Posts by geogadmin

The following article in the American Geophysical Union’s GeoSpace “Blogosphere” was posted by Larry O’Hanlon on March 5, 2015 with the title “More urban heat; less summer fog, on California coast”: The summer fog that shrouds coastal southern California – what locals call the June Gloom – is being driven up into the sky by urban sprawl, according to scientists who have studied 67 years of cloud heights and urban growth in the...

“UCCONNECT (University of California Center on Economic Competitiveness in Transportation) was established in 2013 through funds awarded from the US Department of Transportation and Caltrans. Its mission is to serve as the new University Transportation Center for federal region 9. As part of that mission, UCCONNECT will support faculty within its consortium of five UC campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, and Santa...

The following article is from the GoodNewsNetwork and was posted on February 28, 2015 with the title above: During a December survey of giant tortoises on one Galapagos island, conservationists found evidence of the first hatchlings born in the wild in over a century. The exciting find of ten baby tortoises was the direct result of a rat eradication campaign completed two years ago on Pinzón, when helicopters criss-crossed the island...