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Reconstructing global climate conditions that existed 3.3-3.0 million years ago will improve understanding of today's warming and, more importantly...

Coral reefs are in decline worldwide, and a leading cause of their decline is the runoff of sediment and pollutants from nearby land surfaces.

A decades-old plastic USGS current drifter was recently found by a 5-year-old boy on the shore of San Pablo Bay, California, triggering a flurry of e...

USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center geologists Bruce Richmond and Ann Gibbs flew hundreds of kilometers along Alaska's Arctic Ocean coast...

Landslides are common along the rugged Big Sur coast in central California

Sand on the seafloor is rarely flat, particularly close to the shore. Currents and waves interact with bed sediment to produce bedforms: ripples...

Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center recently conducted two cruises aboard research vessel Pel...

Jodi Eshleman has recently joined the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)'s Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team as an oceanographer who will be working...

Meadows of eelgrass (Zostera marina) provide essential habitat to a wide range of fish and wildlife in the nearshore parts of Puget Sound, Washington...