Hello Friends, Fans, and Supporters of Science,
I hope that you haven't started to miss the rain yet.
A couple of months ago I wrote about how science and well established practice were being ignored in our courts and in some parts of government. I find it stunning that the battle for choice and a woman's right to make her own medical choices is under such a blatantly ignorant attack using junk-science. The SciSchmooze is about science and how it impacts our lives. I think science is the best model we have for understanding just about anything and what we can do about it. There are some pretty questionable political actions going on that are really denying or ignoring science. I wonder... Should We Expect Our Politicians to be Science Literate? It seems that the more you know the more you think you understand better than someone else! Do people with greater science literacy and education have more polarized beliefs on controversial science topics? We really do need to try to understand what the disagreement is, how to find common understanding, and if not that, common respect.
I am amazed by the damage that I have seen to homes, businesses and the general outside world. Many are struggling to recover from the damage. I'm not sure if it is a good thing since I'm such a procrastinator but I'm glad that “Tax Day” has been postponed for a few months!-} I have mentioned it a few times but I find that I still need to spread the word. A lot of out local educational institutions were damaged in the storms. Have you contacted your favorite organization to see how they have survived and if they could use some help? I'm pushing for help for one of my favorite places to hang out... CuriOdyssey has had to push back their reopening to “early June”! If you don't have a damaged museum and zoo near you, please consider CuriOdyssey. Here's a fun way to help.
Often I see a report about something that is going on that makes me wonder. It doesn't make sense at first glance. For instance... Have you ever wondered why Sea Level Rise doesn't look the same all over? I'm looking forward to hearing from some people who don't think this is a very well written article! (Guess what, I don't think it is very good!) Here's a sentence that might lead you to an interesting article.. It’s a long-standing question whether the tiny human Y chromosome is on its way to evolutionary obsolescence. How about wondering what music has to do with our perception or time? There are so many things to wonder about and see if science makes them comprehensible! Wonder about this one... Deepest-dwelling fish ever seen is a ghostly snailfish spotted more than 27,000 feet beneath the ocean surface
There are some pretty cool things coming up this week...
Wildfire Modeling: Challenges, Progress, and Opportunities Mon @ 12:30
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource 50th anniversary celebration Thu 8:00-5:00
Earth Day: Seeing Earth from Space Sat @ 10:00 – 4:00
Wild & Scenic Film Festival Sun @ 5:00
Get ready for this one!!! Extraterrestrial Life? - Livestream on May 11
You should keep your eyes and ears open for info about the upcoming eclipses. If you haven't experienced a full eclipse or a nice concentric annular one you should make an effort.
In the evenings, and early mornings, you might want to look up, that might be a planet!
herb masters
Schmoozing for Science for quite awhile
"We have faith in science, but it's not a religion," said Herb Masters, a retired firefighter. "It's a faith in a body of knowledge."
"Seeing Creation and Evolution in Grand Canyon" New York Times 10.6.2005
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Monday, 04/17/2023
Sonoma State University Biology Colloquium - 04/17/2023 12:00 PM
Sonoma State University - Biology Colloquium Rohnert Park
Speaker: Dr. David Toczyski, UC San Francisco
Wildfire Modeling: Challenges, Progress, and Opportunities - 04/17/2023 12:30 PM
Environment and Energy Building (Y2E2) Stanford
Wildfires are a significant part of the global fire safety problem. Each year they burn millions of acres of land, lead to loss of life, and cause billions of dollars in damages. Just in the U.S. the adjusted impacts of wildfires exceeded $100 Billion over the past 22 years. A fundamental understanding of wildfire behavior is essential to mitigate these effects, better estimate the risks, and develop more effective and efficient preparedness and response strategies, particularly for high-impact events. While wildfire models play an important role in informing and addressing some of these needs, delivering a high-fidelity operational forecast is challenging, primarily due to wildfires’ inherent multiscale and stochastic behavior. This talk elaborates on some of the challenges in physics-based modeling of wildfire spread with an emphasis on firebrand showers, also known as ember attacks. In addition, a synthesis of our recent contributions and ongoing efforts in modeling spot fires will be discussed, along with emerging opportunities for the next-generation wildfire models.
Speaker: Ali Tohidi, San Jose State University
Response of Weyl fermions - topological protection, fragility and cooperation - 04/17/2023 02:30 PM
Physics North Berkeley
Topological electronic materials host exotic boundary modes, that cannot be realized as standalone states, but only at the boundaries of a topologically classified bulk. Topological semimetals, whose bulk electrons exhibit chiral Dirac-like dispersion, host Fermi-arc states on their boundaries. These surface bands disperse along open momentum contours terminating at the surface projections of the bulk Dirac nodes with opposite chirality. Such reduction of the surface degrees of freedom by their segregation to opposite surfaces of the sample is common to all topological states of matter and provides topological protection from their surface elimination. I will discuss three topological semimetallic systems that show distinct, though consistent, level of robustness. In the inversion symmetry broken Weyl semimetal TaAs the Fermi arc surface states hardly adhere to the underlying lattice potential. In contrast, in the time reversible symmetry broken Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2 the dispersion of the topological Fermi-arc bands, and even their inter-Weyl node connectivity, are found to vary with the surface potential. Our recent study of the ferromagnetic nodal line semimetal Fe3GeTe2 reveals that Weyl fermions may in fact cooperate with disorder and interactions to induce an anomalous Hall state of potentially superior protection akin to the role of disorder in stabilizing the integer quantum Hall effect. Our studies across material systems thus show a diverse response of topological semimetals to perturbations that may accordingly offer diverse ability to control and manipulate them.
Speaker: Haim Beidenkopf, UC Santa Barbara
Becoming a STEM Teacher - 04/17/2023 04:00 PM
Sonoma State University - What Physicists Do Rohnert Park
Speakers: SSU Step Program
The evolutionary genetics of climate change adaptation (and extinction) - 04/17/2023 04:00 PM
James H. Clark Center (Bldg 340) Stanford
Evolutionary ecologist and plant geneticist Moisés (Moi) Expósito-Alonso is a Staff Associate at the Carnegie Departments of Plant Biology and Global Ecology, and Assistant Professor (by courtesy) of Biology at Stanford University. Moi received a BSc in biology from the University of Seville, Spain, working as an ecologist in the Doñana Biological Station (CSIC). After he earned his PhD in plant genomics at the Max Planck Institute (Germany) he conducted a short postdoc in statistical evolutionary genetics at the University of California Berkeley. With his group at Carnegie he combines experimental ecology, population genomics, and gene editing to study how evolutionary genetic processes may enable or hinder species adaptation to the ongoing climate change.
