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In 1861-62, California was bombarded for 45 days with one strong winter storm after another, causing severe flooding up and down the state.

USGS-led research provides evidence that during this century there does not seem to be a tipping point at which sea-ice loss would become irreversible...

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

Unlike typical tsunamigenic earthquakes that occur on the thrust fault that separates tectonic plates in a subduction zone (termed the interplate...

The California Seafloor Mapping Program is a State and Federally funded program to create a series of geologic and seafloor-habitat basemaps for all...

Several U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists are co-leading a team of researchers from around the United States and Europe seeking to characterize...

Walter Barnhardt has become the new director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center in Woods Hole...

Several employees at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)'s National Wetlands Research Center and the USGS Lafayette Publishing Service Center have...

Flat Isabel is a friend of Flat Stanley. Flat Stanley is the title character of a children's book and has become the basis of a popular school project...