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Sediment cores reveal an archive of environmental change going back hundreds to thousands of years
The remote Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean are being dramatically impacted by rising sea-levels providing valuable lessons to Arctic coastal communities facing similar challenges in the future.
Tern Colony at Cape Espenberg, Alaska. Photo by Juliet
Geographic Harbor, Katmai National Park
Cape Espenberg, Alaska
Transporting sediment coring equipment up a barrier beach surge channel, Cape Espenberg, Alaska
A dramatic ice push event locally referred to as an “Ivu” left piles of eroded sediment high up on the bluff at Cape Espenberg in 2017.
Goodnews Bay at sunset
RTK-GPS base station set up at Goodnews Bay, Alaska
Glacial erratic in along the tide flats of Homer, Alaska
Local environmental coordinator in Pilot Point, Alaska measures bluff erosion from a fixed stake position
Students learn about sediment stratigraphy in the ACGL
Local environmental coordinator Alice Julius teaches how to clean fish on the Goodnews River
Community members in Dillingham, Alaska measure erosion from a recent storm
Nancy Bigelow show’s off a sediment core collected at Cape Espenberg
2017 Coastal dynamics field trip to Homer, Alaska
Coring crew at Lanes Delight Blue Hole in the Bahama’s attempting to bring in an 12 m sediment core.