Design of the first fusion laboratory experiment to achieve target gain > 1 - 04/17/2023 04:15 PM
Physics North Berkeley
The inertial fusion community have been working towards ignition for decades, since the idea of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) was first proposed by Nuckolls, et al., in 1972. On August 8, 2021 and Dec 5th 2022, the Lawson criterion for ignition was met and more fusion energy was created than laser energy incident on the target at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Northern California. The first experiment produced a fusion yield of 1.35 MJ from 1.9 MJ of laser energy and appears to have crossed the tipping-point of thermodynamic instability according to several ignition metrics. Building on this result, improvements were made to increase the fusion energy output to >3MJ from 2.05 MJ of laser energy on target, resulting in target gain exceeding unity for the first time in the laboratory. This result is important in that it proves that there is nothing fundamentally limiting controlled fusion energy gain in the laboratory. The presentation will detail the changes made to achieve this result.
Speaker: Annie Kritcher, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Resilient and Renewable Power for California High-Speed Rail - 04/17/2023 04:30 PM
Stanford University Energy Seminar Stanford
California High-Speed Rail will serve as the backbone for a modern, integrated statewide passenger rail network that will connect California’s urban, suburban and rural communities with fast, frequent service. It will be the first rail system in the world to run on 100% renewable energy and is setting up a model for energy generation and demand. At full operation, California High-Speed Rail will be the largest single user of electricity in the state of California. Guided by the agency’s Sustainability Policy, the California High-Speed Rail Authority explored several avenues to determine the best renewable energy strategy for the agency. In this presentation, you will learn how the Authority modeled high-speed rail’s energy use profile in order to understand the needs and options for energy procurement. You will then hear about how those findings inform the Authority’s next steps for energizing high-speed rail.
Speakers: Margaret Cederoth, California High-Speed Rail Authority; Ali Chehrehsaz, Terra Verde Energy
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From Amateur Telescopes to Cutting Edge Science: Perspectives on a 4.5” Telescope - 04/17/2023 07:00 PM
Mill Valley Public Library Mill Valley
When a professional astronomer looks through a small telescope, they see the same things amateur astronomers do. In this talk, astronomer Matthew Shetrone will discuss some of the wonderful things we all might see through backyard telescopes like the library's own 4.5 inch reflector telescope, and the connections between the visible cosmos and some of the most interesting and profound questions astronomers still ask.
Speaker: Matthew Shetrone, Deputy Director, UC Observatories
Registration is required
The Caves of Mars: Preparing for a Mission to a Lava Tube - 04/17/2023 07:30 PM
California Academy of Sciences San Francisco
Biologic and Resource Analog Investigations in Low Light Environments (BRAILLE) is a multi-year, NASA-funded Mars analog project centered around fieldwork in volcanic caves at Lava Beds National Monument in Northern California. We are motivated to search for evidence of life on Mars beneath its surface - and one way to gain access there is through a volcanic cave!
We have identified many such "lava tubes" in images from Mars orbiters, and by visiting similar environments on Earth with the right technology, we hope to quantify the microbial life living there (and find out what it eats), to characterize mineral features that could be signatures of life, and to gain experience using robots to detect life and to map below-ground regions.
These efforts will help NASA prepare for a future life-detection mission to a Martian lava tube! Our project has evolved to include new autonomous and AI technologies that show much promise for developing future missions to Mars - or the Moon! This presentation will provide an overview of BRAILLE, showcasing its most significant accomplishments and taking audiences inside these remarkable caves.
Speaker: Jennifer Blank, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science
This event was originally scheduled for April 3, 2023.
Ask a Science Envoy: Fish Ways & Monkey Business - Livestream - 04/17/2023 08:00 PM
Wonderfest
Stanford marine biologist Ceyenna Tillman on A Unique Case Study in Fish Behavior - We don't often think of fish as individuals with independent minds, making their own decisions about how to react to the world around them. We often study them through important and informative large-scale lenses such as population size and spatial distribution. But what do we lose when we leave out the choices that each individual makes? And, in general, how can humanity benefit from studying such fish behavior?UC Berkeley biological anthropologist Gustav "Tavi" Steinhardt on Primate Behavior and Microhabitat - Tamarins are squirrel-size Amazonian monkeys with big ecological impacts. Known for their ability to survive (and even thrive) in disturbed areas, Tamarins help the forest recover from damage by spreading seeds. Now, using aerial laser scans, machine learning, and countless hours trekking through jungle mud, we are beginning to understand the important ecological "business" of these tiny primates in exquisite detail.
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Tuesday, 04/18/2023
Conservation Oceanography: Ocean regime shift is driving collapse of the North Atlantic right whale population - Livestream - 04/18/2023 11:00 AM
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Moss Landing
Ocean warming linked to anthropogenic climate change is impacting the ecology of marine species around the world. In 2010, the Gulf of Maine and Scotian Shelf regions of the Northwest Atlantic underwent an unprecedented regime shift. Forced by climate-driven changes in the Gulf Stream, warm slope waters entered the region and created a less favorable foraging environment for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale population. By mid-decade, right whales had shifted their late spring/summer foraging grounds from the Gulf of Maine and the western Scotian Shelf to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The population also began exhibiting unusually high mortality in 2017. In my talk, I will present evidence that climate-driven changes in ocean circulation have altered the foraging environment and habitat use of right whales, reducing the population’s calving rate and exposing it to greater mortality risks from ship strikes and fishing gear entanglement. The case of the North Atlantic right whale provides a cautionary tale for the management of protected species in a changing ocean.
Speaker: Charles Greene, University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories
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Environmental and Social Justice: A Look from Latin America - 04/18/2023 12:00 PM
Cemex Auditorium Stanford
The world today is facing unprecedented economic, social, and environmental dynamics. As the global community continues to navigate these changes and challenges, political leaders seek to articulate fresh visions on how countries may steer a clear course. President Petro will provide a perspective from Latin America on the critical issues of environmental and social justice.
Following the president’s remarks, he will join Professor Alberto Díaz-Cayeros, Senior Fellow at FSI and director of the Stanford Center for Latin American Studies, for a discussion on the challenges of climate change, economic growth, and social inclusion that have historically bedeviled development in Latin America.
