Another Bizarre California Rainy Season: 2019-2020
During the last ten years, many regions in California have experienced record-breaking extremes that have included some of the wettest and driest years on record. The 2019-2020 rainy season...
William Selby
Bill Bowen Maps California’s Many Faces
In this story that has necessarily expanded with unfortunate current events, you are invited to compare the following maps that illustrate how education, ethnicity, and politics combine to mold...
COVID-19 Update: Divisions Resurface in the Golden State
During the past six weeks, California has arguably changed faster than at any time in history. We started with what seemed to be a concerted effort to eliminate the...
COVID-19 Attacks California
An ominous, somewhat Orwellian electronic road sign loomed over us: “Stay calm, Stay informed, Stay safe.” For the two decades since this project began, we’ve analyzed scores of earthquakes,...
California Meets Southeast Asia
How might our environment influence our mental and physical well-being and performance? The sometimes mysterious power of place and space reminds us that the natural and built environments that...
Norway vs. California
Every year or so, we attempt to compare and contrast a place on our Earth that is distant and different from California. In each case, as we examine these...
Patterson Welcomes E-commerce to the Exurbs
In this publication and on this web site, we have examined how storage and distribution centers fueled by e-commerce technologies have been transforming landscapes out in the exurbs. These...
New Technologies For Understanding Seismic Risks
Chapter 3 of Rediscovering the Golden State covers our modern geologic features, including a survey of the state’s major faults and the seismic risks they represent. Recent research on...
Welcome to Tijuana: Caravans, Computers, Carnivals, and Controversy
We have often noted how California’s physical and human geography extends far beyond our state’s borders. This is particularly true when we examine our natural landscapes and the processes...
Defining “Big Ag”
In our Chapter Nine: Primary Industries and Rural Landscapes, we examine the many types of farms that have helped make California’s approximately $60 billion dollar agricultural industry second to none...
