Laura Torresan
I design, coordinate, and create content for the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center web site and the Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program web site. I am also the assistant editor of the newsletter “Sound Waves," which features coastal and marine research news from across the USGS.
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Data report: geology of reef-front carbonate sediment deposits around Oahu, Hawaii
This Open-File Report presents data and derivative products from an investigation of carbonate sediment deposits on the reef front in four areas around the island of Oahu, Hawaii - in Kailua Bay off Oahu's windward (east) side, off the leeward (west) coast from Makua to Kahe Point, off the north coast from Waimea to Camp Erdman, and off the south...
Hampton, Monty A.; Blay, Charles T.; Murray, Christopher; Torresan, Laura Z.; Frazee, Cathy S.; Richmond, Bruce M.; Fletcher, Charles H.
Sedimentation and bathymetric change in San Pablo Bay, 1856-1983
A long-term perspective of erosion and deposition in San Francisco Bay is vital to understanding and managing wetland change, harbor and channel siltation, and other sediment-related phenomena such as particle and particle-associated substance (pollutants, trace metals, etc.) transport and deposition. A quantitative comparison of historical...
Jaffe, Bruce E.; Smith, Richard E.; Torresan, Laura Zink
Conglomerates of the upper middle Eocene to lower Miocene Sespe Formation along the Santa Ynez Fault; implications for the geologic history of the eastern Santa Maria Basin area, California. Reconnaissance bulk-rock and clay mineralogies of argillaceous Great Valley an Franciscan strata, Santa Maria Basin Province, California
Howard, Jeffrey L.; Pollastro, Richard M.; McLean, Hugh; Zink, Laura L.
Final report; acoustic mapping of dredged material disposal sites and deposits in Mamala Bay, Honolulu, Hawaii
Torresan, Michael E.; Hampton, M.A.; Gowen, M.H.; Barber, J.H.; Zink, L.L.; Chase, T.E.; Wong, F.L.; Gann, J.T.; Dartnell, Peter
Sound Waves Newsletter - April-May 2019
Coastal and Marine Research from Across the USGS
Sound Waves Newsletter - February-March 2019
The February-March 2019 issue of Sound Waves is available.
Sound Waves Newsletter - December 2018-January 2019
Coastal and Marine Research from Across the USGS
Sound Waves Newsletter - October-November 2018
Coastal and Marine Research from Across the USGS
Sound Waves Newsletter - September 2018
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Sound Waves Newsletter - August 2018
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Sound Waves, July 2018
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Sound Waves Newsletter - June 2018
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Sound Waves Newsletter - April-May 2018
The stories in the April-May 2018 issue of Sound Waves:
Sound Waves Newsletter - March 2018
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Sound Waves Newsletter - February 2018
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Sound Waves Newsletter - November-December 2017
Coastal and Marine Research from Across the USGS