Tag: "oakland"
Eucalyptus: Fuel for Fire
Twenty years ago this week, a fire ripped through the Oakland and Berkeley hills, taking 25 lives and burning more than 3,000 homes. Eucalyptus trees, leaf litter, and long peels of bark were fuel for the fire.
Post on Oct 17, 2011 by Jennifer Skene from QUEST Northern California
Polishing Oakland's Crown Jewel: Lake Merritt Reborn
Oakland's Historic Lake Merritt is in the midst of a multimillion dollar face lift.
Post on Aug 20, 2010 by Amy Miller
Oakland Teachers Scope Out What Galileo Saw
Oakland teachers receive Galileoscopes, enabling them to share with their students the Universe as Galileo first saw it.
Post on Nov 06, 2009 by Ben Burress
Bay Bridge Rising
Bay Bridge construction and engineering brought to life by the award winning website baybridge360.
Post on Jul 09, 2009 by Dan Gillick
Holistic Help for Hornbills
They're handsome, they're huge, they mate for life and they are endangered.
Post on Jun 03, 2009 by Amy Gotliffe
Snows of the Solar System
Snow is quite unusual for the Oakland Hills. Is snow so unusual for the rest of the solar system?
Post on Dec 19, 2008 by Ben Burress
Young Einsteins found in Oakland
School groups tour the Oakland Schools Science Fair projects at Chabot. Ben Burress, Chabot Space & Science CenterIt's the time of year again that I get a chance to peruse what our scientific-minded youth are thinking on questions of the physical world and universe around us: Oakland Unified School District Science Fair! The science projects [...]
Post on May 25, 2008 by Ben Burress
Mittens for Bears and Other Tales
Why do Moon Bears need you to knit? Once upon a time in the far away land of Hong Kong, a woman named Jill Robinson discovered that beautiful moon bears where being held captive in tiny cages in China and farmed (through their bellies) as a living source for bear bile, which is used in [...]
Post on May 07, 2008 by Amy Gotliffe
Equinox Season
It's approaching that time of year again: Spring Equinox. The blaze in my home's interior hallway has been signaling this for the last week. The shadow of Chabot's "solar clock" at noon on the equinox produces a pattern of solid green straddling the gnomonI noticed late in the afternoon a couple days ago that the [...]
Post on Mar 14, 2008 by Ben Burress
Oakland's Observatory
The original Oakland Observatory in the 1880’s, at Lafayette Square in Oakland. Credit: Chabot Space & Science Center archives.This year marks an anniversary for the astronomical heritage of Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area: Chabot Observatory turns 125! Originally established as the Oakland Observatory in 1883, the facility was a unique creature from the [...]
Post on Feb 29, 2008 by Ben Burress
Have You Seen My Dog? Top 10 Tips for finding lost pets
Nyla – found safe and soundYesterday, a 10:00 am Text Message from friend stated: My Dog Nyla had disappeared. I could use some help. My reply: Whatever you need. I know what it is like to have a missing pet. When my cat Tucker slipped out two years ago around the winter holidays, I was [...]
Post on Jan 07, 2008 by Amy Gotliffe
Death Valley Nights
There's nothing like a trip away from the city lights to remind you just how bad light pollution can be here in the Bay Area. The Milky Way in the skies of Death Valley's Devil's Racetrack. Credit: Dan Duriscoe, U.S. National Park ServiceI just got back from my semi-yearly pilgrimage to my favorite spot on [...]
Post on Jan 04, 2008 by Ben Burress
Mollusk Madness: can we collect shells responsibly?
Listen! You can hear the sounds of the ocean, but is it getting quieter? Last week while snorkeling in Roatan, Hondoruas, I came face to face with a Conch. Not a shiny shell in a gift shop, but a moving creature, shuffling along the sea floor, munching on grasses and just being a mollusk. I [...]
Post on Dec 19, 2007 by Amy Gotliffe
Postcards from Mars
Picture of the edge of Victoria Crater superimposed with image of the rover Opportunity. Credit: NASA/JPLMars is not only on the horizon, it's become a sky-high creature of the night…and so, it's time to blog about the Red Planet once again, and to showcase a few favorite pictures from the veteran robots presently exploring that [...]
Post on Dec 07, 2007 by Ben Burress
Fur is Flying – Bay Area Bats* in peril
Look! Up in the night sky! It's a bird! It's a bloodsucker! No, it is a beneficial friend, the bat! Bats have been around for about 50 million years and are among the earth's oldest animals: they also are some of the most misunderstood. Because they are nocturnal and strange looking, people have associated bats [...]
Post on Oct 25, 2007 by Amy Gotliffe
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