HELiOS Project: Helping Schools Go Solar
What better place than at school to get going on solar? The HELiOS project is making it happen for Bay Area schools.
Tag: climate change
A “digital naturalist” studies climate change
Mike Hamilton, director of the Blue Oak Ranch Reserve on Mount Hamilton, describes himself as a "digital naturalist." He's wired the reserve's 3,260 acres with sensors, sent up drone helicopters,...
Could Dirt Save the World from Climate Change? This Marin Group Thinks So.
A project in West Marin shows how ranchers, and a whole lot of compost, can help mitigate climate change.
Keeping Clapper Rails High and Dry
New artificial islands at Oakland’s Arrowhead Marsh provide some welcome refuge for endangered clapper rails. But can they be expanded into enough other habitats to keep the birds safe from...
Letter from the Publisher
As I write this on Thanksgiving weekend, I have many things to be grateful for. For example: On Thanksgiving morning, I watched a huge raft of cormorants take off from...
New Climate Model Zooms in on North Bay
Global climate models are critical to understanding climate change, but they don't tell us anything about changing temperatures and other surface level changes in the San Francisco Bay Area, which...
Charting Climate Change on the Central Coast
The Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, along with its sister sanctuaries to the north and south, Cordell Banks and Monterey Bay, are sentinels for the effects of global...
No Normal for Coastal Waters
Nesting failures for cormorants on the Farallones and Alcatraz are just the most obvious expression of unprecedented, and confusing, conditions faced by wildlife in the waters off our shores.
Hard Time to Be an Oak
About one-eighth of California's land area is covered in oak woodlands. Despite that vast acreage, it's hard to be an oak in California. Threats to oak survival include the effects...
Timing is Everything
Climate change may have arrived in your own yard, and scientists across the nation would like to hear about it. Researchers and educators in the abstruse-sounding National Phenology Network hope...