Speaker: Gustavo Petro, President, Columbia; alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Moderator
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Kinematic Measurement of Neutrino Masses - Rescheduled - 04/18/2023 03:30 PM
Hewlett Teaching Center Stanford
Speaker: Christian Weinheimer, University of Munster
This event is now scheduled for April 11.
Isotopes, Maxwell’s demon, and The Pointsman Foundation - 04/18/2023 03:30 PM
Hewlett Teaching Center Stanford
In this talk, I will discuss the development of new methods for controlling and cooling atoms based a one-way wall that utilizes photon entropy. This construction realizes the historic thought experiment of Maxwell’s demon for large ensembles, exactly as predicted by Maxwell. It is now being applied to atoms as an alternative to evaporative cooling, and to efficient isotope separation for medicine and basic science. The latter is being pursued at a non-profit entity, The Pointsman Foundation, www.pointsman.org.
Speaker: Mark G. Raizen, University of Texas, Austin
Whole Earth Seminar - 04/18/2023 03:30 PM
Natural Science Annex Santa Cruz
Speaker: Andrew Dickson, UC San Diego
Muir Woods - 04/18/2023 04:00 PM
Visitacion Valley San Francisco
Listen to stories and a short history of Muir Woods as a National Monument. Learn about Coast Redwoods and fire practices of the Coast Miwok. For ages 5 and older.
Ranger Jackson Lam is part of the Community Programs & Outreach team with the Golden Gate National Recreation Area of the National Park Service.
Innovation in Space and Beyond: Meet former NASA Science Chief Thomas Zurbuchen - 04/18/2023 05:30 PM
swissnex San Francisco San Francisco
Join us on April 18, 2023, as we welcome Swiss-American astrophysicist Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, the former Science Chief at NASA, for a special talk about the role that teamwork plays in innovation and pushing scientific boundaries in the field of space research.
Having led the team for the development of the Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer on NASA’s Messenger spacecraft, as well as having launched 37 missions (including that of the James Webb Space Telescope and of the Perseverance and Ingenuity Mars Landings) during his time at NASA, Dr. Z possesses an incredible wealth of knowledge on experimental space research and on the value of teamwork in bringing innovative projects to life. His talk will also touch upon how his work has been fueled by his keen interest in trying to answer some of humanity’s thorniest questions, such as “Where do we come from?” and “Are we alone in the universe?” and how our pursuit of such knowledge can have positive real world impacts. His speech will be followed by a conversation with science journalist Dr. Nadia Drake and will be concluded by a moderated Q&A with the audience. This event will be a remarkable opportunity for two space and science enthusiasts to talk to each other about space research, the James Webb Space Telescope, and the future of our continued pursuit of knowledge.
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Two Talks: Popping the Science Bubble - Livestream - 04/18/2023 05:30 PM
Berkeley Public Library
Antibiotic Resistance and Intracelular Adaptation of Pseudomonas
Speaker: Naren G Kumar, Optometry & Vision Science, UC Berkeley
Shades of Risk: How Safe are Artificial Food Colors for Kids?
Speaker:Ruwan Thilkaratne, Epidemiology, UC Berkeley
World-Wide Camera Networks - Livestream - 04/18/2023 06:00 PM
IEEE Computer Society of Silicon Valley
More than 80% consumer Internet traffic is for videos and most of them are recorded videos. Meanwhile, many organizations (such as national parks, vacation resorts, departments of transportation) provide real-time visual data (images or videos). These videos allow Internet users to observe events remotely. This speech explains how to discover real-time visual data on the Internet. The discovery process uses a crawler to reach many web pages. The information on these web pages are analyzed to identify candidates of real-time data. The data is downloaded multiple times over an extended time period; changes are detected to determine whether it is likely to provide real-time data. The data can be used during an emergency. For example, viewers may check whether a street is flooded and cannot pass. It is also possible using the data to observe long-term trends, such as how people react to movement restrictions during the COVID pandemic.
Speaker: Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University
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Birding the Bay Area Part 2 - Livestream - 04/18/2023 06:30 PM
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory
With hundreds of bird species found throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, we are fortunate to have several birding organizations dedicated to appreciating and conserving the birds here. In the second part of SFBBO's Birding the Bay Area series, Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society and Sequoia Audubon Society will share a few of their favorite birding hotspots in the areas they serve, which include the counties of Santa Clara and San Mateo. Join us to learn about great spots to check out, some of the birds you can find, and what makes these areas special!
Speakers:
Matthew Dodder, Executive Director of Santa Clara Valley Audubon SocietyJennifer Rycenga, President of Sequoia Audubon Society
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A Tale of Two Continents - Livestream - 04/18/2023 07:00 PM
Mycological Society of San Francisco
Wendy will talk about the hunting and eating traditions in two mushroom loving regions: Southwest China, and south central Africa, and contrast those traditions with ours here in North America.
She is currently a resident of Mendocino County. Wendy was a newsletter editor and speaker coordinator for the MSSF. She has traveled with David Arora chasing mushrooms from California to the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, American Southwest, Europe, Asia, and Africa. She now spends her free time experimenting in the kitchen with under-appreciated mushrooms.
Speaker: Wendy So
Long Now: Resisting Dystopia - 04/18/2023 07:00 PM
The Interval at Long Now San Francisco
Join us for a thought-provoking conversation between two Hugo award-winning science fiction authors, Becky Chambers and Annalee Newitz. Known for challenging classic science fiction tropes such as war, violence, and colonialism, both authors create vivid and immersive worlds that are filled with non-human persons, peace, and a subtle sense of hope. The authors will discuss what it means to take these alternative themes seriously, delve into their writing & world building process, and explore how science fiction can help us imagine new futures that can make sense of our current civilizational struggles.
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Wednesday, 04/19/2023
Coral Seedbank of the Caribbean: An amazing reef system that defies climate change - Livestream - 04/19/2023 11:00 AM
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Moss Landing
A chance encounter with an undiscovered coral reef system became Antal Borcsok’s life mission. With perseverance and lots of help this reef system went from unknown in 2010, to being a Marine Protected Area recognized by the Honduran Congress in 2018. Today Antal and his wife Alejandra co-own the first and only completely free marine aquarium in Central America, educating over 12,000 visitors every month and making it today the most visited attraction in the entire country. Antal visits from Honduras to spread the word about this amazing reef system and learn from MBARIs expertise on marine conservation and education.
