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July 21, 2025

In the field: UW researchers bound for Alaska’s earthquake-impacted marshlands

researcher holds field instrument on a beach

Kendall Valentine, an assistant professor of oceanography at University of Washington, along with collaborators from the University of Rhode Island and the Desert Research Institute are traveling to Anchorage and the Copper River Delta to study marshes that formed in the years following the 1964 earthquake.