Hello again Science Fans!
First off, thanks to Herb for filling in for me last month while I was traveling. Today we have a lot of catching up to do!
Happy anniversary to The Sierra Club which was founded on this date in 1892 in San Francisco!
Some of you are old enough to remember the beginnings of the “space race”, with the US pitted against the Soviet Union to see which one would be the first to create the technology to get man to the Moon. In 1959, we still didn’t know if humans could survive in space, so on this date Able and Baker, two monkeys, were launched aboard a Jupiter rocket for a suborbital flight. Both survived the flight, although Able died from the effects of anesthesia given to her a few days later to remove some electrodes.
Think how far we’ve come from that day!
I had saved an article from historian Heather Cox Richardson for last month’s SciSchmooze about the origins of Earth Day. While it has passed, the history is worth reading about, if for no other reason than to understand how much politics has changed since the first Earth Day in 1970.
In her article, Dr. Richardson mentions current Republican efforts to weaken the Environmental Protection Agency. This week, the Supreme Court limited the agency’s power to regulate water pollution. The logic behind the decision seems arbitrary to me, and is potentially environmentally devastating.
Many think that the issue of climate change is relatively new. But news of climate change first went “viral” way back in 1953, 70 years ago, when a Canadian physicist told the American Geophysical Union that industrial activity was discharging carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and connecting that to global warming. His talk and warning was the first time CO2 was implicated as the cause of warming, not orbital wobbles or sunspots. Yet still today, climate change deniers refuse to accept this fact.
The United Nations weather agency issued a report saying we will surpass the 1.5 degree C threshold within 5 years, moving the timeline up significantly from previous estimates.
On a more immediate time scale, El Niño seems to be in our future (90% chance), and there is a better than 50% chance that it will be a strong one. Here’s more on this ocean heating event. A strong El Niño by itself could send global temperatures up by 1.5 degrees Celsius.
What would extreme heatwaves, coupled with power blackouts, mean for us? In Phoenix, AZ, fully one half of the city’s residents would need emergency medical care for heat stroke or other heat-related illnesses. That’s nearly 800,000 people! Needless to say, Phoenix isn’t prepared for such an event.
Yet, studies show that extreme weather events cause more damage, but fewer deaths, than they used to. According to the UN, there has been a staggering rise in the number of such events.
New York City is sinking, partly due to the weight of all the buildings sitting on it! Rising sea levels there, as well as other places, threaten many coastal cities, including portions of the San Francisco Bay shoreline.
We, as humans, know a lot about how the Universe works. Yet modern physics is only roughly 300 years old, a blip in the big scheme of things. If you’re looking for something to ponder this week, try this article on the importance of time to physics and how it might explain life.
Volcanoes are erupting in Mexico (Popocatépetl) and Italy (Etna), while Nyamulagira in the Congo and Kilauea in Hawaii are showing signs of pending eruptions. Learn more about volcanoes here. Volcanoes aren’t unique to Earth. The Juno spacecraft has sent back some incredible images of Io, Jupiter’s volcanic moon. Next door, orbiting around Saturn, Enceladus is spouting huge plumes of water vapor into space, as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Betelgeuse is behaving strangely again, pulsing from dim to bright twice as fast as in the past. The closest red giant star to Earth, Betelgeuse is now 150% of its usual brightness. It is 600 light years away from Earth, so what we are seeing now actually happened 600 years ago.
Also in the cosmic past, but our present, a supernova (designated SN 2023ixf) is developing and can be watched online. This is the closest supernova to earth in a decade, although it isn’t “close” at all, and it is visible with many backyard telescopes due to its brightness.
Most of you have seen the movie “Contact”, staring Jody Foster. In the film, Jody plays a scientist, based on Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute, who is searching for signals from aliens. She finds one such signal, and chaos ensues here on Earth. SETI Institute is in the midst of simulating what might happen if such a signal was detected now and there are several events listed in our calendar around this simulation.
A few months ago, I wrote about artificial intelligence and ChatGPT. Here’s an article about the dangers of AI and our electoral process. It is worth learning about the possibilities to help you discern what to believe as the next Presidential election cycle draws near.
Lots of doom and gloom in this week’s Schmooze, so let’s end on something upbeat. A number system invented by Inuit middle school students and their teacher roughly 30 years ago will soon be available on smartphones and computers as the Kaktovik numerals come into the digital realm, thanks to support here in Silicon Valley.
Enjoy the holiday weekend, and take some time to reflect on the true meaning of Memorial Day. Have a great week in Science!
