ExtraOrdinary! FestivalCome enjoy the summer’s most imaginative and playful exhibition! Be among the first to experience ExtraOrdinary! and the stunning artworks made from everyday objects. Don't forget to bring out your inner artist-scientist with our fun programs for all ages: tinker with cardboard and add to a collective creation, join a ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Foothills Family Nature WalkJoin us at Foothills Nature Preserve for a family-friendly nature walk, guided by EV docents. Participation is free, but space is limited. Register at weblinkEnvironmental 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 ...
Raja GuhaThakurta is a Distinguished Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California Santa Cruz. He studies the formation and evolution of galaxies large and small, with a focus on the assembly of their dark matter, dynamics of their resolved stellar population, merger history, chemical enrichment, and star ...
Where: Mt. HamiltonCost: $29 General
City Public Star PartyCome join the San Francisco Amateur Astronomers for free public stargazing of the Moon, planets, globular clusters and more!The event will take place in Tunnel Tops National Park, parking is located adjacent to Picnic Place (210 Lincoln Blvd for GPS) with the telescopes setup in the East Meadow.Dress warmly as conditions ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Sunday, 06/16/24
ExtraOrdinary! FestivalCome enjoy the summer’s most imaginative and playful exhibition! Be among the first to experience ExtraOrdinary! and the stunning artworks made from everyday objects. Don't forget to bring out your inner artist-scientist with our fun programs for all ages: tinker with cardboard and add to a collective creation, join a ...
The Chinese ComputerHow can Chinese - a language with tens of thousands of characters and no alphabet - be input on a QWERTY keyboard with only a few dozen keys?In his new book, The Chinese Computer, Stanford professor Thomas Mullaney dissects the history and evolution of Chinese language computing technology and explores ...
Ocean warming caused by climate change influences the expansion of areas of low oxygen concentration in the deep sea. This could threaten cold-water corals (CWC), important ecosystem engineers. The Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) has one of the world’s most pronounced oxygen minimum zones (OMZ) as well as some of the ...
Where: Cost: Free
Solstice Guided HikeIt's officially, finally summer! The longest day of the year, June 20th marks the summer solstice, or the astronomical change from spring to summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Around the world, cultures celebrate the extra light and seasonal cycle with time outside from dawn to dusk. Also, our newest federal holiday is June 19th celebrating ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
A Cosmic shadow theater: How galaxy silhouettes reveal their dark sideThe afterglow from the Big Bang, the "cosmic microwave background", acts as the backlight in a shadow theater where galaxies are the protagonists. The resulting galaxy shadows contain unique information about the invisible components of galaxies, such as their cold gas and dark matter, which hold clues to the nature ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF#143: Felines, Freedom, and Fairies Come one, come all to our Juneteenth show on (when else?) Wednesday, June 19th. We’ll be celebrating Black nerds in the Bay Area and their brilliant talks about the ecological chaos caused by domestic cats, the Blackness of birds, and the incredible legacy of the movie FernGully. Join us!Tyus Williams ...
Jessica Burton is a Master's Candidate in Biology at California State University, Long Beach where she is studying artificial habitat supplementation for the light-footed Ridgway's Rail. She received a Bachelor's of Science in Biology from Illinois Wesleyan University. She is currently a Wildlife Biologist at the Santa Ana Watershed Association ...
Where: Cost: Free
SETI Live: More Active Volcanoes on Venus! - LivestreamIn 2023, scientists analyzed archival data from NASA's Magellan mission, which mapped the surface of our "twin" planet, Venus. They discovered evidence of a recent volcanic eruption on the world's surface by comparing the Magellan images over time. Now, a team of Italian scientists has found evidence for two more ...
Where: Cost: Free
Thursday, 06/20/24
Solstice Morning Hike with Mia MonroeIt's officially, finally summer! The longest day of the year, June 20th marks the summer solstice, or the astronomical change from spring to summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Around the world, cultures celebrate the extra light and seasonal cycle with time outside from dawn to dusk. At our park, we're celebrating all weekend!Kick off ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Snapshot Cal Coast - Point Molate Intertidal BioblitzJoin Wholly H2O and the Point Molate Alliance in support of California Academy of Sciences' Snapshot Cal Coast intertidalfor a fun-filled exploration of Point Molate! Get ready to have tons of fun documenting local flora and fauna by observing and capturing the wildlife at Point Molate. Check out iNaturalist page ...
In this fun, unique Birdy Hour, artist Anastasia Nguyen will teach you how to paint a beautiful bird in watercolor! She will be using the winning photos from the “Art Category†of the May 25th, 2024, Spring Bird Photo Big Day as references for the artwork, so you will learn ...
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark: Summer SolsticeOn Summer Solstice, our galleries will be as lit as the day outside. Encounter the ExtraOrdinary with our special exhibition that turns everyday objects into stunning artworks, and enjoy breathtaking waterfront views at our Observatory. Come celebrate the longest day of the year at After Dark, and discover something new ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
NightLife: InkedInked is back at NightLife! Explore the wonders of ink from cephalopods to live tattoos - yes, the real kind!
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Serendipity and Salt Ponds - LivestreamCalifornia experienced rapid and widespread destruction and modification of natural hydrological ecosystems and wetlands after the Gold Rush, including the loss of nearly all tidal wetlands in San Francisco Bay, many of which were converted to commercial salt production ponds. The South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project is now restoring ...
The discovery of new ceramic materials containing Ba-La-Cu oxides in 1986 exhibiting superconductive properties at high temperatures (35 K or higher), opened a new world of opportunities for NMRs and MRIs to move away from liquid cryogens, recognized with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987. A prototype 400 MHz ...
