Physical Geography (GE 306)

This article, published in April 2022, provides an excellent overview of the history, ecological value, and current condition of the Salton Sea.

This website includes a wealth of information about the Salton Sea and the Salton Sea Management Program (SSMP), which includes a 10-year plan that aims to improve conditions by constructing 30,000 acres of habitat and dust suppression projects around the Sea.

This website provides background information, including the history of the Salton Sea, along with information on the current state of management efforts and the species found in the area.

This online flipbook and the 15-minute documentary series based on it provide the history of water supply and use in the San Diego region from ancient times to the present.

This website from the nonprofit organization Pacific Institute includes information about current conditions and conservation efforts around the Salton Sea.

This article describes the history, geography and ecology of the Salton Sea area. It was written for earth scientists, so just skim past the technical details; most of the article is accessible to non-scientists. It was published in 2016 in the Journal of Earth Science, a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal.

This paper, presented at the 2020 Desert Symposium, argues that the sea's formation was inevitable, regardless of the famous canal breach in 1905.

This is a manuscript (also called a "prepub," for "pre-publication") of an article published in 2019 in Science of The Total Environment, a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal. The final edited version of the article is behind a paywall, but this version is available online for free.

This is a news article from the New York Times, published in February 2023. Available through ProQuest Central (login required).

This is a news article from the Los Angeles Times, published in November 2022. Available through ProQuest Central (login required).

** OPINION**
This is an OPINION piece published in the Los Angeles Times in October 2022. It was written by two people with professional expertise on the subject (a UC Santa Cruz environmental studies professor and a retired University of Arizona law professor), both of whom served on the California Salton Sea Management Program’s Independent Review Panel. This **OPINION** piece is their argument in favor of the proposal recommended by that Review Panel; it is not a news article that reports facts. Available through ProQuest Central (login required).

This news article was published by Reuters in October 2022.

This is a news article from the Wall Street Journal, published in February 2022. Available through ProQuest Central (login required).

This is a news article published by CalMatters, a nonprofit news organization, in February 2021.

This is a news article from the Los Angeles Times, published in December 2019. Available through ProQuest Central (login required).

** OPINION**
This is an OPINION piece published in the Los Angeles Times in March 2019. It was written by the editorial team at the Los Angeles Times based on what they have learned through news coverage and investigative reporting, but it is an **OPINION** piece rather than a news article that reports facts. Available through ProQuest Central (login required).

This is a news article from the Los Angeles Times, published in May 2018. Available through ProQuest Central (login required).

This is a news article from the Los Angeles Times, published in March 2017. Available through ProQuest Central (login required).