ESRM/COM Blog Post#1
GEOL S350 Blog Post
We want students in California and Alaska to introduce themselves!!
Please comment on this Blog Post including the following information AND any other comments you would like to share with each other.
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--> upload any pictures you have of coastal or lakeside beaches in your state
Email the picture and description on Canvas or Blackboard and the instructor will post them on the main blog post. Pictures can 't be uploaded in comments.
Oxnard State Beach at sunset, and I that you can see the curvature of the coast and the "fog finger" that settles regularly in West Ventura. -Jen Bays [CSUCI]
Loco Canyon Hike, Santa Rosa Island (of the Channel Islands). Bri Occhino [CSUCI]
This picture is really cool. It i the "beach front" (made up of pulverized bones from millions of dead fish and barnacles) of the Sultan Sea. A really fascinating place on the San Andreas Fault, in Riverside County, California (about 30 miles from Coachella). It has an amazing history and poses very unique environmental conservation challenges. Bri Occhino [CSUCI]
San Clemente pier, if you notice, the buildings here look similar to the one's at CSUCI. Very cool spot. -Eli Lew [CSUCI]
Santa Cruz Island, September 2017. -Veronicaa [CSUCI]
Kvichak River and Lake Iliamna, rock hunting with my mother. Mary Hostetter (UAS).
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"This is a photo of our skiff back home on the water in Nome fishing for salmon" Tonia Osborne (UAS)
San Onofre Beach, south of San Clemente pier, a pretty popular surfing spot. -Eli Lew [CSUCI]
Pismo Beach, taken on the drive up to Cal Poly SLO, because my sister goes there. -Eli Lew [CSUCI]
My name is Natalie Javate. This is the picture of the beach I grew up in called Redondo Beach. This beach has nice sunsets and it’s beside a peninsula. [CSUCI]
This is a picture from my first trip to Santa Rosa Island. It was taken just south of the pier at Bechers Bay in April 2018. Jason Suddith [CSUCI]
Hueneme Beach during the Woolsey Fire in November 2018. -Veronica [CSUCI]
Santa Cruz Island, September 2017. -Veronicaa [CSUCI]
-Chris [CSUCI]
Above is a picture of my daughter enjoying the water at the Port Hueneme Beach.
- Darline Truong [CSUCI]
Kvichak River and Lake Iliamna, rock hunting with my mother. Mary Hostetter (UAS).
Shoreline Photo in Kailua Hawaii, Photo taken from Pillbox Hike overlooking Lanikai Beach. Christine Briggs (UAS)
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"This is a photo of our skiff back home on the water in Nome fishing for salmon" Tonia Osborne (UAS)
The first two (above) are from the outer coast of Chichagof, third one is from Glacier Bay. Glenn Wright (UAS)
I took this at Outer Point, North Douglas here in Juneau during one of my Archeology class field trips. 9/3/19 Artemio Sandoval (UAS)
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North Beach in San Clemente, California. The colors have not been edited, the sunsets down there are really that bright. Khrystl Brouillette-Janes (UAS)
I’m Nick Whicker and I would call Southeast Alaska my home. Living near the ocean my entire life, as well as living from it, has inspired my interest in the natural sciences. I’m about to graduate this December with a Bachelor’s of Science in Marine Biology from the University of Alaska Southeast Juneau campus. My academic interests are primarily in (marine)biology and evolution, though I’m also quite interested in the physical sciences such as chemistry, physics, and oceanography and geography. I look forward to having discussions and interdisciplinary discourse with both my peers in Alaska and the students in California. The coldest temperature I’ve experienced was in Soldotna, Alaska at -14 or -15 degrees F; and in Southeast Alaska around -5 degrees F in Ketchikan.
Point Louisa and Grace the Dog, Mali Tamone (UAS)
Hi, my name is Jen and I am an Environmental Science major. I was born in Oxnard, California and when I was 7 years old the temperature was recorded at ~27°F. Even though it was 29 years ago, I remember the kids in my class not wanting to go outside to play because it was too cold.
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ReplyDeleteMy name is Ashlee Coronado and I’m an Environmental Science major. I live in Oxnard and I believe the coldest temperature I’ve encountered in Oxnard is 39° F.
Hi Ashlee, Please send me beach pics!
