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New Research Assistant to Study Landslides and Geologic Structures on the Big Sur Coast
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Krystal Green
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Krystal Green has recently joined the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)'s Pacific Science Center in Santa Cruz, CA, as a research assistant who will be working with Cheryl Hapke for the next year.
Krystal graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), in June with a B.S. in earth
sciences. She is already a familiar face at the Pacific Science Center, where she did an internship with Cheryl last winter and spring.
In the coming year, Krystal will be involved in two major projects: with partial funding by the
California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), she will be developing decadal snapshots of specific landslides along the Big Sur coast, using Cheryl's photogrammetric models.
In addition, Krystal will begin processing hyperspectral data—measurements of reflected sunlight in
many narrow wavelengths that reveal subtle variations invisible to the naked eye—from the Big Sur coast to use in mapping the regional distribution and density of geologic structures.
Krystal has been hired through a cooperative agreement between the USGS and UCSC. We look forward to her continued contributions to the team.
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October 2003
in this issue:
cover story:
North Pacific Marine Mammal Populations Collapsing
Puerto Rico Trench Mapping
Water Beneath Chincoteague Bay, MD
Map-Librarians Meeting
Coral Reef Fact Sheet
Pacific Science Center Staff
New Research Assistant
New Administrative Assistant
October Publications List
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U. S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey
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