Sound Waves Newsletter - August-October 2017
USGS Monitors Huge Landslides on California's Big Sur Coast, Shares Information with California Department of Transportation
On May 20, 2017, more than 2 million cubic meters of rock and dirt—enough to fill a line of dump trucks nearly a thousand miles long—collapsed down the steep slopes at Mud Creek on California’s Big Sur coast, about 140 miles south of San Francisco. A pile of rubble almost a third of a mile wide buried California State Highway 1 over 65 feet deep and added about 13 acres of new la
Before and After: Coastal Change Caused by Hurricane Irma
New high-angle oblique photos of portions of Florida’s beaches taken before and after Hurricane Irma made landfall and swept up the state show the impact of the hurricane’s storm surge and waves. These NOAA images document changes to the coast after the storm, helping the USGS fine-tune its coastal-change forecasting model.
USGS Oceanographer Invited as Keynote Speaker for International Conference
Research Oceanographer Joseph Long of the St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center will travel to Delft, Netherlands, to be a keynote speaker at the upcoming XBeachX conference, which takes place November 1–3.
Eyes on the Coast—Video Cameras Help Forecast Coastal Change
USGS Researcher awarded 2018 Rudi Lemberg Travelling Fellowship by Australian Academy of Science
Research microbiologist Christina Kellogg (USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center) was recognized as a prominent international scientist by the Australian Academy of Science and awarded the 2018 Rudi Lemberg Travelling Fellowship.
Switching Hemispheres—Pete Dal Ferro and Melissa Foley Take Jobs in New Zealand
It’s a bittersweet feeling losing good employees to other jobs, especially employees so valuable to the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) in Santa Cruz, California.
Recent Fieldwork - August-October 2017
USGS scientists visited more than 40 coastal and offshore locations in recent months, studying hurricane damage, coastal landslides, methane seeps, and much more.
News Briefs - August-October 2017
Coastal and marine news highlights from across the USGS
Recent Publications - August-October 2017
List of recent USGS publications and data releases based on coastal and marine research.