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Tuesday, 05/30/2023
From quarks to nuclei: computing the Standard Model - 05/30/2023 03:30 PM
Hewlett Teaching Center Stanford
Our understanding of the structure of matter, encapsulated in the Standard Model of particle physics, is that protons, neutrons, and nuclei emerge dynamically from the interactions of underlying quark and gluon degrees of freedom. I will describe how first-principles theory calculations have given us new insights into this structure, including recent predictions of the contributions of gluons to the pressure distribution in the proton, which have been followed by first experimental measurements. I will also discuss studies of light nuclei which provide insights relevant to dark matter direct-detection experiments and other intensity-frontier searches for new physics. Finally, I will explain how provably exact machine learning algorithms are launching a computational revolution in this field.
Speaker:Phiala Shanahan, Massachusets Institute of Technology
Extraterrestrial Helium-3: A new proxy for sea ice coverage and ice sheet melt rates - 05/30/2023 03:30 PM
Natural Science Annex Santa Cruz
Speaker: Frankie Pavia, CalTech
Wonderfest: To See a World in a Grain of Sand - 05/30/2023 07:00 PM
Hopmonk Tavern Novato
By some measures, modern geology has pushed our knowledge of Earth's birthdate backward in time by a factor of a million: from 4,000 BCE to 4,000,000,000 BCE! Detrital zircon geochronology is a geological dating technique that affords insights into the structure and origin of planet Earth’s diverse components. Even locally, including on Mount Tamalpais, the rocks are speaking to us. Can we really see a world in a grain of sand?
Our speaker, Dr. Owen Anfinson, is Associate Professor of Geology at the Sonoma County campus of California State University.
An 'Electric' Dinner Party: Induction Cooking - Livestream - 05/30/2023 07:00 PM
City of Sunnyvale
Chef Rachelle Boucher will take you on an electrifying cooking adventure. Find out her favorite tips and techniques for induction cooking. Learn how to transform your culinary creations, all while listening to her charming cooking stories.
Register to attend at weblink.
Wednesday, 05/31/2023
A Sign in Space - Signs in Space - 05/31/2023 09:00 AM
SETI Institute
A Sign in Space is a multidisciplinary art project conceived by artist Daniela De Paulis. De Paulis is leading a global team to send an encoded message from the European Space Agency (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) back to Earth, simulating a signal an advanced extraterrestrial civilization could eventually send to Earth. The message will be “detected” by four radio astronomy observatories on Earth: the SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array (ATA), The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Medicina Radio Astronomical Station observatory managed by INAF (the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics). De Paulis and her team developed the encoded message, but its contents remain unknown, even to most of the collaborating partners.
The message will be transmitted from the TGO on May 24 at 19:16 UTC/12:15 pm PDT.
Following the transmission, the A Sign in Space team will host a series of Zoom-based discussions open to the public around topics that consider the societal implications of detecting a signal from an extraterrestrial civilization. The discussions will take place over 6-8 weeks after the transmission.
Join “A Sign in Space” Artistic Director in a lively and thought provoking brainstorming session about the possible meaning of the simulated extra-terrestrial message created for the project. The workshop will start by reading some excerpts from Italo Calvino’s book “Cosmicomics” and will continue with a conversation with the workshop’s participants on possible forms of communication attempted by an extraterrestrial civilization with human and non-human life forms. Be prepared to draw and write if you wish.
Hosted by Daniela de Paulis
The devilish aspects of sea angels and sea butterflies - Livestream - 05/31/2023 11:00 AM
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Pteropods are pelagic snails that have garnered considerable research on ocean acidification due to the susceptibility of dissolution in shell-bearing species. They can constitute an important food source for marine predators, including whales, seabirds, and some commercially important fishes. Due to their small size and planktonic lifestyle, however, their diversity and species distributions are not sufficiently known. While molecular methods are easing some of these challenges, the particular anatomy of pteropods still constrains the generation of a vouchered reference database.
Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Bush, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Register at weblink to receive Zoom link
This event was originally scheduled for April 12, 2023
JWST: A Cosmic Time Machine for Astrobiology - Livestream - 05/31/2023 04:00 PM
SETI Institute
We are thrilled to announce an upcoming panel discussion that will take you on a journey to discover the secrets of our solar system and the search for life beyond our planet. Two scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland - Dr. Stefanie Milam, astrophysicist and astrochemist, and Dr. Geronimo Villanueva, planetary scientist and astrobiologist - will participate in this mind-blowing exploration into the unknown. Communications specialist Beth Johnson will moderate the discussion.
