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In summer 2013, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists worked with colleagues from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and...

Michael E. Field is the recipient of the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force (USCRTF) 2013 Outstanding Scientific Advancement of Knowledge award.

Thanks to new tools being developed by Federal and State agencies, scientists can now offer more accurate insight into the likely impacts of such...

Over the past decade, there has been a notable change in seafloor-bottom type along west Maui, Hawai‘i.

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

Proceedings of the Workshop on Probabilistic Flood Hazard Assessment (PFHA) was released in September 2013 by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission...

Three new products in an ongoing series were released on August 9, 2013, by the USGS—a map set for the area offshore of Carpinteria (about 120...

A newly published paper concludes that a modest (1 foot) tsunami-like event on the East Coast was generated in the early 19th century by a large...

California sea otter numbers are up, according to the latest population survey led by Federal, State and university scientists. The reasons: more pups...