Speaker: Antal Borcsok, Tela Marine
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Commercial Kitchens in an Electric Era - Livestream - 04/19/2023 12:00 PM
Acterra
With California's ambitious climate goals in the balance, scaling up electrification beyond new residential construction is an important priority for many businesses. As businesses are bringing employees back to the office, it’s the right time to consider electrifying break rooms, cafeterias and other dining areas. Hear from pioneers in the field of commercial kitchen electrification as they discuss its environmental benefits as well as lessons learned during the planning, design, and implementation process. You will come away with a better understanding of current challenges and innovative advances underway in commercial kitchens in today's era of "electrifying everything".
Speakers: Anna Bohbot, LinkedIn; Nahum Goldberg, NGAssociates
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How AI Fails Us, and How Economics Can Help - 04/19/2023 12:00 PM
Sutardja Dai Hall Berkeley
Artificial intelligence (AI) has focused on a paradigm in which intelligence inheres in a single agent, and in which agents should be autonomous so they can exhibit intelligence independent of human intelligence. Thus, when AI systems are deployed in social contexts, the overall design is often naive. Such a paradigm need not be dominant. In a broader framing, agents are active and cooperative, and they wish to obtain value from participation in learning-based systems. Agents may supply data and resources to the system, only if it is in their interest. Critically, intelligence inheres as much in the system as it does in individual agents. This perspective is familiar to economics researchers, and a first goal in this work is to bring economics into contact with computer science and statistics. The long-term goal is to provide a broader conceptual foundation for emerging real-world AI systems, and to upend received wisdom in the computational, economic and inferential disciplines.
Speaker: Michael I Jordan, UC Berkeley
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Does Stress Hardening Improve Oysters' Capacity For Tolerating Disease and Marine Heatwaves? - 04/19/2023 03:30 PM
Estuary & Ocean Science Center Tiburon
Speaker: Priya Shukla, Ph.D. Candidate, Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California, Davis
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Energy and Resources Group Colloquium - 04/19/2023 04:00 PM
Giannini Hall Berkeley
Speaker: Will Gorman
Speaker: John Schulman, OpenAI
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International Dark Sky Week event - 04/19/2023 06:00 PM
Dance Palace Point Reyes Station
What is light polution? How you can help. Why it matters.
Featuring Don Jolley: "The Ground Overhead and the Stars Underfoot"
Improving VR/AR Experiences by Understanding the Human Visual System - Livestream - 04/19/2023 07:00 PM
SF Bay Association of Computing Machinery
Virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) wearable displays strive to provide perceptually realistic user experiences, while constrained by limited compute budgets, hardware, and transmission bandwidths of wearable computing systems. This presentation describes two different ways in which a greater understanding of the human visual system may assist in achieving this goal. The first looks at how studying the anatomy of the eye reveals inaccuracies in how we currently render disparity depth cues, leading to objects appearing closer than intended, or in the case of AR, poorly aligned with target objects in the physical world. However, this can be corrected with gaze-contingent stereo rendering can, enabled by eye-tracking. The second derives a spatio-temporal model of the visual system, describing the gamut of visible signals for a given eccentricity and display luminance. This model could enable future foveated graphics techniques with over 7x the bandwidth savings than those today.
Speaker: Brooke Krajancich, Stanford University
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'Field Guide to North American Flycatchers' - Livestream - 04/19/2023 07:00 PM
Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society
Meet the author and illustrator behind the brand new in-depth field guide on the two challenging genera of North American Flycatchers. Lee and Birch will discuss their many projects over the years, why they work so well together. They will give us a tour of their new publication and show us how to help us get comfortable with the most infamous bird family in North America.
Speakers: Cin-Ty Lee and Andrew Birch
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SETI Talks - Do ETs Watch Us? What Do They See? - 04/19/2023 07:00 PM
SETI Institute: SETI Talks Mountain View
Let’s assume that extra-terrestrial civilizations exist in our galaxy. Like us, they are conducting their own SETI research to find us, see us and study us. What would they see? What methods could they use to learn about us? What technologies have they invented to see and listen to us. And finally, what information will they get from our civilization.
Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the possibility of extraterrestrial civilizations observing our own planet. Our panel of experts, Seth Shostak Senior researcher at the SETI Institute and Paul Dalba, research scientist at the SETI Institute and 51 Pegasi b Fellow of the Heising-Simons Foundation, will present the latest research and theories on this fascinating topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge and engage in scientific discourse. Molly Bentley, Executive Producer and co-host at Big Picture Science will moderate this conversation.
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Don’t Whack that Whale! Whales in a Highly Urbanized Estuary: Evaluating Risk of Ship Strike to Humpback Whales in San Francisco Bay - 04/19/2023 07:30 PM
Marin Science Seminar San Rafael
Speaker: Bekah Lane of the Marine Mammal Center, Sausalito
Did paleo people actually eat Paleo? - Rescheduled - 04/19/2023 07:30 PM
Bay Area Skeptics
The modern “paleo” diet movement makes many assumptions about what our ancient human ancestors ate. But are these assumptions based on actual evidence? Presenting a variety of lines of evidence for prehistoric human diets including early human, animal, and plant fossils, ancient stone tools, DNA, and living human and chimpanzee diets, Dr. Briana Pobiner will discuss significant changes in the evolution of human diets - and highlight what makes human meat-eating unique.
Speaker: Briana Pobiner, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
This event has been rescheduled for April 13, 2023
Mushrooms of Ireland - 04/19/2023 07:30 PM
Bay Area Mycological Society Berkeley
Peter Werner has been active in mycology for decades, but his real specialty is microscopy. Studying for an advanced degree in Galway, Ireland, he had ample opportunities to explore. Peter has wide and varied interests in biology at both the cellular and organismal level, and has done mycological research at a graduate level.
Peter is an experienced microscopist and biologist, with a broad interest in biological imaging. He recently completed an MSc degree in Microscopy and Imaging at National University of Ireland, Galway, and prior to that was a microscopy technician and instructor in the San Francisco Bay Area for 10 years. He is highly experienced with a range of techniques in transmitted light, fluorescence, and electron microscopy and with variety of imaging software. Additionally, he is an enthusiastic amateur microscopist and photographer, owning his own compound microscope and is extremely familiar with the components, care, and cleaning of microscopes.