What makes this topic exciting is the recent launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most powerful space telescope ever built. Dr. Milam and Dr. Villanueva will share their expertise on how this groundbreaking observatory will pave the way in the search for prebiotic chemistry, signatures of biology, and potential habitable worlds.
But it doesn't stop there. Our panelists will also explore some of the most promising targets for the search for life in our solar system: from the geysers of Enceladus, a small icy moon of Saturn, to Europa, Jupiter's moon believed to have a subsurface ocean of liquid water, and even to the potential for finding life on Titan, Saturn's moon with liquid methane and ethane lakes on its surface.
This event is a rare opportunity to learn from two of the most brilliant minds in space exploration and astrobiology. They will share their insights, perspectives, and the implications of such a discovery for our understanding of the universe and our place in it.
Register at weblink to attend
A Global Health Conversation with Chris Beyrer, epidemiologist and renowned human rights physician - 05/31/2023 05:00 PM
Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge Stanford
Join us for a Global Health Conversation with Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH, director of the Duke Global Health Institute and an internationally recognized epidemiologist who has worked on the front lines of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 treatment and research. Dr. Beyrer is also a renowned humanitarian human rights physician who has worked globally with vulnerable populations such as the Rohingya, an ethnic minority from Myanmar who have suffered mass persecution, violence, and displacement.
Room 320
Science on Tap: It's an RNA World - 05/31/2023 08:00 PM
Museum of Art and History Santa Cruz
Ribonucleic acids (RNAs) are one of nature’s most versatile biomolecules and possess a rich variety of functions, but why should we care about them? Because RNA has so much to teach us about our past, present, and future. In this talk, I will highlight how RNA has influenced our lives across time. Billions of years ago the first primordial RNA molecules may have given rise to primitive life through molecular evolution. Today, SARS-CoV-2 (now one of the world’s most infamous RNA viruses) infects hundreds of thousands of people daily using clever RNA tricks to fool our cells. In the future, RNA vaccines and therapeutics could radically change how we prevent and treat human disease. I will also share my own research on telomerase RNA and how it informs future research in therapies aiming to treat human aging and cancer.
Speaker: Nick Forino, UC Santa Cruz
Thursday, 06/01/2023
NightLife: Says Who? Vol. 2 Experience - 06/01/2023 06:00 PM
California Academy of Sciences San Francisco
Each person has a unique lived experience shaped by their upbringing, beliefs, and cultural background. While some experiences may be more visible or valued in society, it is important to recognize that all lived experiences have value, and each person's perspective is a piece of a larger story. In the second volume of the NightLife: Says Who? series, we invite you to explore how different lived experiences allow us to learn from one another and create deeper understanding and connection.
Featured partners and events*:
Find space, create space, make space. Hear from Bay Area community caregivers featuring folks from BAYCAT, La Cocina, and El/La Para TransLatinas, moderated by SF activist, Honey Mahogany. Learn how these leaders leverage their lived experiences to find gaps in the community and create spaces to fill them. How can the intersection of identities help us better understand and appreciate the world around us? Explore this and more with the Academy’s Community Science Coordinator/poet Olivia VanDamme and neuroscientist/tattoo artist Dr. Christine Liu as they share their unique experiences and insights as polymaths navigating the worlds of art, science, and beyond.
Says Who? Series Essentials
While partners and panels will change with each event, every Says Who? will feature these activations:
Tell: Grab the narrative by the horns and record your own story with Sarah Shimazaki, host of the podcast, Outside Voices.Craft: Get hands-on with take-home MakeArt Kits from the Museum of Craft and Design created to help you rewrite old narratives by infusing personal experience with artistic expression.Capture: Snap your story with a portrait from film photographer Holiday Hagan.Design: Immerse yourself in the world of zines with Rock Paper Scissors Collective, create your own, and explore zines from other local creators.Listen: Gather ‘round to hear Drag Story Hour readers Panda Dulce, VERA!, and Jota Mercury read all about standout moments from the Academy’s history as one of the oldest scientific institutions in the West.
After Dark: The Future Is Retro - 06/01/2023 06:00 PM
ExplOratorium San Francisco
Moving toward the future doesn’t mean we need to leave the past behind. Yesterday’s technologies, culture, and relationships are today’s foundations and can be tomorrow’s assets. But what do we want to carry forward? Tonight, we centerpiece filmmaker H.P. Mendoza’s Attack, Decay, Release, a retro, sci-fi, electrified musical. Mendoza’s film serves as a queer-lensed time capsule, centering joy and movement in an ecstatic trip to the future. Experience how an openness to learning and to reconciling past mistakes allow us to harness nostalgia and lessons from history to create a brighter tomorrow.
