The 2020 Vetlesen Prize for achievement in the Earth sciences will go to French geophysicist Anny Cazenave. Cazenave pioneered the use of satellite data over the past 20-plus years to chart rises in sea level stemming from climate change.
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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) launched the Marine Minerals Information System (MMIS), a state-of-the-art tool to assist decision-makers in managing coastal recovery and planning coastal resilience projects. The release of the MMIS is a big step forward in BOEM’s efforts to build a National Offshore Sand Inventory, providing offshore sediment data including data and information from 30 years
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