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Time, and where am I?
I’m currently writing from UTC+2, also known as Central European Summer Time at the moment (UTC+1 in the winter).
A few days ago, I stood on the Prime Meridian at the Royal Observatory in Greenwitch Park, London and learned about the history of time as we know it today. Before there was standardization, each location had their own way to measure time. Nothing was coordinated. Imagine the chaos! The day might have been divided into hours, or some other measurement, and the units of measurement didn’t necessarily start at the same time.
So the Brits developed a standardized method of measuring distance from Greenwich, the location of the Observatory, dividing the earth into 360 “slices” from which time zones were determined, more or less. I say that because politics gets involved and, if you look at a global map, the time zones zig and zag depending on the local political wishes.
This standardization allowed for sailors to determine their location accurately, something very important when you can’t see land and have no idea where you actually are.
“The” clock is coordinated to Greenwich time, and there’s a slave to it sitting outside the Observatory, shown below. Note that it is a 24 hour clock, not a 12 hour version such as we’re used to using. I took the picture at roughly 10:45 Greenwich Mean Time.
Just to prove that this standardization didn’t solve everything, the actual observed time is an hour later, as England observes daylight time during the summer months, Even at Greenwich, the time isn’t the time.
Truth and Science
Before I get into more fun stuff, I want to continue a thought from last month where I wrote about bending truth to fit a group’s beliefs. (You can read it here if you no longer have it.) A few days after writing last month’s Schmooze I came across the “Kids Guide to the Truth About Climate Change" which sounds like it should be a good thing to give to kids. It turns out it isn’t, because it, and similar books in the Kids Guide series have been put out by a right wing organization associated with Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas. It is full of misinformation and climate denial. Insidious, and infuriating! You may need to temporarily subscribe to that site to read the article, but it is worth it, and you can just unsubscribe afterwards.
Also, the Kids Guide series is a monthly subscription series that, according to reviews I read, is very difficult to cancel.
The Moon
There’s lots of news about our Moon this week. On August 30, we’ll have a blue moon, an occurrence so rare it caused a saying in the zeitgeist. Not only is it a blue moon, it is a super moon, with the moon being closest to Earth when it is full this year. Go out and take a look at moon rise time!
India became only the 4th country to land a spacecraft successfully on the Moon this past week. Known as Chandrayaan-3, it was also the first to land near the moon’s south pole. Congratulations India! Just one day later, the craft’s rover rolled out and began exploring the surface. They weren’t wasting any time!
Russia also attempted to land a spacecraft on the moon this week. Things didn’t go so well, as Luna-25 crashed into the surface. This effort was to show Russia can do more than walk, chew gum, and fight a war at the same time, and after the failure there was blame all around. A familiar refrain.
Environmental waste and construction
I don’t drink coffee (I know, I’m one of those people) so I never really thought about just how much spent coffee grounds are produced by the world. Concrete is made from cement, sand, and other aggregates. Sand is a natural product, but not limitless in supply. It turns out that if you replace some of the sand with used coffee grounds, the resulting concrete is 30% stronger and you get keep the grounds from landfills! Does this give the concrete a scent which would drive more coffee sales?
Energy
Lithium-ion batteries power our hybrid and electric cars, our phones, our cordless tools, and even a small fan I bought here in Europe. Last month I wrote about the danger of China being the only significant supplier of Lithium. Researchers in Australia may have solved this issue using Zinc, a much more available element. Batteries made with Zinc have had one major drawback…they are single use and can’t be recharged. Never say never. Scientists have come up with a way to recharge zinc batteries, and this could change things in a big way if the technology is scalable.
Picks for the week
Andrew Fraknoi: Two Eclipses of the Sun - Monday, Aug 28 at 5:30 PM, San Francisco
Wonderfest: The Science of Healthy Aging - Tuesday, Aug 29 at 7:00 PM, Novato
First Fridays: Stellar Ending, Death of Stars - Friday, Sept 1 at 6:00 PM, Oakland
Have a great week in Science!
