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USGS Deploys Oceanographic Gear Offshore from Matanzas Inlet, St. Augustine, Florida

USGS Deploys Oceanographic Gear Offshore from Matanzas Inlet, St. Augustine, Florida

Matanzas is a natural, unstabilized inlet, which makes it an ideal location to study dynamic inlet processes in a non-maintained channel.

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How Will Underwater Mining Affect the Deep Ocean? Growing a Research Community to Find Out

How Will Underwater Mining Affect the Deep Ocean? Growing a Research Community to Find Out

USGS oceanographer Amy Gartman and team seek to understand how and where mineral-rich deposits form in the ocean, and what effects mining them could...

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Video cameras monitor coastal change on Whidbey Island, Washington

Video cameras monitor coastal change on Whidbey Island, Washington

Video cameras installed by the USGS Remote Sensing Coastal Change project overlook the coast on Whidbey Island, Washington, about 25 miles north of...

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Waves and surge from Subtropical Storm Alberto will impact Gulf Coast beaches

Waves and surge from Subtropical Storm Alberto will impact Gulf Coast beaches

Potential coastal change impacts due to Alberto.

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USGS partnership with Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe featured in new fact sheet on Elwha River dam removals

USGS partnership with Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe featured in new fact sheet on Elwha River dam removals

The USGS has published a new Fact Sheet, “Science Partnership between U.S. Geological Survey and the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe: Understanding the...

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Most-cited award for special issue of Marine Geology

Most-cited award for special issue of Marine Geology

A USGS-led special issue of Marine Geology received a most-cited certificate from the journal in May 2018.

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USGS scientist visits Korea Institute of Geology and Mineral Industries

USGS scientist visits Korea Institute of Geology and Mineral Industries

USGS research geologist Sam Johnson of the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) made an invited visit to the Korea Institute of Geology...

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Public lecture on coral reefs as coastal protection

Public lecture on coral reefs as coastal protection

On Thursday, April 26, research geologist Curt Storlazzi of the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center gave a public lecture on “The Role of U...

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Media coverage of threat to atoll islands from rising seas and wave-driven flooding

Media coverage of threat to atoll islands from rising seas and wave-driven flooding

A deluge of media coverage followed publication of a USGS-led study showing that sea-level rise and wave-driven flooding could make many low-lying...

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USGS Scientist participates in research cruise to Andros Island, Bahamas, to study historic coral-reef die-offs

USGS Scientist participates in research cruise to Andros Island, Bahamas, to study historic coral-reef die-offs

Dr. Lauren Toth (Research Oceanographer, SPMSC) will join researchers from Florida Atlantic University on a cruise on Florida Institute of...

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USGS Researchers attend 11th Biennial Science Workshop at Fire Island National Seashore

USGS Researchers attend 11th Biennial Science Workshop at Fire Island National Seashore

SPCMSC Research Geologist Jennifer Miselis and WHCMSC Research Geologist Erika Lentz will present USGS research at the 11th Biennial Science Workshop...

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Many Low-Lying Atoll Islands Will Be Uninhabitable by Mid-21st Century

Many Low-Lying Atoll Islands Will Be Uninhabitable by Mid-21st Century

Sea-level rise and wave-driven flooding will negatively impact freshwater resources on many low-lying atoll islands in such a way that many could be...

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