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News Briefs - April-May 2018

News Briefs - April-May 2018

Coastal and marine news highlights from across the USGS

This article is part of the April-May 2018 issue of the Sound Waves newsletter.

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Recent Coastal and Marine Fieldwork - April-May 2018

Recent Coastal and Marine Fieldwork - April-May 2018

USGS scientists visited more than 20 coastal and offshore locations studying Yucatan coastal caves, wildfire-contaminated sediments in California...

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Visiting Scientist from Japan Collaborating on Shoreline-Change Research

Visiting Scientist from Japan Collaborating on Shoreline-Change Research

Masayuki Banno is spending a year-long sabbatical with the USGS.

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Mensa tour of Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Mensa tour of Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

On April 28, the San Francisco chapter of Mensa toured the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center with research geologist Curt Storlazzi (also a...

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USGS Deploys Oceanographic Gear Offshore from Matanzas Inlet, St. Augustine, Florida

USGS Deploys Oceanographic Gear Offshore from Matanzas Inlet, St. Augustine, Florida

Matanzas is a natural, unstabilized inlet, which makes it an ideal location to study dynamic inlet processes in a non-maintained channel.

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How Will Underwater Mining Affect the Deep Ocean? Growing a Research Community to Find Out

How Will Underwater Mining Affect the Deep Ocean? Growing a Research Community to Find Out

USGS oceanographer Amy Gartman and team seek to understand how and where mineral-rich deposits form in the ocean, and what effects mining them could...

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Video cameras monitor coastal change on Whidbey Island, Washington

Video cameras monitor coastal change on Whidbey Island, Washington

Video cameras installed by the USGS Remote Sensing Coastal Change project overlook the coast on Whidbey Island, Washington, about 25 miles north of...

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Waves and surge from Subtropical Storm Alberto will impact Gulf Coast beaches

Waves and surge from Subtropical Storm Alberto will impact Gulf Coast beaches

Potential coastal change impacts due to Alberto.

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USGS partnership with Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe featured in new fact sheet on Elwha River dam removals

USGS partnership with Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe featured in new fact sheet on Elwha River dam removals

The USGS has published a new Fact Sheet, “Science Partnership between U.S. Geological Survey and the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe: Understanding the...

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Most-cited award for special issue of Marine Geology

Most-cited award for special issue of Marine Geology

A USGS-led special issue of Marine Geology received a most-cited certificate from the journal in May 2018.

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USGS scientist visits Korea Institute of Geology and Mineral Industries

USGS scientist visits Korea Institute of Geology and Mineral Industries

USGS research geologist Sam Johnson of the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) made an invited visit to the Korea Institute of Geology...

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Public lecture on coral reefs as coastal protection

Public lecture on coral reefs as coastal protection

On Thursday, April 26, research geologist Curt Storlazzi of the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center gave a public lecture on “The Role of U...

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