Bob
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Monday, 08/28/2023
Chromosome Organization in Human Adult Cells - 08/28/2023 12:00 PM
Sonoma State University - Biology Colloquium Rohnert Park
Speaker: Jemeery Morales, Sonoma State University
Accurate models of 2D materials and heterostructures: balancing between reciprocal- and real-space descriptions - 08/28/2023 02:30 PM
Physics North Berkeley
For more than a century, the notion of band structure remained the most important instrument for studying crystalline solids in the physics community. At the same time, an even older picture of chemical bonding, usually considered at an empirical level, continues serving the chemistry community. The Wannier function formalism provides a rigorous connection between these two complementary points of view. In my seminar, I would like to show a number of examples of applying this formalism to understanding and accurate modelling of two-dimensional materials and moiré heterostructures. I will first explain how the intrinsic gauge freedom of Wannier functions can be exploited for explaining the structural and chemical trends [1] across the entire family of transition metal dichalcogenides [2] as well as the tendency towards forming charge-density-wave and distorted phases in these materials [3]. The second part of my seminar is dedicated to constructing tight-binding Hamiltonians for accurate modelling of moiré heterostructures. I will take twisted double bilayer graphene as a starting point [4-6] and present our recent results on related graphene systems modelled using large-scale tight-binding model calculations [7-11].
Speaker: Oleg Yazyev, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Andrew Fraknoi: Two Eclipses of the Sun - 08/28/2023 05:30 PM
Commonwealth Club San Francisco
Two eclipses of the sun are coming to North America during the 2023 - 24 school year - an annular (“ring of fire”) eclipse on October 14, 2023 and a total eclipse on April 8, 2024. People in two narrow paths will have the full eclipse experience each time. Everyone else (an estimated 500 million people, including all of us in the Bay Area) will see a nice partial eclipse, where the moon covers a good part of the sun.
Andrew Fraknoi will describe how eclipses come to be (and why they are total only on Earth), what scientists learn during eclipses, exactly when and where the eclipses of 2023 and 2024 will be best visible, and how to observe the eclipses and the sun safely.
Everyone who attends this program in person will receive a free pair of safe-viewing glasses for the eclipse (which enable you to look at the sun without eye damage), courtesy of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Speaker: Andrew Fraknoi, Foothill College, Emeritus
Attend in person or online
Use discount code WonderfestPromo for $10 off. (That price reduction renders the online ticket entirely FREE.)
Dark Energy with the Euclid Space Mission - Livestream - 08/28/2023 06:00 PM
Night Sky Network
Join the NASA Night Sky Network to hear Dr. Eric Huff from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory bring us up to date on the Euclid space mission to investigate the nature of dark energy and dark matter, and the accelerated expansion of the Universe.
Launched on July 1, 2023, from Cape Canaveral, FL, the Euclid space telescope will be the first designed to study the still-mysterious accelerated expansion of the Universe. The Euclid mission will go about making measurements of dark energy and dark matter. A broad community of scientists around the world are eagerly anticipating the insights it will ultimately yield on the nature of that acceleration and the dark energy that presumably powers it, and in this webinar, we will learn about what we can expect over the next few years.
The event will be streaming live on YouTube. See weblink.
Re-examining the 'wood-wide web' - 08/28/2023 08:00 PM
Bay Area Mycological Society Berkeley
In an exclusive Bay Area presentation, meet the driving force behind a re-examination of the 'wood-wide web', who, along with Dr. Melanie Jones and Dr. Jason Hoeksema, is challenging data and media inflation of claims about Common Mycorrhizal Networks.
Few ecological concepts have affected academic and public discourse as much as the ‘wood-wide web’. This concept holds that all trees in a forest are physically connected belowground by mycorrhizal fungi, with the fungi serving as passive conduits for the flow of resources and signals among the networked trees. Through these fungal networks, ‘Mother trees’ recognize and warn their kin of danger, and, in one final act of altruism, dying trees send pulses of resources to neighbors. Though widely appealing and massively popular, is any of this true? In this seminar, I will separate fact from fiction regarding the ‘wood-wide web’.
Dr. Justine Karst is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta. She studies the mycorrhizal ecology of boreal forests.
Tuesday, 08/29/2023
Creepy, Happy Halloween - 08/29/2023 10:00 AM
Lawrence Hall of Science Berkeley
Our annual Halloween party is back! Visitors wearing a costume can get free tickets to 3D films or Planetarium shows. Plus, meet creepy crawly critters in our Animal Discovery Zone, and learn to make pumpkins fly in our catapult activity. Members can decorate their own glow-in-the-dark pumpkins in our Member Lounge.
