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Dashboard presenting nor’easter storm events in coastal New England in January and March 2018.

Geonarrative about flood documentation and mapping of two large storm events in coastal Massachusetts.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, is one of three centers serving the mission of the USGS Coastal/Marine Hazards and Resources Program (CMHRP). Since its authorization by Congress in 1962, the CMHRP has served as the primary Federal program for marine geology and physical science research.

This story map explores the role USGS scientists play in understanding the risks presented by avian influenza, and how their work is being used to predict areas of transmission risk.

This geonarrative features research used to predict how Fire Island beaches change in response to storms and how they may subsequently recover in the year following a storm event.

Locations of active wells (at least one measurement during the previous year) in the New England groundwater level network at the end of 2017. The dataset contains 104 wells with continuous water-level measurements (15-minute to hourly measurements), 182 wells with discrete water-level measurements (monthly measurements at most locations), and 95 wells with intermittent water-level measurements.

USGS Flood Inundation Mapper Web Application

Find the number of hydraulically fractured horizontal, vertical, and directional oil and gas wells by drill (spud) year and by 8-digit U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic unit (HUC).

Map of the Mill Creek Watershed, Wellfleet and Truro, Massachusetts.

USGS installed 18 monitoring wells and 14 multilevel samplers (MLSs) at 14 locations to monitor water levels and groundwater quality beneath the Maravista neighborhood in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

This map shows the provinces assessed by the USGS for undiscovered oil and gas resources.