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Off the coast of southern California, oil naturally seeps from the seafloor, bubbling up to the surface and washing ashore as sticky tarballs. For...

Whether you get updates about natural disasters from the news, a website, or an app, the accuracy of that information depends on the quality of the...

Salt marshes, critical buffers against coastal erosion, rely on a net gain of sediment to maintain their elevation and resilience as sea levels rise...

Learn about our research focus areas and yearly accomplishments and progress, while enjoying an array of stunning imagery.

In summer 2025, a research team led by the USGS worked with the NOAA ship Rainier to map a large swath of seafloor offshore of Kodiak Island, Alaska...

New USGS-led research finds that submarine groundwater discharge (SGD)—the unseen flow of freshwater and nutrients from land to sea—is a key driver of...

On August 9, 2025, the USGS and several other science organizations located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, hosted hands-on activities and informative...

How well can we predict the future of changing shorelines? That question was put to the test in ShoreShop2.0, a recently published collaborative...

A selection of coastal and ocean videos and photographs from across the USGS.

USGS conducted a mapping survey of Long Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at the request of the Town to determine the total water volume of the...