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North to Alaska—an Aerial Shoreline Reconnaissance

North to Alaska—an Aerial Shoreline Reconnaissance

USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center geologists Bruce Richmond and Ann Gibbs flew hundreds of kilometers along Alaska's Arctic Ocean coast...

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New USGS Fact Sheet About Landslides Delivering Slope Material to Nearshore Waters on California's Big Sur Coast

New USGS Fact Sheet About Landslides Delivering Slope Material to Nearshore Waters on California's Big Sur Coast

Landslides are common along the rugged Big Sur coast in central California

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Making Waves and Ripples in a Giant Flume in Japan

Making Waves and Ripples in a Giant Flume in Japan

Sand on the seafloor is rarely flat, particularly close to the shore. Currents and waves interact with bed sediment to produce bedforms: ripples...

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Ripples for Everyone!—Investigating How Sediment Moves on the Sea Floor

Ripples for Everyone!—Investigating How Sediment Moves on the Sea Floor

Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center recently conducted two cruises aboard research vessel Pel...

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Oceanographer Joins the Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team

Oceanographer Joins the Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team

Jodi Eshleman has recently joined the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)'s Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team as an oceanographer who will be working...

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Eelgrass in Puget Sound—A New Study of Flow, Sediment Transport, and Zostera marina

Eelgrass in Puget Sound—A New Study of Flow, Sediment Transport, and Zostera marina

Meadows of eelgrass (Zostera marina) provide essential habitat to a wide range of fish and wildlife in the nearshore parts of Puget Sound, Washington...

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Recent Publications - September 2004

Recent Publications - September 2004

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

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Upcoming! AGU Chapman Conference on Salt Marshes

Upcoming! AGU Chapman Conference on Salt Marshes

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) Chapman Conference on "Salt Marsh Geomorphology: Physical and Ecological Effects on Landform" will be held in...

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USGS Partners with St. Petersburg, FL, Elementary School

USGS Partners with St. Petersburg, FL, Elementary School

“Mentoring provides a unique opportunity to change lives—a child's and your own. I encourage everyone to mentor. In this complex world, it is a simple...

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USGS Participates in Earth Force Teacher Training

USGS Participates in Earth Force Teacher Training

About the training

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Scientists Come to the Point to Talk About Snakes and Birds at Cabrillo National Monument

Scientists Come to the Point to Talk About Snakes and Birds at Cabrillo National Monument

Presentations to the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) at Cabrillo National Monument

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