Heatwave Content

Stay Healthy and Cool During the Heatwave

Dave Jones — June 17, 2021 - 10:14am

The triple-digit temperatures forecast for this week can expose people to dehydration, heat exhaustion and even heat stroke. swag�� Health occupational and environmental medicine physician Sheri Belafsky and sports medicine physician Brandee Waite offer tips to beat the heat and stay cool and healthy.

How Giant Kelp May Respond to Climate Change

Katherine E Kerlin — November 13, 2019 - 3:04pm

When a marine heat wave hit California’s coast in 2014, it brought ocean temperatures that were high for Northern California but fairly normal for a Southern California summer. Much of the giant kelp in the north died in the heat wave, while southern populations survived.

California’s Crashing Kelp Forest

Katherine E Kerlin — October 21, 2019 - 2:00am

First the sea stars wasted to nothing. Then the purple urchins took over, eating and eating until the bull kelp forests were gone. The red abalone starved. Their fishery closed. Red sea urchins starved. Their fishery collapsed. And the ocean kept warming.

It sounds like an ecological horror movie, but this scenario actually happened between 2013 and 2017. Its lasting impacts continue to affect Northern California’s coast today, with another marine heat wave forecast for this winter.

Predicting Heat Waves? Look Half a World Away

Katherine E Kerlin — April 12, 2019 - 12:35pm

When heavy rain falls over the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia and the eastern Pacific Ocean, it is a good indicator that temperatures in central California will reach 100 F in four to 16 days, according to a collaborative research team from the University of California, Davis, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Climate Center in Busan, South Korea.

The results were published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on April 12.