Saturday, February 23, 2019

What's the Most Alien Landscape You've Ever Explored? Here's a Candidate

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What is the strangest landscape you've ever explored? That is, the kind of place that makes you think that this just isn't part of...
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Thursday, February 14, 2019

There's a Giant Atmospheric River Storm Pummeling California...So of course I'm Headed to Death Valley to Experience it...

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So we here in California are experiencing one of those very intense atmospheric river storms generated when a highly active jet stream dip...
Monday, February 11, 2019

It Was That Kind of Day: Half Dome from the Central Valley

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Update : I've added an extra image at the end that shows the satellite imagery in the view from Keyes Road.  It doesn't happen...
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Sunday, February 10, 2019

It's a River Again! Winter on the Tuolumne

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All the pictures in this post are from the Tuolumne River Parkway Trail in Waterford. All in all, it's been a good year (so far). ...
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Thursday, January 31, 2019

Is it a Fossil Smuggling Conspiracy?? (Answer: No, it's something fun)

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There's this suspicious storage container on our campus. It's been there for months, all through the construction of our much-an...
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Monday, January 28, 2019

Exploring our Precious (and Abused) Places: Death Valley - February 14-18, 2019

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Now that the much-lamented government shutdown is over (for the time being), some of our attention can turn to our much abused national p...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

The Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse from under a Rainstorm

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By all rights none of these pictures should exist. It was one of the astronomical events of the year, the...um..."Super-duper Blood R...