Sound Waves Newsletter - January-February 2017
Mystery Gap: Connecting Earthquake Faults near San Francisco, California, Requires Many Approaches
New USGS mapping studies in San Pablo Bay, California, show that two of the region’s earthquake faults—the Hayward and Rodgers Creek faults—connect beneath the bay.
New Technique Quickly Predicts Salt Marsh Vulnerability
Scientists are working on a rapid assessment technique for determining which U.S. coastal salt marshes are most imperiled by erosion.
Helping Communities Understand Future Coastal Hazards
The USGS Coastal Processes Team has developed the Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) to help residents of coastal California understand their vulnerabilities from storms and sea-level rise.
Striking New Seafloor Imagery of the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault
Advances in Topobathymetric Mapping
In coastal environments, elevation is perhaps the most fundamental variable determining vulnerability. Accurate high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) that show both land and submerged topography (bathymetry) are key in coastal wetlands mapping and monitoring, storm surge and sea-level-rise modeling, benthic habitat mapping, coral reef-ecosystem mapping, and a host of related activities.I
Recent Coastal and Marine Fieldwork - January-February 2017
USGS scientists visited more than a dozen locations in the last few months, studying beach changes after winter storms, DNA in marshes, plankton flux, and much more. Here is a quick overview of some coastal and offshore fieldwork by our researchers.
News Briefs - January-February 2017
Coastal and marine news highlights from across the USGS
Recent Publications - January-February 2017
List of recent USGS publications and data releases based on coastal and marine research.