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...
Geology
Zion vs Yosemite: the Science behind the Splendor
Spectacular Sierra Nevada canyons, such as Yosemite and Kings, and the magnificent high desert canyons sliced found found in Zion national Park motivate and challenge us to learn more about the natural history of our dynamic planet.
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...
Badlands In a New York Minute?
When it comes to erosional landforms, badlands are the speed demons of geomorphology.
Desert Quakes and Ancient Lakes: Geopostcards from Searles Valley
In early July 2019, a series of powerful earthquakes fractured the desert, generating violent seismic waves that eventually rippled across the state and dissipated into California’s distant cities. A...
Great Volcanoes of Northern California
Devastating earthquakes, floods, droughts, fires, and now a deadly virus: nature has thrown her share of disasters our way over the years. But there is one potential catastrophe that...
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...
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...
External Processes Denude Northwest California Landscapes
Our previous field trip around Humboldt Bay focused on the internal or endogenic (tectonic) processes that are building initial landscapes in northwest California. Here, we turn our attention to...
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...
