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Mar 19th – Joel Pomerantz: The Most Extreme Storms Yet

Posted in Upcoming Events, tagged , , on November 6, 2014|

The Most Extreme Storms Yet
Guest Speaker: Joel Pomerantz
7:30pm, Thursday, Mar 19th, 2015
FREE at the Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 

Joel will share his research on the weather disaster that determined so much of what’s around you today. In early 1862 the sky dumped upwards of ten feet of rain in the mountains (about four feet in San Francisco). In the middle of that, there was a hard freeze for a week down to sea level. Thousands died. No previous research has done so much to connect the dots. Come learn about the widespread disaster that spanned more than four states (before all were states), changed the course of rivers, destroyed the California economy and brought in invasive grasses, among other stunning details.

Sacramento in Flood

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Feb 19th – SF Carbon Cycles, Humans & the Climate

Posted in Upcoming Events, tagged , , on November 3, 2014|

SF Carbon Cycles, Humans & the Climate
Guest Speaker: John Wick
7:30pm, Thursday, Feb 19th, 2015
FREE at the Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 

John Wick, Co-founder of the Marin Carbon Project, is making great strides in organizing around soil carbon sequestration with everyone from the ranch house to the White House.Come hear what you can do, what the city is doing now, and how the Randall Museum will be part of a demonstration project on carbon cycling.

We’ll discuss the whole carbon cycle with an eye to making informed changes in our management of carbon: human nutrition, organic waste streams, soil health, water, wealth & economics, and carbon credit protocols.

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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: March 15th – Return of the Harbor Porpoises

Posted in Upcoming Events, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 29, 2012|

picture from Golden Gate Cetacean

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.

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Next Lecture: February 16th – The Sturgeon in SF Bay

Posted in Upcoming Events, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 31, 2012| 2 Comments »

White Sturgeon in San Francisco Bay

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.

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