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As Waves Pound Pacifica, Surfers Pitch a Reef to Defend the Shore
Pacifica still needs to study the reef’s scale, how much sand is needed and its environmental impacts, said Borja Gonzalez Reguero, a professor with the Coastal Science and Policy Program at UC Santa Cruz. “So far it’s a concept, but it could be a viable one,” Gonzalez Reguero said. He qualified that by saying the…
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The mystery eating Ocean Beach alive
One of Ocean Beach’s foremost sand sleuths is UC Santa Cruz researcher Patrick Barnard, who spent two decades analyzing San Francisco’s shoreline for the U.S. Geological Survey. Barnard said humans have been wrestling with the sand for nearly two centuries. He cites data from as far back as the Gold Rush, when excessive mining injected…
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El Niño Is Here. Here’s What It Could Mean for the Bay Area This Winter
But because the Bay Area sits on the northernmost edge of the wet zone, intense rainfall is less guaranteed than in Southern California. Still, experts said human-caused climate change may be changing that equation. “What that means for California is it’s basically supercharged in the atmosphere,” said Patrick Barnard, research director for the UC Santa…
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‘Godzilla’ El Niño: A Climate Scientist Explains What Could Happen in Terms of Surf, Snow, and Coastal Erosion
But Patrick Barnard, Research Director of UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, urges caution. How El Niños behave in the era of climate change is increasingly difficult to predict, and future events may not mirror the patterns of the past.