Hello again science fans,
CLIMATE
Multiple States continue to suffer deaths, power outages, floods, and destruction from Hurricane Helene. Over 80% of climate scientists agree that climate change is a crisis and is contributing to the strength of hurricanes. Just as earthquake simulations have led to building codes that help protect us, hurricane simulations are similarly leading to improvements.
With warmer temperatures, some mosquito species are extending their range and bringing diseases with them. West Nile virus, Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), malaria, and dengue are some of the more dangerous diseases that are now found in the U.S.
SPACE
Look up, Bay Area! Tiangong & ISS are visible over the Bay Area starting tonight:
— Tiangong: Sunday 7:17 - 7:23pm; from 10° WNW to 10° ESE; max 90°
— ISS: Sunday, 8:19 - 8:23pm from 10° NW to 62° SE; max 90°
— ISS: Monday 7:31 - 7:37pm from 10° NW to 12° ESE; max 50°
— Tiangong: Monday 7:52 - 7:57pm from 10° W to 14° SSE; max 31°
— ISS: Wednesday 7:31 - 7:37pm from 10° WNW to 10° SSE; max 50°
Set your smartphone alerts and wave to the men and women living up there.
ISS crew: Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexander Grebenkin, Nick Hague, Alexey Ovchinin, Don Pettit, Ivan Vagner, Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore
Use this webpage to discover more ISS sightings from wherever.
Tiangong crew: Li Guangsu, Li Cong, Ye Guangfu
Use this webpage to discover more Tiangong sightings from wherever.
The ISS is getting lighter by 1.7 kg (3.7 lbs) a ‘day’ because it is leaking 1.4m3 (49 cu.ft.) of atmosphere every 24 hours, and the leaking is getting worse. The good news is that the leaks are in a passageway that can be sealed off from the rest of the ISS.
RAFFLE
We are offering a tabletop Stirling Engine. All it needs is a bottle of isopropyl alcohol and a match. Just send an email before noon Friday to david.almandsmith [at] gmail.com with your guess of an integer between 0 and 1,000. Last time, Bryce of New York City guessed closest to the randomly generated 768 to win a Navy Blue Polaris Dawn t-shirt.
MEDICINE / HEALTH
For the first time in decades, the Federal Drug Administration approved a new drug for treating schizophrenia - primarily delusions. There are already drugs that are effective for most schizophrenia patients but they tend to cause weight gain, fatigue, and uncontrollable movements. One such drug costs less than a dollar a day, while the new drug from Bristol Myers Squibb, Conbenfy, costs about $60 a day. Afterall, the pharmaceutical company paid $1.4 billion to acquire rights to the drug - which likely costs mere pennies a pill to manufacture.
A strict vegan diet marginally includes enough essential amino acids for good health unless ‘processed’ or ‘ultra-processed’ protein supplements are included - such as textured soy protein. ¿But aren’t ultra-processed foods bad for us? Well, that depends. A recent not-so-very-comprehensive study found only two categories of ultra-processed foods were clearly deleterious: “sugar-sweetened drinks (like soda and fruit punch) and processed meat, poultry and fish (like bacon, hot dogs, breaded fish products, chicken sausages and salami sandwiches).”
The health risks of obesity are numerous, but what i found fascinating is the current regional distribution of our obese citizens. Statistically, California is doing better than most States in the percentage of obese folk.
MY PICKS of the WEEK (Hint: save dates & times to your mobile phone)
A lot going on this week. I recommend you browse the entire calendar.
Stargazing with the SETI Institute Mon 7 - 9pm, Sunnyvale
Wonderfest: Universe of Universes? Tue 7pm, Novato
America’s Energy Transition Wed 4:30pm, Stanford University
Birdy Hour: Osprey incubation, Rearing, & Wilding Livestream Wed 5pm
Nightlife: Puppies & Puppets Thur 6 - 10pm, Cal Academy of Sciences, S.F., $
ISS Free Flying Astrobee Robots Fri 8pm, San Mateo
Family Nature Day at Huddart Park Sat 9 - Noon, Woodside
Solar Observing Sun 2 - 4pm, San José
ENVIRONMENT
¿How much does food really cost when environmental damage, etc. is factored in? Researchers at True Price and Wageningen University in the Netherlands crunched the numbers for us:
$5.34 of beef plus $22.02 environmental costs = $27.36
$3.74 of cheese plus $3.76 environmental costs = $7.50
$2.20 of chicken plus $1.83 environmental costs = $4.03
$2.42 of tofu plus $0.21 environmental costs = $2.63
$1.46 of chickpeas plus $0.74 environmental costs = $2.20
OK guys, let’s see more burgers from Impossible Foods and from Beyond Meat.
¿What does it take for a town to achieve zero waste? There is a town in Japan that is attempting just that. F’rinstance, the town gives cloth diapers to families with infants. They sort disposables not into waste, compost, and recycle, but into 45 different categories. The town maintains its own ‘Goodwill’ style store. They even have a zero waste brewery.
¿How fast are we transitioning away from the burning of fossil fuels to generate electricity? The New York Times created charts showing how U.S. States have been generating electricity for the years 2001 through 2023. This first chart is for the United States as a whole.
Coal (brown) creates the most pollution and it dominated electricity generation until 2014. The largest portion of the country’s electricity now comes from cleaner-burning natural gas (mustard) with nuclear power (purple) coming second. Wind power (blue), hydroelectric (light-blue), and solar (yellow) are the next three sources. The tiny categories at the bottom are biomass, petroleum, and geothermal.
¿How about California? Here is the chart for California:
Renewables have produced the majority of electricity for California since 2016. Very soon, solar generation will replace natural gas as the dominant source of California’s electricity.
FUN (?) NERDY VIDEOS
Okaukuejo waterhole, Namibia. This is another waterhole with African wildlife: Lion, Rhinoceros, Elephant, Giraffe, Lapwing, Spotted Hyena, Bustard, et al. Click on the red line at various points to travel back in time.
CalTrain Goes Electric - ABC News 7 Bay Area - 2 mins
Farting Herrings and Their Predators - John Downer Productions - 4 mins
Kardashian Scam - Cup O’ Joe - Joe Schwarcz - 4.5 mins
Your Biome & Virome - Kurzgesagt - 9 mins
Radioactive Wild Boar Paradox - SciShow - Hank Green - 9 mins
Underground Cities - Answers with Joe - Joe Scott - 13 mins
Boom Supersonic Test Flights - 19 mins
Egg Drop from ‘Space’ - Mark Rober - 25 mins
The Trillion Dollar Equation - Veritasium - Derek Muller - 31 mins
Engineering the Future: Solar - 51 mins
Mercola: Know the Risks - McGill University - Jonathan Jarry - 55 mins
ISS Earth Cam - NASA (¿What’s with “FLAP 2”?)
