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In 2022, the USGS and partners embarked on a research expedition to Escanaba Trough off the coast of northern California. The multidisciplinary crew collected samples with a remotely operated vehicle and tested new seafloor mapping techniques using an autonomous underwater vehicle.

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Sound Waves Newsletter

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Read issues of the Sound Waves Newsletter, featuring “Coastal and Marine Research News from Across the USGS”

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Tracking the movement of sediment and contaminants from northern California wildfire areas to San Francisco Bay

Tracking the movement of sediment and contaminants from northern California wildfire areas to San Francisco Bay

USGS research geologist Renee Takesue of the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center collected 20 sediment samples from Sonoma Creek and Napa River...

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Collecting clues to the geologic history and mineral resources of the Rio Grande Rise, southwest Atlantic Ocean

Collecting clues to the geologic history and mineral resources of the Rio Grande Rise, southwest Atlantic Ocean

USGS scientists James Hein and Kira Mizell participated in a University of São Paulo research cruise to the western Rio Grande Rise, an underwater...

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Beach surveys planned near deadly California debris flows

Beach surveys planned near deadly California debris flows

Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center researchers plan to survey selected beaches and parts of the shallow seafloor in Santa Barbara and Ventura...

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USGS and NASA hold collaborative methane workshop

USGS and NASA hold collaborative methane workshop

USGS and NASA held a joint workshop titled “From Cells to Satellites: Methane Biogeochemistry at Multiple Scales” on March 16 at NASA Ames Research...

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Visiting scientist from Japan assisting shoreline-change studies in California

Visiting scientist from Japan assisting shoreline-change studies in California

Masayuki Banno is spending a year-long sabbatical with the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center in Santa Cruz, California, collaborating with...

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Laboratory collaboration to study earthquake hazards off southeast Alaska and western Canada

Laboratory collaboration to study earthquake hazards off southeast Alaska and western Canada

Studying the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault

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Giant Grooves Discovered on an Earthquake Fault Offshore Costa Rica

Giant Grooves Discovered on an Earthquake Fault Offshore Costa Rica

Researchers report finding corrugations, or giant grooves, kilometers long, hundreds of meters wide, and tens of meters high, between the Cocos and...

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A Tale of Two Tsunamis—Why Weren’t They Bigger? Mexico 2017 and Alaska 2018

A Tale of Two Tsunamis—Why Weren’t They Bigger? Mexico 2017 and Alaska 2018

Why do some earthquakes trigger large tsunamis, and others don’t? Learn how earthquakes produce tsunamis, how scientists predict tsunami size and...

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Recent Coastal and Marine Fieldwork - February 2018

Recent Coastal and Marine Fieldwork - February 2018

In January and February 2018, USGS scientists visited more than 15 coastal and offshore locations studying mineral crusts, a subduction zone trench...

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The USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Data Catalog

The USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Data Catalog

The USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Data Catalog makes research data easier to find by offering a preselected collection of metadata (“data about data...

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Newspaper story on earthquake hazards in Santa Rosa, California, features information from USGS scientists

Newspaper story on earthquake hazards in Santa Rosa, California, features information from USGS scientists

USGS scientists Janet Watt and Suzanne Hecker provided information to the article’s author.

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