Climate Conversations - 06/01/2023 08:00 PM
Harry J. Elam, Jr. Theater- Roble Gym Stanford
The climate crisis we are experiencing has been exacerbated by a crisis of representation. Artists from different disciplines have been trying to come up with images and narratives that could capture the core issues of this crisis, with varying success. Instead of staging fictional narratives, some theaters started inviting climate scientists and scholars to address the issues of climate change in direct conversations with each other and with the audience. Following that model, TAPS is inviting prominent scientists, artists, activists, and scholars who are working on this important issue to participate in Climate Conversations, which we offer as a direct response to the closure of representation caused by the slow violence of global warming. TAPS and co-sponsor StanfordLive, are approaching these dialogues the same TAPS would our regular productions; they are a new form of documentary theater.
Climate Conversations : Documentary Theater. Panel with T.J. Demos and Mark Z. Jacobson | Moderated by Branislav Jakovljevic
Friday, 06/02/2023
A Past Episode of Rapid Tidal Evolution of Enceladus? - 06/02/2023 12:00 PM
Earth and Marine Sciences Building Santa Cruz
Saturn possesses a dynamically rich system containing numerous moons and impressive rings. Whether the rings of Saturn are much younger than the planet itself has been a long-open question; more recently a young age has been proposed for some moons. Recent detection of the fast orbital evolution of Rhea and Titan strongly suggest highly frequency-dependent tidal response of Saturn, possibly through excitation of inertial waves within the planet's convective envelope. Taking into account observations and numerical simulations, we argue that nether pure evolution through inertial waves not conventional (equilibrium) tides can explain the Saturnian system. We propose that the system's architecture can best be explain by relatively high "background" tidal response coupled with discrete resonant modes. Assuming that Enceladus went through a temporary period of fast tidal evolution, we can reproduce its present resonance with Dione and satisfy other dynamical constraints.
Speaker: Matija Cuk, SETI
First Fridays Climate Series: Atmospheric Extremes - 06/02/2023 06:00 PM
Chabot Space and Science Center Oakland
Evidence for the extreme weather conditions we are experiencing in North America is becoming more frequent and highlighting the real effects of climate change. Throughout the Bay Area and California, we have experienced extreme heat, atmospheric rivers, sea level rise, low water reservoirs, massive lighting strikes, high winds, severe air conditions due to wildfires, depleted mountain snowpacks and other conditions that have impacted people, animals, land, waterways and agriculture. Join us for a night of ideas and solutions as we explore our changing climate.
Saturday, 06/03/2023
Morning Hike at San Vicente Redwoods - 06/03/2023 10:00 AM
San Vicente Redwoods Trailhead Santa Cruz
Join Peninsula Open Space Trust for a community hike at San Vicente Redwoods! This will be a moderate hike of 3.5 miles on fairly level trails with little elevation gain. Guests will be led by a POST ambassador, who will share about the human and natural history of this important working forest, the history of its protection as well as the impacts of the 2020 CZU fire on forest health and wildlife habitat.
SVR is a 8,852-acre property in the Santa Cruz Mountains protected in 2011 and co-managed by four nonprofit conservation partners: POST, Land Trust of Santa Cruz County, Sempervirens Fund, and Save the Redwoods League. It is both a model of conservation and a living laboratory for ecosystem restoration, wildfire resilience work, wildlife protection and public access. If you would like to learn more about the Property and POST’s work there along with our partners, this blog provides a wealth of information and links.
Pass Required: As this is a working, demonstration forest with a variety of active forest management taking place on a regular basis, all visitors to San Vicente Redwoods must register for a free permanent pass by following this link. Pass holders will be notified of property closures, heavy storms, red flag days, conservation harvest events, and private community events. Guests must register for a pass before attending this event.
Register for the hike at weblink
This hike was originally scheduled for April 1, 2023
Queers of a Feather - 06/03/2023 10:00 AM
Wavecrest Open Space Preserve Half Moon Bay
Calling all LGBTQ+ community members! Come birding with POST and Santa Clara Valley Audobon Society and meet other queers of a feather! Whether you are experienced or completely new to birding, this event will provide a fun opportunity to get out in nature, gain a bird’s eye view of species found locally, and find your flock.
