WCMG Newsletter Highlights from Sound Waves

Current Issue, October 2008
Highlights from Earlier Issues
September 2008
	Scientists Map Unexplored Arctic Sea Floor
	Tribal Canoes Towing Underwater Probes in the Salish Sea Attract Widespread Interest, Gather Valuable Water-Quality Data
	USGS Emeritus Scientist Keith Kvenvolden Honored at International Conference on Gas Hydrates
August 2008
	Poster of Sea Floor in Northern Monterey Bay, California, Depicts Complex Bathymetry, Including Bedrock Ridges that Cause Surf Breaks
July 2008
	Palos Verdes Shelf Experiment: What Will Happen to the Contaminated Mud?
	Palos Verdes Shelf Experiment: Whatever Can Go Wrong…
	USGS/DOI Santa Barbara Channel Workshop Held March 26-27, 2008, in Santa Cruz, California
June 2008
Bill Normark: USGS Marine Geologist, Mentor, Winemaker
Remembering Bill Normark
	Tributes to Bill Normark
	The (Slow) Ascent of the Sea Cliff
	Pisces Dive P5-78, Hawai`i
May 2008
	USGS Will Collaborate with Coast Salish Indigenous Peoples to Measure Water Quality in the Salish Sea (Puget Sound and Strait of Georgia)
	New Group of Mendenhall Postdoctoral Research Fellows Includes Seven Conducting Coastal and Marine Research
April 2008
	Tar Balls from Southern California Seeps Appear on Central California Beaches
January/February 2008
	USGS Researchers Lead International Team Investigating Damage Caused by Offshore Earthquake Near World's Largest Nuclear Power Plant in Japan
	USGS Scientists Investigate Coastal Processes Affecting a Restored Tidal Wetland in the San Francisco Presidio
	USGS Coral-Reef Investigation Featured in the Molokai Times
	USGS Workshop on Sea-Level-Rise Impacts Held in Menlo Park, California
	Peter Barnes Receives USGS Western Region Geology Discipline Scientist Emeritus Best Publication Award

December 2007

• Students Enjoy Earth Science Day 2007 at USGS in Menlo Park, California
• USGS Emeritus Scientist Leads Field Trip to Ancient Submarine-Canyon Fill on Central California Coast
• Renee Takesue Recognized by AGU for Excellence in Refereeing

November 2007

• Distinguishing Tsunami from Storm Deposits in the Geologic Record
• Mapping the Sea Floor Southwest of Santa Rosa Island, California

October 2007

• USGS Researchers Collaborate with National Park Service Scientists to Understand the Impact of Watershed Erosion on Coral Reefs in War-in-the-Pacific National Historical Park, Guam
• Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team Welcomes Three New Hires
• Another Good Showing by USGS Paddlers in Outrigger-Canoe Races

September 2007

• Offshore Mapping Captures Active Tar Seeps in the Santa Barbara Channel, California
• Upcoming! "A Tale of Two Kelp Forests" -- USGS Will Observe Sea Otter Awareness Week with a Public Lecture on September 27 in Menlo Park, California
• Scientists Meet Managers at Coastal Zone 2007
• Upcoming! New Vice President of Pacific Section SEPM Helps Plan Fall Field Trips

August 2007

• New Book Integrates Wealth of Data on Continental-Margin Sedimentation
• WCMG Team Welcomes Peter Swarzenski
• USGS Researchers and Academic Collaborator Win Best Paper Award at International Conference on Landslides and Climate Change

July 2007

• Alchemy in the Abyss--USGS Public Lecture on Deep-Ocean Minerals
• Piedmont College Students Introduced to USGS Studies in the San Francisco Bay Region
• USGS Hosts Onshore-Offshore Geologic Map Workshop
• USGS Analyzes 70 Years of Coastal Cliff Retreat in California

June 2007

• USGS Current Drifter Ends Decades-Long Journey on Beach in San Pablo Bay
• High-Resolution Topographic Data and Cross Sections of Recent Coastal Landslide

May 2007

• Beam Time at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Awarded to USGS Scientist
• Tar Balls Washed Onto Central California Beaches by Storms
• USGS Cohosts Multiagency Hanalei Watershed Workshop
• Jessica Lacy Accepts Position as Research Oceanographer in the Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team
• Patrick Barnard Becomes the Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team's Newest Research Geologist
• Four New Postdoctoral Fellows Will Research Coastal and Marine Topics

April 2007

• Deadly Tsunami Hits Solomon Islands
• Tsunami-Forecasting System Tested by Recent Subduction-Zone Earthquakes
• Sub-Sea-Floor Methane in the Bering Sea:
  WCMG Emeritus Describes Possible Gas-Hydrate Accumulations to the Geophysical Society of Alaska
• WCMG Researcher Receives Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers

March 2007

• Surveying Faults and Sediment Outside the Entrance to San Francisco Bay
• USGS Helps Middle-School Students Envision a Future City
• Chinese Delegation Briefed on USGS Science During a Visit to Menlo Park, California
• Restore America's Estuaries Conference in New Orleans

January/February 2007

• Portable Underwater Photographic Tripod for Coral-Reef Studies
• USGS Ridge-to-Reef Team Honored for Work in Hawaiian Islands
• Video Footage of Pacific Ocean Bottom Transferred to DVD
  • See also: Chezar, Henry, and Newman, Ivy, 2006, Overview, DVD-video disc set of seafloor transects during USGS research cruises in the Pacific Ocean: USGS Open-File Report 2004-1101/

November/December '06

• Effects of Urbanization on Nearshore Ecosystems in Puget Sound: Liberty Bay Pilot Study
• Studying the Elwha River, Washington, in Preparation for Dam Removal
• USGS Welcomes Students for Earth Science Week Celebration in Menlo Park, California
• Google Maps View of Western Coastal and Marine Geology Projects
• In Memoriam: Terry Bruns, 1946-2006
• Release of DVD "Bedforms and Cross-Bedding in Animation"

October 2006

• North to Alaska--an Aerial Shoreline Reconnaissance
• California and the World Ocean Conference--Addressing Growing Demands on Ocean Resources
• New Member of Marine Facility Staff on West Coast

September 2006

• Oil-Spill Exercise Aims for Safe Seas, Protection of National Marine Sanctuaries
• Mapping the Sea Floor Off Santa Barbara, California
• Giant Underwater Sand Waves Seaward of the Golden Gate Bridge
• USGS Employees Make Semifinals in Local Outrigger-Canoe Races
• Release of Offshore Sediment Data for the Northern Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean: Basic Tools for Offshore GIS Mapping and Geologic Research
• New Member in Family of Coastal and Marine Digital Libraries

August 2006

• Seabed Characteristics Along the Pacific Margin: usSEABED in California, Oregon, and Washington Waters Published as USGS Data Series 182

July 2006

• Scientists Go Deep to Track Algae-Feeding Nitrogen in Washington State's Hood Canal
• Coastal and Marine Exhibits Are Wet and Wild at USGS Open House in Menlo Park, California
• Visiting Scientist Brings Expertise in Coastal-Evolution Modeling

June 2006

• USGS Scientist Interviewed About Threats to Coral Reefs
• Coastal and Marine Science at the USGS GIS 2006 Workshop

May 2006

• USGS Scientists Revisit New Orleans Levee Breaks to Collect High-Accuracy Survey Data
• Special Feature:
  Impressions of Post-Katrina New Orleans and Mississippi
• Release of usSEABED Offshore Sediment Data for the Atlantic Coast Region--a Tool for GIS Mapping and Research
• Three New Mendenhall Postdoctoral Research Fellows Will Conduct Coastal and Marine Research

April 2006

• USGS Scientists Investigate Surf-Zone Hydrodynamics at San Francisco's Ocean Beach
• USGS Scientists Help Girls Expand Their Horizons at Science Workshops in Santa Cruz, California
• USGS Emeritus Geologist David Scholl Selected as AGU Fellow
• Coastal Geomorphologist Joins Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team

March 2006

• USGS Report of Methane Hydrate Off Southern California Sparks Media Interest
• Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team's Sea-Floor-Mapping Systems Described on New Web Pages
• USGS Scientist on Nanjing University's Advisory Committee

February 2006

• WCMG Team Welcomes Oceanographer Andrew Stevens
• Taiwanese Scientists Visit the WCMG Team

December 2005/January 2006

• USGS Scientists Investigate New Orleans Levees Broken by Hurricane Katrina
• Post-Katrina Cleanup in Biloxi, Mississippi--a Volunteer's Reflections
• San Francisco Bay Floor Explored in Public Lecture
• Department of the Interior Briefing on Coastal Research in Hawai'i
• Telling the Public About USGS Research on the Kona Coast, Hawai'i
• Award for USGS Map Hawaii's Volcanoes Revealed
• New Book on Benthic Habitats and the Effects of Fishing

November 2005

• USGS CMG Staff Go to Washington, D.C., for Oceans 2005
• USGS Scientists Featured in National News Segment on Investigating Broken Levees in New Orleans
• USGS Team Studying Coastal Habitats in Puget Sound Wins Award for Innovation in Integrated Science
• Marlene Noble Wins Reimbursable Activities Recognition Award
• Tsunami Researchers Win the Western Region Communicator of the Year Award
• USGS Volunteer Wins AAPG Pacific Section Award for Best Paper at Annual Meeting

