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More or less foggy
Not a redwood (fog near my house yesterday) Redwoods could be in trouble, according to a new study from UC Berkeley. The San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times both have articles about it (and...
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Windy
Sorry for the shaky video and awful wind distortion. It’s really windy here in Ventura. So windy, in fact, that the boat I was supposed to take to Santa Cruz Island on Tuesday was canceled. That’s not...
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Islands everywhere
One lesson I’ve learned–one I maybe should have expected–is that when you’re using the term island to describe things other than islands, it can be a little loose. For instance, in terms of scale: city...
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Like the Serengeti
Elephant seals on San Miguel Island. Photo: NOAA Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Kate Faulkner is Chief of Natural Resources Management at Channel Islands National Park. Here she talks about...
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Monumental
Car commercial directors, surfers, and marine mammals all enjoy California’s dramatic coastline. Cliffs plunge and waves crash. Off the coast, rocks jut and islands lurk. Evening in Big Sur In 2000,...
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No Island is an Island
Yesterday biologists banded and tagged two bald eagles chicks born earlier this year on Santa Cruz Island, in Southern California’s Channel Islands. Two chicks hatched on Santa Rosa Island, too, the...
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Kayaking the Coast
I’ve been filling in at Climate Watch the past two weeks, which is my excuse for why it’s been so quiet over here. Photo: Lane Hartman. I wrote a blog post for Climate Watch’s blog about Stanford...
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Weeds
One of the trees that comes up when you’re talking about California’s endemic species (let’s just assume this is something you have conversations about, or that you’re interested in reading about...
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East Coast vs. West Coast
This past weekend I went to the Jersey shore (not the regrettable tattoo and binge drinking part). Looking at maps of the coastline there and all the way down the eastern seaboard, down to Florida,...
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