Nerd Nite SF #131: LOUD, Green, and Leafy! - 04/19/2023 08:00 PM
Rickshaw Stop San Francisco
Cannabis Toxicology: The Good, The Bad, and The Risky by Dr. Echo Rufer(Legal) cannabis is more popular (and available) than ever, but how do you make decisions about healthy use? Is natural safer than synthetic? Does a super high THC concentration actually matter? What was the deal with the “Vapegate” crisis a few years back, and how can you avoid problems like it? FIND OUT from a real, actual cannabis toxicologist and impress your “buds” on 4/20!
Acoustic Detective Work: How to read spectrograms by Dr. Bryn HaukSounds have a fingerprint, and you can learn to read them off a page. You probably know about soundwaves, which show amplitude over time. Add a third dimension - frequency - and you get a spectrogram. We will learn to read these dimensions to identify speech sounds!
The unquiet history of Parcel 36 by Elizabeth Creely, with a performance by ChiListen to the unquie history of Parcel 36, an abandoned railroad track in San Francisco’s Mission District, and an artefact from a time when squatters on unceded Ohlone land settled land disputes with guns, axes and bayonets. John Center and Samuel Crim, two of the largest landowners in the Mission and would-be railroad barons, left a legacy of strife and confusion that continues today. What do you do with a parcel no one owns? Give it back to the community. Friends of the Mission Greenway, together with our neighbours and supporters, are creating a pedestrian greenway and garden to restore the right-of-way to the public. Join us at Nerd Nite as we talk about 19th-century squatters, one ghost, and the future of Parcel 36, one of the last pieces of unowned land in the Mission District.
Thursday, 04/20/2023
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource 50th anniversary celebration - 04/20/2023 08:00 AM
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Menlo Park
Join us for a full day of talks and panel discussions looking at the past, present and future of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL). This event is open to the public with required advanced registration if you attend in person. See weblink for link to the stream to attend remotely.
Building 53, Panofsky Auditorium
Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium - 04/20/2023 12:00 PM
Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium San Jose
Since Fall 2002, the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering has hosted the Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium (SVLS). The Symposium hosts industry and technology leaders to talk about business and technology trends. It also features prominent leaders who discuss broader societal and political issues that shape our life and society.
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Speaker: Wendy Hales Mora, Pilot, Southwest Airlines
Curbing Climate Change through Carbon Removal - Livestream - 04/20/2023 12:00 PM
Midday Science Cafe @ UC Berkeley
Stringent climate change targets, including lowering the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, will require both a decline in global emissions of CO2 and an increase in CO2 removal. CO2 removal describes an array of natural and technological strategies that capture and remove CO2 from the air and store it semi-permanently in some form. At this month’s Midday Science Cafe, we’ll hear from researchers who study just a few CO2 removal strategies under consideration. First Matthew Dods, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UC Berkeley, will describe research related to highly adsorbent, porous materials - called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) - that pull CO2 directly from the atmosphere. Then we will hear from Dr. Hanna Breunig, a Research Scientist in the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division at Berkeley Lab, who studies “enhanced weathering”, a process that speeds up the cycle of breaking down rocks that aid in Earth’s natural CO2 removal. Join us to learn more about CO2 removal technologies critical for lowering atmospheric CO2 to sustainable levels in this century!
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The 6th Generation of Mobile Wireless - Livestream - 04/20/2023 04:00 PM
Sonoma State Engineering Colloquium
The first commercial 5G deployments were in March of 2019 - barely three years ago and the path to 6G is already a few years under way. It is without a doubt that 6G will be evolution and revolution beyond 5G, but some of the differences are already quite clear. Not only is the technology going to be different, the change in commercial and government approach to commercial wireless systems has already begun. This talk will cover what remains to be realized from the original 5G vision and what to expect from the work on 6G during the next decade.
Speaker: Roger Nichols, Keysight Technologies
NightLife: Stoned - 04/20/2023 06:00 PM
California Academy of Sciences San Francisco
It’s 4/20, you know what that means: let’s get stoned…by celebrating the wonders of geology! Wait, what were you thinking?
Featured programming:
From mammoths and whales to clams and snails, the Bay Area is home to some pretty cool fossils. Learn about the fascinating relics that live right beneath our feet with local paleoecologistKat Magoulick. Get real deep with geophysicistSonia Tikoo-Schantz as she unravels the magnetic and mysterious evolutionary history of our nearest neighbor in space, the Moon. Are you ready to rock? TheSF Gem & Mineral Societywill leave you mesmerized with a series of demos from beading to bangle making. Plus, purchase hand-made trinkets and stones like faceted gems and metal pendants. Get trippy with artistNigel Sussmanwhile he creates live drawings of psychedelic stone-themed art. You can even put his imagination to the test with your own impromptu request! Of quartz, we’re excited to welcome another visit from theMuseum of Craft and Design! Choose from semi-precious stone beads, crystal points, and colorful agate slices to create your very own rockin’ suncatcher. Last but not least, our friends atSan Franpsychowill be live screen-printing an exclusive NightLife x Stoned design, available for purchase for those who want a one-of-a-kind souvenir to commemorate the night.
Startup Bites - Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, and ICT Pitch Night - 04/20/2023 06:00 PM
swissnex San Francisco San Francisco
Don't miss your chance to connect, and expand your international network in the field of cyber, data, and ICT. Meet startups from our Innosuisse Bootcamp as well as from the Swiss VentureLeaders program during this pitching and networking event.
Register at weblink
After Dark: Landscape Is Homeland - 04/20/2023 06:00 PM
ExplOratorium San Francisco
Celebrate Earth Day as we honor our landscape’s original care keepers and explore the complex bonds that Indigenous communities have with the land that gave birth to them. Oral narratives often explain that these communities are not just from a land, but of a land: their very bodies and existence are made of the materials of their homes, be it soil, plants, tree branches, and more. Tonight, learn how this relationship continues to power Indigenous communities’ sacred responsibility to take care of the land and all that lives on it.
Ages 18 and up
Astronomy on Tap Santa Cruz: How to Build an Exoplanet - 04/20/2023 06:30 PM
Humble Sea Brewing Co Santa Cruz
In 1995, the first exoplanet-planet orbiting another star- was discovered around a sun-like star. Everything we knew about planet formation and evolution was informed by our solar system until then. Fast forward almost 30 years later, and there are 5000+ exoplanets discovered to date. It turns out, exoplanets are as diverse alien as any science-fiction movie. They come in various shapes and sizes, chemical make-ups, and distances from their stars. Planets don’t like to be tied to the location in which they formed. They are influencedby the gravitational interactions with their neighbors and could Migrate inward or outward in their orbit. Out of the 5000+ planets discovered, there is one particular size missing…
So, who is killing off these planets?