Volatile chemistry in planet-forming disks - 08/29/2023 04:00 PM
Latimer Hall Berkeley
Planets form within disks composed of gas, ice, and dust in orbit around young stars. The composition and distribution of volatiles (gas+ice) within these disks profoundly impacts both the chemical and physical outcomes of planet formation - including the delivery of prebiotic building blocks to new worlds. In this talk, I will describe how we are using powerful telescopes in conjunction with lab experiments to understand the chemical and microphysical behavior of volatile molecules in the extreme physical conditions that characterize planet-forming environments. We ultimately aim to assemble a more complete picture of the chemical environment which regulates the formation, composition, and potential habitability of planetesimals and planets.
Speaker: Jennifer Bergner, UC Berkeley
Wonderfest: The Science of Healthy Aging - 08/29/2023 07:00 PM
Hopmonk Tavern Novato
Modern insights into wise exercise, sleep, and diet are enhancing healthspan, the years of healthy life that one actually enjoys. This presentation focuses on human clinical data with actionable recommendations for lifestyle choices that can maximize the healthy years of life.
Speaker: Greg Tranah, UC San Francisco
Wednesday, 08/30/2023
Swim Down: Finding Neurodivergent Identity in the Depths - 08/30/2023 11:00 AM
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Moss Landing
Swim Down was Lilianna’s Master’s Capstone project at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. This digital, multimodal graphic novel explores the connection between neurodiversity and the deep sea. She collaborated with Scripps scientists Dr. Charlotte Seid, Dr. Lisa Levin, Dr. Peter Franks, and illustrator Freya Hammar to tell the story of Mari, a neurodivergent teenager. Mari embarks on an imaginary deep-sea journey in which she encounters different marine wildlife and learns more about herself, the ocean, and other people. As part of her research, Lilianna visited MBARI and the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Into the Deep exhibition, and she is thrilled to share the ways that these experiences informed and inspired her Master’s project.
Attend in person or online
How Are Insurance Markets Adapting to Climate Change? Risk Selection and Regulation in the Market for Homeowners Insurance - 08/30/2023 12:10 PM
Giannini Hall Berkeley
In the face of escalating climate risk, property insurance markets have a critical role to play in helping households and firms reduce risk exposures and recover from natural disasters when they strike. Performing these functions efficiently requires a detailed understanding of property-level disaster risk and pricing that accurately reflects the costs of insuring this risk. We use proprietary data on parcel-level wildfire risk, together with insurers’ regulatory rate filings, to investigate how insurance is being priced and provided in California’s homeowners’ insurance market. We document significant differences between the risk pricing we observe in this market and benchmark measures of ‘fair’ pricing. We also find striking variation across firms in terms of both risk pricing and underwriting. A selection model of natural hazard insurance that incorporates both price regulation and asymmetries in information across insurers helps rationalize these findings. Our results highlight the underappreciated importance of the winner’s curse as a barrier to participation in insurance markets for large, hard-to-model risks.
Speaker: Meridith Fowlie, UC Berkeley
Carbon-negative Technology To Solve the Climate Crisis - 08/30/2023 04:00 PM
Soda Hall Berkeley
In 1977, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed the burial of biomass as a scalable, economical solution to the carbon dioxide problem. Today we know that harvested vegetation should be buried in an engineered dry biolandfill. Plant biomass can be preserved for thousands of years by burial in a dry environment with sufficiently low thermodynamic “water activity,” which is the relative humidity in equilibrium with the biomass. A water activity less than 60 percent will not support life, suppressing anaerobic organisms, thus preserving the biomass for millennia. Current agriculture and biolandfill costs indicate that $60 per ton of sequestered carbon dioxide corresponds to $0.53 per gallon of gasoline. If scaled to the level of a major crop, existing carbon dioxide can be extracted from the atmosphere and sequester a significant fraction of prior years’ carbon dioxide emissions.
Speaker: Eli Yablonovitch, UC Berkeley
This talk will also be given on September 20 at a different location on campus and online.
Energy and Resources Group Colloquium - 08/30/2023 04:00 PM
Giannini Hall Berkeley
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Depsky
Thursday, 08/31/2023
Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium - Shiva Esturi - 08/31/2023 12:00 PM
Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium San Jose
Speaker: Shiva Esturi, VP of Global Supply Management at Micron
Sharing the Cost of Wildfire Resilience - Livestream - 08/31/2023 12:00 PM
Stanford Energy
Many of the country’s most damaging wildfires, including California’s deadly 2018 Camp and Woolsey Fires, Oregon’s 2020 Santiam Fire, and Colorado’s 2021 Marshall Fire, can be traced back to failure in the electric grid. Electric grids can also be damaged by wildfires in turn. Such an interplay between wildfires and grids, exacerbated by the looming threats of climate change, calls for urgent intervention.
