Science Laboratories of Practical Education

04/16/2023

SLOPE microscopist Peter Werner will be presenting a talk on "Mushrooms of Ireland" in Berkeley this coming Wednesday 4/19 and again in a few weeks in Redwood City. Peter lived in Ireland for several years during and after earning his MSc degree in Microscopy and Imaging at University of Galway and was very active in local mycology while living there.

Talk description and details:

Ireland is blessed with an abundance of rainfall and a diversity of habitat that give the Emerald Isle a rich and diverse abundance of mycota. This presentation will discuss the mushrooms found in the woodlands, demesnes, burrens, grasslands, and heaths of Ireland and the burgeoning mycological milieu in Ireland today.

First talk: Bay Area Mycological Society, Berkeley, Wed, April 19
1002 Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
April 19, 2023, Wednesday, 7:30 – 9:30 pm
https://goo.gl/maps/5T1xAjrc5QXe97xz7
http://bayareamushrooms.org/calendar.html

Second talk: Peninsula Mycological Circle, Redwood City, Tu, May 2
Redwood City Downtown Public Library, 2nd floor, Community Room, 1044 Middlefield Rd, Redwood City, CA 94063
May 2, 2023, Tuesday, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
https://goo.gl/maps/2TXF9XZmDWrvwZms6

04/15/2023

Debuting our curriculum in mushroom extracts this weekend with Emily Davis and Ian Bollinger from the CMA. Want to get certified to evaluate solvant extracts of medicinal mushrooms? Join us in our May and June classes!

05/30/2022

THE DIATOMIST is a short documentary about Klaus Kemp, master of the Victorian art of diatom arrangement. Diatoms are single cell algae that create jewel-like…

05/10/2022

Ran across some tunicate eggs in today's Pacific Plankton sample from San Francisco Bay! Beautiful! Katie Noonan from the Lake Merritt Rotary Nature Center Friends stopped by to take a peek as well! Join us in person or virtually May 19 7pm for Bioembroidery with Laura Tandeske, May 29th 1030am and May 31st 7pm for Mycelial Mass and you can see these with your own eyes!

For more info on upcoming events check out Super Good Labs https://meetu.ps/c/4tZcN/9dsc4/d on Meetup

And

Mycelial Mass Mushroom Meetup https://meetu.ps/c/4txMw/9dsc4/d on Meetup

05/01/2022

Reminder that tomorrow, Sunday 5/1 is our May Day Microblitz!

May Day Microblitz!

At Super Good Labs on Sunday 5/1 from 1pm to 6pm, SF Microscopical Society will be holding a day of microbial sampling and microphotography as part of City Nature Challenge 2022. We'll be examing fresh and saltwater samples from the SF Bay Area under the microscope and uploading photos of these to iNaturalist. These photos will be our contribution to the larger City Nature Challenge 2022 bioblitz taking place from 4/29 to 5/2, documening of our local biodiversity as part of a worldwide event.

If you're interested in hidden corners of the natural world, come by and have a look - no prior experience in microscopy needed! No need to bring anything, but if you want to, bring an aquatic sample (pond water, tide pool, etc), or a sample of other microbial realms, such as topsoil, moss thickets, used air filters, etc. And if you happen to have a microscope with a camera you can bring, please do, as we'll be able to get even that many more images to document our microbial diversity.

Super Good Labs is located at Circuit Launch, 8000 Edgewater Dr Suite #200 (top floor), Oakland, CA 94621: https://goo.gl/maps/qbS8AiCLbAFoVAu89

(Doors will be open at the beginning of the event, but later arrivals will need to phone the number posted on the door to be let in.)

We might also be broadcasting the event on Zoom or Twitch, details forthcoming.

More info:

City Nature Challenge 2022: https://citynaturechallenge.org/
SF Microscopical Society: https://sfmicrosociety.org/
Super Good Labs: https://www.mariogabiati.com/supergoodlabs

04/28/2022

Our event: What can you see with microscope?
4/30 11am-4pm
Come explore the microscopic world around you. Everyday you walk by thousands of invisible animals, plants and other creatures. What do they look like? You have to use a microscope to see!

Hope to see you there!

More info about CSUEB Discover Day is here:
https://www.csueastbay.edu/science-festival/
Location:
https://goo.gl/maps/34MBCnuJZU7RniCSA

https://www.facebook.com/sfmicrosoc/posts/7682071438477270

This Saturday!

FREE!

Brought to you by California State University, East Bay and the Bay Area Science Festival
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¡Este sábado!

¡GRATIS!

Patricinado por la universidad CSUEB y el festival de ciencias de la bahía.

04/26/2022

May Day Microblitz!

At Super Good Labs on Sunday 5/1 from 1pm to 6pm, SF Microscopical Society will be holding a day of microbial sampling and microphotography as part of City Nature Challenge 2022. We'll be examing fresh and saltwater samples from the SF Bay Area under the microscope and uploading photos of these to iNaturalist. These photos will be our contribution to the larger City Nature Challenge 2022 bioblitz taking place from 4/29 to 5/2, documening of our local biodiversity as part of a worldwide event.

If you're interested in hidden corners of the natural world, come by and have a look - no prior experience in microscopy needed! No need to bring anything, but if you want to, bring an aquatic sample (pond water, tide pool, etc), or a sample of other microbial realms, such as topsoil, moss thickets, used air filters, etc. And if you happen to have a microscope with a camera you can bring, please do, as we'll be able to get even that many more images to document our microbial diversity.

Super Good Labs is located at Circuit Launch, 8000 Edgewater Dr Suite #200 (top floor), Oakland, CA 94621: https://goo.gl/maps/qbS8AiCLbAFoVAu89

(Doors will be open at the beginning of the event, but later arrivals will need to phone the number posted on the door to be let in.)

We might also be broadcasting the event on Zoom or Twitch, details forthcoming.

More info:

City Nature Challenge 2022: https://citynaturechallenge.org/
SF Microscopical Society: https://sfmicrosociety.org/
Super Good Labs: https://www.mariogabiati.com/supergoodlabs

04/25/2022

Local Science Educators & Community!
BioLink Depot offers F R E E lab supplies for your class. Volunteer your time to give back to the community so we can keep educating our future in

04/24/2022

Today we’re setting up the microscopes that we’ll have at our booth at the at Oracle Park on Sunday (4/24) between 11am-4pm. We hope to see you there!

04/08/2022

🤖TOMORROW TOMORROW TOMORROW 🤖
Join Super Good Labs and our resident microscope expert Peter G Werner (https://ie.linkedin.com/in/pgwerner) for our new event to help you get ready for the Bay Area Science Festival; The Microscope Car Wash!! On Thursday, April 7th 1:30-5:30pm.

Do you want to know how how to properly clean and maintain your microscope? Perhaps you have an old scope you need some help making minor adjustments? Maybe you left the dust cover off and you can't get the dust out? BRING YOUR MICROSCOPE TO THE LAB! Peter will lead you through all the steps and necessary equipment to clean, maintain, revive and repair your own microscope! If you don't have your own scope but still want to learn, sign up and you can help clean one of the scopes on loan from the San Francisco Microscopical Society!

Link in Bio 🔬