What triggers the sudden, magnificent movements of the aurorae, the beautiful "Northern Lights" that appear around the far poles of the earth? It's been a nagging question of space science for decades. It's known they're caused by space "substorms" (releases of accumulated energy in the magnetic field around the earth). But there's a debate about where they're set off - close to the earth and moving away from it, or away from the earth and moving toward it. UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory is heading a mission to find out. Taking its name from the Greek goddess of justice, THEMIS is the final judge. It's the first mission to launch five satellites together, lining them in space like buoys in...
eCHEM 1A: Online General Chemistry
College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/echem1a
Curriculum and ChemQuizzes developed by Dr. Mark Kubinec and Professor Alexander Pines
Chemical Demonstrations by Lonnie Martin
Video Production by Jon Schainker and Scott Vento
Developed with the support of The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
eCHEM 1A: Online General Chemistry
College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/echem1a
Curriculum and ChemQuizzes developed by Dr. Mark Kubinec and Professor Alexander Pines
Chemical Demonstrations by Lonnie Martin
Video Production by Jon Schainker and Scott Vento
Developed with the support of The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Environmental Economics and Policy C115, 001 - Fall 2014
Modeling and Management of Biological Resources - Wayne Marcus Getz
Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Moderated discussion within the panel on "Water, Climate, Food, and Population: Food, Population, and Security." Moderated by: Greg Dalton, Climate One Radio.
UC Berkeley's 2013 Philomathia Symposium on Water, Climate, and Society: Challenges and Strategies in a Rapidly Changing World