UW News
Nirnimesh Kumar
November 5, 2019
Fall storms, coastal erosion focus of northern Alaska research cruise
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A University of Washington team is leaving to study how fall storms, dwindling sea ice and vulnerable coastlines might combine in a changing Arctic.