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National Hispanic American Heritage Month, September 15 through October 15, was established to recognize the achievements and contributions of...

Monitoring coastal changes is important for the millions of people that live along coasts in the U.S., particularly as climate change hastens coastal...

Barrier islands and spits shelter coastlines from storms, protecting coastal communities and providing habitat for native species.

What do you know about NOMEC? And why is NOMEC important? NOMEC is the National Ocean Mapping, Exploring and Characterization program, a national...

The Queen Charlotte Fault is an active strike-slip boundary, similar to California’s San Andreas fault.

Coastal Change Hazards scientists Dr. Legna Torres-Garcia and Dr. Donya Frank-Gilchrist of the St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center...

Meg Palmsten and Jenna Brown installed two CoastCams towers at Pea Island, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, to monitor waves, water levels, and...

To those interested in USGS SZS and the SZ4D Initiative (Subduction Zones in Four Dimensions)...

Dr. Meg Palmsten of SPCMSC will discuss forecasting total water levels and coastal change hazards in this month’s virtual Center for Ocean Mapping and...