Author: Clark Tate

  • Crab Command and Control

    Crab Command and Control

    A California team uses science to predict the risk of whale entanglements and shut down the Dungeness crab industry when necessary in “near real time.” As the warm water Blob transformed the ecosystem in the northeast Pacific, the number of whales tangled in fishing lines along the US west coast soared from…

  • Surf Trip Packing List 2020

    Surf Trip Packing List 2020

    The version posted on Wave Tribe is attributed to Derek Dodds. This is the original version I submitted. Published by Wave Tribe | June 10, 2020 Traveling to a new break has a way of smacking you in the face with beauty. Wake up! Stop worrying about emails. It’s time to surf.…

  • Surfing Chicama, Peru – The Longest Left

    Surfing Chicama, Peru – The Longest Left

    Published by Wave Tribe | September 12, 2019 The version posted on Wave Tribe is attributed to Derek Dodds. This is the original version I submitted. [Credit – Mikey Wier. Caption – Waist high waves at El Point are hard to hate.] Chicama, The Longest Left  Chicama is known as…

  • GearLab Mountain Bike Review Program

    GearLab Mountain Bike Review Program

    I lead a team to create GearLab’s first mountain bike review in September of 2016 and launched its mountain bike review program with the most scientific and objective testing process known at the time. I continued leading the program until April 2018, when I became a senior managing editor. During…

  • The Summer of Crazy

    The Summer of Crazy

    From humpbacks breaching by the Santa Cruz Wharf to an algae-slimed Del Monte Beach, Monterey Bay is a strange place these days. What’s driving the warmest-water summer on record. Published in Hilltromper Santa Cruz | 2014 by L. Clark Tate Aug. 13, 2014—Relationships are so complex. She’s hot when I thought she’d…