Community Outreach - Special Events


This page collects other Cabrillo Astronomy efforts to engage the wider community. These, like most on my site, are linked only if there's digital photos - i.e. since '05 when we got our camera. Special events don't always fit into the other community outreach categories. Events such as...

Nov 8, 2006 - The Transit of Mercury

Feb 20, 2008 - The Total Lunar Eclipse

May 15, 2008 - Girl Scouts and Parents - Astro Evening

Aug 7, 2008 - Astro Evening for Hidden Falls Camp; Scouts and Parents -

July 16, 2009 - TechTrek Stanford University

Star Party for Pacific Collegiate Charter School (M. Marani)

Sept 3, 2011 - Yosemite Public Star Party at Glacier Point - (photos eventually!)

June 5, 2012 - The Transit of Venus

July 19, 2012 - TechTrek Stanford University

"The 4th Grade Experience" - at Cabrillo Observatory - May 17, 2013

"The 4th Grade Experience" - at Cabrillo Observatory - May 9, 2014

TechTrek Stanford University - July 7, 2014

Sept 2014 - Climate Panel Discussion with Guy McPherson

Sept 2014 - TV Appearance, on Climate Change

Oct 8, 2014 - Lunar Eclipse at Pinnacles National Park

Oct 2014 - STEM Center Open House

Oct 23, 2014 - Solar Eclipse, on the Cabrillo Campus

Jan 17, 2015 - Guest Inteview on KSCO on Climate Change - (click on Shows, and then Jan 17, 2015)

June 14, 2015 - Climate Mobilization Rally

July 15, 2015 - Pluto-Palooza! At Cabrillo Observatory

Nov 22, 2015 - Climate Change Rally San Lorenzo Park

Dec 7, 2015 - Venus Occultation

Apr 16, 2016 - Earth Day at San Lorenzo Park

Apr 21, 2016 - Interview on UCSC Radio Station KZSC -

Apr 22, 29 2016 - "Backyard Astronomers" Cabrillo Community Ed class -

May 19, 2016 - The Rosemary Greiner Peace Awards -

June 14, 2016 - My Public Lecture: James Hansen et al.'s "Ice Sheets, Sea Level Rise, Superstorms" - at Cabrillo STEM room 806

July 6, 2016 - Native American Runners: Peace and Dignity Journeys in Santa Cruz -

Nov 17, 2016 - My Public Lecture: "Energy, CO2, and Realism in Climate Policy from the Thermodynamics of Civilization"

Dec 11, 2016 - Candle-Light Vigil and Plea to the Electoral College - by Cassandra Brown and I

Jan 16, 2017 - MLK Celebration at the Homeless Garden Project

Apr 20, 2017 - My Public Lecture: "The New Post-IPCC Climate Science - A Darker Frame for our Options" -

Apr 22, 2017 - The "March for Science" - Santa Cruz

May 12, 2017 - Rosemary Greiner Peace Awards

May 20, 2017 - My Public Lecture at Central Coast High Schools Environmental Coalition - "Climate Science - a Few Facts You Probably Didn't Know"

May 24, 2017 - My Climate Lecture at Santa Cruz High School to the Bio and Chem classes, "Climate Change - The Science and What to Do About It"

Aug 25, 2017 - Climate talk to Cabrillo College NAS Division faculty and staff and flex request page

Dec 14, 2017 6:30pm - My Public Talk "Energy, Climate, and Decarbonization: Can We Disobey the Human Imperative?" and flex page

March 1 and April 12, 2018 - Interviewed by Gary Rollinson for Climate documentary, and footage for use in education.

