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Themes of Study:
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Environmental Quality and Preservation:
Theme goals: to understand sediment and
pollutant erosion, transport, and deposition;
fragile environments (e.g. wetlands and coral reefs); the importance of sea-/lake-floor
environments as biological habitats and as record keepers of long-term environmental
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Natural Hazards and Public Safety
Theme goals: to better understand the
frequency and distribution of catastrophic events (such as hurricanes, El-Niño, and other
extreme storms; earthquakes; and
landslides), the geologic processes acting in the affected marine and coastal regions
(such as coastal erosion), and the local and regional susceptibility to
change |
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Natural Resources
Theme goals: to develop and extend
understanding of the formation, location, and geologic setting of offshore
mineral and petroleum resources, the geologic effects of resource extraction, and
how offshore resource occurrence can help in the search for analogous onshore
deposits of eceonomic significance (investigations address areas outside the
U.S. EEZ that could potentially supply our Nation's needs for
resources) |
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Information and Technology
Theme goals: to develop and
maintain a comprehensive source of multi-disciplinary data and information
that can be easily accessed and used by Government policy makers, research
scientists, and the public, and to maintain scientific instrumentation
and platforms necessary to carry out research and mapping
activities |
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Index of All CFCG Project Descriptions
Online Research Projects:
Additional projects are served from the
South Florida Ecosystem Program Website
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