¿Have you little bits of spare time this week? Consider making phone calls for a candidate of your choice. Google “join a phone bank.”
Have a wonderful week,
Dave Almandsmith, Bay Area Skeptics
"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could do only a little."
— Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher
Upcoming Events:
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Monday, 09/30/2024
At Every Depth: Stories From Our Changing Ocean - 09/30/2024 12:00 PM
Sonoma State University - Biology Colloquium Rohnert Park
Speaker: Tessa Hill, UC Davis
Thermochemical Energy Storage as a Replacement for Natural Gas - 09/30/2024 12:30 PM
Green Earth Sciences Building Stanford
RedoxBlox, a silicon valley funded high temperature battery startup, has invented a new class of energy storage - thermochemical energy storage (TCES). Much like electrochemical solutions, RedoxBlox uses a chemical reaction to store energy to achieve Li-Ion levels of energy density, but without the need for any rare earth or expensive materials - meaning a cost of storage an order of magnitude lower than other current options. RedoxBlox units can be used to store electricity for the grid, or used directly to replace natural gas in industrial heating process, such as steam generation, furnaces, dryers, reactors, and many others.
Come hear from ERE alumni (2014), Scott McNally on the startup journey and how his company is changing the energy storage landscape.
Two Talks: Precision health using wearables - 09/30/2024 12:30 PM
Environment and Energy Building (Y2E2) Stanford
Future role of wearables in precision medicine and mental health
This talk will explore the progress made in the integration of wearable devices into precision medicine and mental health, highlighting key milestones and challenges. Over the past decade, wearable technology has advanced from basic step counters to sophisticated devices capable of monitoring various physiological and psychological parameters. Key achievements include the early detection of clinical conditions such as arrhythmias, COVID-19, sleep apnea, and inflammatory responses. We will delve into the complexities of leveraging wearables for personalized healthcare, addressing issues of data accuracy, user compliance, and the integration of multimodal datasets from diverse devices. Finally, we will discuss future advancements and innovations in wearable technology that promise to transform personalized healthcare and mental health management.
Speaker: Ziv Lautman, Stanford University
Detection of common respiratory infections, including COVID-19, using consumer wearable devices
Wearable devices can provide insight on health and well-being using longitudinal physiological signals. We report on the prospective performance of a consumer wearable physiology-based respiratory infection detection algorithm. The system used resting heart rate, respiratory rate and heart rate variability measures during the sleeping period to predict the presence of COVID-19 or other respiratory infections. In a cohort of 559 participants from January 6th to July 20th 2022, 31 instances of COVID-19 infection were confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing, 14 instances of COVID-19 confirmed by home test and in total 80 instances of respiratory virus (COVID-19 or other respiratory viruses confirmed with PCR or home test) were observed. For the 31 confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection, 28 received a positive alert within 8 days prior to the PCR test. For the larger set of confirmed respiratory infections (i.e., COVID-19 or other respiratory infections using PCR or home test), 63 received a positive alert within the 8 day window. Across all the cases, the estimated false positive rate on a prediction per day basis was 2% and positive predictive value ranged from 4% to 10% on this specific population with an observed incidence rate of 198 cases per week per 100k. Detailed examination of questionnaires filled out after receiving an alert revealed physical or emotional stress events such as intense exercise, poor sleep, stress or excessive alcohol consumption could result in a false positive. Thus, the real-time alerting system provides advance warning on respiratory viral infections as well as other physical or emotional stress events that could lead to physiological signal changes. This study shows the potential of wearables with embedded alerting systems to provide information on wellness measures.
Speaker: Zeinab Esmaeilpour, Google
Hydrodynamics of active fluids - 09/30/2024 02:30 PM
Physics North Berkeley
In this talk, I will discuss some of our recent efforts to derive effective descriptions of the collective dynamics of active fluids, a broad class of systems for which local energy injection is converted into directed motion. Such systems evolve far from equilibrium, which precludes the standard formulation of hydrodynamic theories and the linear response relationships that tie them to their microscopic constituents, as well as making it difficult to anticipate the scale of their fluctuations. We have developed a framework to deduce effective hydrodynamic descriptions for locally conserved quantities when time reversal symmetry is broken, to generalize linear response relations around nonequilibrium steady-states, and evaluate fluctuations of time-integrated quantities. This framework relies on the mathematics of large deviation theory and stochastic thermodynamics, as well as numerical techniques that afford means of determining rare fluctuations in driven systems. I will highlight some specific examples in scalar and chiral active matter for which we have studied the effect of Hall-like transport coefficients of tracer dynamics and predicted the emergence of propagating boundary modes.
Speaker: David Limmer, UC Berkeley
Drugs, vaccines, and coexistence: toward a comprehensive understanding of population dynamics in Streptococcus pneumoniae under selection by treatment - 09/30/2024 04:00 PM
James H. Clark Center (Bldg 340) Stanford
Speaker: Mark Lipsitch, Harvard University
Room: Auditorium
The Physics of Micromachines - 09/30/2024 04:00 PM
Sonoma State University - What Physicists Do Rohnert Park
Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) is a highly interdisciplinary field that produces devices integral to modern daily life such as accelerometers and gyroscopes. Daniel Contreras went from physics in undergrad to graduate school in electrical engineering to study MEMS and now works as a professional engineer in radio frequency (RF) semiconductors.This talk will give an overview of MEMS technology and research, discuss his engineering graduate experience, and discuss what a career in industry is like.
Speaker: Daniel Contreras
From Abelian anyons in moiré materials to non-Abelions in quantum platforms - 09/30/2024 04:15 PM
Physics North Berkeley
Anyons, particles with quantum statistics that go beyond that of bosons and fermions, rapidly transitioned from theoretical possibility to reality in the quantum Hall effect. However, the extreme conditions required for those realizations, including strong magnetic fields, have posed limitations. Recently, significant advances have led to the observation of anyons in moiré materials even in the absence of a magnetic field, alongside parallel efforts to realize them in quantum devices. This talk will highlight these exciting developments, with a particular focus on an even more remarkable generalization of quantum statistics represented by non-Abelian anyons, which offer promise for fault-tolerant quantum computing. I will describe how this power of measurements can be leveraged to efficiently create the long sought-after non-Abelian anyons, and the new avenues this opens.
