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NightLife LIVE performers in the West Garden, 2023.
NightLife takes live music to the next level with weekly concert series, Remix, this August at the California Academy of Sciences

Four-part concert series features leading artists in hip hop, rock, R&B, indie pop, and jazz.

Thousands of monarch butterflies cluster on fir branches in a forest streaked with sunlight.
Winning images from the California Academy of Sciences’s 11th annual BigPicture photography competition announced

Audiences can now vote in the first-ever People's Choice competition, awarding the world's best nature photos

Olivia Van Damme lays atop a tidepooling rock and uses her phone to photograph a species for city nature challenge.
Coastal bioblitz ‘Snapshot Cal Coast’ to provide a living account of sea life on California’s epic coastline

Snapshot Cal Coast encourages people from Del Norte to San Diego to connect with nature and explore the outdoors

The California: State of Nature exhibit opens at the California Academy of Sciences on May 24, 2024.
New Academy Exhibition "California: State of Nature" Brings the State’s Forests, Coasts, Deserts, and Cities to Life

Explore the the unexpected connections between the species, places, and people that enable California to thrive.

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Three people stand/crouch at a tidepool in california during city nature challenge, in which they use iphones to take pictures of flora and fauna for inaturalist.
Science & Sustainability
California Academy of Sciences Receives $3 million Grant for Biodiversity and Community Science from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
May 9, 2024

The grant will help communities, researchers, and the government work together on state conservation efforts.

Great blue heron by the Golden Gate Bridge.
Programs & Events, Science & Sustainability
City Nature Challenge records 2.4 million wildlife observations from more than 83,000 participants in a single weekend
May 6, 2024

Data from community scientists informs species conservation, enhances understanding of global biodiversity.

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Jack Dumbacher stands against a sunlit cluster of trees near Caples Creek, wearing a striped button down shirt and a wide brimmed hat.

Since 2003, Jack Dumbacher has served as the Academy's curator of ornithology and mammalogy, using both fieldwork and collections to advance research on birds worldwide. Gayle Laird © California Academy of Sciences

Leadership, Science & Sustainability
Ornithologist Jack Dumbacher Named a Patterson Scholar at California Academy of Sciences
May 2, 2024

The curator of birds and mammals is recognized for his collaborative research on biodiversity and conservation.

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A dead gray whale rests on a beach on Angel Island with the ocean right behind it, Golden Gate Bridge and a tugboat visible in the background.

The deceased gray whale rests on Angel Island as researchers prepare for a necropsy. Photo courtesy Barbie Halaska, Marine Mammal Center

Science & Sustainability
Vessel Strike is Likely Cause of Death for Gray Whale Near Alameda
April 30, 2024

The whale’s death is the first in the San Francisco Bay Area since the end of the Unusual Mortality Event.

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