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”
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Speech on Megadroughts and Megafires for the City of Thousand Oaks
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”
Second Time Magazine Piece on Fires
As the summer wore on into Fall the fire situation in California became severe. Time ran another piece and again quoted me. Have a look – http://time.com/4975682/california-fire-map/
Santa Barbara Independent on California Fires
I did an interview in the summer with the Santa Barbara Independent on the current fire situation in California. Have a read. https://www.independent.com/news/2017/jul/13/california-forest-fires-have-doubled-size/
Time Magazine Interview on California Fires
I was recently interviewed by Time Magazine on the 2017 California wildfire season. The combination of high precipitation in the winter promoting much fine fuel growth, the long period since last significant rainfall and the high summer temperatures being experiences in Southern California have produced a dangerous situation. The main unknown in the equation isContinue reading “Time Magazine Interview on California Fires”
Seal Beach Earthquake Study in the News
Evidence for coseismic subsidence events in a southern California coastal saltmarsh Our lab collaborated on a recent paleoseismology at the Seal Beach Marsh using foraminifera to identify subsidence events related to the Newport-Inglewood fault. The study was published in Nature.com/Scientific Reports and drew coverage in the Los Angeles Times. Rob Leeper, formerly USGS and nowContinue reading “Seal Beach Earthquake Study in the News”
Second Muir Symposium – March 1st
The second UCLA Geography Muir Symposium organized by Glen MacDonald is coming up on March 1st –
International Press Coverage on Drought Study
Wow! Our drought study – MacDonald, G. M., Moser, K.A., Bloom, A. M., Potito, A.P., Porinchu, D.F., Holmquist, J.R., Hughes, J. and Kremenetski, K.V. 2016. Prolonged California aridity linked to climate warming and Pacific sea surface temperature. Nature.Com/Sci. Rep. 6, 33325; http://www.nature.com/articles/srep33325 – garnered international press coverage in print, online, television and radio. It wasContinue reading “International Press Coverage on Drought Study”
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