US DEPT OF THE INTERIOR: Twelve hundred kilometers of coastline on display at Moscone.

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3 M2 PRESSWIRE-8 December 1998-US DEPT OF THE INTERIOR: Twelve hundred kilometers of coastline on display at Moscone (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD3 RDATE:041298 * Laser surveys show El Nino's effects A thirty-foot-long exhibit, and several presentations will focus on changes along the west coast of the US during the 1997-98 El Nino at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, scheduled for Dec.

6-10 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California. "Airborne laser terrain mapping allows scientists to map large areas quickly to determine shoreline change after a storm," explains Asbury Sallenger, Jr. of the U.S. Geological Survey Center for Coastal Geology in St. Petersburg, Florida. "We can collect up to 5,000 spot...