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The Role of Sediment in Coastal Resiliency

The Role of Sediment in Coastal Resiliency

The delivery and deposition of sediment along coastlines is essential to building barriers such as sandbars, dunes and marshes that protect coastal...

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Photo Roundup - September-October 2021

Photo Roundup - September-October 2021

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

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News Briefs - September-October 2021

News Briefs - September-October 2021

News Briefs - featuring coastal and ocean science from across the USGS.

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How Wildfires Threaten Water Supplies By Unleashing Sediment

How Wildfires Threaten Water Supplies By Unleashing Sediment

In the year after the Carr Fire in northern California, USGS researchers found that greater-than-average precipitation moved large sediment loads...

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Eyes in the Sky: How Satellite Imagery Transforms Shoreline Monitoring From “Data-Poor” to “Data-Rich”

Eyes in the Sky: How Satellite Imagery Transforms Shoreline Monitoring From “Data-Poor” to “Data-Rich”

Monitoring coastal changes is important for the millions of people that live along coasts in the U.S., particularly as climate change hastens coastal...

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Tracking Changes to Barrier Islands in the Arctic

Tracking Changes to Barrier Islands in the Arctic

Barrier islands and spits shelter coastlines from storms, protecting coastal communities and providing habitat for native species.

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USGS Leadership Participates in Virtual NOMEC Conversation Hosted by the UN Decade on the Ocean

USGS Leadership Participates in Virtual NOMEC Conversation Hosted by the UN Decade on the Ocean

What do you know about NOMEC? And why is NOMEC important? NOMEC is the National Ocean Mapping, Exploring and Characterization program, a national...

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Queen Charlotte Fault Mapping

Queen Charlotte Fault Mapping

The Queen Charlotte Fault is an active strike-slip boundary, similar to California’s San Andreas fault.

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Two CoastCams installed in the Outer Banks for DUNEX project

Two CoastCams installed in the Outer Banks for DUNEX project

Meg Palmsten and Jenna Brown installed two CoastCams towers at Pea Island, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, to monitor waves, water levels, and...

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USGS staff participating in DUNEX VIP Day at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Field Research Facility

USGS staff participating in DUNEX VIP Day at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Field Research Facility

Jenna Brown and Chris Sherwood of USGS attend a VIP Event to discuss the USGS component of the DUNEX project, a multi-agency study of storm processes...

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