DeleteHi my name is Bri and I am an ESRM major at CSUCI. I was born in Wisconsin and the coldest temperatures I have ever experienced there was about negative 27°F in the middle of the day (not including wind chill). After my deployment to Afghanistan I moved to Southern California in the fall of 2013. I live in Newbury Park, California with the coldest temperature I have experienced here being about 34°F at about 4am.
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ReplyDeleteMy name is Aaron Tello and I am a Communications major. I am definitely out of my element in this subject but I am looking forward to this class. the coldest weather I have experienced is 17°F in Big Bear, CA. I didn't think it was too cold but I knew I would not want to experience anything colder.
Hi Aaron, Please send me beach pics!
ReplyDeleteHey everybody, my name is Eli and I'm a transfer Environmental Science major. I'm from Southern California in a town called Tustin. It doesn't get really cold there, but probably the coldest temperature I've experienced was in Skagway, Alaska. I took a train up the mountain during the summer, it was really breathtaking. The temperature was around 42 °F, which honestly wasn't too bad for me.
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Sammy and I'm an environmental science major but considering switching it to communications. Born and raised in Santa Ana so it never really got too cold. but the coldest temperature I've experienced was in Sequoia Nat'l Park at 26 degrees.
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DeleteHi my name is Natalie. I am a pre-nursing major at CSU Channel Island. I grew up in Torrance in the South Bay so we never really have cold weather. But the coldest temperature I felt was in London for Winter Break and the temperature was at 45 Fahrenheit.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Connor French. I am a student at CSU Channel Islands and my major is Business Admin. The coldest temperature I have been in was about 15 degree Fahrenheit visiting my cousins when I was little in the snow!
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DeleteHi my name is Mereana Street, I am a communications major at CSU Channel Islands. I grew up in the Bay Area (San Jose, California) and the coldest temperature I've ever experienced was 52 degrees.
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DeleteHi my name is Cody Johnson. I am an ESRM major at CSUCI. I was originally born in Columbus, Ohio but moved to Florida when I was young then to California where I have been staying. The coldest temperature I can remember being in is close to 60 degrees Fahrenheit when I visited Canada for a bit of one of my vacations. I have first stage scuba certification and am lifeguard certified as well.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Jason Suddith and I'm an environmental science and resource management major at California State University Channel Islands. I'm from the San Fernando Valley, a subsection of Los Angeles. It doesn't get that cold too often, but I have experienced sub-freezing temperatures here.
ReplyDeleteI've also been to Juneau before when I was a kid. Everyone told us we brought the LA weather with us because the three days we were there it didn't rain, but apparently rained a lot before and after our trip.
Hi everyone, my name is Paul and I'm a Communication major at CSU Channel Islands. My hometown is Oxnard, CA and the coldest temperature I've felt here was around 35-40 degrees Fahrenheit. I'm looking forward to learning and discussing climate change solutions with the class here at CSUCI and in Alaska.
ReplyDeleteHi Everyone! My name is Darline and I just transferred from Oxnard College as a Communication major. I was born and raised in Oxnard, CA. I do run cold, so anything in the 60F is freezing for me.
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ReplyDeleteMy name is Rachael Cavanagh and I am an ESRM major at CI. My hometown is whittier and the coldest it has ever gotten was 32 degrees Fahrenheit with predictions of snow but my water polo coach still made us get in the outdoor pool for practice.
Hi my name is Chris! My major is Environmental Science and Resource Management and I'm originally from San Diego, CA. Growing up, the coldest temperature I experienced was 42 degrees.
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ReplyDeleteI'm Glenn Wright--I'm one of the co-instructors of our Alaska course up here in Juneau and our resident Political Scientist. I grew up in Connecticut (as I like to say, exit 66 on I-84), but I now consider Juneau home.
Not sure what the coldest temperatures I've experienced here have been--Juneau isn't as cold as a lot of other parts of Alaska, so probably something in the negative single digits or negative teens (?) That's pretty unusual up here, though it does every once in a while get that cold, especially up high in the mountains. The coldest temperatures I've experienced have been up in Fairbanks, where I got my undergraduate degree--probably somewhere near 55 below zero. I struggle with the effects of repeated frostbite on my fingers from those days, though I miss the landscape and people up there, as well as the beautiful Aurora Borealis Fairbanks regularly gets.