Speaker: Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University
Stargazing with the SETI Institute - 09/30/2024 07:00 PM
Sunnyvale Public Library Sunnyvale
Join us for a night of outdoor stargazing at the Library and a celebration of 40 years of the SETI Institute! We'll kick things off in the Library Program Room at 7 p.m. with a 40th anniversary party, followed by a short talk from Simon Steel of the SETI Institute about what's viewable in the sky this night. Then at 8 p.m., we'll all head outside to look through telescopes together. This program is for all ages. Registration is not required. The telescope viewing is weather permitting. The first half of the event will happen rain or shine.
Tuesday, 10/01/2024
Novel Synthetic Methods in Photochemistry and Photocatalysis - 10/01/2024 11:00 AM
Latimer Hall Berkeley
In this presentation I will highlight recent work from my group focused on the use of photochemistry and photocatalysis to aid the synthesis of high-value molecules. The presentation will focus on:
Boryl radical reactivity. Amine-ligated boryl radicals are highly reactive open-shell intermediates with significant potential for the synthesis of borylated materials. In this presentation, I will highlight the use of these species for the C(sp2)-H borylation of azines (e.g., pyridine, quinoline) at positions that are inaccessible via conventional C-H activation methods. Additionally, I will discuss their reactivity with alkenes to form sp3-hybridized materials. These unique reactivities have led to the development of novel, stable borylated materials with a strong capacity to participate in Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions. Furthermore, I will present our recent work demonstrating the ability of amine-ligated boryl radicals to activate organic halides via halogen-atom transfer (XAT), and how this strategy can be integrated with nickel and copper catalysis for broader couplings involving aryl halides, aryl boronic acids, and amides.
Photoexcited nitroarenes. Nitroaromatics are widely available feedstocks that are routinely used for the preparation of anilines upon reduction. I will present our most recent work that demonstrates how these species can be used, upon blue light irradiation, to promote the ozonolysis-style cleave of olefins and also allow preparation of complex and highly functionalised saturated heterocycles. Furthermore, I will present our recent work where modulation of the excited configuration of these species has enabled the currently elusive ozonolysis of aromatics in the presence of olefins.
Speaker: Daniele Leonori, Aachen University
Non-parametric and parametric analyses of sleep EEG - Livestream - 10/01/2024 12:00 PM
Stanford Center for Sleep & Circadian Sciences
Speaker: Mingjian He, Stanford University
Deployable sensors based on spins driven far-from-equilibrium - 10/01/2024 04:00 PM
Latimer Hall Berkeley
I will present our experiments leveraging electron and nuclear spins out of equilibrium to build highly sensitive, deployable, chemical sensors. These sensors utilize solid-state systems, such as semiconductors, where nuclear spins can be optically “hyperpolarized” to levels thousands of times greater than thermal equilibrium. Remarkably, these nuclei also exhibit extended coherence lifetimes (T2’>800 seconds), enabling their use in a range of applications. These include serving as highly sensitive quantum sensors for detecting time-varying magnetic fields, enhanced imaging agents, and for creating optically rewritable, nanometer-scale spin textures. They also provide a novel platform for exploring new physics far from equilibrium.
By incorporating them in nanoparticle form, we demonstrate the versatility of these sensors, deploying them in diverse environments such as manufactured materials, single-cells, living plants, and in flowing microdroplet emulsions. In these dynamic settings, we show the potential for highly sensitive chemical assays, outperforming the current state of the art. Finally, we show the ability to extend this approach to a broad class of materials, including defects in semiconductors and molecules containing rare-earth ions or photoexcited triplet electrons. This opens new avenues for sensor construction harnessing chemical synthesis, and expands possibilities for practical applications.
Speaker: Ashok Ajoy, UC Berkeley
The Deadly Trade in Oil and Gas - 10/01/2024 04:10 PM
Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union Berkeley
Oil and gas are the most traded commodities on the planet; they are also the chief causes of the most grievous harm our species has yet faced, the burgeoning climate crisis. This lecture will examine how the export of hydrocarbons, in particular, has become an enormous threat to efforts to rein in greenhouse gasses, and it will examine in particular the role that America - the world’s biggest exporter of gas - plays in this ongoing catastrophe. And it will examine the role that non-tradeable commodities - sunshine and wind - might play in easing this crisis.
Speaker: Bill McKibben, Middlebury College
Room: West Pauley Ballroom
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Wonderfest: Universe of Universes? Reflections on Life and the Cosmos - 10/01/2024 07:00 PM
Hopmonk Tavern Novato
Despite implications of the prefix "uni," many scientists now think that there might be more than a single universe! Our universe may be just one example in a far larger "multiverse," but an unusually complex one that is conducive to the existence of life. Come learn - and inquire - about the relevant lines of reasoning and their profound implications.
Our speaker, Dr. Alex Filippenko, is one of Earth's most highly cited astronomers. He was the only person to serve on both teams that simultaneously discovered the Nobel-worthy accelerating expansion of the universe. Alex earned Wonderfest's Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization, and he was voted UC Berkeley's "Best Professor" a record nine times!
Wednesday, 10/02/2024
OceanWell: LifeSafe Desalination in the Deep-Sea - Livestream - 10/02/2024 11:00 AM
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Born in California, OceanWell is developing a planet-friendly technology to harvest water molecules from the ocean using reverse osmosis (RO) membranes in a new way. Unlike the heavy industrial RO process typically conducted on land, OceanWell passively extracts freshwater from the deep sea without harming marine life. Its LifeSafe circulation system is gentle on fish and plankton, and effectively eliminates the strong brine discharge and land use requirements that plague coastal operations. OceanWell also uses 30-50% less energy than conventional RO by leveraging the hydrostatic pressure of the deep ocean to drive the RO process. At about 400 meters deep in the aphotic zone - yet elevated above the seabed to prevent benthic disturbance - the dark, high-pressure environment provides a clearer, colder supply of seawater requiring minimal pretreatment and no chemicals. As our technology matures, OceanWell aims to partner with ocean researchers to ensure our operations are not only safe and compliant with regulations, but also good for our planet and her ocean.
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The hydrology, geology, and rheology of slow landslides in California - 10/02/2024 12:00 PM
Earth and Marine Sciences Building Santa Cruz
Speaker: Noah Finnegan, UC Santa Cruz
The Unseen Competition in the Energy Transition - Livestream - 10/02/2024 12:00 PM
Stanford University
Over the last decade, competition has intensified between gas and electric utilities to meet all building energy needs for homes and businesses, including sectors like heating and cooking. Policy incentives to transition from gas to electric appliances as part of greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies and improvements in electric technologies are further intensifying this competition. This renewed competition raises new and challenging issues for regulators - Public Utility Commissions - tasked with regulating utilities and that have traditionally viewed them as providing distinct services in separate markets.
