NOAA Bathymetric Data Helps Scientists More Accurately Model Tsunami Risk Within Barry Arm

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NOAA Bathymetric Data Helps Scientists More Accurately Model Tsunami Risk Within Barry Arm

  In May of 2020, local geologists identified a steep, unstable slope that has the potential to become a tsunami-generating landslide in Barry Arm, a glacial fjord 60 miles east of Anchorage, Alaska. With documented cases of tsunami-generating landslides in Alaska including Lituya Bay in 1958 and Taan Fjord in 2015, this new hazard immediately caught the attention of […]

NOAA Surveys the Unsurveyed, Leading the Way in the U.S. Arctic

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NOAA Surveys the Unsurveyed, Leading the Way in the U.S. Arctic

President Thomas Jefferson, who founded Coast Survey in 1807, commissioned Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery Expedition in 1803, the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the contiguous United States. Today there remains a vast western America territory that is largely unknown and unexplored – the U.S. waters off the coast of […]