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As sea levels rise and storms intensify, protecting coastal communities is becoming a pressing challenge—especially in places like San Francisco Bay...

The Autonomous MAPCAT is a USGS-designed vessel that can be used to transport any number of scientific packages at, or just below, the air-water...

For decades, chemicals from industry and development have lingered in the sediments of Puget Sound, threatening marine life and human health. Despite...

Off the coast of southern California, oil naturally seeps from the seafloor, bubbling up to the surface and washing ashore as sticky tarballs. For...

Whether you get updates about natural disasters from the news, a website, or an app, the accuracy of that information depends on the quality of the...

Salt marshes, critical buffers against coastal erosion, rely on a net gain of sediment to maintain their elevation and resilience as sea levels rise...

In summer 2025, a research team led by the USGS worked with the NOAA ship Rainier to map a large swath of seafloor offshore of Kodiak Island, Alaska...

New USGS-led research finds that submarine groundwater discharge (SGD)—the unseen flow of freshwater and nutrients from land to sea—is a key driver of...

How well can we predict the future of changing shorelines? That question was put to the test in ShoreShop2.0, a recently published collaborative...

A selection of coastal and ocean videos and photographs from across the USGS.