The Site of Rik Panganiban
I'm excited to share the news that episode one of the podcast "Object Oriented" is now out! As a reminder, "Object Oriented" is a monthly audio podcast featuring my friends Barry Joseph, head of digital learning at the American Museum of Natural History, Eve Gaus of digital learning at the Field Museum in Chicago, and myself. Each episode, we talk about a …
California Academy TechTeens Kate, Victoria and Emma created this video project inspired by the "Habitat Earth" planetarium show. They asked our visitors whether they thought if was possible for humans to get to zero waste. Here's what they found out. For more about the TechTeens see http://www.calacademy.org/techteens . For more about San Francisco's Zero Waste initiative, …
Playlist of all youth-created Science Today videos.
For Mother's Day yesterday, the @calacademy twitter account reposted a pic from our swamp that I took. Classic. “Are you my mom?” Sometimes things get a little awkward in our Swamp. (Captured by @riktheranger.) pic.twitter.com/MgC2O0fFvJ — CA AcademyOfSciences (@calacademy) May 10, 2015
Cal Academy research fellow Bryson Voirin is studying the adorable, elusive pygmy sloth, a critically endangered species that can be found on just one small island in the Caribbean. I love how he has to "race" to catch them! More about pygmy sloths and their endangered status on the WWF site. More about Bryson's research …
Check out this short and sweet video on the citizen science bioblitz that happened in March in Golden Gate Park. Created by Chloe, Mark and Madeleine of the California Academy of Sciences TechTeens program. For more about citizen science at the Academy, see http://www.calacademy.org/citizen-science.
I'm so pleased to share the news that the California Academy of Sciences was recognized by disability support group The ARC SF as "Employer of the Year." With 6 interns and 4 employees with disabilities on staff, the Cal Academy was praised for our "commitment to creating an inclusive work environment." According to Academy executive director Jon …
I had the opportunity to connect with Don Olavides, a Filipino researcher studying sea cucumbers. He was kind enough to show us how the scientists process specimens that are brought in from their dives, so that they can be further studied back in the lab. NOTE: Apologies for my terrible videography skills! It was …
Check out this short tour of the Cal Academy’s field laboratory in Puerto Galera, Philippines, guided by the Academy’s curator of invertebrate zoology Dr. Rich Mooi. This was shot fairly late in the evening to avoid the crush of scientists crowding the lab earlier in the afternoon. So there were not as many beautiful specimens on …
The New Learning Times, a publication of the Teachers College at Columbia University, did a nice profile about me recently. I’ve reprinted some it below. See the complete piece by George Nantwi at their site. How did your educational trajectory and past professional experience shape your current work? I have a wide-ranging and circuitous educational …