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Recent Publications - July 2018

Recent Publications - July 2018

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

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Fulbright Scholar Joins Marine Geohazards Project at Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Fulbright Scholar Joins Marine Geohazards Project at Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Fulbright Scholar joins geohazards project at the USGS in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

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USGS 2017 Excellence in Leadership Award Honors Scientists Who Assess Coastal Flooding Threats

USGS 2017 Excellence in Leadership Award Honors Scientists Who Assess Coastal Flooding Threats

Patrick Barnard and Li Erikson of the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center in Santa Cruz, California are recognized for their leadership in...

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Recent Coastal and Marine Fieldwork - July 2018

Recent Coastal and Marine Fieldwork - July 2018

USGS scientists visited more than a dozen coastal and offshore locations studying Arctic bluffs in Alaska, wetland sediments on Long Island, coral...

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News Briefs - July 2018

News Briefs - July 2018

Coastal and marine news highlights from across the USGS

This article is part of the July 2018 issue of the Sound Waves newsletter.

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Imaging Israel’s Dead Sea Fault to Understand How Continents Stretch and Rift

Imaging Israel’s Dead Sea Fault to Understand How Continents Stretch and Rift

Imaging a fault to learn more about tectonic plate motion and improve understanding of hazards

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Time-lapse view of California Highway 1 reconstruction after 2017 landslide

Time-lapse view of California Highway 1 reconstruction after 2017 landslide

USGS scientists produced an animated GIF in coordination with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) re-opening of State Highway 1...

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USGS scientists successfully acquire repeat geophysical data at Fire Island National Seashore

USGS scientists successfully acquire repeat geophysical data at Fire Island National Seashore

The objective of the field effort was to remeasure seafloor elevations and sub-seafloor geology in areas that were surveyed in 2014 in order to...

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Southern California coastal cliffs could retreat 135 feet in 80 years as erosion rates potentially double

Southern California coastal cliffs could retreat 135 feet in 80 years as erosion rates potentially double

USGS scientists combined a series of computer models to forecast cliff erosion along the Southern California coast.

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Sea Level Rise Could Double Erosion Rates of Southern California Coastal Cliffs

Sea Level Rise Could Double Erosion Rates of Southern California Coastal Cliffs

Coastal cliffs from Santa Barbara to San Diego might crumble at more than twice the historical rate by the year 2100 as sea levels rise.

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