Links

Maintaining a webpage is not my forté, nor my priority. Apologies for broken links and the cruddy design. I hope to migrate off Google sites and, elsewhere, to someday again be able to change font colors for easier reading.

Fire?

CalFire Incidents

LA County Fire Incidents (Twitter)

Earthquake?

Recent quakes in the L.A. area!

Global Shake, Rattle, and Rollage

Wind?

Global Live Time Wind Map

Other Useful Soils & Geology Pages:

NRCS Soils

Web Soil Survey

USGS Maps

USGS Hazards


Popular Books (varying mixes of science vs. sensationalism):

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations - Montgomery

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Diamond

Cadillac Desert - Reisner

Silent Spring - Rachel Carson (of course)

*A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis - Vandana Shiva

...and completely unrelated, a nice glimpse of the web's infinitely amazing art world:

This Is Colossal - Art, Design, & Visual Culture

Photo: coppice dunes developed in anthropogenically reworked scoria, Fossil Falls, CA, 2013.