alastair Grant“DigiLens holographic waveguides - what, how and why?â€Â Jason Hartloveto be finalizedÂ
Learn about the transformative benefits of gardening and composting in urban settings, and how these activities link to climate action.Ania Korsunska is an advocate for urban gardening and sustainability, blending her background in data science research and health communications with her passion for climate solutions. With over six years of ...
What underlies our sense of fairness? Chimpanzees react negatively to allocations of resources in which they receive less than others. Human children (from around 8 years onward) react similarly, and they react negatively to allocations in which they receive more than others. New evidence suggests that aversion to unequal distribution ...
Despite playing an important role in the food web and carbon cycle of the Southern Ocean, zooplankton biodiversity and dynamics in subsurface waters remain largely understudied. Our understanding of temporal variability in the zooplankton community is hampered by logistical constraints that come with working in this remote oceanic region of ...
Young children’s learning may be an important model for artificial intelligence (AI). Comparing children and artificial agents in the same tasks and environments can help us understand the abilities of existing systems and create new ones. In particular, many current large data-supervised systems, such as large language models (LLMs), provide ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Beyond Roll Call: Inferring Politics from Text The ideal point model is a staple of quantitative political science. It is a probabilistic model of roll call data - how a group of lawmakers vote on a collection of bills - that can be used to quantify the lawmakers’ political positions, which are called “ideal points.†In this ...
The Apollo missions showed scientists that the craters on the Moon were from impacts rather than volcanoes, overturning previously held hypotheses. Now, new research using data collected by China's Chinese Chang’E 1 and 2 orbiters has discovered a hot spot under the surface. Using an instrument that made observations at ...
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark: College NightAs back to school season is in full effect, tonight we invite anyone with a college ID to join us for free for a night of cinema and science. Don’t miss a special conversation between soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause and director Vincent Tricon, whose film Bernie Krause: A Life with ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
 Geologic settings required for a viable geothermal resource depend on a variety of specific conditions to be present and active, hence goldilocks.Geothermal energy has a big role to play in the move to renewable energy, possibly supplying as much as 8% of U.S. electrical needs by 2050.New technology that expands ...
In honor of Steinhart Aquarium’s 100th anniversary, let's party like it’s 1923 and celebrate a century of aquatic wonder and innovation.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Science is a Piece of Cake: A Geology Bake-OffDo you know your Bay Area geology? Learn about all the bizarre, gorgeous and really freaking old formations via ... cake! KQED's Check, Please! Bay Area Producer Cecilia Phillips, in partnership with the California Academy of Sciences and local bakeries, will host a cake bake-off where rocks serve as visual ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: In Person: $20 / Livestream: Free.
