Friday, March 14, 2025

The First Lunar Eclipse of 2025

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Interesting skies once again! Tonight was a lunar eclipse. The timing was great, with totality being reached before midnight here in the Pac...
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Thursday, February 20, 2025

An "Extinct" Fish Finds Life Again in a Parched Desert: The Saga of the Shoshone Pupfish

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The pupfish habitat at the springs in Shoshone, east of Death Valley National Park Of all the things one might look for while exploring inte...
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Monday, December 30, 2024

Strange Doings in the Sky Today. What the Heck is a Circumzenithal Arc?

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We live our lives never truly knowing when the day comes that something remarkable happens. I was doing totally normal errands today in the ...
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Saturday, December 28, 2024

About That Bucket List...What Would You Do To See These Places?

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Horseshoe Bend on the Colorado River So...about that bucket list of yours.  Surely you have one. If you don't, what's keeping you fr...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

The Simultaneous Seasons of California (and a peek at Half Dome)

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It was a beautiful Christmas day here in the Central Valley, one of the prettiest I can recall. The storm that blew through yesterday was go...
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Monday, November 11, 2024

In the Heart of the Devil: The Damning of Del Puerto Canyon

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This beautiful canyon is under serious threat California geology is complicated. Unlike any other state, it is affected by the interactions...
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Thursday, October 17, 2024

What We All Think We Know: Myths and Misconceptions about California and Earthquakes for the Day of the Great Shake-Out!

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Today is the Great Shake-Out in California: At 10:17 AM, around 10.5 MILLION people will participate in a statewide earthquake drill. Thi...