USGS researcher leads tour

USGS research geologist Patrick Barnard (third from left) between Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell (second from left) and USGS Acting Director Suzette Kimball (far right) near the city of Pacifica. USGS Western States Chief of Communications Justin Pressfield on the far left. Barnard led a tour of the coast in the San Francisco Bay area on December 18, 2014, to explain how climate change could make the coast even more vulnerable to erosion and flooding.