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Showing posts with label mega-drought. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mega-drought. Show all posts
Monday, May 17, 2021

Yosemite Valley This Week: A Moment of Spring Richness and an Uncertain Future

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  I admit it. I fear what lies ahead. That's not the usual opening statement in a photo-essay of Yosemite Valley at its best moments. Bu...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Fire in the Sky: The Perspective That Comes When Time is Running Out

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It was nothing more than the evening commute to school to give a final examination in my Earth Science course. It was a bit after 4 PM an...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Can't See the Forest for the Creek; Or is it the Other Way Around? California's Mega-droughts

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The eastern Sierra Nevada is home to one of the strangest forests I know of. It's not the species of tree that is odd; they are mostl...
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Friday, January 17, 2014

A Picture Tells the Story. We're in Big Trouble Out West.

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Source: http://drought.unl.edu/MonitoringTools/NASAGRACEDataAssimilation.aspx It's a terrifying picture. We have been through 12 of...
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Friday, May 14, 2010

Friday's Fun Fotos: the Fluvial Forest Discussed

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I posted some pictures of a "fluvial forest" this morning (fluvial=river) asking for an explanation about how these trees came to...
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I am a teacher of geology at Modesto Junior College and former president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section. I have led field trips all over the western United States, and a few excursions overseas, but my homebase is the Sierra Nevada, the Great Valley, and the Coast Ranges of California.
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