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2013 Schedule so far

Posted in Upcoming Events, tagged , , , , , on December 20, 2012| 3 Comments »

Philip has been working up the schedule for 2013 and this is what we have so far. Hope to see you up at the Randall in the not too distant future.

Lectures are always at 7:30pm — FREE — at the Randall Museum Theater, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA

March 21 – San Francisco Under your Feet – Geologist Jean DeMouthe, will take us through our local geologic history. We start with the big picture beginning in the Mesozoic Era (Dinosaurs) and end with what lies under our city today. Local rock types and fossils will be illustrated and discussed.

April 18 – Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Great Blue Heron Colony in GG Park – Nancy DeStefanis, Director of SF Nature Education, will speak on the 20th Anniversary of the first nesting pair of the Great Blue Herons at Stow Lake in GG Park. DeStefanis discovered the first nest in 1993, and has monitored and studied the behaviors of the herons since then.

May 16 – Rethinking Invasive Species in San Francisco Bay: could a new non-native mud shrimp be good for the sub-tidal ecosystem? Michael McGowan, fisheries oceanographer and aquatic ecologist, will discuss how an invasive species may actually be beneficial.

June 20 – Stories in the Sand – Author Lorri Ungaretti, will guide us through the quick development of the Sunset District from “inaccessible” sand dunes to a city suburb. Her talk is based on her books, Stories in the Sand: San Francisco’s Sunset District, 1847-1964 and Then & Now: San Francisco’s Sunset District.

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Next Lecture: November 15th – Everything Explained

Posted in Upcoming Events on October 31, 2012|

Joel Pomerantz volunteered to take over our November 15th spot (Laura Cunningham had to cancel, but we hope to reschedule her for next year). Joel , our local nature historian, will share a dozen or more secret windows into San Francisco’s natural history and infrastructure such as whether Twin Peaks were always, or will always be, twins. Find out how City Hall was designed, then redesigned, to withstand quakes, why the Highway One tunnel through the Presidio isn’t really a tunnel, and of course, Joel’s main research, a little SF water history.

Joel is a writer and educator who has been delighting in the discovery of the hidden nooks and crannies of SF’s past and present. He’s spoken with us a couple times in the past (on underground streams and the history of transportation in Golden Gate Park). You can learn more about him on his website: http://www.joelpomerantz.com/

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Next Lecture: Oct 18 – The UNnatural History of San Francisco Bay

Posted in Upcoming Events, tagged , on October 8, 2012|

The UNnatural History of San Francisco Bay
Guest Speaker: Ariel Rubissow Okamoto and Kathleen M. Wong
7:30pm, Thursday, October 18th, 2012
FREE at the Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 

Natural History of San Francisco Bay Book CoverJournalist and author Ariel Rubissow Okamoto and science writer Kathleen M. Wong will answer a few burning questions from their new book Natural History of San Francisco Bay: How do you “make” a wetland if you’re not Mother Nature? If you throw a dead body of the GG Bridge where will it end up? Why splashing in the surf off Crown Beach might you give something like poison oak?

The book itself “delves into an array of topics including fish and wildlife, ocean and climate cycles, endangered and invasive species, and the path from industrialization to environmental restoration.”

> Get the book: Natural History of San Francisco Bay
> more about Ariel
> more about Kathleen

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Next Lecture: Sep 20th – Bay Area Life Cycles

Posted in Upcoming Events, tagged , , , on August 25, 2012|

Bay Area Life Cycles
Guest Speaker: Becky Jaffe
7:30pm, Thursday, September 20th, 2012
FREE at the Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 

Photographer and naturalist Becky Jaffe will discuss the Bay Area’s seasonal wildlife migrations and offer tips on the best local observation sites. She will illustrate her talk with photographs that unite a biologist’s curiosity with an artist’s sensibility.

You can find some more of her wonderful photography on Flickr. She currently has a show (through Sep 1) at the Bone Room in Berkeley, and will be presenting a show on insect photography at the Berkeley Camera Club on Sept 25th.

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Next Lecture: Aug 16th – Wild Foods Foraging, the Good, the Bad, and The Ugly

Posted in Upcoming Events, tagged , , on July 30, 2012|

Wild Foods Foraging, the Good, the Bad, and The Ugly
Guest Speaker: Jonah Raskin
7:30pm, Thursday, August 16th, 2012
FREE at the Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 

Foraging is making a comeback, with ever more people eager to find food in the wild. But with a growing population and diminishing natural resources, is it a sustainable practice? Jonah Raskin, author of books and articles about food, farming, and agriculture, will address this issue.

