October 20th 2004
A Brief History
of a Long Time:
The Past 800 Million Years in the Sierra Nevada
by Connie Millar
Sierra Nevada Research Cente
USDA Forest Service
PSW Research Station
Albany and Lee Vining, California
Powerpoint Presentation
- Part 1: Early Sierra Nevada (800 – 10 mya): Tectonics & Orogeny
- Part 2: Early Sierra Nevada (800 – 2.5 mya): Climate
- Part 3: Quaternary climate (2.5-0mya)
- Part 4: Century-Millenial patterns
- Part 5: Decadal patterns
Further Information
- Reference List in html or Word document
- Climate Change - Detecting Climate's Imprint on California Forests
December 8th 2004
The Long-Term Human Interactions with the California Environment, with a more focused view on the greater San Francisco Bay.
by Kent Lightfoot
Department
of Anthropology,
University of California,
Berkeley, California
Powerpoint Presentation
January 26th 2005
The temporal texture of climate variability in western N. America in recent millennia' or 'Why you shouldn't think of climate as a randomly varying external factor.
by Malcolm Hughes
Laboratory
of Tree-Ring Research
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
February 9th 2005
Ecological Responses to (Somewhat, Depending on Your Perspective) Long-Term Climate Change.
by Michael
Loik
Department of Environmental Studies,
University of California,
Santa Cruz, California
February 16th 2005
Droughts and deluges of California's past millennium
by Scott Stine,
Department
of Geography and Environmental Studies
California State University East Bay,
Hayward, California
- The
Great Droughts of Y1K
- Sierra Nature Notes, Volume 1, May 2001
March 2nd 2005
The northern California Coast Ranges over the last 6 My: evolving coastlines, drainages and intermontane valleys driven by plate tectonics
by
Harvey Kelsey,
Geology Department,
Humboldt State University
Humboldt, California
Powerpoint Presentation
