Sound Waves Newsletter: Coastal and Marine Research News from Across the USGS
Sound Waves Newsletter: Coastal and Marine Research News from Across the USGS
Our latest issue is out! Dive into stories about the ocean and marshes
Our latest issue is out! Dive into stories about the ocean and marshes
USGS Leads Research Expedition to Deep-sea Escanaba Trough
USGS Leads Research Expedition to Deep-sea Escanaba Trough
Watch short videos about the expedition, and read deep-dive stories about Escanaba Trough hydrothermal systems, marine geology, and critical minerals.
Watch short videos about the expedition, and read deep-dive stories about Escanaba Trough hydrothermal systems, marine geology, and critical minerals.
Take a Deep Dive into USGS Ocean Science
Take a Deep Dive into USGS Ocean Science
USGS makes a splash with a series of new web pages
USGS makes a splash with a series of new web pages
Cross-center USGS team testing seafloor structure-from-motion technology
Cross-center USGS team testing seafloor structure-from-motion technology
Scientists, engineers, and staff from Santa Cruz, California meet with scientists in Florida to prepare for specialized fieldwork
Scientists, engineers, and staff from Santa Cruz, California meet with scientists in Florida to prepare for specialized fieldwork
USGS Drifter Found on a Scotland Beach
USGS Drifter Found on a Scotland Beach
. . . nearly 40 years after its release in the Arctic Ocean!
. . . nearly 40 years after its release in the Arctic Ocean!
California Deepwater Investigations and Groundtruthing
California Deepwater Investigations and Groundtruthing
BOEM, USGS, and State of CA consider the implications and potential impacts of wind energy development miles offshore of Morro Bay
BOEM, USGS, and State of CA consider the implications and potential impacts of wind energy development miles offshore of Morro Bay
Climate Science Champions
Climate Science Champions
USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center scientists featured in video series
USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center scientists featured in video series
Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
We conduct multidisciplinary scientific research in the coastal and offshore areas of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii, and other US Pacific Islands; and in other waterways of the United States.
Publications
Continental shelves serve as critical transfer zones in sediment-routing systems, linking the terrestrial erosional and deep-water depositional domains. The degree to which clastic sediment is mixed and homogenized during transfer across broad shelves has important implications for understanding deep-sea detrital records. Wide continental shelves are thought to act as capacitors characterized by t
A numerical study of geomorphic and oceanographic controls on wave-driven runup on fringing reefs with shore-normal channels
Many populated, tropical coastlines fronted by fringing coral reefs are exposed to wave-driven marine flooding that is exacerbated by sea-level rise. Most fringing coral reef are not alongshore uniform, but bisected by shore-normal channels; however, little is known about the influence of such channels on alongshore variations on runup and flooding of the adjacent coastline. We con-ducted a parame
21st-century stagnation in unvegetated sand-sea activity
Sand seas are vast expanses of Earth’s surface containing large areas of aeolian dunes—topographic patterns manifest from above-threshold winds and a supply of loose sand. Predictions of the role of future climate change for sand-sea activity are sparse and contradictory. Here we examine the impact of climate on all of Earth’s presently-unvegetated sand seas, using ensemble runs of an Earth System
Science
Global Marine Mineral Resources
Researching seafloor mineral resources that occur within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone and areas beyond national jurisdictions.
PCMSC MarFac Field Equipment and Capabilities
Learn about the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Marine Facility’s vast array of field equipment, sampling devices, and mapping systems, and our capabilities. Our engineers, designers, mechanics, and technicians have also designed and developed some of the specialized field equipment we use in field operations in the nearshore, in the deep sea, and on land.
Remote Sensing Coastal Change
We use remote-sensing technologies—such as aerial photography, satellite imagery, structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry, and lidar (laser-based surveying)—to measure coastal change along U.S. shorelines.