The beach area just to the west of the Santa Cruz Wharf is called Cowell Beach. It is a great beach for lying in the sun close to the Boardwalk and is a famous surfing sp...
Cover photo by Brocken Inaglory From the 1850s to the mid-1960s, Santa Cruzans wanted their town to be a center of industry and economic activity. Promotion of business a...
Along Santa cruz’s popular West Cliff Drive are some really unique features known by geo-geeks as “toilet bowls”. They are a clue to what the modern-day surf paradi...
As a college student in the late 1980s I frequently drove from my mom’s house just north of San Francisco to college in Santa Cruz along Highway 1. The drive is stunning....
A rusty old boiler sits across from the photo studio at Roaring Camp Railroads. It has been there for as long as I can remember. It is my earliest memory of a train thing...
Today the Pacific Grove/Monterey Bay area is a hub for people and organizations who wish to inspire stewardship of the environment in general and the ocean in particular....
“When you talk about the seasons, most people think of spring wildflowers, autumn leaves, winter storms… But the ocean, too, has its seasons, which are at least as...
I always think of the offshore outsourcing of work as the purview of large companies like Ford Motor Company, Nike, HP and Apple. But this is simply not true anymore. Now...
Conducting research on-site at Lighthouse Pont.[/caption]I am an earth scientist. I think rocks are cool. I look at a landscape and I want to know how it formed and why i...
This project consists of a time series of aerial photos of the entire California coast. It is an amazing resource and all thanks to the husband and wife team of Gabrielle...