Thanks to our knowledgeable facilitators, this event will be the opposite of a wild goose chase. They’ll guide us on a leisurely stroll with many stops to get a gander at local birds. And if you get peckish along the way, never fear! We’ll provide snacks! (Please don’t feed the birds)
Please note that we have very limited capacity for this event. If you register and can no longer attend, please be sure to cancel your reservation or reach out to us.
Register at weblink
Plate Tectonics - EcoCenter Family Event - 06/03/2023 10:30 AM
Environmental Volunteers EcoCenter Palo Alto
Bring your family to the Environmental Volunteers EcoCenter, located on the Baylands Nature Preserve, for an afternoon of environmental education. Activities are intended for ages 6-11.
What causes earthquakes? What is special and interesting about the ground beneath our feet? Join the EV for engaging, hands-on activities exploring plate tectonics. Learn about tectonic plates, how rocks travel, and the properties of minerals!
Capacity is limited. Register at weblink
Family Nature Walks - Foothills Nature Preserve - 06/03/2023 11:00 AM
Foothills Nature Preserve Los Altos
Environmental 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 activities, and a chance to learn more about the plants and animals all around us. Join us for some fun, outdoor learning!
Each group will have a maximum limit of 12 participants.
Families/groups are welcome to sign up for as many as they like. The nature walks are intended for children aged 6 to 11, and we ask that each group is accompanied by an adult.
Plate Tectonics - EcoCenter Family Event - 06/03/2023 02:30 PM
Environmental Volunteers EcoCenter Palo Alto
Bring your family to the Environmental Volunteers EcoCenter, located on the Baylands Nature Preserve, for an afternoon of environmental education. Activities are intended for ages 6-11.
What causes earthquakes? What is special and interesting about the ground beneath our feet? Join the EV for engaging, hands-on activities exploring plate tectonics. Learn about tectonic plates, how rocks travel, and the properties of minerals!
Meeting our Nearest Planetary Neighbors -- and a Glimpse of the Solar System's Ultimate Fate -- with NASA's TESS Mission- Livestream - 06/03/2023 08:00 PM
San Jose Astronomical Society
The past three decades of observational astronomy have led to the discovery of the first known exoplanets, or planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. Since the first exoplanets were found in the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of additional discoveries have shown us that planets are ubiquitous in the Milky Way and even outnumber stars in our galaxy. Now, that we know these planets exist, our challenge is to probe their detailed properties and answer questions like "What are these planets like?", "Are these worlds similar to the ones in our Solar System, or different from anything we know?", and "Could any of these planets host life?". As a first step in this direction, we have launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission into Earth orbit. TESS's goal is to conduct a census of our closest planetary neighbors and identify the best planets to study in detail to answer these questions. I will review the TESS mission, show some of its early results, and highlight a particularly interesting discovery that shows the possible future of our own solar system.
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Vanderburg
Register at weblink to receive stream information
Sunday, 06/04/2023
Wonderfest: 32 Sounds - Exploring our Sonic Realm - 06/04/2023 02:00 PM
Cameo Cinema St. Helena
Wonderfest joins St. Helena's Cameo Cinema to present a Science on Screen special: 32 SOUNDS, from documentary filmmaker Sam Green, is "a meditation on the power of sound to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our percetion of the world around us." Rolling Stone's David Fear calls 32 SOUNDS "the greatest documentary you've ever heard." Immediately following the screening, musician Jack Conte and otolaryngologist Dr. Lois Montague will offer additonal insights and answer questions regarding our sonic realm.
Monday, 06/05/2023
A Sign in Space - Electronic Literature - 06/05/2023 09:00 AM
SETI Institute
A Sign in Space is a multidisciplinary art project conceived by artist Daniela De Paulis. De Paulis is leading a global team to send an encoded message from the European Space Agency (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) back to Earth, simulating a signal an advanced extraterrestrial civilization could eventually send to Earth. The message will be “detected” by four radio astronomy observatories on Earth: the SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array (ATA), The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Medicina Radio Astronomical Station observatory managed by INAF (the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics). De Paulis and her team developed the encoded message, but its contents remain unknown, even to most of the collaborating partners.
The message will be transmitted from the TGO on May 24 at 19:16 UTC/12:15 pm PDT.
Following the transmission, the A Sign in Space team will host a series of Zoom-based discussions open to the public around topics that consider the societal implications of detecting a signal from an extraterrestrial civilization. The discussions will take place over 6-8 weeks after the transmission.
