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Quoted in Mercury Newspaper Article on Sea Level and South SF Bay

Here is a new article in the San Jose Mercury News with some quotes based on our new work on sea level rise and marshes in the southern San Francisco Bay. How Drawbridge is drowning — and what it means for our future How Drawbridge is drowning — and what it means for our futureContinue reading “Quoted in Mercury Newspaper Article on Sea Level and South SF Bay”

Our Study of Vanishing Marshes Makes National Headlines

The study of sea level rise and coastal marshes that we recently published in Science Advances has made national headlines – appearing in 17 different media venues from print to broadcast including a front page article in the Los Angeles Times .  Check it out using the links here.

LA Weekly on Our New PLoS 1 Paper regarding Climate Change and Fire

LA Weekly published and article on our new PLoS 1 paper on climate change in California and the Southwest. http://www.laweekly.com/news/study-probes-connection-between-climate-change-fires-8766855 You can see the scientific paper here – http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0186282 Loisel J, MacDonald GM, Thomson MJ (2017) Little Ice Age climatic erraticism as an analogue for future enhanced hydroclimatic variability across the American Southwest. PLoS ONEContinue reading “LA Weekly on Our New PLoS 1 Paper regarding Climate Change and Fire”

AAG Presidential Column – Creating and Preserving Actionable and Policy-Relevant Geography

Creating and Preserving Actionable and Policy-Relevant Geography news.aag.org/2017/01/creating-and-preserving-actionable-and-policy-relevant-geography/ 1/29/2017 Ensconced in our academic environs, as students or as faculty, we are sometimes accused of being removed and aloof from the issues of the real world and our research regarded as being of purely scholarly interest. Indeed, there are times for many of us that thisContinue reading “AAG Presidential Column – Creating and Preserving Actionable and Policy-Relevant Geography”

AAG Presidential Column – Strengths and Challenges of Diversity

Strengths and Challenges of Diversity news.aag.org/2017/01/strengths-and-challenges-of-diversity/ 1/5/2017 It is fair to say that the recent election has created deep concerns in our community regarding issues of diversity and gender equity. This unease certainly extends far beyond the campuses. In writing about the uncertainty in America’s corporate workplaces a recent article in Bloomberg stated, “Diversity issuesContinue reading “AAG Presidential Column – Strengths and Challenges of Diversity”