The next presentation in the U.S. Geological Survey’s public monthly lecture series, “Hurricanes and Our Changing Coasts” given by Dr. Asbury (Abby) Sallenger, will be held on Wednesday July 1, 2009 at 7:00 PM at the Dallas L. Peck Memorial Auditorium at the USGS headquarters.
In September 2008, Hurricane Ike destroyed nearly every house in the Gulf-front community of Gilchrist, just north of Galveston Texas. In addition to storm surge and battering waves, the land on which the houses were built contributed to the disaster by changing in shape and elevation. Dr. Sallenger will explain how the coast changes during extreme storms — such as Hurricanes Isabel, Katrina, and Ike — and what this means for our coastal developments today and in the future.
For more information on this topic, visit: Coastal Change Hazards: Hurricanes and Extreme Storms
Future lecture titles are:
- Climate Change 101 by Dr. Tom Armstrong
- Baked Alaska: What’s Happening to the Glaciers in Alaska by Dr. Bruce F. Molina
For more information on the monthly lecture series, visit the USGS website at http://www.usgs.gov/public_lecture_series/
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