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The Last Land: How humans changed erosion in Hawaii


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Presenter: Jonathan Stock, Research Geologist and Director, USGS Innovation Center

- Hawaii is one of the last habitable places on Earth reached by humans

- From first Hawaiian arrivals c. 1000-1200 A.D. to now, humans have accelerated erosion

- Dirty water threatens the economic and social assets of the Islands

- Mapping, monitoring and modeling (M3) can focus cost-effective mitigation

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