While one of the most effective ways to prevent wildfires and improve grid resilience is to bury power lines underground, doing so largely occurs at the expense of the local community based on the current California’s policy. A recent Stanford study, published in Nature Energy, finds that such a policy makes “undergrounding” of fire-prone power lines occur much more often in wealthy areas, leaving low-income communities doubly vulnerable - they also have older power grids and less capability to purchase backup generators during wildfire-induced outages.
In this webinar, the authors of this new study will revisit the policy context about California’s wildfire mitigation and undergrounding policies, delineate the status quo of wildfire safety across the state, and introduce a potential policy solution based on cost sharing to make power grids more equitably resilient to wildfires. Speakers with expertise in power systems, policy and laws, as well as data science will share their insights about this pressing challenge from different angles. The presentations will pave the way for a broader conversation on the policy shifts needed for reducing wildfire risks, improving infrastructure resilience, and ensuring equity during such transitions.
Speakers:
Zhecheng Wang, Civil & Environmental EngineeringMichael Wara, Woods Institute for the EnvironmentRam Rajagopal, Civil & Environmental EngineeringLiang Min, Bits & Watts Initiative, Precourt Institute for Energy
Register at weblink to attend.
This event was originally scheduled two hours earlier, at 10:00 AM.
Fast and furious: reconnection-powered emission in black hole jets and coronae - 08/31/2023 03:30 PM
Physics North Berkeley
Speaker: Lorenzo Sironi, Columbia University
After Dark: Discover Wonder - 08/31/2023 06:00 PM
ExplOratorium San Francisco
The Exploratorium is your playground for experiential learning! Tonight only, step inside the Kanbar Forum for an extended set by post-punk Sky Creature in collaboration with artist Tony Orrico. Sky Creature’s high energy and genre-crossing music creates the fuel for Orrico’s graphite drawings, which are created in response and in concert with the music and using his entire body. And, reflect on the future of cities facing climate change. Researchers on the frontlines of this work - one who engages with art to curb the impacts of “heat islands” and another who works directly with climate refugee communities - will share their work and approaches to community-based positive change.
Indigenous Communities in the United States: Leaders in Climate Adaptation - Livestream - 08/31/2023 06:00 PM
US Geological Survey Public Lecture Series
Learn About:
The effects of climate change on Indigenous communities. How Indigenous communities are adapting to climate change. The benefits of including Indigenous Knowledges in USGS science.
Speaker: Aparna Bamzai-Dodson, USGS Physical Scientist; Nicole Herman-Mercer, USGS Social Scientist; Sheree Watson, USGS Ecologist
See weblink to watch to the lecture
NightLife - 08/31/2023 06:00 PM
California Academy of Sciences San Francisco
Calling all creatures of the night: explore the nocturnal side of the Academy at NightLife and see what's revealed. With live DJs, outdoor bars, ambiance lighting, and nearly 60,000 live animals (including familiar faces like Claude, our alligator with albinism), the night is sure to be wild.
Step inside the iconic Shake House and our four-story Osher Rainforest, where you can explore the Amazon’s treetops surrounded by free-flying birds and butterflies. Reservations for these exhibits are no longer required. However, please note that the last entry into the rainforest is 7:30 pm - our animals need their sleep.
Venture into our latest aquarium exhibit Venom to encounter live venomous animals and learn the power of venom to both harm and heal.
Bask in the glow of one of the largest living indoor coral reef displays in the world: our 212,000-gallon Philippine Coral Reef habitat.
Take in the interstellar views from the Living Roof, then grab a bite from the Academy Café and head to the West Garden outdoor bar to drink and dine under the stars. For adults 21+.
Colombia’s Biodiversity - Livestream - 08/31/2023 07:00 PM
Golden Gate Audubon Society
Please join us for a special GGAS Travel Program Speakers Series Zoom talk. Our presenter will be Christopher Calonje, who founded Colombia Birdwatch in 2009 to promote sustainable tourism in his native Colombia.
