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Measurements of the three-dimensional structure of the earth, as opposed to the one-dimensional models typically used, can help scientists more...

After lying hidden in sediments for thousands of years, delicate frozen gas structures are in the spotlight for both scientific research and the...

Xan Fredericks, Lidar Coordinator for the Coastal and Marine Geology Program and Chair of the USGS Lidar Points of Contact Working Group, was selected...

Christina Kellogg (SPCMSC Research Microbiologist) will attend Oceanology International in London, England, March 13–15, in her capacity as a judge...

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

Coastal and marine news highlights from across the USGS.

The project is part of a collaborative effort to better understand how sea surface temperature and salinity have varied over the Holocene, or the past...

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

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