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            <div>Greetings Scholars at Woods Hole Oceanographic
              Institute!</div>
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            <div>The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) just launched a new
              crowdsourcing, citizen science application called “<a
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                href="http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/icoast" target="_blank">iCoast
                – Did the Coast Change?</a>” that asks volunteers like
              yourselves to identify changes to the coast by comparing
              and tagging aerial photographs taken before and after
              storms. Your contributions help USGS scientists improve
              the accuracy of coastal-erosion prediction models and
              vulnerability assessments that support pre-storm planning
              and post-storm rescue, recovery, and mitigation efforts.
              It is also a great educational tool for teaching students
              and even coastal residents about coastal hazards.</div>
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            <div>We are looking for volunteers to classify photos taken
              before and after Hurricane Sandy for our first project,
              and particularly targeting people with different kinds of
              coastal expertise and interests. More background
              information on iCoast is available in this <a
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href="http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs_top_story/usgs-icoast-did-the-coast-change/"
                target="_blank">USGS Top Story article</a> and on the <a
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                href="http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/icoast/about.php"
                target="_blank">iCoast website</a>.</div>
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            <div>Sign up as a digital volunteer, classify a few photos
              for 5 minutes, and help spread the word to any colleagues,
              students, friends, and family:</div>
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            href="http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/icoast" target="_blank">http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/icoast</a> 
          OR  <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://icoast.us/"
            target="_blank">http://icoast.us</a> (short link for social
          media)</div>
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        <div>iCoast is also an open-source project available on GitHub
          at:</div>
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              href="https://github.com/usgs/icoast" target="_blank">https://github.com/usgs/icoast</a></div>
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          <div>If you have any questions, feel free to contact me via
            email at:</div>
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        <div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:sophialiu@usgs.gov"
            target="_blank">sophialiu@usgs.gov</a> or <a
            moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:icoast@usgs.gov"
            target="_blank">icoast@usgs.gov</a></div>
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        <div>Thanks for your help!</div>
        <div>Sophia and the iCoast Team</div>
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            <div><font color="#000000">Sophia B. Liu, Ph.D.            
                 St. Petersburg Coastal &amp; Marine Science Center</font></div>
            <div><font color="#000000">U.S. Geological Survey        
                 600 4th Street South, Room C 108</font></div>
            <div><font color="#000000">Mendenhall Postdoc Fellow    St.
                Petersburg, FL 33701-4846</font></div>
            <div><font color="#000000">Research Geographer          
                 USA</font></div>
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              <font color="#000000">Work:  727-502-8093             <a
                  moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://sophiabliu.com/"
                  target="_blank">http://sophiabliu.com</a><br>
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            <div><font color="#000000">Cell:    630-729-4216          
                  <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://profile.usgs.gov/sophialiu"
                  target="_blank">http://profile.usgs.gov/sophialiu</a></font></div>
            <div><font color="#000000">Email: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="mailto:sophialiu@usgs.gov" target="_blank">sophialiu@usgs.gov</a> 
                  sophiabliu (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn)</font></div>
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