Boasting an eBird list of 276 species, Araucana is like a little version of Colombia itself, the birdiest country on earth, with 1,930 species - almost 20% of the world’s total in 1% of its landmass, with new species still being discovered and new records being announced regularly. It is easy to see why. Colombia is tropical yet it also has ample elevation changes due to the Andes; furthermore it has both the Pacific and Caribbean coasts. Lots of different habitats ensure an abundance of bird species.
Point Bonita Lighthouse Sunset Tour - 08/31/2023 07:00 PM
Point Bonita Lighthouse Sausalito
On the Point Bonita Lighthouse Sunset Tour, you will enjoy stunning sunset views and learn the compelling story of this landmark. The tour will include elements of natural and cultural history as well as thought-provoking guided discussion that ties the lighthouse’s history to our present. The tour does not include moonrise.
Reserve your space at www.recreation.gov.
This 90-minute tour starts at the Point Bonita Trailhead service gate where you will check in. Led by a ranger or volunteer docent, the group will go on a half mile hike to the lighthouse, which includes a downhill slope, a hand carved tunnel, and a suspension bridge to the lighthouse itself. The suspension bridge has a sheer drop on either side.
Friday, 09/01/2023
The Cost of Species Protection: The Land Market Impacts of the Endangered Species Act - 09/01/2023 12:10 PM
Giannini Hall Berkeley
Protecting species’ habitats is the main policy tool employed across the globe in order to reduce biodiversity losses. These protections are hypothesized to conflict with private landowners’ interests. We study the economic consequences of the most extensive and controversial piece of such environmental legislation in US history - the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973. Using the most comprehensive data on species conservation efforts, land transactions, and building permits to date, we show evidence that on average the ESA does not affect regulated land markets in measurable and economically significant ways. We show that the Act’s most stringent habitat protections lead to a slight increase in the value of residential properties on land that is just adjacent to protected areas. These findings mask heterogeneity at the species level, which we document. Further, we find no evidence of the ESA affecting building activity as measured by construction permits. Overall, even taking into account species level heterogeneity, the number of possibly negatively affected parcels is extremely small, suggesting that the capitalization of the economic impacts of the ESA through the land market channel are likely minor, despite potential delays to development through permitting, which we document.
Speaker: Maximilian Auffhammer, UC Berkeley
First Fridays: Stellar Ending, Death of Stars - 09/01/2023 06:00 PM
Chabot Space and Science Center Oakland
Just like people, every star has a distinct life cycle, but not every star’s story ends the same. Head to Chabot Space & Science Center’s First Friday for a journey on how stars die and all the factors that lead up to their fate. From white dwarfs to supernovae and black holes, discover the science behind each of these exciting endings to the universe’s most iconic objects.
This is your chance to attend a talk by an astronomy expert, see these concepts in action at a Live Science show, create a star life cycle craft to take home and head to Chabot’s historic telescopes to spot one of these bright objects.
PixInsight post-processing basics - Messier 13 The Great Hercules Cluster - 09/01/2023 08:00 PM
College of San Mateo Bldg 36 San Mateo
Frank will pick up where he left off in his last astrophotography presentation on December. 2, 2022. He will explain key fundamentals of post processing and walk through his approach to processing star clusters in PixInsight. He will cover the entire process from stacking to saving the final JPEG image. Globular and Open clusters make up over 50% of Messier’s 110 objects. This presentation will provide you the capability to process all of them.
Speaker: Frank Seminaro, San Mateo County Astronomical Society
Room 109
Saturday, 09/02/2023
Plant Identification at Sanborn - 09/02/2023 08:00 AM
Sanborn Science and Nature Center Saratoga
Join YSI as we walk through the Sanborn trails and look for a variety of plants and learn how to identify them! Are they native? Medicinal? Edible? Poisonous? Join us to find out! Ages 8 - 12 with registered adult.
Taming the Crazy: Lessons from the Science of Mental Immunity - Livestream - 09/02/2023 03:00 PM
Bay Area Humanists
Why are ideologies poisoning public discourse? Why is extremism on the rise? How did we get here, and what can we do about it? It turns out some influential assumptions are suppressing our culture’s “immune response” to dangerous ideas. These assumptions prevent us from normalizing critical thinking, and leave us vulnerable to mind-parasites. Fortunately, there’s a cure. In this talk, philosopher Andy Norman will isolate an idea with a long history of inoculating people against the worst forms of ideological contagion, and argue that we can fashion it into a mind vaccine.
