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Peter Pearsall

Peter is a science writer for the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center.

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Seismic Reflections

To find out what’s shaking beneath the seafloor off southern California’s coast, USGS scientists turned on their hydrophones and used sound waves to...

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Timing of iceberg scours and massive ice-rafting events in the subtropical North Atlantic

Iceberg tracks in the seafloor: Icebergs can travel south all the way to Florida!

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Studying earthquakes from lake sediment: Lacustrine paleoseismology in Alaska

USGS researchers in Alaska, including geologist and Mendenhall Fellow Drake Singleton of the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, are using...

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Ferromanganese nodules on a deep-ocean seamount

USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center researcher Kira Mizell talks about the discovery of a ferromanganese nodule field on a seamount deep in...

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How Rising Seas Push Coastal Systems Beyond Tipping Points

A new multidisciplinary case study from USGS and collaborators looks at how even modest sea-level rise threatens coastal communities, infrastructure...

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Reducing Flood Risks by Restoring Coral Reefs

Healthy coral reefs are more than just hotspots of marine biodiversity—they’re also invaluable to long-term resilience against coastal storms.

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Queen Charlotte Fault Mapping

The Queen Charlotte Fault is an active strike-slip boundary, similar to California’s San Andreas fault.

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Tracking Changes to Barrier Islands in the Arctic

Barrier islands and spits shelter coastlines from storms, protecting coastal communities and providing habitat for native species.

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Eyes in the Sky: How Satellite Imagery Transforms Shoreline Monitoring From “Data-Poor” to “Data-Rich”

Monitoring coastal changes is important for the millions of people that live along coasts in the U.S., particularly as climate change hastens coastal...

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How Wildfires Threaten Water Supplies By Unleashing Sediment

In the year after the Carr Fire in northern California, USGS researchers found that greater-than-average precipitation moved large sediment loads...

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    Seismic Reflections

    To find out what’s shaking beneath the seafloor off southern California’s coast, USGS scientists turned on their hydrophones and used sound waves to...

    Read Article
    link

    Timing of iceberg scours and massive ice-rafting events in the subtropical North Atlantic

    Iceberg tracks in the seafloor: Icebergs can travel south all the way to Florida!

    Read Article
    link

    Studying earthquakes from lake sediment: Lacustrine paleoseismology in Alaska

    USGS researchers in Alaska, including geologist and Mendenhall Fellow Drake Singleton of the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, are using...

    Read Article
    link

    Ferromanganese nodules on a deep-ocean seamount

    USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center researcher Kira Mizell talks about the discovery of a ferromanganese nodule field on a seamount deep in...

    Read Article
    link

    How Rising Seas Push Coastal Systems Beyond Tipping Points

    A new multidisciplinary case study from USGS and collaborators looks at how even modest sea-level rise threatens coastal communities, infrastructure...

    Read Article
    link

    Reducing Flood Risks by Restoring Coral Reefs

    Healthy coral reefs are more than just hotspots of marine biodiversity—they’re also invaluable to long-term resilience against coastal storms.

    Read Article
    link

    Queen Charlotte Fault Mapping

    The Queen Charlotte Fault is an active strike-slip boundary, similar to California’s San Andreas fault.

    Read Article
    link

    Tracking Changes to Barrier Islands in the Arctic

    Barrier islands and spits shelter coastlines from storms, protecting coastal communities and providing habitat for native species.

    Read Article
    link

    Eyes in the Sky: How Satellite Imagery Transforms Shoreline Monitoring From “Data-Poor” to “Data-Rich”

    Monitoring coastal changes is important for the millions of people that live along coasts in the U.S., particularly as climate change hastens coastal...

    Read Article
    link

    How Wildfires Threaten Water Supplies By Unleashing Sediment

    In the year after the Carr Fire in northern California, USGS researchers found that greater-than-average precipitation moved large sediment loads...

    Read Article