ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

B. Lynn Ingram:

I would like to express gratitude to my dissertation adviser at Stanford University, James Ingle, and to Doris Sloan at the University of California, Berkeley, both of whom inspired and encouraged my research on San Francisco Bay. Roger Byrne has been a valued and supportive colleague and collaborator for almost twenty years at UC Berkeley, and he appears in many of these pages. Peter Schweikhardt, Peter Weber, Frances Malamud-Roam, Brendan Roark, Kathleen Johnson, Amy Engelbrecht, and Scott Starratt have provided inspiration and enthusiasm—in many ways teaching me much more than I have taught them over the years.

Frances Malamud-Roam:

I would like to thank my mentors and advisers, B. Lynn Ingram and Roger Byrne, and many of the other students who were so fortunate to work with Lynn and were colleagues of mine who helped me through many courses and papers. Special thanks go to Michelle Goman, Eric Edlund, Scott Starratt, and, of course, Karl Malamud-Roam.

Both authors would like to acknowledge the valued support of the late David H. Peterson at the U.S. Geological Survey, who provided inspiration and encouragement during the inception and early stages of planning and writing this book. Our special thanks go to Mike Dettinger, Michael McPhadden, Kent Lightfoot, Joan Florsheim, Jim Johnstone, Roger Byrne, Cory Phillis, Peter Weber, Malcolm Hughes, Jack Repcheck, Scott Stine, Dan Cayan, Miriam Glickman, Don DePaolo, and Gene Ingram for valuable discussions and sage advice over the years and for reviews of portions of the draft. We are indebted to Jeffrey Mount, James Powell, and an anonymous reviewer for careful reviews of the manuscript. Alan Anderson and Paige Gilchrist provided invaluable shaping and editing of the manuscript. Many of the photographs and figures in this book were kindly provided by Arndt Schimmelmann, Jim Johnstone, Thomas Swetnam, Derrick Kelly, James Kennett, Doug Kennett, Anders Noren, Jeanne Di Leo, and Don DePaolo, for which we are grateful. Agent Amanda Menke and UC Press editor Blake Edgar provided expert guidance, advice, and valued support. Last but not least, we are extremely grateful to Dr. Wenbo Yang for helping to redraft many of the book’s figures and for analyzing the isotopic compositions of many of the samples discussed in the book.