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Exploring California’s hidden science & nature stories—from wild coastlines to world-class research. For the endlessly curious.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined February 2019
Every week we write a deeply researched story about all the innovation and scientific history of California. The articles are chock full of information you’ve likely never read before. We’d love it if you subscribed. It��s free. https://t.co/1Xro2kSCb7
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Few people understand how deeply important ocean upwelling is to maintain the vibrancy of sea life off the California coast. https://t.co/Nw5cdWLNKX
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66 million years ago, an asteroid obliterated much of life on earth. One of the most groundbreaking discoveries about what happened emerged from the University of California, Berkeley, thanks to a renowned father-and-son scientific duo. https://t.co/0UO9uFoYMV
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Very cool new book out. Taylor is a herpetologist and biology professor at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo:
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UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for pleasure in California's High Sierra when he stumbled upon a new elevation record for the Jeffrey pine, which may now be the state's highest-altitude tree.
ucdavis.edu
A UC Davis professor's pleasure hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.
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The coastal town of Palos Verdes, part of it, is slowly slipping into the ocean. What's the geology behind it?
californiacurated.com
A neighborhood threatened by landslides at Portuguese Bend on Palos Verdes (Erik Olsen) For decades, geologists and engineers have been aware that the Portuguese Bend region of Palos Verdes is pron…
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Every week we write a deeply researched story about all the innovation and scientific history of California. The articles are chock full of information you’ve likely never read before. We’d love it if you subscribed. It’s free. https://t.co/1Xro2kSCb7
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Looking for a great holiday gift for your California loved ones that will enrich them and help them better understand the world around them? We've got you covered:
californiacurated.com
I’m an avid reader, and over the past decade I’ve dedicated a large section of my bookshelf to books about California—its wild side, its nature, and its scientific wonders.
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Phones across Northern California lit up Thursday with a false alert for a 5.9 quake near Carson City. No quake occurred. ShakeAlert, which uses sensors along fault lines to send early warnings, misfired.
latimes.com
The ShakeAlert system that warns about imminent shaking arriving from earthquakes sent a false alarm across California on Thursday morning for a magnitude 5.9 temblor that did not happen.
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A man in Altadena set up a camera to learn who kept tearing up the underside of his house. On November 25, he finally saw the culprit: a 550-pound black bear that had been sheltering beneath his home for more than a week. https://t.co/rnic6yRv0M
nytimes.com
Ken Johnson has tried noisy tactics to encourage the 550-pound houseguest in his crawl space to leave. He is not sure it’s working.
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Sort of nonsense. LA has dealt with these issues for decades. https://t.co/vbayfqvJx3
newrepublic.com
For over a century, the city has drawn people with the promise of perfect weather. Now floods and fires threaten its very survival.
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Every week we write a deeply researched story about all the innovation and scientific history of California. The articles are chock full of information you’ve likely never read before. We’d love it if you subscribed. It’s free. https://t.co/1Xro2kSCb7
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Why a 400-mile long fog bank lingered over California for a week
washingtonpost.com
Nicknamed “Tule fog” after the tule reeds that grow in the damp foothills, the fog is expected to carry into this weekend.
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An explosion of biological life lies below California oil rigs.
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140 likes, 5 comments. “Below California’s industrial looking oil rigs is a biological wonderland. Scientist say it’s one of the most biologically rich ecosystems in the world. Part of a series....
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An explosion of biological life lies below California oil rigs.
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140 likes, 5 comments. “Below California’s industrial looking oil rigs is a biological wonderland. Scientist say it’s one of the most biologically rich ecosystems in the world. Part of a series....
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The female blanket octopus unfurls a long cape when threatened to intimidate predators, and will tear tentacles off the poisonous Portuguese man-of-war to use as weapons. 📽: Joseph Elayani https://t.co/mYU4ioulA4
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Mesmerizing drone footage shows a humpback whale traveling with a pod of dolphins off the coast of Rancho Palos Verdes. 🐋🐬
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Western fence lizards are evolving in real time in LA and scientists are proving it.
californiacurated.com
Western fence lizards are an excellent local example of what called urban ecology. Urban ecology is the study of the relationships between living organisms and their environment in urban areas.
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In 1942 off San Diego, researchers spotted what looked like a solid ocean floor hundreds of feet down. It turned out to be the Deep Scattering Layer, a massive hidden world of tiny fish and other creatures rising and sinking each night. https://t.co/yqPir1NJR4
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