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News Briefs - January-March 2022

News Briefs - January-March 2022

News Briefs - featuring coastal and ocean science from across the USGS.

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Reflection on a 29-year career at USGS from Karen Morgan

Reflection on a 29-year career at USGS from Karen Morgan

For Women’s History Month, we reached out to Karen Morgan, retired coastal geologist from the St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center. Karen...

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Fire plus Flood equals Beach

Fire plus Flood equals Beach

A new study combines decades of coastal satellite imagery with hydrologic and oceanographic data to look at how changes on land affect coastlines in...

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Stamp Sands Revisited: USGS Science Centers Team Up to Advance Mapping in Lake Superior

Stamp Sands Revisited: USGS Science Centers Team Up to Advance Mapping in Lake Superior

USGS scientists returned in August, 2021, to map an area of Lake Superior that has been - and continues to be - greatly impacted by a legacy of copper...

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USGS scientists showcase multidisciplinary science in a session on dynamic coastal change at Ocean Sciences 2022

USGS scientists showcase multidisciplinary science in a session on dynamic coastal change at Ocean Sciences 2022

USGS researchers Davina Passeri, Erika Lentz, and Nicholas Enwright, co-organized and led a two-part session at the 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting titled...

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Strong representation at the 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting from the USGS Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program

Strong representation at the 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting from the USGS Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program

Scientists and staff from the Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program will have more than two dozen presentations during the week-long...

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Dr. Donya Frank-Gilchrist participated in a transportation panel discussion, “The Future of Transportation and Its Inclusivity to All Engineers”

Dr. Donya Frank-Gilchrist participated in a transportation panel discussion, “The Future of Transportation and Its Inclusivity to All Engineers”

Dr. Frank-Gilchrist participated in a panel held by the Women’s Transportation Seminar New Jersey Chapter and the National Society of Black Engineers.

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Thermal Refugia in Reefs

Thermal Refugia in Reefs

Repeated heat stress can eventually kill off entire colonies of coral, turning once vibrant ecosystems into comparatively barren ones.

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New interagency report highlights alarming sea level rise predictions for all U.S. coastlines

New interagency report highlights alarming sea level rise predictions for all U.S. coastlines

The U.S. Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Hazard Scenarios and Tools Interagency Task Force published updated sea level rise projections out to 2150...

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Seven Decades of Coastal Change at Barter Island, AK

Seven Decades of Coastal Change at Barter Island, AK

The Beaufort Sea coast along the northern edge of Alaska is a place of extremes. Home to the northernmost year-round settlements in the United States...

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USGS scientists contribute to new gas hydrates monograph

USGS scientists contribute to new gas hydrates monograph

The recently-published monograph entitled World Atlas of Submarine Gas Hydrates on Continental Margins compiles findings about gas hydrates offshore...

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