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The Coastal Science Navigator Companion Guide is now available. It highlights 64 USGS coastal change hazards-related products in total. 

Marine ferromanganese crusts and phosphorites can be enriched with valuable minerals, and are therefore targets for seabed mining development. These...

The USGS Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program is the federal science program dedicated to understanding how coastal and ocean processes...

New research finds that subtle shifts in wave direction, driven by multi-annual climate variability, are causing significant patterns in coastal...

In a recently published study, researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and USGS investigate how coral reefs affect shoreline...

In a warming climate, increased wildfire activity coupled with extreme rain events is causing significant erosion, leading to heightened sediment flow...

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists compiled one year’s worth of soil and sediment erosion quantities occurring after large California wildfires...

New USGS research documents a 14,000-year history of seismic activity preserved in the sediments of Ozette Lake, a ~100-meter (328-foot) deep coastal...

A new study from the University of California, Santa Cruz, The Nature Conservancy, and USGS quantifies the social and economic benefits that coral...

Coastal communities around large estuaries like San Francisco Bay are threatened by increasing erosion due to sea-level rise and anthropogenic...