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The Coastal Science Navigator Companion Guide introduces you to USGS coastal change hazards-related products—including interactive data maps, downloadable software, geonarratives, and more. It's organized by timescale, highlighting products relevant to the present, past, and future, although many cover multiple timescales.

The Coastal Change Likelihood Website page of the Coastal Science Navigator Companion Guide.

The U.S. Coastal Wetlands Synthesis page of the Coastal Science Navigator Companion Guide.

Cover of the Coastal Science Navigator Companion Guide. The guide introduces some of the many coastal change hazards-related products available through the USGS. In it, we showcase the products included in the Coastal Science Navigator’s initial publication in July 2023.

Our coast is valuable and so is the science that protects it.

Coastal Change Hazards Portal showing the probability of storm-induced collision, overwash, and inundation during Hurricane Helene.

The Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecast Viewer reflecting inundation data on the Gulf coast of Florida during Hurricane Helene.

Visitor during the 2024 Woods Hole Science Stroll talking to Marie Bartlett (USGS Geologist) about the foraminifera she viewed in the USGS microscope.

Seth Ackerman (USGS Geologist) discussing USGS science at the Woods Hole Science Stroll.

Zafer Defne (USGS Oceanographer) discussing operational ocean and coastal dynamics forecasts at the Woods Hole Science Stroll.

Zafer Defne (USGS Oceanographer) discussing operational ocean and coastal dynamics forecasts at the Woods Hole Science Stroll.

A curious young man, assissted by Marie Bartlett (USGS Geologist), looks through a microscope at the USGS booth at the Woods Hole Science Stroll to view foraminifera, tiny microfossils that live in marine environments. 

Microscope station at the USGS booth of the Woods Hole Science Stroll, looking at foraminifera, microfossils that live in marine environments.

USGS Oceanographer Zafer Defne discussing operational ocean and coastal dynamics forecasts at the Woods Hole Science Stroll.

A small drone on display at the USGS booth of the 2024 Woods Hole Science Stroll.

USGS geographer Jin-Si Over at the 2024 Woods Hole Science Stroll, ready to discuss drones and how they are used to map short- and long-term changes in coastal environments.

USGS Geographer Jin-Si Over talking about drones and how they are used to map short- and long-term changes in coastal environments at the Woods Hole Science Stroll.

USGS Oceanographer Zafer Defne discussing operational ocean and coastal dynamics forecasts at the Woods Hole Science Stroll.

USGS Geologist Marie Bartlett talking about foraminifera, tiny microfossils that live in marine environments, while a little girl looks at them through the microscope.

USGS Geographer Jin-Si Over talking about drones and how they are used to map short- and long-term changes in coastal environments at the Woods Hole Science Stroll.

USGS Geographer Jin-Si Over talking about drones and how they are used to map short- and long-term changes in coastal environments at the Woods Hole Science Stroll.