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Recent Publications - January-February 2015

Recent Publications - January-February 2015

List of recent USGS publications based on coastal and marine research.

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Awards and Publications, January-February 2015 Sound Waves Newsletter

Awards and Publications, January-February 2015 Sound Waves Newsletter

Three articles from the January-February 2015 issue of Sound Waves.

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New Research Vessel Arcticus Advancing USGS Fishery Science in the Great Lakes

New Research Vessel Arcticus Advancing USGS Fishery Science in the Great Lakes

The USGS Great Lakes Science Center recently added a new vessel to its fleet: the 77-foot research vessel (R/V) Arcticus, which supports fishery...

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Getting Out of Harm’s Way—Evacuation from Tsunamis

Getting Out of Harm’s Way—Evacuation from Tsunamis

USGS scientists have developed a new mapping tool for use by researchers and emergency managers to estimate how long it would take for someone to...

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Dive In! Explore Thousands of Coastal and Seafloor Images along U.S. Coasts

Dive In! Explore Thousands of Coastal and Seafloor Images along U.S. Coasts

Thousands of photographs and videos of the seafloor and coastline—most areas never seen before—are now easily accessible online.

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Undamming Washington’s Elwha River—Public Lecture on Largest Dam Removal in U.S. History

Undamming Washington’s Elwha River—Public Lecture on Largest Dam Removal in U.S. History

On February 26, 2015 at the USGS campus in Menlo Park, California, USGS research geologist Amy East gave a public lecture on the largest dam removal...

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Future Wave and Wind Effects on Pacific Islands—Projections Will Assist Planning for Climate Change

Future Wave and Wind Effects on Pacific Islands—Projections Will Assist Planning for Climate Change

Climate changes during the 21st century are expected to alter the highest waves and strongest winds across U.S. and U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands.

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California Seafloor Mapping Program Reaches Milestone

California Seafloor Mapping Program Reaches Milestone

The first phase of map and geospatial data publications, comprising six USGS Scientific Investigations Maps and associated data files centered on the...

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Scientific Portrait of the Largest Dam Removal in U.S. History

Scientific Portrait of the Largest Dam Removal in U.S. History

Scientists worked together to examine and report the effects of removing two large dams from the Elwha River in Washington State, the largest dam...

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VIPS Learn about Climate Change Impacts along San Francisco’s Outer Coast

VIPS Learn about Climate Change Impacts along San Francisco’s Outer Coast

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, Acting USGS Director Suzette Kimball, and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee took part in a coastal climate change...

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Virus Calculated as Culprit Killing Sea Stars

Virus Calculated as Culprit Killing Sea Stars

Sea stars are soft-bodied, colorful, mobile animals that hunt and feed on the ocean bottom, and since 2013, a mysterious disease has been killing them...

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