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How Wildfires Threaten Water Supplies by Unleashing Sediment

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How Satellite Imagery Transforms Shoreline Monitoring From "Data-Poor" to "Data-Rich"

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Sound Waves Newsletter - September-October 2021

In our latest issue, explore how video and satellite imagery improves shoreline monitoring, how we celebrate diversity and education in STEM, and more

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Offshore Fault Mapping

USGS scientists and colleagues completed a research cruise studying the Queen Charlotte Fault off the coast of southeast Alaska and British Columbia

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Studying Waves and Sediment with Video Monitoring at Point Barrow, AK

Imagery from coastal observing cameras will help communities plan for changing storm patterns and other threats to the coastline

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Coral Reef Restoration Reduces Flood Risks in Florida and Puerto Rico

New reports show how the restoration of coral reefs can save hundreds of millions of dollars in storm-related damages every year

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Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program

Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program scientists and staff study coastal and ocean resources and processes from shorelines and estuaries to the continental shelf and deep sea.

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Searching for Evidence of Past Tsunamis in Sediment Cores

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Native American Heritage Month: Spotlight on Troy Currence

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Seven decades of coastal change at Barter Island, Alaska: Exploring the importance of waves and temperature on erosion of coastal permafrost bluffs

Observational data of coastal change over much of the Arctic are limited largely due to its immensity, remoteness, harsh environment, and restricted periods of sunlight and ice-free conditions. Barter Island, Alaska, is one of the few locations where an extensive, observational dataset exists, which enables a detailed assessment of the trends and patterns of coastal change over decadal to annual t
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Natural Hazards, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Earthquake magnitude distributions on northern Caribbean faults from combinatorial optimization models

On-fault earthquake magnitude distributions are calculated for northern Caribbean faults using estimates of fault slip and regional seismicity parameters. Integer programming, a combinatorial optimization method, is used to determine the optimal spatial arrangement of earthquakes sampled from a truncated Gutenberg-Richter distribution that minimizes the global misfit in slip rates on a complex fau
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Natural Hazards, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Elevated levels of radiocarbon in methane dissolved in seawater reveal likely local contamination from nuclear powered vessels

Measurements of the natural radiocarbon content of methane (14C-CH4) dissolved in seawater and freshwater have been used to investigate sources and dynamics of methane. However, during investigations along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Ocean Margins of the United States, as well as in the North American Great Lakes, some samples revealed highly elevated 14C-CH4 values, as much as 4–5 times abo
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Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
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Global Marine Mineral Resources

Researching mineral resources that occur within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone and areas beyond national jurisdictions.
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Natural Hazards, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
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Global Marine Mineral Resources

Researching mineral resources that occur within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone and areas beyond national jurisdictions.
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Science Seminar Series

Welcome to the Pacific Coastal Marine Science Center (PCMSC) Seminar Series! Our seminars are on the first and third Tuesday of every month, usually from 10:00 – 11:00 am Pacific Time (1:00 - 2:00 pm Eastern) via Microsoft Teams. Please check each seminar announcement closely, as times may change. In addition, we also co-host a special “Coastal Change Hazards” seminar on the second Tuesday every...
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Science Seminar Series

Welcome to the Pacific Coastal Marine Science Center (PCMSC) Seminar Series! Our seminars are on the first and third Tuesday of every month, usually from 10:00 – 11:00 am Pacific Time (1:00 - 2:00 pm Eastern) via Microsoft Teams. Please check each seminar announcement closely, as times may change. In addition, we also co-host a special “Coastal Change Hazards” seminar on the second Tuesday every...
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Transport of invasive microorganisms

This research is part of the project, “Sediment Transport in Coastal Environments.”
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Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
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Transport of invasive microorganisms

This research is part of the project, “Sediment Transport in Coastal Environments.”
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