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VIPS Learn about Climate Change Impacts along San Francisco’s Outer Coast

VIPS Learn about Climate Change Impacts along San Francisco’s Outer Coast

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, Acting USGS Director Suzette Kimball, and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee took part in a coastal climate change...

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Virus Calculated as Culprit Killing Sea Stars

Virus Calculated as Culprit Killing Sea Stars

Sea stars are soft-bodied, colorful, mobile animals that hunt and feed on the ocean bottom, and since 2013, a mysterious disease has been killing them...

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Media Advisory: USGS to Host Congressional Briefing: #StrongAfterSandy--The Science Supporting the Department of the Interior’s Response

Media Advisory: USGS to Host Congressional Briefing: #StrongAfterSandy--The Science Supporting the Department of the Interior’s Response

Department of the Interior scientists are generating and sharing critical information to aid the recovery of the areas impacted by Hurricane Sandy...

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Ocean Warming Affecting Florida Reefs

Ocean Warming Affecting Florida Reefs

Late-summer water temperatures near the Florida Keys were warmer by nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit in the last several decades compared to a century...

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Natural Methane Seepage on U.S. Atlantic Ocean Margin Widespread

Natural Methane Seepage on U.S. Atlantic Ocean Margin Widespread

Natural methane leakage from the seafloor is far more widespread on the U.S. Atlantic margin than previously thought, according to a study by...

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New Tool Available to Help Track Spilled Oil

New Tool Available to Help Track Spilled Oil

A newly developed computer model holds the promise of helping scientists track and predict where oil will go after a spill, sometimes years later.

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Recent Publications - November-December 2013

Recent Publications - November-December 2013

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

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Travels with Sediment in the San Francisco Bay, Delta, and Coastal System

Travels with Sediment in the San Francisco Bay, Delta, and Coastal System

Special Issue of the scientific journal Marine Geology Focuses on Complex Urbanized Estuary and Coast

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Passing the Torch, Take 2—Barbara Lidz Steps Down as Sound Waves Contributing Editor at USGS Center in St. Petersburg, Florida

Passing the Torch, Take 2—Barbara Lidz Steps Down as Sound Waves Contributing Editor at USGS Center in St. Petersburg, Florida

Theresa Burress, librarian and outreach coordinator at the USGS St. Pete center, will now handle the center’s submissions to the newsletter.

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Unprecedented Rate and Scale of Ocean Acidification Found in the Arctic

Unprecedented Rate and Scale of Ocean Acidification Found in the Arctic

Acidification of the Arctic Ocean is occurring faster than projected, according to new findings published in September 2013 in the journal PLOS ONE

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USGS Research to Support Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Gets Boost from Supplemental Funds

USGS Research to Support Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Gets Boost from Supplemental Funds

More than a year after Hurricane Sandy collided with the East coast on October 29, 2012, the USGS continues to study the changes left behind in the...

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