Ancient records of Bering Strait flooding offer fresh insights
Tamara Pico, a postdoctoral fellow, is using records of flooding in the Bering Strait to make inferences about how the ice sheets that covered North America responded to the warming climate, and how their melting might have contributed to climate changes.
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Study of sea-level rise finds land sinking along East Coast
A new study, which used everything from tide gauges to GPS data to paint the most accurate picture ever of sea-level rise along the East Coast of the U.S., is suggesting that in addition to rising seas, communities along the coast may also have to contend with the land sinking.
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Study of sea-level rise finds land sinking along East Coast
A new study, which used everything from tide gauges to GPS data to paint the most accurate picture ever of sea-level rise along the East Coast of the U.S., is suggesting that in addition to rising seas, communities along the coast may also have to contend with the land sinking.
Tags: science-technology faculty-of-arts-and-sciences fas harvard peter-reuell reuell peter-huybers chris-piecuch east-coast eastern-seaboard huybers ice-age ice-age-effect jerry-mitrovica mitrovica piecuch sea-level sea-level-estimates sea-level-rise
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