This webinar, hosted by the Climate and Energy Policy Program at Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment, presents results of a new study evaluating this competition between utilities. The authors argue that safe, just utility regulation and rapid, effective decarbonization require a more proactive and unified response and suggest approaches to better managing inter-utility competition. A panel of energy experts will then discuss efforts to address the newly competitive landscape and advance the energy transition.
Speakers:
Mike Bloomberg, Director, Future of Heat Initiative, and Managing Partner, Groundwork DataDenise Grab, Energy Law & Policy Project Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of LawJustin Gundlach, Senior Advisor for Policy Implementation, New York State Department of Public ServiceJosh Lappen, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame
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Synchronous Dynamics of Giant Kelp Forests - Livestream - 10/02/2024 03:00 PM
Bodega Marine Laboratory
Speaker: Jonathan Walter, UC Davis
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Recoding racial capitalism: platforming the post-apartheid housing market - 10/02/2024 03:30 PM
McCone Hall Berkeley
This presentation will analyse how digital capitalism renews wealth inequalities and urban segregation through the transformation of urban housing markets by real estate platforms. Focusing on post-apartheid South Africa, I examine how housing, a foundational site of racial capitalism, has been re-coded financially, algorithmically and legally into an asset class over the last decade through the entanglement of financial capital with digital technologies. Combining in-depth fieldwork in Cape Town with the computational analysis of sales and census data, I analyse three joint processes that reconfigured the market around a data imperative: the datafication of home-seekers by credit bureaus; the rise of rental platforms offering tenant screening solutions; the emergence of corporate landlords. The trajectory of South Africa illustrates how digital capitalism intersects with racial capitalism through the integration of home-seekers and properties into large and networked databases, renewing mechanisms of value extraction and shaping patterns of residential sorting.
Speaker: Julien Migozzi, University of Oxford
Evolving Organisms to Grow new Nanomaterials for Energy, the Environment and Medicine - 10/02/2024 04:00 PM
Stanley Hall Berkeley
Organisms have been making exquisite inorganic materials for over 500 million years. Although these materials have many desired physical properties such as strength, regularity, and environmentally benign processing, the types of materials that organisms have evolved to work with are limited. However, there are many properties of living systems that could be potentially harnessed by researchers to make advanced technologies that are smarter, more adaptable, and that are synthesized to be compatible with the environment. One approach to designing future technologies which have some of the properties that living organisms use so well, is to evolve organisms to work with a more diverse set of building blocks. The goal is to have a DNA sequence that codes for the synthesis and assembly of any inorganic material or device. We have been successful in using evolutionarily selected peptides to control physical properties of nanocrystals and subsequently use molecular recognition and self-assembly to design biological hybrid multidimensional materials. These materials could be designed to address many scientific and technological problems in electronics, environmental remediation, medicine, and energy applications. Currently we are using this technology to design new methods for building batteries, fuel cells, solar cells, carbon sequestration and storage, environmental remediation, catalysis, and medical diagnostics and imaging. This talk will address conditions under which organisms first evolved to make materials and scientific approaches to move beyond naturally evolved materials to genetically imprint advanced technologies with examples in lithium and sodium ion batteries, lithium-air batteries, environmental clean-up and ovarian cancer imaging and treatment.
Speaker: Angela Belcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New Pathways for Energy Efficient Computing Hardware - 10/02/2024 04:00 PM
Soda Hall Berkeley
Despite ominous foretelling of a slowdown, the computational throughput has increased by orders of magnitude over the last decade. Energy efficiency is critical not only to maintain this incessant advancement, but also to ensure that electronics does not become a drag on the finite energy resources of the world. This will need a radical rethinking of the basic building blocks that constitute the electronic hardware. In this talk, I shall briefly present how exploiting physics and functional materials to augment CMOS may offer a new pathway in this context. In particular, I shall discuss logic, memory, and backend technologies where we have achieved record performance by combining new capabilities with CMOS. These examples underscore how functional augmentation of CMOS by harnessing new materials could offer opportunities that are otherwise not available through conventional means.
Speaker: Sayeef Salahuddin, UC Berkeley
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America's Energy Transition - 10/02/2024 04:30 PM
Shriram Center Stanford
We are at the beginning of one of the most significant industrial transitions in history, moving from an economy based almost exclusively on carbon-producing fossil energy - coal, oil and gas - to one eventually fueled by renewable energy - sun, wind, steam, and innovative technologies that generate and enable power sources. The Biden-Harris Administration and Congress have accelerated this energy transition through passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the single greatest piece of climate legislation ever passed. IRA, along with other federal investments in America, have changed everything. In doing so, the United States has gone from laggard to leader in driving an industrial economy based on clean energy. Now, as the energy train has left the station, the 2024 presidential election will play a critical role in this transition, determining whether the train accelerates on pace or hits a switch turning its direction.
Speaker: Karen Skelton, Stanford University
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How to Secure Critical Minerals for the Energy Transition? - 10/02/2024 04:30 PM
Shriram Center Stanford
The adoption of renewable energy technologies hinges on the availability of many critical minerals. To meet the large demand for critical minerals, it is vital to scale up mineral supply chains that are resilient and sustainable. In this talk, Karan will introduce the STEER program at Stanford which is guiding policy and innovation for the energy transition by conducting systems analysis that incorporates materials availability, technology learning, and energy markets. The talk will focus on models that evaluate how supply and demand for critical minerals will evolve, and quantify the life-cycle impacts from the production. He will cover case studies on battery minerals, showing how electric vehicle costs and deployment are impacted by: i) restricting environmentally-damaging nickel production pathways, and ii) trade disruptions due to geopolitical tensions. Discussion will focus on necessary policy mechanisms to support sustainable domestic production for critical minerals.
Speaker: Karan Bhuwalka, Stanford University
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Birdy Hour: Osprey - Egg Incubation, Chick Rearing and Wild Fostering - Livestream - 10/02/2024 05:00 PM
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory
In 2023, Wild Care's Executive Director Stephanie Ellis was tasked with incubating two sets of Osprey eggs, raising the chicks and finding them suitable wild foster nests. This year, she has been placing Osprey eggs (from USDA) into active nests, and working with a local utility company to get chicks into foster nests when they have been displaced by storms and nest fires. In this special CFC Birdy Hour, Stephanie will discuss this intensive process along with two years of successes and challenges. She will also touch upon the history of Osprey on Cape Cod - a true conservation success story, coexisting with Osprey, and the legalities involved in working with Osprey nests, eggs and chicks.
