Hurricanes in California?
Hurricane Dorian, after battering the Bahamas on Tuesday (09/03/19), has today pivoted to threaten the Carolinas. Though downgraded from a Category 5 to a Category 2 storm, Dorian still...
Rob O'Keefe
Over California: The Inland Empire
As our travel schedules allow, this blog will explore the state via photographs in concise yet informative articles designed to stir curiosity, prompt questions and initiate dialog. Looking at...
Extreme Gentrification?
In our publication, we have examined how California’s wild economic roller coaster can quickly create individual and geographic winners and losers. Likewise, the economic and geographic distances between the...
Little Saigon
Fleeing a hostile communist regime that would take control there, waves of refugees flooded out of South Vietnam during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Many poured into the...
Got Salmon? Why We Should Save the Fish
One of our October 26, 2017 APCG field trips included a visit to the Feather River Fish Hatchery, one of the roughly twenty California Department of Fish and Wildlife...
Martian Georphology?
In celebration of NASA & JPL’s success yesterday with touchdown of the InSight lander on Mars, we offer up the “Mars-like” topography of California’s Colorado Desert. This arm of...
Several Wildfires Erupt Across the Golden State
Several large and fast moving fires, stoked by heavy winds and fueled by dry conditions have erupted across California causing the destruction of homes, and business as well as...
Where Have California’s Camels Gone?
We’ve seen how the overpopulation of introduced mules and wild horses have overgrazed and even decimated some wildland and rangeland habitats in California. But did you know that camels...
Chasing Earthquakes and Tsunami in Humboldt County and the Northwest Coast
There is a region in California that experiences more frequent damaging earthquakes and tsunami than anywhere on the U.S. West Coast outside Alaska. It is a region where subduction...
Geologic History in Sierra Nevada Gold Country
By the 1980s, scientists’ had gained a clearer understanding of the role of plate tectonics in distributing rock formations and Earth resources across the globe, especially along past and...