I'm a kayaker, so I've got lots of beach pictures, but here's a video I posted a month or two ago of a kayak trip I took this summer with Jason (one of my co-instructors) near Juneau: https://youtu.be/e8EGj6ccQMc
Hi All,
ReplyDeleteI'm Kevin Maier, the third instructor at UAS. I grew up in Port Townsend, WA, a small town in the rainshadow of the Olympic mountain range. After collecting a few degrees in English up and down the I-5 corridor (undergrad in Bellingham, WA and MA and PhD in Eugene, OR), I have called Juneau home since 2004. Save for Eugene, I've never lived more than a 5 minute drive from salt water, so I'm adapted to maritime climates. The coldest days in Juneau (and also incidentally our most common weather) are 38-42 and raining or snaining. The adage about Juneau weather is that any day of the year can be 42 and raining, and we almost always get one such day in July and one in January, if not every month of the year.
I'll post pictures later, but wanted to get my intro out there.
Looking forward to working with everyone!
Good Morning All,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Matt Berry and I am a Geography and Environmental Studies student at UAS here in Juneau. I grew up in Saint Louis, Missouri and ended up here in Juneau and UAS after being in the US Army for five years.
Growing up in Missouri we got some nice extremes of both ends of the spectrum, with the coldest including windchill to being in the ~ -10F and with heat index above 110F in Mid July 2012. The hottest I have ever experienced was in the Afar Desert in Djibouti in summer 2014 where the heat index was pushing towards ~120F in August.
However living here in Juneau the last few years have allowed for enjoyable experiences in a much more temperate climate as described by Kevin and Glenn above.
My name is Harold Ruchti and I am a Geography and Environmental Sciences major at UAS. My hometown is Galena, Alaska. The coldest temperature that I have experienced there is -54F. The hottest I have experienced in that town is around 84F. The hottest I have experienced ever was in Minnesota and it was in the high 90s low hundreds range.
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ReplyDeleteMy name is Artemio Sandoval, I am majoring in Geography and Environmental Studies and I'm from Juneau, Alaska. The coldest temperature that I've experienced here was 9F and the warmest was 84F, both of which occurred this year actually. The hottest I have ever experienced was around 115F in Las Vegas, NV.
Hello everyone,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Marco Banda and I am a Geography and Environmental Studies student at UAS. I am originally from deep South Texas but have made Alaska my home for the past 10 years. The coldest temperature I have experienced was at a conference in Anchorage. It was -17 with a nice wind making it feel like -30. In South Texas we like to say we have two seasons, hot and hotter. The normal summer temperature there is around 95-110 with 100% humidity, gross!
Hello to all,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Muriel and I am in my last semester here at UAS in Juneau pursuing a BS in Geography and Environmental Resources. I was born and raised in Anchorage, AK but hope to move to Juneau around the start of the new year. Anchorage can get chilly in the winter and the coldest I can remember it being was around -23F. However the hottest I have felt it be in Anchorage was this past summer, the weekend of 4th of July where it hit 91F.
Greetings,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Oscar and I am a senior at UAS in Juneau. I am working towards a Bachelors in Geography. I grew up in Juneau and have been around much of the state of Alaska throughout my life. The coldest temperatures I have experienced here in Juneau is likely the negative teens in degrees farenheit. Additionally, like most others from Alaska we recieved record high temperatures where I spend my summers and had numerous days register in the upper 80's as well as one day breaking 90 degrees.
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI am Michelle, a senior at UAS in Juneau. I plan on graduating in the spring of 2020 with a BLA Interdisciplinary degree of sociology and spanish. Born and raised here and Juneau. The coldest temperature ive experienced in juneau was 9 degrees farenheit and the hottest temperature i've experienced is 89 degrees farenheit.
Hi! I'm Mary and a senior through the UA system (half UAS, half UAA). I will graduate with a BS in natural sciences with a focus on biology and geology. I grew up in a small town in southwestern Alaska, Igiugig. The coldest temperature I've experienced there was -45F, and we still walked to school (seriously a small community, the school was a five minute walk away). I currently live in Juneau and work for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
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ReplyDeleteMy name is Khrystl and I'm a senior at UAS in the Geography and Environmental Resource B.S. program. I'm originally from Southern California, the Orange County bubble to be exact. This is my second year in Juneau as I came in as a transfer student from a community college in California. The coldest temperature I experienced in my hometown was probably around 30 degrees Fahrenheit, and the coldest I have experienced in my time in Alaska was 0 degrees Fahrenheit (which Alaskans will be quick to tell you is not that cold). The hottest I've experienced in California was probably around 110 degrees a few years ago during the major drought.
