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Photography
Image: Beach Erosion with Sea Turtle Egg Fragments

Beach Erosion with Sea Turtle Egg Fragments
Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Labeled satellite imagery for training machine learning semantic segmentation models of coastal shorelines

Charts or Graphs
Hurricane Isaias coastal change forecast map 8.1.2020

Hurricane Isaias Unlikely to Cause Widespread Atlantic Beach Erosion
Animated GIF
Animation shows tides washing away brown mud from the shoreline and eroding green marshgrass. A graph follows the tide.

Marsh lateral shoreline erosion and shore-proximal sediment deposition
Photography
quadcopter (drone) and camera ready for launch

Quadcopter's photos can be used to measure dune erosion
publication
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Proceedings of a workshop on techniques of rehabilitation and erosion control in recently roaded and logged watersheds, with emphasis to north coastal California. March 13-14, 1978

Photography
Apartments perched atop a high coastal bluff with large boulders at the base to prevent erosion.

Eroding coastal cliff in Pacifica, California
map
Collage of USGS Maps.

Map showing Beaufort Sea coastal erosion and accretion between Flaxman Island and the Canadian border, northeastern Alaska thirty-year coastline comparison, sediment volumes released, and physiographic character

Photography
Image: Beach Erosion with Sea Turtle Egg Fragments

Beach Erosion with Sea Turtle Egg Fragments
Center News
Scientists working in the field: on a boat, in a lab, on a beach. Text says, "News from the St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center. USGS."

Coastal Change Hazards Team Forecasted Hurricane Beryl Beach Impacts

publication
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Thermal erosion of a permafrost coastline: Improving process-based models using time-lapse photography

General
USGS

Improving Models of Coastal Change

publication
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Testing model parameters for wave‐induced dune erosion using observations from Hurricane Sandy

Featured Films and Shorts

Rapid salt-marsh erosion in Grand Bay, Mississippi
Center News
Aerial photo of Pacific Missile Range Facility-Barking Sands in Hawai'i

USGS Coastal Storm Projection Data Inform Department of Defense Infrastructure Risk Assessments

Featured Films and Shorts
a person standing on a bluff overlooking the ocean

Coastal Change in Arctic Alaska
publication
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Sound-side inundation and seaward erosion of a barrier island during hurricane landfall

Project
3 close-up views of the toe of the Mud Creek landslide created from air photos after the landslide

Remote Sensing Coastal Change

Center News
Man sits in front of camera talking, in background is a footpath along a lush grassy area with trees and bushes.

TV News Features USGS Use of Historical Photos to Measure Cliff Erosion in San Francisco

State News Release
Coastal Change Forecast for Hurricane Francine

USGS experts forecast Francine to result in coastal change in Texas and Louisiana

Center News
Two divers float near coral reef with measuring tools to survey marine life

Keys to Collaboration - Research Teams Work Together to Study Reef Erosion in the Florida Keys

Research
Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program (MsCIP) - Adaptive Management and Monitoring Planning and Implementation

Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program (MsCIP) - Adaptive Management and Monitoring Planning and Implementation

Presentations and Events

The Last Land: How humans changed erosion in Hawaii
National News Release
Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura in Atlantic Ocean

USGS predicts Gulf beach erosion from Marco, gets set to measure storm effects

publication
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Sea level driven marsh expansion in a coupled model of marsh erosion and migration

Project
Photo of a coastal cliff with an apartment building right at the edge of the cliff.

National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards

Photography
A woman stands beside a green table pointing to a strip of raised sand with tiny models of buildings on it

Dr. Legna Torres-García conducts an erosion model activity
publication
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Erosion and accretion along the arctic coast of Alaska. The influence of ice and climate

National News Release
USGS

FL, GA, SC Beaches Face 80-95 Percent Chance of Erosion from Hurricane Matthew

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Modeling erosion of ice-rich permafrost bluffs along the Alaskan Beaufort Sea coast

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