Did the Road to Freedom End in California?
People have been searching for and often finding better living and working conditions in California since Native Americans migrated and then settled here thousands of years ago. This helps...
William Selby
Storm Chasing in the California Desert
When temperatures rise during early summer, residents of the desert and mountain Southwest U.S. begin anticipating the arrival of their annual monsoon season. (1) Welcome to our first in...
Feeling Winter in July, California Style
While inland California baked and burned, why was the weather relatively cold and foggy along the immediate coast during early-to-mid summer, 2021? San Francisco and most other locations on...
Unprecedented Drought, Heat, and Fire Repeat in the West, 2021
It has become an unfortunate and disturbing annual Golden State dance during the last several years. Severe drought plagues the majority of the state, followed by extended record heat...
Excavating History in our Hoods
Stereotyping often allows us to confirm our preconceived, superficial notions about people and places. It requires little work or investigation and is even encouraged within our misinformed social media...
Reopening California: Lessons from our Historic Coronavirus War
End of Summer, 2021 UpdateIn late July, 2021, just more than a month after we posted this “last” COVID-19 story, we were required to add an unfortunate update: California...
Natural History of a Grain of Sand
While strolling along a California beach, stream, or riverbed, or plodding over a sand dune, you may not realize that there is a captivating world of natural history at...
Connecting Yesterday’s Redlining to Today’s Gentrification and Displacement
Connections between redlining, segregation, gentrification, displacement, migration, and affordable housing continue to dominate our research about how old boundaries may still separate our neighborhoods and how our urban areas...
Adventures of a Water Drop, California Style
Forward: An Autobiographical Synopsis Let me introduce myself. I am a California water drop. I condensed from billions of water vapor molecules in the air above the North Pacific...
Evolving Diversity Redraws our Political Maps
California has a long-established political geography history that has surprised and puzzled pundits and alternately frustrated and delighted liberals and conservatives on all sides of the spectrum. More recently,...
