Posted in Upcoming Events, tagged bay, environment, lecture, sea level rise, wetland, wetland restoration on February 7, 2013|
February 21, 2013 – Changing the face of San Francisco Bay
7:30pm, FREE, at the Randall Museum
Guest Speaker: Arthur Feinstein, Chair
Arthur Feinstein, Chair of the Bay Area chapter of the Sierra Club, examines the largest wetland restoration effort on the west coast – the challenges of sea level rise, saving endangered species, and answering the question as to what we can do about it and how it will make a difference in our lives.
A wetland amidst industry
Posted in Upcoming Events, tagged bay, book, guest speaker, lecture, san francisco, upcoming, water 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.
Posted in Upcoming Events, tagged bay, fish, green sturgeon, guest speaker, lecture, san francisco, san francisco bay, sturgeon, upcoming, white sturgeon on February 29, 2012|
Return of the Harbor Porpoises
Guest Speaker: Bill Keener
7:30pm, Thursday, March 15th, 2012
FREE at the Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA
Bill Keener, cofounder of Golden Gate Cetacean Research, created to study the porpoise, will tell us of their disappearance by the 1940′s, the mystery of their unexpected return in recent years, and how you can help by reporting your porpoise sightings.
Bill’s experience includes work as a field observer for the harbor porpoise population study in the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary from 1987-1989. He is an environmental lawyer and the former Executive Director of the Marine Mammal Center.
Read more about Bill and porpoises in Bay Nature magazine, Jul-Sep 2011, Safe Harbor, Welcoming Porpoises Back to San Francisco Bay.
Posted in Upcoming Events, tagged bay, fish, green sturgeon, guest speaker, lecture, san francisco, san francisco bay, sturgeon, upcoming, white sturgeon on January 31, 2012| 2 Comments »
The Sturgeon in San Francisco Bay:
How critical can a 10,000 year old Bay be for a 100 million year old fish?
Guest Speaker: Michael McGowan
7:30pm, Thursday, February 16th, 2012
FREE at the Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA
Michael McGowan, fisheries oceanographer and aquatic ecologist, will discuss his research on how the ecology of the green and white sturgeon differ in their life history and in how they use the Bay.
White sturgeon are the largest fresh water fish in North America that can live over a hundred years and can grow to 20 feet long, and weigh 1500lbs. (more info)
Green sturgeon, up to 7 feet long and 350lbs, seem to be a little more mysterious on the web, they are probably migratory salt water fish that probably spawn in fresh water. (more info)
Michael will fill in the details for us.
SF Natural History Series 