Hi! I'm Levi, and I'm an Environmental Science major.
ReplyDeleteThe coldest temp I remember from my hometown of Big Lake, AK, was when I was maybe about 7 or 8, it got to -35 degrees. However, if I'm allowed to list temperatures I wouldn't personally remember, when I was only a few months old, my family and I were still living in Anderson, AK. The coldest my mum says it got that winter was as cold as -70!!!
The hottest temp I've ever experienced, was summer of 2014. I went to middle school up in Talkeetna, and was visiting some friends sometime in June. One day, the highest point of the day was 101 degrees!
Hi, My name is Christine Moore, and I am pursuing a nursing degree by taking prerequisite courses through UAS! The coldest I remember it getting in Haines was when I was fairly young, and it was about -20 degrees. Pretty chilly for Southeast Alaska!
ReplyDeleteHello, my name is Taylor Hrupek. My home town is Maple Grove, Minnesota (a suburb of Minneapolis). I am completing a Bachelors of Liberal Arts with a primary in social science and secondary in communication. The coldest temperature I have ever experienced was not actually in Juneau Alaska, but in Minneapolis with a temperature of -25 and -35 or more when factoring the wind chill.
ReplyDeleteHi, my name is Dean Thiart. I am from Misson Viejo, California. I am an Environmental Science Major. The coldest I remember is being in Mission Viejo was maybe around just below freezing. The hottest was around 110F. The hottest I have experienced was around Christmas day. It was around 120F on the eastern cape South Africa when I was visiting family.
ReplyDeleteHello, my name is Mali Tamone (pronounced Molly Tamonie.) I am majoring in biology. The coldest temperature I have experienced in my hometown of Juneau, Alaska was probably around -20 degrees Fahrenheit, but felt much colder with the windchill. I remember that recess at my elementary school was canceled on that day. The hottest I have experienced in Juneau was this summer in July when temperatures were in the upper 80's.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Connor M Johnson. I'm currently living in Juneau, Alaska. Hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah, coldest I've experienced there is -5F, and the warmest being 106F. I will be graduating in the spring with a B.S. in Environmental Science.
ReplyDeleteHi, my name is Carmen Soto. I am from Palmer Alaska, and I'm majoring in Geography and Environmental Resources. The coldest temperature that I can remember is probably -25, but I'm sure we didn't go out much that day. The hottest
ReplyDeletePalmer got in my life time was probably this summer when It was in the upper 90s.
Hi, my name is Carmen Soto. I am from Palmer Alaska, and I'm majoring in Geography and Environmental Resources. The coldest temperature that I can remember is probably -25, but I'm sure we didn't go out much that day. The hottest
ReplyDeletePalmer got in my life time was probably this summer when It was in the upper 90s.
Hi, I'm Jason Amundson, one of the instructors at UAS. I've lived in Juneau for 8 years, but have called Alaska home since 2001. The coldest I experienced was -53F when I was a graduate student in Fairbanks. We also had one winter where it was below -40F for 17 days straight. After living in Fairbanks, Juneau feels like the Alaska Riviera! I study glaciers, and so I spend more than my share of time being cold.
ReplyDeleteHello, my name is Ryan O’Sullivan and I am a 5th-year Environmental Science and Resource Management major at CSUCI. I was born and raised in Orange County, California. I grew up by the beach so the coldest it ever gets is 50F, however, I have some family in Oregon. One time we got stuck in a snowstorm on Crater Lake and the temperature dropped to 9 F. With that being said the hottest weather I have ever been in was 121 F in Lake Havasu.
ReplyDeleteHello everyone my name is Steve Abara and I was born and raise in Oxnard. I am a transfer student to CSUCI and have been here for two years. I pretty much grew up at the beach and have been fishing my whole life.
ReplyDeleteHello, my name is mia humphreys, I am an ESRM major and the coldest temperature I have ever been in in my home town of Covina is about 30 degrees.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Veronica Simental. I am majoring in Environmental Science at CSUCI. The coldest temperature I have experienced in Port Hueneme, California has probably been in the 50s. The coldest temperature I have ever experienced was in Denver, Colorado and Cheyenne, Wyoming which was in the 40s.
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