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Around 1980, Michael W. Berns, a professor of biology at the University of California, Irvine, founded an institute focusing on the then-new technology of lasers.After receiving a National Institutes of Health biotechnology grant, [3]: 328–331 he established a laboratory for laser microscopy, the Laser Microbeam Program (LAMP). [4]
Johnson Valley is a small unincorporated community in San Bernardino County in Southern California between Victor Valley and Morongo Basin areas of the High Desert region of California. It is north of Highway 247 in the Mojave Desert , and north by northwest of Yucca Valley .
It starts from U.S. Route 395 near Topaz Lake, winding its way up to the 8,314-foot (2,534 m) Monitor Pass, down to the Carson River, and up again over the 7,740-foot (2,359 m) Luther Pass. From that point on, the route generally loses elevation on its way past Lake Tahoe , through Tahoe and Plumas National Forests until Lake Almanor .
The state highway system defines Route 83 in section 383 subdivision (a) of the California Streets and Highways Code as follows: [5] Route 83 is from Route 71 to Route 10 near the City of Upland. Subdivisions (c) and (d) of section 383 permit the state to relinquish all or a portion of Route 83 located in the cities of Ontario and Chino ...
The plant was built to centralize wastewater treatment, instead of sending it to the 22 treatment plants that used to exist in the Sacramento Area. [1] The SRWTP employs approximately 350 people, treats approximately 127 million gallons of effluent daily for over 1.4 million people in Elk Grove, Sacramento, Citrus Heights, Folsom, and Rancho ...
Screw piles were first described by the Irish civil engineer Alexander Mitchell in a paper in Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal in 1848; however, helical piles had been used for almost a decade by this point. [2] Screw foundations first appeared in the 1800s as pile foundations for lighthouses, [3] and were extensively used for piers in ...
The Yuba Goldfields, also known as the Hammonton dredge field, is the largest gold dredge field in California. Located along the Yuba River approximately 6–12 miles (10–20 km) upstream of the town of Marysville , in Yuba County , the Hammonton dredge field was actively dredged for gold from 1904 [ 1 ] to 1968. [ 2 ]
Time-lapse video of an eastbound trip on California Route 2 in 2017; the trip includes both the urban and mountain portions of the route. The state highway system defines Route 2 in section 302 subdivision a of the California Streets and Highways Code as follows: [4] Route 2 is from: