CPR — Faculty Search Interview

Candidate Presentation Dr. Joshua Kelly, Cal State — Los Angeles “A Satellite’s Perspective of Shifting Sand and Snow” ABSTRACT: Studying the effects of a changing climate on coastal and glacial landscapes often requires the use of satellite remote sensing due to the logistical hurdles presented by traveling to and working in such environments. An important […]

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Upcoming Construction — FAQs

May, 2023 What impacts can be expected? Please anticipate normal construction activities which produce noise, dust, and large loud trucks and heavy equipment. Campus impacts will include utility outages where buildings may lose power, gas, and or water. There will also be changes to traffic circulation and parking. Please observe all safety signs and traffic […]

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CPR — Faculty Search Interview

Candidate Presentation Dr. Erin Peck, Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, UMass-Amherst “Insights into centennial-scale salt marsh morphodynamics and blue carbon burial” ABSTRACT: The coastal zone links terrestrial and marine spheres, thereby playing an integral role in regulating global productivity, elemental cycling, and climate change. At a local level, salt marshes provide often-vulnerable communities with culturally […]

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Marine Geology and Physics Seminar

May 12, 2023 — Coastal Institute Auditorium, 2 p.m. Dr. Tianze Liu, Green Scholar Postdoc, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Tracking Fluids and Melts in Earth’s Interior with Seismology: From Oceanic Transform Faults to the Lithosphere-asthenosphere System Abstract Fluids and melts play critical roles in many processes in the solid Earth due to their great mobilities […]

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FY22 Reach and Impact

Academic Enterprise 50 new students enrolled, an increase of 52.7% over an average of the previous three years. 32 faculty, 4 marine research scientists and 14 postdoctoral fellows delivered classroom instruction as well as cruise and laboratory experiences to 113 graduate students. 18 students are currently earning their Master of Oceanography through a new online […]

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Restoring the Natural Balance

By Ellen Liberman IN 1688, Pirate William Dampier marveled at the ingenuity of a Micronesian outrigger canoe: “One cannot stop talking about their great velocity, craftsmanship and lightness, because in the whole universe I do not believe there is a thing equal to them in nimbleness and swiftness,” he wrote. Double-prowed, single-masted, with a shunting […]

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