Apr 19, 2018 5:45-8:00pm - My Public Talk "Our Climate Dilemma - The Political/Economic Agenda vs. the Straight Science"

Apr 21, 2018 - "The March for Science" and Earth Day

Oct 25, 2018 - "An Evening of Science, Radio, and the Hubble Space Telescope" at Samper Recital Hall 5:30-9pm

Oct 28, 2018 - Rally at Courthouse in support of "Our Children's Trust" Court Case for Climate Justice. Webpage. YouTube video of event and speakers (2hr video, my short talk is at 40-43 minutes in)

Nov 29, 2018 - "Climate Solutions: A Critical Assessment" - my Fall public climate talk, at the Erica Schilling Forum (Rm 450) Cabrillo College campus. Web Page

Dec 18, 2018 - Observing Occultations for Fun and Science - my talk at the Santa Cruz County Library in Scotts Valley, on occultation astronomy and also on Cabrillo Astro courses

Feb 17, 2019 - Interview on radio KSQD's "Be Bold, America!" show - topic "Why Are We So Angry?" and healthy expression of emotion, vs weaponization of anger in today's America

May 16, 2019 - "Climate Abandoned: Will Human Civilization and its Thermodynamics Allow Sustainability and Climate Stability?" - Public talk on the Cabrillo College Campus

June 8, 2019 - "Climate Abandoned" - A presentation at the La Selva Public Library with Jill Cody

June 30, 2019 Sun 1:30pm-3:00pm - Jill Cody and I speak on our book "Climate Abandoned" at downtown Santa Cruz library.

July 7, 2019 Sunday 7:00 - 8:00pm - Jill Cody and I are interviewed for "Voices from the Village", on Community TV, live, and on YouTube (part 1, part 2)

July 19, 2019 Friday - Letter to the Editor rebuttal to op/ed critical of "climate alarmists" in the Carmel Pinecone Newspaper. See page 9A

Oct 13, 2019 Sunday - Interviewed by Jill Cody on "Be Bold, America" on community radio KSQD 5-6pm; Subject - "The Power of Sound-bites"

Nov 7, 2019 - Thur 6:30pm: I sponsored the venue for former student Hope Forpeace of JK Productions showing the documentary "Blowout" at Erica Schilling Auditorium, with my s Presentation afterwards on methane and climate, and Q/A, and now available on YouTube.

Nov 24, 2019 Sunday - Co-host with Jill Cody on "Be Bold, America" on community radio KSQD 5-6pm; Subject - "On Shakey Foundations"

March 20, 2020 Sunday 5-6pm - I'll was interviewed by Jill Cody on "Be Bold America" on KSQD: My subject - "Civilization's Plight - Are We Engineered for a World Which No Longer Exists?".

Apr 26, 2020 Sunday 5pm-6pm - I'll be on "Be Bold, America" on KSQD. NBC News anchor Betsy Rosenberg and I are interviewed by host Jill Cody

Jan 13, 2021 - 5pm - A presentation to the CCL's of Santa Cruz and Monetery Counties: "The Dire Post-IPCC AR5 Climate Science Confronts the Nature of the Human System"

Oct 10, 2021 Sunday 5pm-6pm - I'm the interviewing host on the Jill Cody's KSQD show "Be Bold, America". Our guest is Dr. Michael Lenox - Dean of the U. Virginia School of Business Administration, and his book "The Decarbonization Imperative"

Oct 29, 2021 Friday 3pm-5pm - I was on a list of speakers at the Youth for Climate Justice rally and demonstration at the Famer's Market parking lot. Reprising the beginnings of Greta Thunberg, this group seeks to have regular student strikes at their high schools and middle schools and get pugnacious about climate action.

Nov 6, 2021 Saturday - Climate Coalition Organizing Meeting at UCSC. I was asked to speak and hand out information pamphlets, spreading the word about my Cabrillo College Astro 7 "Planetary Climate" course as well.

