Megastorms, California, and You -- Yokuts Group Program mtg.

Megastorms, California, and You:
Speaker: Rick Kerrigan
Friday, November 15th, 2024

Beginning with our November 15th program we will have a new location for our program presentations. This will be at the Valley Improvement Projects (V.I.P.} facility. The location is 1224 K St., Modesto Ca. It’s on the corner of K and 13th Streets.

Rick Kerrigan's personal experience of recent severe weather events in the Sierra foothills and their consequences has led him to take a deep dive into what history and science tell us about extreme storms and floods. His book, Megastorms, California,and You, is intended to be an accessible yet in-depth introduction to what is known about these weather events and their impacts. He hopes to inspire and motivate the broad masses and their public officials to become aware and forward-looking, and to take all reasonable measurers to reduce expected consequences to the absolute minimum.
Rick W. Kerrigan is a California native with family roots going back to 1850. Early exposure to natural history led to projects on native plants and unnamed mushrooms in Santa Cruz County; he has since formally given scientific names to more than two dozen 'new' species.
He had public safety responsibilities in several California State Parks for eight years, followed by a B.A. and M.A (in Biology) from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D in fungal genetics from U.C. Santa Barbara, then a post-doc at the University of Toronto; he has spent 45 years as a researcher and educator in the life sciences. His book on fungi, Argaricus of North America, was published in 2016.
Rick loves hiking and packing. He's hiked on small parts of the Pacific Crest Trail and enjoyed the rail-trail network in western Pennsylvania, including a two-hundred-mile bike trip along the Great Allegheny Passage. He now lives in Calaveras County. Rick's book on megastorms will be for sale at the meeting.

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