Jonah Raskin is the author of 14 books, including most recently, “Field Days: A Year of Farming, Eating, and Drinking Wine in California” and “Marijuanaland: Dispatches from an American War.” He has written about the ethics of foraging for Bay Nature.

You can read more about this in a Bay Nature article from Apr/June of 2012: The Forager’s Dilemma.

I don't know if these mushroom as editable at all, but they looked delicious.

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Next Lecture: July 19th – San Francisco’s Thriving Ravens

Posted in Upcoming Events, tagged , , on July 9, 2012|

City Hall Raven Nest

San Francisco’s Thriving Ravens
Guest Speaker: Adrian Cotter
7:30pm, Thursday, July 19th, 2012
FREE at the Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 

Adrian Cotter started observing common ravens (corvus corax) after unexpectedly coming across a nest on a federal courthouse a few years ago. Since then, he’s sought them out and observed them in great roosts from San Bruno mountain to the Golden Gate, and watched them rear their young on trees and buildings around the city.

He’s come to understand some of the challenges that they face and the ones that they create for us, while getting a better understanding of the ebb and flow of their lives: when and where they nest, how densely they nest, where the juveniles hang out, where do they sleep, how they deal with crows, hawks, and other birds, and more…

Come learn more about the lives of our local resident ravens — and learn to tell a crow from raven.

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Next Lecture: June 21st – In Search of Eradicated Landscapes

Posted in Upcoming Events, tagged , , , , on May 31, 2012|

The Development of the Two Ends of the Great San Francisco Dune Fields
In Search of Eradicated Landscapes
Guest Speaker: Glenn Lym
7:30pm, Thursday, June 21st, 2012
FREE at the Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 

The Development of the Two Ends of the Great San Francisco Dune Fields: geographic histories of Golden Gate Park and South of the Slot

Architect Glenn Lym will speak and show off parts of the 3D CAD model he’s been working on of early SF topography, roughly 1850 through 1890. Talk includes short video of the history of GG Park.

Glenn will begin with a look at the history of Golden Gate Park through a 20 minute video, and will move on to a live presentation of material related to the development of Market Street — how the the flatlands of SoMa, Union Square and the Tenderloin and were created.  Materials include period photography, current and CAD based videos.

More about Glenn on his website.

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Next Lecture: May 17th – Saving San Bruno Mountain: Past, Present, & Future

Posted in Upcoming Events on May 9, 2012|

San Bruno Mountain from the airSaving San Bruno Mountain: Past, Present, & Future
Guest Speaker: David Schooley
7:30pm, Thursday, May 17th, 2012
FREE at the Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 

David Schooley has been leading hikes focusing on the nature, history and native culture of San Bruno Mountain for thirty years. He is one of the founders of San Bruno Mountain Watch, an environmental activist group dedicated to saving the mountain from development.

Find out more about San Bruno Mountain Watch.

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The UNnatural History of San Francisco Bay (delayed)

Posted in Upcoming Events, tagged , , , , , , on April 30, 2012|

The lecture below originally scheduled for May 17th, 2012, has been postponed. The speaker, Ariel Rubissow Okamoto, is not able to come speak this month due to unforeseen circumstances.  We hope to have her later in the year. 

The UNnatural History of San Francisco Bay
Guest Speaker:  Ariel Rubissow Okamoto

Date TBD

Journalist and author Ariel Rubissow Okamoto will answer a few burning questions from her new book Natural History of San Francisco Bay: How do you “make” a wetland if you’re not Mother Nature? If you throw a dead body of the GG Bridge where will it end up? Why splashing in the surf off Crown Beach might you give something like poison oak?

Ariel Rubissow Okamoto is a freelance writer living in San Francisco, who has been writing about environmental issues for 25 years, more recently specializing in California water issues. You can find out more about Natural History of San Francisco Bay here.

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Next Lecture: Landscapes & Life Studies: Sketching SF’s Wild Areas

Posted in Upcoming Events on April 8, 2012|

a small detail from the larger pieceRunning Landscapes/Life Studies –
A Year of Sketching San Francisco’s Wild Areas
Guest Speaker:  Nancy King & Mary Swanson
7:30pm, Thursday, April 19th, 2012
FREE at the Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA

Last year, I was in an art contest (a fundraiser for SFLCV) with Nancy King & Mary Swanson. But really it was no contest. Their 16′ long panoramic drawing covering nine of San Francisco’s habitats with their birds, animals and plants is fantastically gorgeous.

They’ll share how their art connected them with nature and how time spent drawing the familiar transformed the common into the extraordinary.

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