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

Editor's note: During the Pacific Nearshore Project 2011 Alaska Expedition, researchers shared stories about their shipboard life through journal...

Science experts from various agencies and universities have compiled a "state of the science" summary of information on the impacts of armoring on...

Palmyra faces challenges from past habitat impacts and present concerns about invasive species and sea-level rise.

For five decades, USGS geologist Gene Shinn (retired) has chronicled changing conditions at seven coral reef sites in the Florida Keys, creating an...

This gull species, which is native to California, has left an interesting history in its wake. Normally breeding in inland areas like Mono Lake...

Placing instruments into San Francisco Bay, California, for 6 weeks of gathering data on how bay waters move sediment.

Like a message in a bottle, a yellow disk recently washed up on the shores of Long Beach in Vancouver Island's Pacific Rim National Park Reserve...