Geohazards in Bangladesh2
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Repairing Tectonic GNSS in Bangladesh’s Tea Region
The remainder of my fieldwork focuses on the GNSS (the general term for GPS) instruments in eastern Bangladesh to study the tectonics and earthquake hazard.
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Finishing the Coastal Service Run
Traveling by boat, we are finishing our data collection and equipment servicing in coastal Bangladesh.
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Back to the Sundarbans
As part of our trip studying land subsidence and elevation changes, we boarded a boat to travel through the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest.
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Servicing My GNSS (GPS) in Bangladesh Once Again
The sustainability of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta and Bangladesh depends on the balance of sea level rise, land subsidence and sedimentation. We are measuring the latter two across the coastal zone.
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Land Subsidence in the Netherlands
At a symposium on land subsidence, I learned about how the Dutch transformed their country so that about a quarter of it is below sea level and how they cope with it.
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Exploring the Sundarbans and Back to Dhaka
Our group of 24 Americans and Bangladeshis continued to explore the Sundarbans mangrove forest, rice farming in embanked low-lying islands, and heritage sites of Bangladesh.
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Across the Ganges to Southwest Bangladesh and the Sundarbans
Our group of 23 American and Bangladeshi students and professors traveled from the Jamuna River to the Ganges and Gorai Rivers, and then down to an island on the edge of the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest.
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Taking My Class to Bangladesh
My undergraduate Sustainable Development course is in Bangladesh for a Spring Break trip to see what they have been learning about. We will be touring the country by bus and boat to learn about the environment and people of Bangladesh.
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Sylhet City, Geology, and Packing Up
We finished our electromagnetic survey and mini-field school in northern Sylhet, Bangladesh, with lectures and field trips to see the geology by car and boat.
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