Speaker: Andy Norman, Author and Philosopher
Register at weblink to receive connection information
Sunday, 09/03/2023
Meeting our Nearest Planetary Neighbors -- and a Glimpse of the Solar System's Ultimate Fate -- with NASA's TESS Mission- Livestream - 09/03/2023 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
This event was originally scheduled on June 3, 2023.
Monday, 09/04/2023
SCVAS Learn: Warblers 2023 - Part 1 - Green, Yellow and Gray - Livestream - 09/04/2023 07:00 PM
Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society
The fall migration of Warblers is an exciting event for birders. It can also daunting because many of these tiny tree-top insectivores lack the distinctive breeding plumage that makes them so memorable. How do we sort through the many similar features and identify the individuals we find? Why are there so many species on our checklist which (according to the range maps) shouldn’t be here at all? In this three-part presentation, instructor Matthew Dodder will guide you through the basic (and not-so-basic) challenges of our “confusing Fall Warblers”. We will discuss places to go to find Warblers, what marks and behaviors to watch for, and how to enjoy some of the most confusing and enigmatic migrants of the fall season.
Fee covers all three sessions
Tuesday, 09/05/2023
Chemical Tools to Study Biological Systems - 09/05/2023 11:00 AM
Latimer Hall Berkeley
The Past and Future of Robotics & Machine Intelligence: 250 Years of Research Experience - 09/05/2023 12:00 PM
Sutardja Dai Hall Berkeley
Progress toward building the world’s greatest microscope: The joys of making theory and experiment work together - 09/05/2023 04:00 PM
Latimer Hall Berkeley
Creating the Science, Covering the Science - 09/05/2023 06:00 PM
Commonwealth Club San Francisco
IEEE Computer Society Chapter Open house, Award ceremony, and talk AI and Conversational Commerce - 09/05/2023 06:30 PM
SEMI Global Headquarters Milpitas
Wednesday, 09/06/2023
The global crises of water and ice - Livestream - 09/06/2023 11:00 AM
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
The “endless forms”: Genetics, development, and evolution of flower diversity - 09/06/2023 12:00 PM
Barker Hall, Rm 101 Berkeley
Energy and Resources Group Colloquium - 09/06/2023 04:00 PM
Giannini Hall Berkeley
Thursday, 09/07/2023
Coastal Walk at Pillar Point Bluff - 09/07/2023 10:00 AM
Pillar Point Bluff Parking Lot Moss Beach
Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium - Yun Freund - 09/07/2023 12:00 PM
Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium San Jose
Science on Tap: Marine Heat Waves - 09/07/2023 05:30 PM
Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History Pacific Grove
After Dark: Drawing Sound - 09/07/2023 06:00 PM
ExplOratorium San Francisco
NightLife: California Love - 09/07/2023 06:00 PM
California Academy of Sciences San Francisco
Life, The Universe, and Everything - 09/07/2023 06:30 PM
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Berkeley
Fear and Loathing in the Heavens: The 1910 Return of Halley’s Comet - 09/07/2023 07:00 PM
Los Altos Public Library Los Altos
Friday, 09/08/2023
Bair Island Walking Tour - 09/08/2023 10:00 AM
Bair Island Wildlife Refuge & Trail Redwood City
Semiconductor Innovation For Transformative Impact - 09/08/2023 02:00 PM
Physics North Berkeley
Saturday, 09/09/2023
Family Nature Walks - Foothills Nature Preserve - Rescheduled - 09/09/2023 11:00 AM
Foothills Nature Preserve Los Altos
Sunday, 09/10/2023
Coastal Walk at Cowell-Purisima Trail - 09/10/2023 10:00 AM
Cowell Purisima Coastal Trailhead Half Moon Bay
Monday, 09/11/2023
Meiotic Chromosome Dynamics in Zebrafish - 09/11/2023 12:00 PM
Sonoma State University - Biology Colloquium Rohnert Park
Scanning Probe Nano-Optics: from biochemical nano-fingerprinting to light-matter interactions in quantum materia - 09/11/2023 02:30 PM
Physics North Berkeley
SCVAS Learn: Warblers 2023 - Part 1 - East and West - Livestream - 09/11/2023 07:00 PM
Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society
Europa: Exploring an Ocean World - 09/11/2023 07:30 PM
California Academy of Sciences San Francisco