Making and Unmaking of San Diego Bay

List of contents

Chapter 1 California Then and Now Chapter 2 Geological Forces that Built San Diego Bay Chapter 3 Water Chapter 4 Geomorphology of the San Diego Region Chapter 5 Early Biology of the San Diego Region Chapter 6 Humans Arrive Chapter 7 San Diego Bay Today Chapter 8 Biology of the San Diego Bay Region Chapter 9 Restoring the Bay Chapter 10 Future of the Bay

About the author

Gary C. Howard is science editor and writer. He spent over 20 years at the Gladstone Institutes of the University of California San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and at Harvard University. He has edited several books, including three books for CRC Press.
Matthew R. Kaser is a Senior Partner at Bell & Associates in San Francisco and has been a part-time lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences at California State University East Bay. He was on the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics, UCSF, an NIH Fellow at Habor-UCLA Medical Center and held postdoctoral researcher positions at the University of California Irvine, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and at Oxford University.

Summary

San Diego Bay is a shallow bay surrounded by a large population. Geological events, changes in climate and sea level, and human activity altered the Bay. This book describes the natural history and evolution of the San Diego Bay over the last 20 million years through the present and into the future.

Product details

• Authors: Gary C. Howard, Howard Gary C., Matthew R. Kaser, Matthew R. (Bell & Associates Kaser, Kaser Matthew R.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2021
• EAN: 9781138596764
• ISBN: 978-1-138-59676-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; San Diego, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General, NATURE / Ecology, California, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Biodiversity, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Geology & The Lithosphere