Sound Waves - USGS Monthly Newsletter of Coastal Science - Stories in the November 2009 issue http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/ Wednesday, 04 November 2009 Wednesday, 04 November 2009 USGS scientist Ryan Moyer is trying to understand the effects of ocean acidification on coral growth and calcification by measuring growth and geochemical variations in coral cores collected in the western Atlantic and Caribbean Sea. http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2009/11/ Wednesday, 04 November 2009 USGS tsunami scientists responded quickly after a magnitude 8.0 submarine earthquake triggered a tsunami that caused deaths and widespread damage in Samoa, American Samoa, and Tonga. http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2009/11/fieldwork2.html Wednesday, 04 November 2009 USGS scientist Bruce Jaffe was in American Samoa to study the impacts of the September 29 tsunami and was able to help with the response to a new tsunami warning issued October 7. http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2009/11/fieldwork3.html Wednesday, 04 November 2009 Scientists from the USGS Geology Discipline joined forces with scientists from the USGS Water Resources Discipline to investigate the exchange of water and associated constituents between groundwater and coastal surface water using a suite of geochemical and geophysical tools. http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2009/11/fieldwork4.html Wednesday, 04 November 2009 Julie Bing and Jordan Landers, both members of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Summer Student Fellowship program, assisted the USGS Gas Hydrates and Carolina Coastal Change Processes projects in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in summer 2009. http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2009/11/staff.html Wednesday, 04 November 2009 In September 2009, Frank Shipley became the new Regional Chief Scientist for the USGS Western Region. http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2009/11/staff2.html Wednesday, 04 November 2009