According to the Centennial Record of the University of California, " In 1866 … at Founders ' Rock, a group of College of California men watched two ships standing out to sea through the Golden Gate.

Even in 2010, more than forty years after the U. S. ban, California condors which feed on sea lions at Big Sur which in turn feed in the Palos Verdes Shelf area of the Montrose Chemical Superfund site seemed to be having continued thin-shell problems.

Although the recruits had signed on as part of a scientific expedition and expected to spend their three month assignment collecting botanical and biological samples, once out to sea they were told, " Your names will go down in history " and that the islands would become " famous air bases in a route that will connect Australia with California ".

Tide pools with sea stars and sea anemone in Santa Cruz, California

During the winter feeding season, they spend their time almost exclusively at sea, extending their range throughout the North Pacific and south to Japan and California.

By 1850 California had enough settlers arriving by the California Trail and by sea to become the 31st state.

During the next seven years, approximately 300, 000 people came to California ( half by land and half by sea ) to seek their fortunes mining for gold or selling supplies like picks and shovels to the gold prospectors.

Patrick Krug, a biologist at California State University, Los Angeles named a sea slug with traits of sexual flexibility Alderia willowi partly for his grandmother and partly after Willow's character.

As such, there is not Title 32 United States Code equivalent for the sea services, even though Alaska, California, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Texas and Ohio have incorporated Naval Militia units.

Furthermore, many of the Otariinae appear to be more phylogenetically distinct than previously assumed ; for example, the Japanese sea lion ( Zalophus japonicus ) is now considered a separate species, rather than a subspecies of the California sea lion ( Zalophus californius ).

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It occurs from near sea level along the coast to in the California Mountains.

A year later, the RAC began expanding its operations to more abundant sea otter grounds in Northern California, where Fort Ross was built in 1812.

This involved a long sea voyage against the prevailing winds and the California Current.

Of the 300, 000, approximately half arrived by sea and half came from the east overland on the California Trail and the Gila River trail.

# REDIRECT California sea lion

The California sea lion ( Zalophus californianus ) is a coastal eared seal native to western North America.

California sea lions have a polygynous breeding pattern.

Because of this, California sea lions are commonly found in public displays in zoos, circuses and oceanariums, where they are known as the classic " seals ," and are trained by the US Navy for certain military operations.

Along with the Galapagos sea lion and the extinct Japanese sea lion, the California sea lion belongs to the genus Zalophus, which derives from the Greek words za, meaning " intensive ," and lophus, meaning " crest.

Traditionally, the Galapagos sea lion and Japanese sea lion were classified as subspecies of the California sea lion.

The lineages of the California and Japanese sea lion appear to have split off 2. 2 million years ago during the Pliocene.

The California sea lion differs from the Galapagos sea lion in its greater sexual dimorphism.

California sea lion skeleton

As an otariid, the California sea lion relies on its foreflippers to propel itself when swimming.

The California sea lion ranges along the western coast and islands of North America, from southeast Alaska to central Mexico.

Mitochondrial DNA sequences in 2009 have identified five distinct California sea lion populations: the US or Pacific Temperate stock, the Western Baja California or Pacific Tropical stock, and the Southern, Central, and Northern Gulf of California stocks.

In 2004, a healthy sea lion was found sitting on a road in Merced County, California, almost a hundred miles upstream from the San Francisco Bay and half a mile from the San Joaquin River.

The territorial and mating system of the California sea lion has been described as similar to a lek system, as females appear to choose their mates while moving though different territories.

California sea lion s, members of the family Otariidae.

A male California sea lion weighs on an average about and is about long, while the female sea lion weighs and is long.

He recalled that in California after a critic had attacked him for `` still trying to sell Bruckner to the Americans '', the public's response at the next concert was a standing ovation.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

Hearst's luck was even poorer when he had a chat with Franklin K. Lane, a prominent California journalist and reform politician, whom he asked for his support.

Lane was still burning because he had narrowly missed election as governor of California in 1902 and laid his defeat to the antagonism of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner.

The southward route was the classic run in California, and the most fashionable.

The artist was born in Gilbert Mills, New York, in 1886, and until two years ago when he and his wife moved to California, he lived in western New York, in Batavia.

Such items recall the California journalist who reported an accident involving a movie star: `` The area in which Miss N -- was injured is spectacularly scenic ''.

This measurement was obtained by W. Blumberg of the University of California, Berkeley, by observing the breadth of the free induction decay signal.

In the Sacramento valley in California, for instance, it has been observed that there was not one day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins.

However, the Attorney General of California, at the request of the Secretary of Labor, sought to have the jurisdiction over the issue removed to the Federal District Court, on grounds that it was predominantly a Federal issue since the validity of the Secretary's Regulation was being challenged.

Within about an hour with the help of reports from seismic stations in Alaska, Arizona and California, the quake's epicenter was placed at 51 degrees North latitude and 158 degrees East longitude.

The six expeditions to study eclipses of the sun, of which he was a member, took him to Colorado, Virginia, and California as well as to the South Pacific and to Russia.

Today, M. Kegham was in Detroit, en route to join his wife and children in California.

suspicion between member states still existed, but it was of about the same low order of virulence as the twentieth-century rivalry between Arizona and California over water supplies.

Turnout was 82. 2 percent, with Lincoln winning the free Northern states, as well as California and Oregon.

Flying A was one of the first motion pictures studios in California history.

On August 12, 2011, a plaque was unveiled on the Wolff building at Third Ave and La Mesa Bl commemorating Dwan and the Flying A Studios origins in La Mesa, California.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Johnston was the commander of the U. S. Army Department of the Pacific in California.

In 1950, van Vogt was briefly appointed as head of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics operation in California.

Americium was first produced in 1944 by the group of Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley.

Although americium was likely produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in late autumn 1944, at the University of California, Berkeley by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso.

The element was first produced by Dale R. Corson, Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, and Emilio Segrè at the University of California, Berkeley in 1940.

Alexis Carrel was also a member of learned societies in the U. S., Spain, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Vatican City, Germany, Italy and Greece and received honorary doctorates from Queen's University of Belfast, Princeton University, California, New York, Brown University and Columbia University.