Robin Meadows Archives – KneeDeep Times

Why California’s Water Extremes Are Wilder than Ever — And What We Can Do About It

While alternating between drought and deluge is nothing new for California, climate change is making these swings even more dramatic. New research and new polic... Read more.

How Far Can Metro Harbors Go on Nature-Based Shore Protection?

Typical flood protections rely on engineered structures. But there's a new push at the national level of the US Army Corps of Engineers to prioritize working w... Read more.

What Exactly is a Bomb Cyclone Anyway?

It’s hard for me to imagine a scarier name for weather than bomb cyclone — the kind of California experienced on January 4, 2023 — and in the days leading... Read more.

California Reeling: When Mudslides Follow Wildfires

Curtis Skene experienced loss and adaptation first hand after the deadly Montecito mudslide in 2018. The slide was triggered by a cascade of extreme events an... Read more.

Atmospheric river makes landfall on California Coast. Photo: NOAA.

How Rivers in the Sky Travel Across the Ocean

In California, our fate swings from drought to floods, depending largely on whether or not we get rainstorms called atmospheric rivers.... Read more.

Crawling on Highway 37 there's time to admire the view from the backside of an oil tanker. Photo: Ariel Rubissow Okamoto.

Dodging a Bullet on the Highway 37 Redesign

To help keep Highway 37 open despite heavy storms and rising tides, planners are assessing a wide range of options from elevating the road to rerouting it. But ... Read more.

2017 Tubbs Fire in Sonoma. Photo: Jacoba Charles

Scientists Nail Climate Links to Extreme Events

While a supermajority of Americans finally believe we are warming the world, a 2020 Yale Climate Opinion survey shows that most people still aren’t very worri... Read more.

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