Speakers: Madelyn Broome & Arcelia Hermosillo Ruiz
NightSchool: Hard Core - Livestream - 04/20/2023 07:00 PM
California Academy of Sciences
We’re digging deep - and coming back with cores. Do the layers in these long cylinders of ice, soil, wood, or diatomaceous deep-sea sediment hold secrets about our planet’s past, present, and future? Of *cores* they do.
Ages 21+
Avian ecologist Scott Jennings gives an update about heron research - Livestream - 04/20/2023 07:00 PM
Redbud Audubon Society
Join Audubon Canyon Ranch avian ecologist Scott Jennings at the monthly meeting of the Redbud Audubon Society of Lake County for an update on our heron research.
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Climate Change, SF Bay Birds, & Real Solutions - 04/20/2023 07:00 PM
David Brower Center Berkeley
You’ve probably heard about climate change, but do you know how it will impact Bay Area birds? Do you want to learn real solutions that can actually solve, and avoid, climate catastrophe? Juan Pablo Galván Martínez will answer all these questions and more during this important conversation.
Speaker: Juan Pablo Galvan Martinez, Save Mount Diablo
Attend in person or online
Friday, 04/21/2023
DNA Day - 04/21/2023 11:00 AM
Baskin Courtyard Santa Cruz
Activities include a poster session highlighting UCSC's cutting edge research, resource fair, photo booth, hands-on strawberry DNA extraction, and other fun activities.
You are when you eat: Investigating intermittent fasting and lifespan extension in Drosophila - Livestream - 04/21/2023 12:00 PM
ChEM-H/Neuroscience Building, Gunn Rotunda (E241) Stanford
Speaker: Mimi Shiraasu-Hiza, Columbia University
Attend in person or online.
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Seminar - 04/21/2023 12:00 PM
Earth and Marine Sciences Building Santa Cruz
Speaker: TBA
Saturday, 04/22/2023
Earth Day: Seeing Earth from Space - 04/22/2023 10:00 AM
Chabot Space and Science Center Oakland
For Earth Day we invite you to a showcase of science, both on Earth and from space.
The first Earth Day in 1970 successfully channeled the spirit of activism into a global movement towards environmental action and awareness of what we now call climate change. The issue of climate change persists as an ongoing challenge but with the help of scientists, researchers, activists and with the use of cutting-edge technology, we now can study, foresee, and act upon major climate events.
On this historic day, learn about how NASA uses its global satellite resources to help better understand our air, land, and seas. Discover the science behind forest fires and how fire crews work to put them out. See our special screening of “Habit Earth” planetarium film courtesy of the Morris Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences. Watch a live science presentation on the evolution of Earth and take a naturalist led hike in our surrounding redwood forest and discover how climate change is affecting our local plant species. Interact and engage with hands-on activities that teach us that everyone can play a part in saving our planet.
Earth Day Seabird Science Family Workshop - First Session - 04/22/2023 10:00 AM
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary San Francisco
Join us at our Pier Classroom over the water near Crissy Field for a feather-filled seabird experience in celebration of Earth Day. Activities include identifying seabirds from the pier using binoculars and learning about seabird life cycles and adaptations. We will have seabird artifacts and a giant chutes and ladders game where participants enact the lifecycle of one of our favorite seabirds - the Common Murre. Participants will learn about some of the hazards seabirds experience on the ocean and help seabirds by removing plastic debris from the beach. What a wonderful way to celebrate Earth Day.
Register at weblink
Earth Day at the Refuge - 04/22/2023 10:00 AM
Don Edwards Refuge Headquarters & Visitors Center Fremont
This year, the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge and partners are celebrating Earth Day and 50 years of Endangered Species Act in a big way - and it will be fun for the whole family! The event will be an open house, with time to explore, learn more about our endangered species, join a guided walk or ranger program, participate in some arts & crafts, and much more as we celebrate our Earth!
Landscape Is Homeland Festival - 04/22/2023 10:00 AM
ExplOratorium San Francisco
This Earth Day weekend, come together for a day of celebration and programming presented in partnership with the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone and the American Indian Cultural District. Join Indigenous artisans and community members as they share practices, stories, and food that are deeply rooted in the California landscape. Enjoy panel conversations in the Kanbar Forum and an all-day market featuring art and demonstrations on the Plaza. Come honor the Earth’s original care keepers and explore the complex bonds that Indigenous communities have with the land that gave birth to them.
Please note: All Landscape Is Homeland Festival programming in the Kanbar Forum and on the Plaza is free and open to the public. For access to the Exploratorium’s other galleries, ticket purchase is required.
Happening in Osher Gallery 1, Kanbar Forum
Gathering in the Changing Climate Panel conversation 1:00 p.m.
Restoring Ecologies in the Greater Bay Area Panel conversation 3:00 p.m.
Happening on the Plaza
Market and Demonstrations 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Featured artists and presenters:
Julia Parker, Lucy Parker, and Family, Miwok/Paiute/Pomo/Yosemite and Coast Miwok Four Generations of Basketry
George Blake, Hupa/Karuk Antler and Bone Carving
Carson Bates, Northern Sierra Mewuk Working with Cordage, Hemp, and Dogbane
Jennifer Bates, Northern Sierra Mewuk Acorn Processing
Lois Conner-Bohna, Mono/Chukchansi Mono Basket Weaving
Dyann Eckstein, Chukchansi Soaproot Brushes
Rico Miranda, Rumsen Ohlone California Native Games Demonstration
Meyo Murrufo, Eastern Pomo Graphic Art and Relationship to Land
Dixie Rogers, Karuk/Modoc Karuk Basket Weaving
Jessie Rouse-Whipple, Illmawi Pit River/Hupa/Wintu Bear Grass Demonstration
Amora Stevenot, Northern Sierra Mewuk Acorn Processing
Linda Yamane, Rumsen Ohlone Then and Now: Ohlone Materials Present and Past
Coyote Valley Earth Day Celebration! - 04/22/2023 10:00 AM
Spreckles Hill San Jose
This Earth Day, celebrate with us at Spreckels Hill for this free special event for the whole community.