May 12, 2022 Thursday 12-2pm - I gave a Presentation on "Climate Science Economics: A Critique of William Nordhaus" - Part 1. For the Earth Futures Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Link page

May 26, 2022 Thursday 12-2pm - I gave a Presentation on "Climate Science Economics: A Critique of William Nordhaus" - Part 2. For the Earth Futures Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Link page

June 9, 2022 Thursday 12-2pm - I gave the part3 of this series "Climate Science Economics: A Critique of William Nordhaus" - Part 3. For the Earth Futures Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Link page

Aug 13, 2022 - I gave a presentation at the Annual Conference of the International Occultation Timing Association. "A New Technique for Measuring Low S/N Events Using PyMovie / PyOTE" webpage (Flex was approved)

Oct 27, 2022 - Thur 12-2pm at UC Santa Cruz - I gave a Presentation to the Earth Futures Institute "Civilization as a Thermodynamic System: Implications for Earth Sustainability" Link page

Dec 8, 2022 Thur morning - Aptos Chamber of Commerce breakfast with Andy Sheinis on the James Webb Space Telescope research from UCSC, and I was the Cabrillo College Astronomy representative and speaker interface. (Flex credit not needed).

Mar 12, 2023 Sunday evening - I served as co-host of the syndicated radio program "Be Bold, America", as Jill Cody and I interviewed Director of the Creative Commons climate science section Dr. Monica Granados, on issues and proposals for increasing the public's access to journal climate science work. Link and podcast

Apr 23, 2023 Sunday eve - I was interviewed on syndicated radio program "Be Bold, America", by Jill Cody. The title was "Climate Chaos - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, and the Very Ugly".

Sep 23, 2023 - Guest speaker at "The Global Star Party", my Presentation was on how asteroid occultations are contributing to science and space missions: "Asteroids Unveiled"

Nov 8, 2023 - I was Guest speaker at the local Santa Cruz Astronomy Club monthly meeting - my talk: "Asteroid Occultation Astronomy: Doing science for Professional Astronomers and Supporting Space Missions"

Nov 15, 2023 - Panel Discussion member at UCSC's event "The Climate and Biodiversity Crises" the panel discussion 12-1:30pm with Faculty and students follows UCSC astronomer Alexie Leuthold's seminar, with resource page here, and Earth Futures Institute (UCSC) links and Nolthenius' slide sets here.

Nov 28, 2023 - Active participant in the new SRRR regional meeting. Recording will be available. SRRR- "Sustainable and Resilient Resources Roundtable", featuring UCSC Earth Futures Institute's Prof. Sandra Faber, and input from Richard Nolthenius. 2.5hrs

Dec 3, 2023 - I'm co-host and interviewer of Charles Derber, Sociology professor and author of the new book "Dying for Capitalism". On KSQD Radio's syndicated program "Be Bold, America", along with Jill Cody. 5-6pm

Jan 3, 2024 - Strategy meeting at Alexei L's with UCSC climate faculty on Cabrillo/UCSC joint educational efforts towards students and faculty.

Apr 8, 2024 - Solar Eclipse, I did a "Eclipse Palooza" event at the Amphitheater at Cabrillo College, announcing to the wider Cabrillo faculty and students and also to Santa Cruz organizations such as CCL, UCSC, and SCAC. We had a great turnout of at least 100 people who watched the eclipse with me as narrator, and with the GTF81 telescope, and eclipse glasses.

Apr 12, 20244pm-6pm - Climate Salon #1 at UCSC; Baskin2 Rm 599. Results: Attended, talks from Sandy Faber and 3 others.

Apr 22, 2024 Noon-1pm - Earth Day Teach-In, I gave a 1hr Presentation on Neoclassical Economics vs. Climate Science. Recorded by Derede Arthur. Slide presentation in the link.

July 14, 2024- 5-6pm I was interviewed on KSQD's syndicated radio program "Be Bold, America!" by Jill Cody. Show title "How Our Economic Religion is Dragging Civilization to Overshoot and Collapse" linked here

July 23, 2024- Tue 2-4pm. I gave an educational talk and Q/A for faculty at UC Santa Cruz, on the details and implications of Prof. James Hansen's paper "Global Warming in the Pipeline". I prepared a 32 slide presentation which was given on this subject.

Oct 4, 2024 - Fri eve 5-8pm - Astro themed First Friday event at the SC Natural History Museum. You bring telescope and flyers. Razor thin 2% moon in eve sky to see at this time. Pix page (pix not processed yet)

Dec 5, 2024 - Fri eve 5:00-8:00pm - Community Star Party at Cabrillo College Observatory.