Speaker: Stephanie Ellis, Wild Care
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Thursday, 10/03/2024
Forensic seismic analysis and source modeling of the 2022 Nord Stream gas pipeline sabotage - 10/03/2024 12:00 PM
Mitchell Earth Sciences Building (04-560) Stanford
Speaker: Eric Dunham
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Room 350/372
Anthropogenic impact on biodiversity: consequences for biotic interactions and human wellbeing - 10/03/2024 12:30 PM
Valley Life Sciences Building Berkeley
Although a major emphasis in conservation science is the global extinction of species, the current pulse of massive population loss has a plethora of ecological consequences for ecosystem process via the disruption of species interactions. This presentation will illustrate how the decline and extinction of local ecological processes has cascading consequences for biodiversity conservation and human wellbeing.
Speaker: Rodolfo Dirzo, Stanford University
Public EV Charging in Europe - 10/03/2024 01:30 PM
Environment and Energy Building (Y2E2) Stanford
Marek Miltner is a PhD candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering, between Czech Technical University in Prague and Stanford. He received his MPhil in Technology Policy from Cambridge University (UK) in 2021 and his MEng in AI and Computer Science from Faculty of Electrical Engineering, CTU in Prague in 2020. He is interested in the applications of machine learning and other AI optimization techniques in reducing the carbon intensity of power grids.
The Ultraviolet Explorer - 10/03/2024 03:45 PM
Physics South, Room 251 Berkeley
Speaker: Fiona Harrison, California Institute of Technology
RF & Microwave Engineering: Perspectives of a Hardware Engineer - 10/03/2024 04:00 PM
Sonoma State Dept. of Engineering Science Rohnert Park
Hardware engineering is a critical to designing and manufacturing successful high frequency systems and presents unique and complex challenges. This presentation will discuss what delineates RF, microwave, and high frequency engineering as a specialization and describe some design and testing methodologies useful in application. Additionally, some basic simulations and troubleshooting stories will be shared and the role of a hardware engineering lead discussed.”
Speaker: Chelsie Wieland, Keysight Technologies
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Decarbonizing the Grid: E.ON CEO Leonhard Birnbaum - 10/03/2024 04:30 PM
Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center Stanford
E.ON is one of Europe's largest energy companies with the business areas of energy distribution grid, energy infrastructure solutions and energy sales. With a 1.6-million-kilometer-long energy distribution grid and around 47 million customers, E.ON is playing a leading role in shaping a green, digital and decentralized energy world.
In this inaugural seminar, Birnbaum will join Steven Chu to share his perspective on decarbonizing the grid.
Sustainable design of structural and functional polymers for a circular economy - 10/03/2024 05:00 PM
Tan Hall Berkeley
Today, polymers face some of the consequences of their pervasive success in society: plastics littering, discussions about microplastics and environmental persistence, and the emissions from their fossil production. For a circular economy within the planetary boundaries, polymer design, production, use and end of life have to change: Recycled and biobased feedstocks are needed to decouple from fossil resources, together with CO2 neutral production technologies. A circular transformation does not only apply for structural polymers, such as in packaging or engineering plastics applications, which today are a visible reminder of the unsustainable linear value chain model. The challenge extends to "invisible" functional polymers in liquid formulations, such as adhesives, lubricants, thickeners or dispersants. While structural plastics must be either collected and recycled via a technical pathway at the end of life, non-collectable, dispersed polymer applications can be addressed in the biosphere loop. Advances in polymer chemistry, processing and mechanistic understanding open the way to addressing these issues comprehensively by designing for recyclability, biodegradability and carbon neutrality.
This talk will highlight current efforts and examples to leverage such approaches at scale and to put the industry on the required path of transformation.
Speaker: Bernhard Ulrich von Vacano, BASF
After Dark: See For Yourself - 10/03/2024 06:00 PM
ExplOratorium San Francisco
At the Exploratorium, Thursday nights are a portal to a new world of fun. Come play with over 700 exhibits that will turn your perspective upside-down - sometimes literally. Investigate your reflection in the Giant Concave Mirror, find the missing colors in our Monochrome Room, and much more, all accompanied by our favorite local ensemble Awesome Orchestra performing spine-tingling scores. Where else would you kick off Halloween season?
NightLife: Puppies and Puppets - 10/03/2024 06:00 PM
California Academy of Sciences San Francisco
NightLife just got a whole lot cuter! Join us for a night of fuzzy fun with Muttville, Ramon Puppetry, and more!
Friday, 10/04/2024
Bair Island Walking Tour - 10/04/2024 10:00 AM
Bair Island Wildlife Refuge & Trail Redwood City
Join Peninsula Open Space Trust for a walking tour at the Bair Island Unit of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge! You’ll be guided by POST ambassadors who will share the history of this beautiful protected space, information about the species that live there, and what you can do to contribute.
This easy 1 mile walk with little to no elevation gain will highlight the wetlands and the marine life that live within, such as: Endangered Ridgeway’s rails and salt marsh harvest mice. Also cottontail rabbits, peregrine falcons, pelicans, egrets, terns, and stilts. We recommend bringing binoculars to catch sight of some of the beautiful birds at Bair Island.
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Geophysics and Planetary Physics Seminar - 10/04/2024 12:00 PM
Earth and Marine Sciences Building Santa Cruz
Speaker: Xing Wei
Functional Roles for Non-Canonical Electronic Structures of Iron-Sulfur Clusters - 10/04/2024 04:00 PM
Latimer Hall Berkeley
Iron-sulfur proteins are found in all kingdoms of life and carry out some of the most kinetically challenging reactions in the biosphere. In this talk, I will discuss my group’s efforts to understand how the remarkable functions of these proteins derive from the unique electronic structures of their iron-sulfur clusters. Emphasis will be placed on the use of synthetic models to understand how iron-sulfur clusters - typically comprised of mid-valent, high-spin iron centers - perform chemistry reminiscent of low-valent iron, specifically in the binding and activation of ? acids such as N2 and CO. The synthetic methodology underlying the research will be discussed, as will the mechanisms of electronic cooperation that enable small molecule activation.
Speaker: Daniel Suess, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
First Friday Nights at Curiodyssey - 10/04/2024 05:00 PM
CuriOdyssey San Mateo
Join us for a Summer Sunset! Dance to some of your favorite pop and rock hits with the band, Right Time! while enjoying animal presentations, authentic Singaporean food from Satay By The Bay, and tacos from Carnitas Aguirre. Kids will imagine, create, and tinker with giant tangrams and maze puzzles!