During this celebration you can enjoy family-friendly crafts, games, and an opportunity to share why you love Coyote Valley. Spreckels Hill was permanently protected as open space in 2019 and is not yet open to the public, so this event is a special opportunity to explore this beautiful landscape while planning work is underway for its future restoration. During the event you can meet Open Space Authority staff working to plan the future of Coyote Valley’s protected lands, learn more about local programs working to protect nature, and take a short walk up to the top of Spreckels Hill for breathtaking 360-degree views of Coyote Valley. Hike on your own or join one of our guided hikes for a closer look at this beautiful landscape.
Each ticket is for a parking spot at this event, feel free to bring as many friends and family in your car as you’d like. Carpooling is encouraged for this event. After reserving your parking spot, be on the lookout for more details and updates via email.
This event is transit-accessible via VTA bus route 68 (Santa Teresa/Bailey stop). No registration is required if arriving via transit.
Morning Hike at La Honda Open Space Preserve - 04/22/2023 10:00 AM
La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve La Honda
Join Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful hike at Lower La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve where you’ll experience the area’s sweeping views and gorgeous rolling grasslands! The preserve is over 6,100 acres, of which POST has contributed 5,200 acres. You will be guided by a POST Ambassador on the meandering trails of Lower La Honda Creek, featuring a still-active cattle operation and views of the surrounding ridgelines! You will hear all about the human and natural history of this beautiful preserve!
The hike is moderate to strenuous at about 6 miles round trip with about 1100 feet of gradual elevation gain. There are some steep portions of this hike so hiking poles, closed-toed shoes with tread, and plenty of water/snacks for yourself is recommended.
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Berkeley Bay Festival - 04/22/2023 11:00 AM
Shorebird Nature Center Berkeley
Connect with the Bay and our local community through live music, performers, food, hands-on educational activities and free boat rides.
This free family-focused event celebrates the Bay, its local wildlife, and the people and agencies dedicated to its protection. Over 30 environmental and wildlife conservation organizations from around the Bay will share their exhibits with the public.
The event takes place at the beautiful Shorebird Park in front of the Shorebird Nature Center. The Nature Center building is an example of environmentalism in action, with its sustainable straw-bale architecture and its marine conservation and education programs.
Earth Day Seabird Science Family Workshop - Second Session - 04/22/2023 01:00 PM
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary San Francisco
Join us at our Pier Classroom over the water near Crissy Field for a feather-filled seabird experience in celebration of Earth Day. Activities include identifying seabirds from the pier using binoculars and learning about seabird life cycles and adaptations. We will have seabird artifacts and a giant chutes and ladders game where participants enact the lifecycle of one of our favorite seabirds - the Common Murre. Participants will learn about some of the hazards seabirds experience on the ocean and help seabirds by removing plastic debris from the beach. What a wonderful way to celebrate Earth Day.
Register at weblink
Home Electrification Fair - 04/22/2023 02:00 PM
David Brower Center Berkeley
There are plenty of good reasons to switch from gas to electric: Health. Safety. Longterm savings. And of course, climate. And there are a lot of good questions:
Where do I start? Oven? EV charger? Heat pump?Do I need to upgrade my electrical panel?How do I find contractors I can trust?What rebates and tax credits are available?
Our three presenters will provide homeowners, renters and landlords with answer to those questions and more.
See weblink for presentation information
Register at weblink
Sunday, 04/23/2023
Wild & Scenic Film Festival - 04/23/2023 05:00 PM
Foothill College Los Altos Hills
Join Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, Santa Clara Open Space Authority, and Santa Clara County Parks as we co-host the Wild & Scenic Film Festival. The film program will also be available virtually to all who register for the event, available to watch from the comfort of your home anytime between Sunday, April 23rd, and Friday, April 28th.
The Wild & Scenic Film Festival is the largest film festival of its kind, showcasing the best and brightest in environmental and adventure films. Festival viewers can expect to see award-winning environmentally inspired short films, and have the opportunity to learn more about POST and our partner’s work here on the Peninsula and in the South Bay.
The event is free, but please register by ordering tickets below! Stay posted for great raffle prizes you may win by registering and attending the event!
Program1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Outdoor Reception Begins - Arrive early to find parking and grab a seat, check out our raffle prizes, and visit the booths of our sponsors and local environmental groups.2:00 - 3:00 P.M. First half of film program3:00 - 3:30 P.M. Intermission: Participate in our free raffle, and learn about our event partners.3:30 - 4:30 P.M. Second half of film program4:45 P.M. Conclusion
See weblink to register and for list of films
Monday, 04/24/2023
Sonoma State University Biology Colloquium - Livestream - 04/24/2023 12:00 PM
Sonoma State University - Biology Colloquium Rohnert Park
Speaker: Dino Sbardellati, UC Davis
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A brain-inspired electronic learning machine - 04/24/2023 02:30 PM
Physics North Berkeley
Contrastive learning algorithms have recently been proposed for training physical networks such as mechanical, flow and electrical networks to perform arbitrarily complex machine learning tasks not by minimizing a global cost function as in artificial neural networks, but in a manner more similar to the brain, using only local information. To date, however, they have only been implemented {it in silico} due to the need for a central processor and memory storage in order to compare the response of the network to two different sets of boundary conditions and accordingly update the network elements. Here, we introduce a method to implement a physics-driven contrastive learning scheme in the laboratory for a network of variable resistors, using circuitry to compare the response of {it two} networks that have identical resistances but are subjected to the two different sets of boundary conditions. With this innovation, we demonstrate how our system optimizes its resistances and effectively trains itself, without use of a central processor or information storage, to perform specified allostery, regression, and classification tasks. Once the system is trained, the desired tasks are subsequently performed rapidly and automatically by the physical imperative of local currents to adjust in order to minimize power dissipation for the given voltage inputs. Our twin-network laboratory approach may be readily scaled to extremely large or nonlinear networks using modern microfabrication techniques. Moreover, our implementation has an enormous scaling advantage compared to {it in silico} implementations because the forward computation is done by the physics and without need for information storage; even a modestly larger laboratory network of 500 nodes will outperform its in silico counterpart. Finally, we demonstrate that such learning systems are robust to extreme damage due to their decentralized character.
Speaker: Douglas Durian, University of Pennsylvania
What Physicists Do - 04/24/2023 04:00 PM
Sonoma State University - What Physicists Do Rohnert Park
Speaker: Tomi Akindele, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Unraveling the tangled web: genetics and evolution in natural populations - 04/24/2023 04:00 PM
James H. Clark Center (Bldg 340) Stanford
Molly Schumer is an Assistant Professor in Biology. She is interested in genetics and evolutionary biology. After receiving her PhD at Princeton, she did her postdoctoral work at Columbia and was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and Hanna H. Gray Fellow at Harvard Medical School. Current research in the lab centers on understanding the genetic mechanisms of evolution, with a focus on natural populations.
