It doesn’t seem to add up: vacant or underutilized office space in a city with a severe housing shortage. But these are two major problems that are slowing recovery...
Extreme weather whiplash continues to reshape our lives and landscapes. Nature demanded our attention again as autumn slogged into winter and spring 2025-26, proving the difference a year can...
It’s been revered, worshiped, and feared for centuries, thoroughly researched by stellar scientists, and altering landscapes across our state and around our world more than you might think. Because...
Our world is flooded with conflicting special interests pushing contradictory ideas and perspectives fueled by social media. So, you can’t blame folks for getting confused when trying to understand...
As the death toll rises to more than 130 and scores are still missing in the July 4, 2025 Texas flash flood, at least three questions haunt us: Why...
Rent and Income Dynamics in Los Angeles: Spatiotemporal Trends, 2000–2022 By: Svetlana Babaeva We’re thrilled to once again showcase the impressive work of a GIS student from Santa Monica...
Exploring the Spatial Relationships Between Groundwater Depletion, Crops and Landcover in Tulare County, CA. At Rediscovering the Golden State: California Geography, one of our missions is to feature the...
Join us on this field trip into the heart of Central Valley agriculture as we visit two contrasting farms: a small regenerative family farm and then one of the...
Follow our UC California Naturalists experiential learning adventures through and around Yosemite National Park for one week as we explore and research natural history within some of the most...
Most of you have already seen the inconceivable destruction on local news and social media. After surveying post-fire landscapes from Malibu to Pacific Palisades, and from Eaton Canyon to...
Ride across California on the back of the wind and learn about the dramatic impact that seasonal weather and climate change have on the Golden State.
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