First Friday: OTHER WORLDS - 10/04/2024 06:00 PM
Chabot Space and Science Center Oakland
Welcome the change of season by exploring what’s up in the sky, what’s going on in space this Autumn. Fun activities for all ages include a DJ Disco DanceParty, Spaceship Runway design your own space fashion, Star Stories on the observation deck, guest speakers, bar in the courtyard and live music, explore the cosmos as a Chabot Astronomer leads you through the galaxy using a Zeiss Universarium Mark VIII Star Projector.
SETI Talks: A Celebration of Science, Art and Stargazing - 10/04/2024 06:00 PM
Chabot Space and Science Center Oakland
In partnership with Chabot Space & Science Center’s First Friday program, this event kicks off a series focused on the Drake Equation. Hosted by Dr. Moiya McTier, the evening will spotlight the first term of the equation: star formation. Attendees can enjoy Sun and stargazing with Dr. Ian Weaver using the Unistellar eVscope, explore an art exhibit, and join a conversation with Forest Stearns, Principal Artist at Google Quantum AI, and Dr. Franck Marchis from the SETI Institute. There will also be a science talk on the latest research about star formation, featuring Dr. Uma Gorti from the SETI Institute and Dr. Jennifer Bergner from UC Berkeley. Families can participate in an interactive activity led by Pamela Harman and Beth Johnson of the SETI Institute.
Speakers: Moiya McTier, astrophysicist; Uma Gorti, SETI; Jenny Bergner, UC Berkeley; Forest Stearns, Google Quantum AI; Franck Marchis, SETI Institute; Pamela Harman, Director of Education; Beth Johnson, SETI Institute
Attend in person. The science talk only will be available online at 7:30. Register at weblink to attend the talk.
Night Owl - 10/04/2024 07:00 PM
Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History Pacific Grove
Night Owl is soaring back to the Museum and bigger than ever! Come ready to meet beautiful owls, enjoy delicious drinks and fantastic food, buy one-of-a-kind goods, and maybe just meet the new (fluffy) love of your life! This year’s Night Owl can’t be missed:
Owl Hour with Antonio Balestreri and his live owls in the garden
Music and Beats by DJ Ice Cream Adventure
A raffle featuring the following prizes:
Paella afternoon cooked in your yard by Chef Brandon Miller for up to 25 people. Available in Monterey County Only on a mutually agreed upon date. Dinner is paella cooking demo and paella served in disposables for 25 with 6 bottles of Chefs Choice of Wine. Value $2,000
Twisted Roots Wine Tasting For 10 in their Tasting Room with the Winemaker and a Cheese and Charcuterie Platter from Platter Perfection for 10 Value $500
Dine Around: $150 to Mezzaluna Pasteria, $150 to Paluca Trattoria, $150 to Haute Enchilada, and $150 to Café Carmel Value $600
Adventure Awaits 2025 - complimentary tickets for four to - Artichoke Festival, Monterey Motorsports Festival, California Rodeo, Chamber Music Monterey Bay 2024/2025 Season and Monterey Symphony 2024.2025 Season
And more!
Delicious BBQ from the Butcher’s Pit (vegetarian options available)
All-you-can eat charcuterie from Platter Perfection
Cookies from Sweet Elena’s
Special Brews from our friends at Alvarado Street Brewery
Tequila Tastings with the Tequila People
Delicious non-alcoholic beverages from the Monterey Tap Truck
Cat and Kitten meet and greet and adoptions with the Animal Friends Rescue Project
Special VIP Hour with an educational owl meet and greet with falconer Antonio Balestreri and catering by chef Brandon Miller, Charcuterie by Platter Perfection, and cookies from Sweet Elena’s, and bubbles by Twisted Roots
Ages 21+
Astrobee! The ISS Robotic Free Flyer - 10/04/2024 08:00 PM
College of San Mateo Bldg 36 San Mateo
The Astrobees are free-flying robots that operate inside the International Space Station (ISS) and were launched to the ISS in 2019. Designed as a mobile camera, an astronaut assistant, and a research platform, they have successfully performed hundreds of activities in space supporting dozens of research projects. The robots were designed to overcome multiple challenges unique to the ISS environment, including safety, upgradeability and maintainability, limited mass and computation, and unique localization challenges from lack of gravity and a constantly changing environment. In the future, robots will play a significant part in NASA’s mission to return to the Moon as well as other deep space missions. Robots such as Astrobee, have the capacity to become caretakers for future spacecraft, working to monitor and keep systems operating smoothly while crew are away. This talk will give an overview of the Astrobee robots, with an emphasis on Astrobee’s development, robotic software, and its successful use on the ISS.
Speaker: Brian Coltin, NASA Ames
Saturday, 10/05/2024
Science in the Park - 10/05/2024 09:00 AM
Cal State East Bay Hayward
Science in the Park is a biennial event hosted by Supervisor Elisa Marquez and created by the late Supervisor Richard Valle. It is an opportunity for the community to learn more about STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math), the environment, and health, while having fun and supporting the school districts in District 2.
This free event includes interactive/hands on activities like building and launching a water rocket, interactive live animal demonstrations, an egg drop contest, a bicycle repair station, free health screenings, and much, much more!
Land x Good Fire: Austin Creek - 10/05/2024 09:00 AM
Austin Creek State Recreation Area Guerneville
Join fellows from Audubon Canyon Ranch's Fire Forward fellowship program for Sonoma County residents to learn about Good Fire.
Join fellows from Audubon Canyon Ranch’s Fire Forward fellowship program for Sonoma County residents to learn about good fire. Land x Good Fire is part of the Resilient Forests and Watersheds Workshops series, funded in part by National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Sonoma County.
Through this series, landowners and managers will feel more empowered to take action on their property by exploring the possibilities and skills needed to reintroduce good fire in a similar environment. Workshops will explore concepts in fire ecology while learning more about what prescribed fire and natural resources work is being conducted nearby.
Each fellow will lead a standalone workshop in different environment types to see how prescribed fire is planned and conducted. These local community leaders across the North Bay are dedicated to learning the intricacies of good fire, increasing the region’s capacity to safely implement prescribed burning in support of healthy ecosystems.
Leader: Ryan Klausch, CA State Parks
Register at weblink
Family Nature Day at Huddart Park - 10/05/2024 09:00 AM
Huddart Park Woodside
Join Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), Friends of Huddart & Wunderlich Parks, San Mateo County Parks, and San Mateo County Health for a family-friendly morning filled with hikes for all ages, hands-on learning experiences and arts activities. Register now to reserve a free ticket for you and your friends and family!
Throughout the day there will be activities that include:
Ongoing kid-friendly walksAn animal artifacts station with skulls, pelts and more!Dissecting owl pelletsArt station making nature-themed “fortune tellers”Coloring sheetsLeaf rubbings
Once you register for the event, we will share more details about where to meet. Snacks and refreshments will be provided, and parking is free.