Room: Auditorium
UC Berkeley Physics Colloquia - 04/24/2023 04:15 PM
Physics North Berkeley
Speaker: William Irvine, University of Chicago
The Fusion Breakthrough at the National Ignition Facility - 04/24/2023 04:30 PM
Stanford University Energy Seminar Stanford
Nuclear fusion powers the stars, and the goal of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is to bring this game-changing energy source to Earth in a controlled laboratory setting. After many decades of research by a cast of thousands, for the first time ever, a laser-driven fusion experiment on December 5, 2022 produced more energy through fusion reactions than was delivered by the laser to initiate them. This talk reviews the incremental steps that were required to attain this historic achievement, in addition to providing some context around the NIF facility and its contributing role to our national security. We will conclude with some of the current and upcoming directions for inertial confinement fusion research - the future is bright!
Speaker: Chris Young, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Attend in person or online.
Tuesday, 04/25/2023
Drilling, Denial and Disinformation - 04/25/2023 12:00 PM
Commonwealth Club San Francisco
Groundwater Rise Adaptation: Insights from Miami and San Rafael - Livestream - 04/25/2023 12:30 PM
SF Planning + Urban Research Assoc. (SPUR)
Stanford Applied Physics/Physics Colloquium - 04/25/2023 03:30 PM
Hewlett Teaching Center Stanford
Active faults and permanent deformation in subduction zone forearcs: examples from Cascadia and beyond - 04/25/2023 03:30 PM
Natural Science Annex Santa Cruz
Practical Organization, Planning, and the Core Capacity Conjecture - 04/25/2023 04:30 PM
Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg 460) Stanford
Swiss Cyber Night at RSA - 04/25/2023 06:00 PM
swissnex San Francisco San Francisco
What Feces Can Tell Us About the Health of the Endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales - Livestream - 04/25/2023 07:00 PM
American Cetacean Society
Wonderfest: Geometry from the Inside - 04/25/2023 07:00 PM
Hopmonk Tavern Novato
SETI Institute Movie Night: Fire of Love - Livestream - 04/25/2023 07:00 PM
SETI Institute
Wednesday, 04/26/2023
Coastal Walk at Cowell-Purisima Trail - 04/26/2023 10:00 AM
Cowell Purisima Coastal Trailhead Half Moon Bay
Our love and fear of Orcas: The Killer whales in Norway, Iceland, and Greenland - Livestream - 04/26/2023 11:00 AM
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Generative AI Meets Copyright - 04/26/2023 12:00 PM
Sutardja Dai Hall Berkeley
Revealing connections in the sea: insights into the processes shaping the spatial distribution of marine fishes - 04/26/2023 03:30 PM
Estuary & Ocean Science Center Tiburon
Energy and Resources Group Colloquium - 04/26/2023 04:00 PM
Giannini Hall Berkeley
'Social Forestry' by Tomi Hazel Vaarde - 04/26/2023 04:30 PM
Ecology Center Berkeley
Lessons from the Covid War - 04/26/2023 06:00 PM
Commonwealth Club San Francisco
The Legendary Alto and Research at the Edge - 04/26/2023 07:00 PM
Computer History Museum Mountain View
Peninsula Gem & Geology Society - 04/26/2023 07:00 PM
Peninsula Gem & Geology Society Los Altos
Machine Vision for Medical Monitoring - 04/26/2023 07:30 PM
Marin Science Seminar San Rafael
Opening the Infrared Treasure Chest with JWST - 04/26/2023 07:30 PM
Hewlett Teaching Center Stanford
Thursday, 04/27/2023
Educator Workshop: Unstable Table (K-5) - Livestream - 04/27/2023 03:30 PM
ExplOratorium
Henry Gonzalez, Green Climate Fund - Livestream - 04/27/2023 04:00 PM
Stanford Energy
After Dark: Genetic Ghosts - 04/27/2023 06:00 PM
ExplOratorium San Francisco
Gravity Never Sleeps - Landslide Science and Risk Reduction - Livestream - 04/27/2023 06:00 PM
US Geological Survey Public Lecture Series
The Scientific Magic of Total Solar Eclipses - Livestream - 04/27/2023 06:00 PM
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Friday, 04/28/2023
Sounds of the subduction plumbing system - How transient fluid circulation processes in the subduction shape sources and patterns of seismic tremor - 04/28/2023 12:00 PM
Earth and Marine Sciences Building Santa Cruz
Saturday, 04/29/2023
Science Saturday: Fossil Festival - 04/29/2023 10:00 AM
Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History Pacific Grove
EV Ride and Drive: Electrify your Ride - 04/29/2023 11:00 AM
Sunnyvale Community Center Sunnyvale
Stewardship Saturday: Exploring Land and Sea (for High-Schoolers) - 04/29/2023 01:00 PM
Lafayette Library and Learning Center Lafayette
DART: The Double Asteroid Redirection Test - Livestream - 04/29/2023 07:00 PM
East Bay Astronomical Society
City Star Party - Presidio - 04/29/2023 08:00 PM
City Star Parties - Parade Grounds at the Presidio San Francisco
Jazz Under the Stars - 04/29/2023 08:30 PM
College of San Mateo Bldg 36 San Mateo
Sunday, 04/30/2023
Community discussion: Bolinas Lagoon, Duxbury Reef, and the Bolinas Field Station - 04/30/2023 10:00 AM
Audubon Canyon Ranch Stinson Beach
Easy Morning Walk at Wavecrest - 04/30/2023 10:00 AM
Wavecrest Open Space Preserve Half Moon Bay
Urban Natives in the Bernal Cut - 04/30/2023 01:00 PM
Glen Park BART Station San Francisco
Monday, 05/01/2023
Targeted DNA Editing Within Microbial Communities - 05/01/2023 12:00 PM
Sonoma State University - Biology Colloquium Rohnert Park
Using proxies to assess anthropogenic effects on under-monitored equatorial Pacific reefs - 05/01/2023 12:30 PM
Environment and Energy Building (Y2E2) Stanford
What Physicists Do - 05/01/2023 04:00 PM
Sonoma State University - What Physicists Do Rohnert Park
Stanford Energy Seminar: Sahar El Abbadi - 05/01/2023 04:30 PM
Stanford University Energy Seminar Stanford