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Caitlin Rankin’14

Central question

Why did residents of what’s now Cahokia, Illinois, abandon their thriving settlement a millennium ago? Geoarchaeologist Caitlin Rankin’14 and her colleagues are untangling this mystery with the latest tools, an interdisciplinary mindset, and a willingness to challenge long-held assumptions.

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Stan Riggs, a coastal and marine geologist who has been doing research on modern coastal systems since 1964, surveys the coastal bluffs, marshes, and swamp forests at Goose Creek State Park in Washington, NC, where climate change, rising seas, and shoreline erosion have taken a dramatic toll in the past two decades.

Land of Water

The North Carolina coastal system is always evolving, but a malleable coastline shaped by powerful storms and rising seas clashes with summer tourism, the area’s most important economic driver. At the crossroads of this conflict stands Stan Riggs’60, a coastal geologist and evangelist for science education as the way forward.

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