April 22, 2019 – Findings reveal that restoration of marsh vegetation is key to overall recovery Nine years ago —April 20, 2010—crude oil began leaking from the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig into the Gulf of Mexico in what turned out to be the largest marine oil spill in history. A long-term study suggests the oil […]
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Report cards show continued sea-level rise on East & Gulf coasts
February 25, 2019 – Researchers at William & Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science have issued the first annual update of their sea level “report cards,” marking 50 years of water-level observations from 1969 through 2018. These web-based charts—available online at www.vims.edu/sealevelreportcard—project sea level out to the year 2050 based on an ongoing analysis of tide-gauge […]
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Researchers issue first annual sea-level report cards for U.S. localities
March 14, 2018 – Researchers at William & Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science are launching new web-based “report cards” to monitor and forecast changes in sea level at 32 localities along the U.S. coastline from Maine to Alaska. They plan to update the report cards in January of each year, with projections out to […]