1st Edition

Making and Unmaking of the San Francisco Bay

By Gary C. Howard, Matthew R. Kaser Copyright 2021
192 Pages 15 Color & 12 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

192 Pages 15 Color & 12 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

192 Pages 15 Color & 12 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary surrounded by a large population center. The forces that built it began with plate tectonics and involved the collision of the Pacific and North American plates and the subduction of the Juan de Fuka plate. Changes in the climate resulting from the last ice age yielded lower and then higher sea levels. Human activity influenced the Bay. Gold mining during... Read more

Chapter 1 California Now and Then

Chapter 2 Geological Forces that Built the Bay

Chapter 3 Water

Chapter 4 Geomorphology of the Bay Area

Chapter 5 Early Biology of the Bay

Chapter 6 Humans Arrive

Chapter 7 The Bay Today

Chapter 8 Biology of the Bay

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.