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Lessons from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Topic of Public Forum

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1. Study of coastal disasters yields surprising findings, arresting images
   04-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Two of the world's worst natural disasters in recent years stemmed from different causes on opposite sides of the globe, but actually had much in common, according to researchers who are part of a large National Science Foundation-funded research initiative that has been studying both the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 and the Hurricane Katrina of 2005.
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2. Can a Dose of Iron Supplements Improve the Health of the Ocean and Climate?
   10-10-2007 · Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
   Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will host a public forum next week to discuss the pros and cons of “iron fertilization” of the oceans as a means to mediate global warming.
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3. Status quo of the tsunami early warning system for the Indian Ocean
   12-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
   The German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System for the Indian Ocean runs on track. Main milestones like the development of the automatic data processing software SeisComP3, as well as the underwater communication for the transmission of the pressure data from the ocean floor to a warning centre are already finalized.
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   09-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
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5. The next great earthquake
   03-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
   The 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and resulting tsunami are now infamous for the damage they caused, but at the time many scientists believed this area was unlikely to create a quake of such magnitude. In the March 23 issue of the journal Science, a geophysicist from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute urges the public and policy makers to consider all subduction-type tectonic boundaries to be "locked, loaded and dangerous."
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6. Making (accurate predictions of) waves
   01-27-2008 · EurekAlert!
   Researchers evaluated all known potential tsunami-generating sources in the Indian Ocean basin, and then calculated the impact of the waves they can generate. Their paper presents the geographical distribution of risk -- the first such examination on a basin-wide scale.
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7. Study: Living coral reefs provide better protection from tsunami waves
   12-18-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Healthy coral reefs provide their adjacent coasts with substantially more protection from destructive tsunami waves than do unhealthy or dead reefs, a Princeton University study suggests. Initially spurred by the tsunami that devastated the coastlines of the Indian Ocean two years ago, the finding provides the first quantitative confirmation of a widely held theory regarding the value of living coral reefs as a defense against tsunami.
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8. AGU Journal Highlights -- Aug. 14, 2007
   08-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
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9. Folded sediment unusual in Sumatran Tsunami area
   02-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Sediment folding may have added to the exceptionally large tsunami that struck Sumatra on December 26, 2004, according to an international team of geologists.
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10. Chronic kidney disease common in the United States
    11-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
    According to a study lead by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, there is a high prevalence of chronic kidney disease in the United States, which has risen over the past decade. The overall prevalence of chronic kidney disease increased from 10 percent of the population during a period from 1988-1994 to 13 percent from 1999-2004.
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