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Alaska Marshes, Earthquakes & Mud Cores with Kendall Valentine
On this episode of FaceTime with Scientists, I go into the field with coastal ecogeomorphologist Kendall Valentine! (Yes, ecogeomorphologist is a mouthful! It’s someone who studies how living organisms and physical earth features shape and change each other over time)
Kendall has studied river deltas and coastal regions all over the country, starting in Louisiana. But right now she is examining the marshes of the Copper River Delta near Cordova, Alaska, which have a unique twist – these marshes are growing rapidly when most other marshes are shrinking. That’s partly due to a 1964 magnitude-9…
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