New Sargassum System Takes Aim At A Troublesome Seaweed
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https://www.usf.edu/marine-science/news/2025/new-sargassum-system-takes-aim-at-a-troublesome-seaweed.aspx <-- shared article
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https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/developing-an-operational-sargassum-hab-monitoring-and-forecasting-system-for-the-southeastern-u-s-and-u-s-caribbean/ <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #satellite #fedscience #earthobservation #Caribbean #florida #puertorico #USVI #seaweed #Sargassum #risk #hazard #damage #impact #cleanup #removal #cost #economics #fisheries #tourism #mitigation #spatialanalysis #detection #spatiotemporal #marine #algal #algalbloom #SargassumWatchSystem #costsaving #inundation #imagery #harmfulalgalbloom #HAB #biomass
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Population Vulnerability Of Residents, Employees, And Cruise-Ship Passengers To Tsunami Hazards Of Islands In Complex Seismic Regions - A Case Study Of The U.S. Virgin Islands
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105289 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Tsunami #Evacuation #Mitigation #Risk #Hazard #Modeling #Island #publicsafety #USVI #VirginIslands #damage #loss #infrastructure #cost #economics #humanimpacts #publicsafety #lossoflife #death #earthquake #fault #mitigation #monitoring #warning #response #tourists #locals #employees #cruiseships #population #community #vulnerability #USVirginIslands #ships #vessels #docks #inundation #flood #flooding #waves #maritime #port #scenario #riskassessment #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal

Un nuevo informe publicado por Right to Democracy, una organización sin fines de lucro que aboga por la equidad y la autodeterminación en las islas y otros territorios de los #EstadosUnidos, argumenta que anular los casos insulares no resultaría automáticamente en nuevos o mayores impuestos federales para los residentes.
#CasosInsulares #Territorios #Colonia #PuertoRico #USVI #Guam #AmericanSamoa
https://pasquines.us/2025/04/15/new-report-says-overturning-insular-cases-would-not-trigger-new-taxes/

"The #UnitedStates claimed part of northern Greenland until 1917. The claim was relinquished as part of a transfer agreement concerning the Danish West Indies, now the United States Virgin Islands ."
https://www.dipublico.org/2333/canada-and-denmark-reach-agreement-on-the-lincoln-sea-boundary-2/

So if the US gives the #USVI to #Denmark, maybe the Danish are open to discussing #Greenland?

@staceyplaskett of the #USVI is a star.

Truth teller, warrior, compassionate, articulate, leader, doer, eminently relatable

I just wish she could run for President.

https://www.metro.pr/noticias/2025/02/08/emiten-advertencia-de-tsunami-para-puerto-rico-e-islas-virgenes/