This workshop will be hosted by Professors Scott Rettberg and Joseph Tabbi of the Center for Digital Narrative will explore the potentialities of electronic literature (e-lit) for the reception and interpretation of extraterrestrial communication. The workshop will include inputs from four leading digital authors: Natalia Fedorova, Jason Nelson, Allison Parrish, and Rob Wittig. The workshop will conclude with the launch of a new “netprov” - a collectively written fiction that all workshop attendees can contribute to both during the workshop and after. We welcome up to 40 participants in the workshop.REGISTER
Achieving Environmental Justice at the California Public Utilities Commission - 06/05/2023 04:30 PM
Stanford University Energy Seminar Stanford
Speaker: Clifford Rechtschaffen was a commissioner at the Calfornia Public Utilties Commission (CPUC) from January 2017 to December 2022.
Attend in person or online.
This event was originally scheduled on April 10, 2023.
Particle-like Dark Matter: When All Other Lights Go Out - 06/05/2023 07:00 PM
Hewlett Teaching Center Stanford
Deep in underground laboratories sit some of humanity’s most sensitive detectors. Their purpose is to discover dark matter, an unknown substance that makes up ~80% of the mass in our universe, but whose nature remains shrouded in mystery. New particles with extremely weak interactions have been proposed as natural candidates for dark matter, and physicists are actively building detectors to search for them. In this lecture, Dr. Jelle Aalbers will discuss efforts to build and operate large detectors that search for rare small light flashes from dark matter particles bouncing off of regular atoms. He will present what we have learned so far from these experiments, including preliminary results from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, a dark matter detector filled with 7 tons of liquid xenon in a South Dakota gold mine.
Speaker: Jelle Aalbers, Stanford University
Register at weblink to attend on line, or attend in person.
Tuesday, 06/06/2023
Whole Earth Seminar - 06/06/2023 03:30 PM
Natural Science Annex Santa Cruz
Build the Future: Merging Minds in Construction and Robotics - 06/06/2023 06:00 PM
DPR Construction San Francisco
Wednesday, 06/07/2023
A Sign in Space - Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Islamic Thought - 06/07/2023 09:00 AM
SETI Institute
Thursday, 06/08/2023
All a buzz... - Livestream - 06/08/2023 10:00 AM
John Muir Laws
Starstruck: Finding Light in the Dark - 06/08/2023 05:30 PM
Commonwealth Club San Francisco
Discovering the Cosmos - 06/08/2023 05:30 PM
Commonwealth Club San Francisco
NightLife: Under the Sea Prom - 06/08/2023 06:00 PM
California Academy of Sciences San Francisco
Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes - Livestream - 06/08/2023 07:30 PM
Bay Area Skeptics
Friday, 06/09/2023
Weekday Morning Hike at Rancho Cañada del Oro - 06/09/2023 10:00 AM
Rancho Canada Del Oro Open Space Preserve Morgan hill
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Seminar - 06/09/2023 12:00 PM
Earth and Marine Sciences Building Santa Cruz
Taking on Big Ag and Going Big on Climate - 06/09/2023 12:00 PM
Commonwealth Club San Francisco
NASA’s Newest Space Telescope and the Exoplanet Atmospheres Revolution - SOLD OUT - 06/09/2023 08:30 PM
Lick Observatory Mt. Hamilton
Saturday, 06/10/2023
Investigating Space: Climate Change from Space - 06/10/2023 10:00 AM
Chabot Space and Science Center Oakland
Family Nature Walks - Foothills Nature Preserve - 06/10/2023 11:00 AM
Foothills Nature Preserve Los Altos
Summer Science Fundays - Fun with the Sun - 06/10/2023 11:00 AM
Lawrence Hall of Science Berkeley
Sunglasses, Viking Navigation and Astronomy with Polarimetry - 06/10/2023 08:30 PM
Lick Observatory Mt. Hamilton
Binocular Stargazing at Laguna Seca, North Coyote Valley Open Space Preserve - 06/10/2023 09:30 PM
Laguna Seca San Jose
Sunday, 06/11/2023
Sunset Hike at Mindego Hill - 06/11/2023 04:00 PM
Mindego Hill Trail Head Redwood City
Monday, 06/12/2023
A Sign in Space - The Ethics of X - 06/12/2023 09:00 AM
SETI Institute
Charting the High Frontier of Space - 06/12/2023 07:30 PM
California Academy of Sciences San Francisco