1st Edition

Making and Unmaking of San Diego Bay

By Matthew R. Kaser, Gary C. Howard Copyright 2022
202 Pages 16 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

202 Pages 16 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

202 Pages 16 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

San Diego Bay is a shallow estuary surrounded by a large population center. Geological forces and changes in sea levels from the last Ice Age combine to make the Bay and the adjacent highlands and mesas. Human activity has also influenced the Bay. Humans built several major cities and filled significant parts of the Bay. This book describes the natural history and evolution of the San Diego Bay... Read more

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

Biography

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.