All children must be accompanied and supervised by an adult guardian at all times.
Registration will be organized by 1-hour time slots with a recommended visit time of 1.5 hours for each family attending. We encourage families to enjoy other areas of Huddart Park once your participation in the event has concluded!
Event in Oak Picnic Area
Fall Festival - 10/05/2024 09:00 AM
Martial Cottle Park San Jose
Come celebrate our valley's rich agricultural history! The 8th Annual Fall Festival will have local arts, crafts and food, kids activities, agricultural workshops, historical autos, antique farm equipment, live music, food trucks, exhibitors, entertainment, pumpkin patch - and more.
Foothills Family Nature Walk - 10/05/2024 11:00 AM
Foothills Nature Preserve Los Altos
Environmental Volunteers' Family Nature Walks program is designed to help community members get to know our local open space areas. Small 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.
Nike Missile Site Veteran Open House - 10/05/2024 12:00 PM
Nike Missle Site Mill Valley
Veterans of the Nike program come to the site to share their stories with visitors and give guided tours of SF88 between the hours of 12pm - 3pm
The SF-88 Nike Missile Site is the most fully restored Nike missile site in the country. During the tense years of the Cold War, from 1953 to 1979, the United States Army built and operated close to 300 Nike missile sites in the United States. These sites were designed to be the last line of defense against H-Bomb carrying Soviet bombers that had eluded the Air Force's interceptor jet aircrafts. SF-88 in the Marin Headlands was one such site. Today, Golden Gate National Recreation Area works together with a dedicated group of volunteers to preserve the site as it was during operations to remind visitors of the physical and psychological effects of the Cold War on the American landscape.
Starry Nights Star Party - 10/05/2024 07:30 PM
Rancho Canada Del Oro Open Space Preserve Morgan hill
The San Jose Astronomical Association (SJAA), working with the Santa Clara County Open Space Authority (OSA), is glad to co-host a public star party at Rancho Canada del Oro (RCDO) Open Space Preserve. This site, just 30 minutes south of downtown San Jose, features dark skies. It's dark enough to see the band of our Milky Way galaxy in the summer.
Do not bring your own telescope (binoculars are welcome, but please no tripods). SJAA club members will set up their telescopes to help star party guests get the most knowledge and enjoyment out of the dark night sky.
Sunday, 10/06/2024
Blue Innovation - 10/06/2024 11:00 AM
Seymour Marine Discovery Center Santa Cruz
Are you passionate about protecting our ocean and water sources? Join us for a day full of inspirational exhibits and lightning talks from researchers, nonprofits, and businesses who are tackling water and ocean concerns. Enjoy food, live bands, and art from local artists as you learn about the newest research and technologies that are better helping us to understand the impacts of climate change on the oceans, our local coastlines, and global water sources. Learn more and get your FREE ticket to attend at: bit.ly/bi24tix
Solar Observing - 10/06/2024 02:00 PM
San Jose Astronomical Association San Jose
It's there for us year round, lighting our days and providing energy for our lives, so maybe it's time to give it a closer look. Join SJAA for amazing and detailed views of the Sun, and be assured that we'll be using special telescopes that will keep your eyeballs perfectly safe.
We'll have white-light telescopes with dense solar filters that reveal sunspots. Further, we'll show you hydrogen-alpha telescopes that isolate a very specific color of red that reveals prominences (often thought of as solar flares) and intricate texture within the Sun's chromosphere (its atmosphere).
We can also share with you a little about how the Sun works and how complex magnetic fields drive the number of sunspots and prominences that we'll see on a given day.
Around 2:15, we'll have a short, informal introductory talk, and at other times, you can enjoy the views and ask questions about the Sun, telescopes, or astronomy in general.
We're also planning station for your get a better feel for a huge scale of our solar system! And you'll get a solar system you can fold up and carry in your pocket.
You may bring your own telescope. If you have a properly filtered white light or H-alpha telescope and want to share views with others, please arrive at 1:30 or earlier, so you have time to set up before the event officially starts.
Monday, 10/07/2024
Naturalized Honey Bees in the Americas: A 7-year Research Project at the Galbreath Wildlands Preserve - 10/07/2024 12:00 PM
Sonoma State University - Biology Colloquium Rohnert Park
Speaker: Michael Thiele, Apis Arborea
UC Berkeley Condensed Matter Seminar - 10/07/2024 02:30 PM
Physics North Berkeley
Speaker: Margarita Davydova, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wave-like dark matter: A sea-change - 10/07/2024 03:30 PM
Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) Colloquium Series Menlo Park
Dark matter is a feebly interacting particle that is thought to compose 85% of the matter content of the Universe. One potential candidate for the dark matter is the axion, a particle so light it exhibits wave-like behavior. At SLAC, we search for axions using ultra-low noise radios immersed in strong magnetic fields. Under these conditions, the axion is expected to create an electromagnetic signal that can read out using sufficiently low noise amplifiers. Recent advancements in the field of quantum information science have enabled the technology to enhance and measure such a weak signal. I will discuss recent progress made by the DMRadio and ADMX collaborations and the role of SLAC in the future of axion searches.
Speaker: Chelsea Bartram, SLAC
Attend in person or online (see weblink for Zoom information)
Note location change
UC Berkeley Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar - 10/07/2024 04:00 PM
Stanley Hall Berkeley
Speaker: John Rubenstein, University of Toronto
Dark Matter of the Human Proteome - 10/07/2024 04:00 PM
James H. Clark Center (Bldg 340) Stanford
Speaker: Sarah Slavoff, Yale University
Room: Auditorium
What Physicists Do - 10/07/2024 04:00 PM
Sonoma State University - What Physicists Do Rohnert Park
Speakers: Madison Ambriz, Bahareh Adami Ardestani, Merlin Goddard, and Aaron Russell, Sonoma State University
UC Berkeley Physics Colloquia - 10/07/2024 04:30 PM
Physics North Berkeley
Speaker: TBA
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Sun's Atmosphere - 10/07/2024 07:30 PM
California Academy of Sciences San Francisco
The Sun, our nearest star, is more than just a blazing ball of fire. Its atmosphere, hotter than its already scorching surface, presents a puzzle that has intrigued scientists for years. How does the Sun's magnetic field heat its chromosphere to 10,000 degrees - and its corona to more than a million degrees? This enigma holds significant implications for Earth, as the Sun's corona hosts powerful explosions and eruptions that can trigger space weather events affecting our technology-dependent society. From mesmerizing auroras to disruptions in communication systems and satellite operations, the Sun's activity touches our daily lives in unexpected ways.