October 2005

• Sonar Survey of Sea-Floor Habitats Southeast of Santa Barbara, California
• Workshop on Optimizing the DART Network for Tsunami Forecasting
• New Hires for the Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team

September 2005

• read about USGS response to Hurricane Katrina victims

August 2005

• New USGS Fact Sheet About Landslides Delivering Slope Material to Nearshore Waters on California's Big Sur Coast
• Fish Habitat a Common Theme at USGS-NOAA Symposium in Santa Cruz, CA
• USGS Scientists Address International Visitors from Asia and Australia

July 2005

• Brief Tsunami Warning Startles U.S. West Coast, Reveals Strengths and Weaknesses in Tsunami Preparedness
• Standing-Room-Only Lecture on "Tsunamis—Lessons and Questions from the Indian Ocean Disaster
• 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami—New USGS Web Site About Initial Findings in Sumatra
• Bill Normark Receives a Medal Named for His Early Mentor, Francis P. Shepard

June 2005

• U.S. Geological Survey and the American Geological Institute Receive Valuable Seismic Data from Chevron Corp.
• Department of Commerce Science and Technology Fellows Visit the USGS in Menlo Park, CA
• Kurt Rosenberger Joins the Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team

May 2005

• "Knowledge Management for Coastal and Marine Geology" Workshop Held in St. Petersburg, FL
• New Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellows to Join WCMG Team
• New Operations Assistant Joins the Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team: Kathleen Donahue
• Notes From the Field... USGS Scientists in Sumatra Studying Recent Tsunamis March 30 - April 26

April 2005

• Second Tsunami Causes Damage in Indonesia—USGS Scientists Post Observations on the World Wide We
• Why Wasn't There a Larger Tsunami from the Magnitude 8.7 March 28, 2005, Sumatra Earthquake
• Assessing Tsunami Impacts in the Republic of Maldives
• Making Waves and Ripples in a Giant Flume in Japan

March 2005

• Astonishing Wave Heights Among the Findings of an International Tsunami Survey Team on Sumatra
• USGS Geologist Invited to Map Tsunami Impacts in the Maldives
• Tsunami News Conference in Menlo Park, CA, Puts USGS in Media Spotlight
• New USGS Web Sites About 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

February 2005

• USGS Scientists Study Sediment Deposited by 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
• Mapping the Sea Floor on the San Pedro Shelf, Southern California
• Dam Removal on the Elwha River in Washington—Nearshore Impacts of Released Sediment
• Oceanographer Joins the Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team

December 2004/January 2005

• Indian Ocean Earthquake Triggers Deadly Tsunami
• Could It Happen Here? Tsunamis That Have Struck U.S. Coastlines
• Deltaic Habitats in Puget Sound—Natural Versus Human-Related Change
• Ripples for Everyone! Investigating How Sediment Moves on the Sea Floor
• Jingping Xu Becomes a Permanent Member of the Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team

November 2004

• Sediment Impacts on Reef Corals in Maui, Hawai'i
• Mapping Benthic Habitat Around Oil Platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel, California
• USGS Monterey Bay Science: A Knowledge Bank Prototype
  Go to the USGS Monterey Bay Science Home Page
• Ten Years of Ask-A-Geologist
  Go to the USGS Ask-A-Geologist Home Page
• Oceanographer Doug George Joins the Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team
• Report on Hazards Offshore California's Ventura County Coast Compiled in Response to Congressional Request

October 2004

• Persistence of Coral Reefs Under Extreme Environmental Stress in American Samoa
• Festive Open House at the USGS Pacific Science Center
• Shoemaker Awards for Sound Waves, "Crater Lake Revealed," "Glaciers: Alaska's Rivers of Ice," and "Is a Powerful Quake Likely to Strike in the Next 30 Years?"
• Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team Welcomes New Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow
• Dave Reid Wins Triathlon in Santa Cruz, CA
• New USGS Publication Reveals Human Influence on San Francisco Bay Floor
• Richly Illustrated USGS Publication About Coastal Cliffs Along U.S. Shorelines

September 2004

• Eelgrass in Puget Sound--A New Study of Flow, Sediment Transport, and Zostera marina
• Hyperspectral Data Analysis for Mapping Coastal Landslide Hazards Along the Big Sur Coast
• Oceanographer Jodi Eshleman Joins the Western Coastal & Marine Geology Team

August 2004

• USGS and WHOI Investigate Gas-Hydrate Mounds on the Gulf of Mexico Sea Floor
• California Margin’s Ancient Volcanic History--MBARI Cruise to California Seamounts
• 10th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS)

July 2004

• Exciting New Discoveries in Submarine Hydrothermal Systems, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

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