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Mariotti Receives 2014 Luna B. Leopold Young Scientist Award

by AGU 31 March 201519 May 2023

Giulio Mariotti received the 2014 Luna B. Leopold Young Scientist Award at the 2014 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, held 15–19 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes "a young scientist for making a significant and outstanding contribution that advances the field of Earth and planetary surface processes."

Posted inScience Updates

Coastal Altimetry Challenges Our Understanding of Short Scales in the Ocean

by P. Cipollini, S. Vignudelli and J. Benveniste 24 March 201522 March 2023

8th Coastal Altimetry Workshop; Konstanz, Germany, 23–24 October 2014

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Salish Sea a Key Source of Regional Marine Nutrients

by E. Betz 3 March 201516 February 2023

A new examination of nitrogen in the coastal waters off the Pacific Northwest shows that the Salish Sea delivers a large fraction of nutrients to shelf waters.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

How a River Gets Its Width

by E. Betz 18 February 201515 March 2023

A new model of deposition and erosion on river banks allows scientists to study how the banks control their stream’s width.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Bank Materials Strongly Influence River Valley Evolution

by J. Rosen 13 February 201511 February 2022

Models suggest that the shape of river valleys depends strongly on how meandering rivers interact with the sediment and bedrock of the banks.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Wave Energy Affects the Surf Zone Heat Budget

by C. Minnehan 5 February 201525 January 2023

A study of water temperature in nearshore environments shows that wave energy was the second-largest driver of temperature changes in the surf zone.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

A New Level of Understanding for Coastal Aquifers

by E. Betz 4 February 201528 February 2024

New models of saltwater-freshwater mixing in coastal aquifers show how salinity varies throughout the year, with implications for what happens to groundwater pollutants before they reach the ocean.

Posted inNews

Estuaries May Face Increased Parasitism as Sea Levels Rise

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 18 December 201410 November 2022

Researchers document how past sea levels changes affected invertebrate health in coastal environments.

Posted inFeatures

Coastal Fog, Climate Change, and the Environment

by A. Torregrosa, T. A. O’Brien and I. C. Faloona 16 December 20147 February 2024

To climate scientists, marine fog's physical opacity symbolizes how much remains to be discovered about the atmospheric phenomenon.

Posted inScience Updates

Integrated Research Approaches to Coastal Zone Management

by N. Nandini Menon, T. Singh and L. H. Pettersson 15 December 201411 August 2022

India-EU Workshop on Coastal Zone Management and Impact on Society;
Alleppey, India, 6–9 October 2014

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