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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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October 21, 2016

New techniques for measuring cliff change from historical photographs

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October 20, 2016

USGS coral expert in wide-ranging panel discussion on "Understanding Coral Reefs"

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October 19, 2016

Link between two earthquake faults near San Francisco, California, revealed by detailed sub-seafloor mapping

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October 3, 2016

Salmon Seen Upstream from Former Dam Sites on Washington’s Elwha River

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September 30, 2016

Recent Publications - August-September 2018

List of recent USGS publications and data releases based on coastal and marine research.

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September 30, 2016

Sound Waves Newsletter - August-September 2016

USGS helps the Government of India discover large, highly enriched, producible accumulations of natural gas hydrate in the Bay of Bengal, USGS re...

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September 13, 2016

International Recognition for Historic Elwha River Restoration

NEW DELHI, INDIA – The collaborative work of the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe to restore the Elwha River of...

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June 16, 2016

Atlantic Methane Seeps Surprise Scientists

Recent scientific work has confirmed the source, composition and origin of methane seeps on the Atlantic Ocean seafloor, discovered in 2012, where...

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June 14, 2016

Studying Recent Tsunami Deposits in Icy Bay, Alaska

On October 17, 2015, a rain-soaked mountainside slid into Taan Fiord on Icy Bay, sending a giant wave more than 500 feet up the opposite slope.

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May 1, 2016

Preparing for El Niño Using Climate Change Forecasts

Most years, USGS research geologist Patrick Barnard and his colleagues quietly develop detailed coastal hazard forecasts that include the effects of...

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May 1, 2016

Shoemaker Awards for “From Icefield to Ocean” and the Coastal and Marine Geology Program Web Site

The Eugene M. Shoemaker Award for Communications Excellence recognizes USGS products that demonstrate extraordinary effectiveness in communicating and...

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March 31, 2016

50-Year-Old Mystery Solved: Seafloor Mapping Reveals Cause of 1964 Tsunami that Destroyed Alaskan Village

Minutes after the 1964 magnitude-9.2 Great Alaska Earthquake (see “The Great Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami of March 27, 1964”), a series of tsunami...

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