What a Difference a Year Makes
Extreme weather whiplash continues to reshape our lives and landscapes. Nature demanded our attention again as autumn slogged into winter 2025-26, proving the difference a year can make when...
William Selby
William Selby is a native Californian who has explored, researched, and worked in every corner of the Golden State. William has accumulated over 3 decades of experience teaching Geography and Earth Science at Santa Monica College. Since retiring from teaching, his lifelong love and extensive knowledge of the Golden State is reflected in the book as well as in his continued service to academia, geography and the State of California.
Lonewolf Thunderhorse Captures Capricious Lightning
It’s been revered, worshiped, and feared for centuries, thoroughly researched by stellar scientists, and altering landscapes across our state and around our world more than you might think. Because...
Geoengineering and Climate Intervention: Jet Trails and Radar and Cloud Seeding, Oh My!
Our world is flooded with conflicting special interests pushing contradictory ideas and perspectives fueled by social media. So, you can’t blame folks for getting confused when trying to understand...
Flash Flood! … From Texas to California
As the death toll rises to more than 130 and scores are still missing in the July 4, 2025 Texas flash flood, at least three questions haunt us: Why...
Big Ag Vs. Small Regenerative Farming
Join us on this field trip into the heart of Central Valley agriculture as we visit two contrasting farms: a small regenerative family farm and then one of the...
Cal Naturalists Invade Yosemite
Follow our UC California Naturalists experiential learning adventures through and around Yosemite National Park for one week as we explore and research natural history within some of the most...
Cataclysmic Aftermath Landscapes
Most of you have already seen the inconceivable destruction on local news and social media. After surveying post-fire landscapes from Malibu to Pacific Palisades, and from Eaton Canyon to...
Making Sense of our Apocalyptic Firestorms
This week represents the line between the “before times” and “after times” In Los Angeles County and perhaps California. It is not hyperbole; it’s the new reality. Southern California...
Precipitation Extremes in a Bipolar California
How can one state simultaneously experience more than two months of soaking storms and floods AND desiccating drought and wildfires? Here’s a story about stubborn weather patterns that divided...
October Temperature Extremes in a Climate of Change
Another round of record-setting weather patterns swept across California as September yielded to October, 2024. In page one of this story, we follow these atmospheric anomalies and investigate their...
