Twins surging from tidal waters
by Alice Staro
Professor Duncan FitzGerald leans towards the water to measure the water elevation during a storm surge coupled with high tide over a New England marsh.
Marshes are intertidal wetlands with high biodiversity that provide huge benefit to humankind, such as storm effects mitigation acting as buffer and reducing coastal erosion
Taken on 10
October
2019
Submitted on 31 March 2021
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- Exact location (-70.8532 W, 42.7268 N)
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climate change, wetland, great salt marsh
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