FRIENDS OF THE LAB
Tom Miller
Polly Schiffman
Don Yee
Andy Aguilar
Marie Simovich
Andy Bohonak

VERNAL POOL LINKS
VernalPools.org
UC Merced Vernal Pool Reserve
Splash
CNPS 1996 Proceedings
Wikipedia entry

TEMPORARY PONDS (INTERNATIONAL)
Leon Blaustein (in memory)
Luc Brendonck
Bram Vanschoenwinkel
Dani Boix
Belinda Robson
Jenny Davis
Tour du Valat
Ponderful

AGENCIES, ORGANIZATIONS, RESOURCES
Union of Concerned Scientists
World Conservation Union
RationalWiki
Calflora
Tree of Life
USGS Water Resources
US Fish and Wildlife
National Park Service
CA Dept Fish and Wildlife
CA State Parks
East Bay Regional Park District
Save Mount Diablo: savemountdiablo.org
Westervelt Ecological
Climate Cents

WRITERS
Graham Greene
Aldous Huxley 
Hermann Hesse
John Steinbeck
Cormac McCarthy
Raymond Chandler
Lawrence Block
James Lee Burke
Don Winslow
Michael Connelly
CJ Box
Jo Nesbo
John D. McDonald
Walt Whitman
Gary Snyder
Charles Bukowski
Hard Case Crime
The Thrilling Detective
MysteryNet
The New Yorker
​My Hardboiled Covers Page



Recent Books and Music

 SCIENCE 
AAAS
National Science Foundation
Ecological Society of America
American Society of Naturalists
Entomological Society of America
California Botanical Society 
Ecology Letters
NEON
​Northwest Climate Toolbox

SCIENCE EDUCATION AND MISC
QUBES
NCSE
Understanding Evolution
The Writings of Charles Darwin
Retraction Watch
PNIS (science satire)

MISCELLANEOUS
The Onion
Rotten Tomatoes
National Public Radio
This American Life
The Straight Dope 
FactCheck.org
Snopes
​Politifact
Information is Beautiful
Chili Pepper Madness
Habanero Madness
LA Dodgers
LA Lakers

MUSIC 
Recently read books and music
Library of Congress Jukebox 
All About Jazz 
All Music Guide
Jazz Review
Slide Guitar
Mandolin Cafe
California Bluegrass Association
Tom Waits
Grateful Dead
Acoustic Disc
Wilco
Radiohead
The Clash
Guy Clark
Townes Van Zandt
Leon Redbone
Ry Cooder
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
Thelonious Monk
Louis Armstrong
Joe Lovano
Bill Frisell
Greenleaf Music (Dave Douglas)
Tzadik Records
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival