Darrel Hess began teaching geography at City College of San Francisco in 1990 and served as chair of the Earth Sciences Department from 1995 to 2009. After earning his bachelor’s degree in geography at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978, he served for two years as a teacher in the Peace Corps on Jeju Island, Korea. Upon returning to the United States, he worked as a writer, photographer, and audio visual producer. His association with Tom McKnight began as a graduate student at UCLA, where he served as one of Tom’s teaching assistants. Their professional collaboration developed after Darrel graduated from UCLA with a master’s degree in geography in 1990. He first wrote the Study Guide that accompanied the fourth edition of Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation, and then the Laboratory Manual that accompanied the fifth edition. Darrel continues to author the Laboratory Manual, along with the California Edition of this book, now in its fourth incarnation. In 1999 Tom asked Darrel to join him as coauthor of the textbook. Darrel was the 2014 recipient of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Gilbert Grosvenor Geographic Education Honors. As did Tom, Darrel greatly enjoys the outdoor world. Darrel and his wife, Nora, are avid hikers, campers, and scuba divers.

1. Metric Conversions
2. Location
3. Time
4. Map Scale
5. Map Projections
6. Isolines
7. Landscape Analysis with Google Earth™ and the National Map   
8. Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing
9. Earth-Sun Relations
10. Solar Angle
11. Insolation
12. Temperature Patterns
13. Air Pressure
14. Wind
15. Humidity
16. Adiabatic Processes
17. Stability
18. Midlatitude Cyclones
19. Weather Maps
20. Weather Satellite Images
21. Doppler Weather Radar
22. Hurricanes
23. Climate Classification
24. Weather Variability and Climate Change
25. Groundwater       
26. Biomes and Ecological Land Units
27. Soils
28. Contour Lines
29. U.S. Geological Survey Topographic Maps
30. Topographic Profiles
31. U.S. Public Land Survey System
32. Aerial Photographs and Stereograms
33. Plate Tectonics
34. Volcanoes
35. Volcanic Calderas
36. Faulting
37. The San Andreas Fault
38. Mass Wasting
39. Drainage Basins
40. Floodplains
41. Stream Drainage Patterns
42. Stream Rejuvenation
43. Flood Recurrence Intervals
44. Karst Topography
45. Desert Landforms
46. Sand Dunes
47. Continental Glaciation
48. Alpine Glaciation
49. Coastal Landforms

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