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20 July 2024

Santa Rosa Island

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  Lying just off the coast of Southern California, the Channel Islands are one of the gems of the state. I’ve recently had opportunities to...
08 May 2022

Death Valley: Wildrose Peak

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The deserts of southeastern California and Nevada are expansive, and their large size is driven home by the maze of valleys, canyons, and ...
05 February 2022

Scoliopus bigelovii

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I was out on the northern California coast last weekend for the excellent low tide series. Saturday night I camped at Stillwater Cove Reg...
28 August 2021

Stalked jellies

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When I was an undergraduate student, I had considerable interest in marine invertebrates, particularly the simpler groups such as the jellie...
19 September 2020

Western climate fires

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The extent of the fires sweeping through the west this summer is sobering. As I perused an interactive map published by the New York Times ...
11 July 2020

The Sea of Cortez

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Earlier on this blog I wrote about a remarkable field biology course I took as an undergraduate student at UC Santa Cruz where we spent ...
22 September 2019

Nightpooling

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Hawaii has a relatively small tide range compared to the west coast of the US mainland. For example, the spring tide range is less than ...
13 July 2019

Napali coast

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The Kalalau trail traverses the famous northwestern coast of Kaua’i in what I presume is one of the most scenic hiking trails anyw...
07 July 2019

Queen Emma's Bath, Kaua'i

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( I am still catching up on blog posts from late 2018 and early 2019…the next couple pertain to a trip to Kaua’i in November 2018.) F...
23 June 2019

Cascade Canyon

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4 Sept 2018 . During my week-long trip to Wyoming last summer, I actually spent more time in Grand Teton National Park than Yellowstone...
15 June 2019

Yellowstone's hydrothermals

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I haven’t posted on this blog for a year (!) and I have a number of trips to get caught up on, starting with a fun week in Wyoming at Yello...