This talk will delve into the recent strides made in understanding the Sun's atmospheric dynamics. Thanks to breakthrough observations from space-based telescopes such as NASA's IRIS and SDO, coupled with advancements in supercomputing, we are gaining deeper insights into the mechanisms driving solar heating. Moreover, we will explore the upcoming frontier in solar research, with future observatories including NASA's MUlti-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) mission poised to revolutionize our understanding of the Sun's behavior and its impact on our planet and beyond.
Speaker: Bard De Pontieu, Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory
Tuesday, 10/08/2024
Einstein without Tears - 6 week course - 10/08/2024 12:30 PM
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Supporting the Health and Wellbeing of Healthcare Workers - 10/08/2024 12:40 PM
Berkeley Way West Berkeley
Scale-dependent Elastic Constants in Mutilated Sheets and Shells - Rescheduled - 10/08/2024 03:30 PM
Hewlett Teaching Center Stanford
Shedding nano-light on quantum materials - 10/08/2024 03:30 PM
Hewlett Teaching Center Stanford
UC Berkeley Physical Chemistry Seminar - 10/08/2024 04:00 PM
Latimer Hall Berkeley
Open Night & Networking Event | Assembling Intelligence: Hybrid Strategies for AI, Art, and Design - 10/08/2024 06:00 PM
swissnex San Francisco San Francisco
The Geography of Hope: Using GIS to Change the World - 10/08/2024 07:00 PM
Computer History Museum Mountain View
Wednesday, 10/09/2024
Retrieval Systems for Structured Data: the critical missing piece for grounding LLM-driven query interfaces in factual data - 10/09/2024 12:00 PM
Sutardja Dai Hall Berkeley
Under pressure: Gaining insight into magmatic plumbing systems using Raman Spectroscopy and Open-Source codes - 10/09/2024 12:00 PM
Earth and Marine Sciences Building Santa Cruz
Bodega Marine Lab Seminar - Livestream - 10/09/2024 03:00 PM
Bodega Marine Laboratory
Illuminating the Dark Matter of the Genome - 10/09/2024 03:00 PM
Li Ka Shing Center Berkeley
The Postdevelopmental State: Situating the Project of Economic Democracy in Contemporary South Korea - 10/09/2024 03:30 PM
McCone Hall Berkeley
Producing Geologic Hydrogen: a Niche or of Strategic Relevance in the Energy Transition? - 10/09/2024 04:30 PM
Stanford University Energy Seminar Stanford
Profound and Staggering: The Impact on Religion of the Potential Discovery of Life Around Other Stars - Livestream - 10/09/2024 07:00 PM
Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series
We Love Our Wetlands! The Future of the San Francisco Estuary - 10/09/2024 07:30 PM
Marin Science Seminar San Rafael
Thursday, 10/10/2024
Coastal Walk at Cowell-Purisima Trail - 10/10/2024 10:00 AM
Cowell Ranch Beach Access Parking Lot Half Moon Bay
Silicon Valley leaders Symposium - 10/10/2024 12:00 PM
Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium San Jose
UC Berkeley Integrative Biology Seminar - 10/10/2024 12:30 PM
Valley Life Sciences Building Berkeley
Cognitive Challenges in Modern Grids - 10/10/2024 01:30 PM
Environment and Energy Building (Y2E2) Stanford
Failed WD Supernovae - 10/10/2024 03:30 PM
Physics North Berkeley
After Dark: Life Cycle - 10/10/2024 06:00 PM
ExplOratorium San Francisco
NightLife - 10/10/2024 06:00 PM
California Academy of Sciences San Francisco
Daytime Darkness: How Total Eclipses Influence Changes in Animals - and Humans - Livestream - 10/10/2024 06:30 PM
Bay Area Skeptics
Raptor Quest: Chasing America's Raptors - Livestream - 10/10/2024 07:00 PM
Marin Audubon Socitey
Primordial Pathway: A Legacy of Ancient Life on Earth - 10/10/2024 07:00 PM
Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) Public Lecture Series Menlo Park
Friday, 10/11/2024
Is The European Green Deal at a Crossroads? - 10/11/2024 11:00 AM
Philosophy Hall Berkeley
Geophysics and Planetary Physics Seminar - 10/11/2024 12:00 PM
Earth and Marine Sciences Building Santa Cruz
Generative AI and Digital Literacies: Affordances and Constraints for Language Learning - Livestream - 10/11/2024 03:00 PM
Dwinelle Hall Berkeley
High Turnover Frequency Earth-Abundant Metal Catalysis - 10/11/2024 04:00 PM
Latimer Hall Berkeley
Sonoma State Public Astronomy Viewing Nights - 10/11/2024 07:30 PM
Sonoma State University Public Astronomy Rohnert Park
Saturday, 10/12/2024
Hike at Windy Hill - 10/12/2024 09:00 AM
Windy Hill Open Space Preserve Portola Valley
Gem & Mineral Show - 10/12/2024 10:00 AM
Redwood City Community Activities Building Redwood City
Family Nature Adventures: Night Prowl: Secrets of Local Owls - 10/12/2024 10:30 AM
Chabot Space and Science Center Oakland
An Earthquake Crawl of the East Bay - 10/12/2024 11:00 AM
Arroyo Agua Caliente Park Playground Fremont
Science on Tap: Impacts of Nuclear Testing - 10/12/2024 06:00 PM
Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History Pacific Grove
City Public Star Party - RESCHEDULED - 10/12/2024 07:00 PM
City Star Parties - Tunnel Tops Park San Francisco
Jazz Under the Stars - 10/12/2024 07:00 PM
College of San Mateo Bldg 36 San Mateo
Sunday, 10/13/2024
Family Hike - 10/13/2024 10:00 AM
Chabot Space and Science Center Oakland
Gem & Mineral Show - 10/13/2024 10:00 AM
Redwood City Community Activities Building Redwood City
Estuary & Ocean Science Center Marine Lab Open House - 10/13/2024 11:00 AM
Estuary & Ocean Science Center Tiburon
Monday, 10/14/2024
Magnon sound waves - 10/14/2024 02:30 PM
Physics North Berkeley
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Quixotic Search for Natural Quasicrystals - 10/14/2024 03:30 PM
Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) Colloquium Series Menlo Park
UC Berkeley Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar - 10/14/2024 04:00 PM
Stanley Hall Berkeley
One Path to an Astronomy Outreach Career - 10/14/2024 04:00 PM
Sonoma State University - What Physicists Do Rohnert Park
UC Berkeley Physics Colloquia - 10/14/2024 04:30 PM
Physics North Berkeley