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The Extended Continental Shelf team was awarded the USGS Unit Award for Excellence of Service, an award that recognizes groups of employees who have worked together as a unit to achieve exceptional results. This team was part of a Federal interagency effort to identify the outer limits of the U.S.

In the Aleutian Islands, the USGS participated in a joint expedition with BOEM, WHOI and NOAA that collected baseline seafloor observations, oceanographic measurements, multibeam echosounder data, and subbottom profiles in areas that hold potential for marine mineral resources.

Projected 21st-century land loss and organic carbon disturbance on Alaska’s Arctic Coastal Plain. From the study Permafrost thaw subsidence, sea-level rise, and erosion are transforming Alaska’s Arctic coastal zone.

Great earthquakes in the 20th century. Inset numbers over the 3 by 12 grid indicate subfaults with large slip in meters from the updated 1957 rupture model with red and blue tones for shallow and deeper megathrust rupture, respectively.

Social media post on USGS Coastal and Ocean Science Facebook page highlighting COAWST data release.

Warner, J.C., 2025, U.S. Geological Survey simulations of hydrodynamics and morphodynamics during Hurricane Michael (2018): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P14AGJAN. 

USGS conducted a mapping survey of Long Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at the request of the Town to determine total water volume of the reservoir, as well as the volumes available depending on fluctuating elevations of the water surface.

USGS conducted a mapping survey of Long Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at the request of the Town to determine total water volume of the reservoir, as well as the volumes available depending on fluctuating elevations of the water surface.

USGS conducted a mapping survey of Long Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at the request of the Town to determine total water volume of the reservoir, as well as the volumes available depending on fluctuating elevations of the water surface.

USGS conducted a mapping survey of Long Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at the request of the Town to determine total water volume of the reservoir, as well as the volumes available depending on fluctuating elevations of the water surface.

USGS conducted a mapping survey of Long Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at the request of the Town to determine total water volume of the reservoir, as well as the volumes available depending on fluctuating elevations of the water surface.

USGS conducted a mapping survey of Long Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at the request of the Town to determine total water volume of the reservoir, as well as the volumes available depending on fluctuating elevations of the water surface.

USGS conducted a mapping survey of Long Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at the request of the Town to determine total water volume of the reservoir, as well as the volumes available depending on fluctuating elevations of the water surface.

USGS conducted a mapping survey of Long Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at the request of the Town to determine total water volume of the reservoir, as well as the volumes available depending on fluctuating elevations of the water surface.

USGS conducted a mapping survey of Long Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at the request of the Town to determine total water volume of the reservoir, as well as the volumes available depending on fluctuating elevations of the water surface.

USGS conducted a mapping survey of Long Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at the request of the Town to determine total water volume of the reservoir, as well as the volumes available depending on fluctuating elevations of the water surface.

USGS conducted a mapping survey of Long Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at the request of the Town to determine total water volume of the reservoir, as well as the volumes available depending on fluctuating elevations of the water surface.

USGS conducted a mapping survey of Long Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at the request of the Town to determine total water volume of the reservoir, as well as the volumes available depending on fluctuating elevations of the water surface.

USGS conducted a mapping survey of Long Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at the request of the Town to determine total water volume of the reservoir, as well as the volumes available depending on fluctuating elevations of the water surface.

USGS conducted a mapping survey of Long Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at the request of the Town to determine total water volume of the reservoir, as well as the volumes available depending on fluctuating elevations of the water surface.

USGS conducted a mapping survey of Long Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at the request of the Town to determine total water volume of the reservoir, as well as the volumes available depending on fluctuating elevations of the water surface.

Social media post on USGS Coastal and Ocean Science Facebook page highlighting a study examining the effects of ditches on salt marsh function in the Northeast U.S. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.124444