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What We Do: Coastal and Marine Science at USGS Santa Cruz

Illustrations
Graphic showing structure of the ocean floor from beach to deep sea with descriptions

USGS Ocean Research

Featured Films and Shorts
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National Ocean Month: 10 Ocean Field Sites You’ve Got to “Sea” to Believe

Illustrations
Graphic showing structure of the ocean floor from beach to deep sea

USGS Ocean Research

Project
A bottomfish with small, bright spots lazily swims over a rocky seafloor among a few small pieces of kelp.

Ecosystems: EXPRESS

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A characterization of deep-sea coral and sponge communities along the California and Oregon coast using a remotely operated vehicle on the EXPRESS 2018 expedition

Project
Image shows methane bubbling up from the seafloor

EXPRESS: Expanding Pacific Research and Exploration of Submerged Systems

Research
Pamlico Canyon

USGS Role in DEEP SEARCH: Deep Sea Exploration to Advance Research on Coral, Canyon, and Cold-seep Habitats

Center News
bathymetry data of the New England Seamounts

USGS Leadership Participates in Virtual NOMEC Conversation Hosted by the UN Decade on the Ocean

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Deepwater Program: Lophelia II, continuing ecological research on deep-sea corals and deep-reef habitats in the Gulf of Mexico

Center News
Underwater photo of a rocky outcrop with many multicolored corals growing on it.

Surveying deep-water habitats off US West Coast

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An association between a cusk eel (Bassozetus sp.) and a black coral (Schizopathes sp.) in the deep western Indian Ocean

Featured Films and Shorts

NOAA-USGS Stepping Stones 2021 Expedition

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DEEP SEARCH: Deep sea exploration to advance research on coral/canyon/cold seep habitats

Center News
Photograph of Yellow crinoids, several species of sponges, and an Iridigorgia magnaspiralis coral attached to ferromanganese enc

Exploring the Unknown in the Deep North Atlantic Ocean

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Radiocarbon dating of deep-sea black corals collected off the southeastern United States

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Deep search: Deep sea exploration to advance research on coral/canyon/cold seep habitats

Interviews

Diving for Deep-Sea Coral Critters

Research
deepwater coral

Deep-Sea Coral Ecosystems

Center News
Three-dimensional perspective of D2 Dive 19 track and waypoints with superposed water column bubble plumes

Windows to the Deep 2019 - Exploring Deep Sea Habitats of the Southeastern U.S.

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Survey report of NOAA Ship McArthur II cruises AR-04-04, AR-05-05 and AR-06-03: habitat classification of side scan sonar imagery in support of deep-sea coral/sponge explorations at the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary

Center News
Map of a coastal area showing where data has been collected offshore.

Explore Deep-sea Data Along the Pacific Coast with EXPRESS Data Viewer

Center News
A woman in a brown coat emerges from the hatch of an orange submarine.

Coral Microbial Ecology Team participates in Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities Restoration expedition to Gulf of Mexico

Center News
Stepping Stones Expedition Informational Poster

2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones Expedition

Charts or Graphs
Map of offshore survey sites from Virginia to Georgia

Areas to be surveyed on first Deep SEARCH research cruise

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ROV Jason on ship

Deep Sea Exploration and Research of Coral/Canyon/Cold seep Habitats

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Macrobenthic infaunal communities associated with deep‐sea hydrocarbon seeps in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Center News
Deep-Sea Coral: Lophelia pertusa

New paper reveals microbiomes of stony and soft deep-sea corals share rare core bacteria

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California Deepwater Investigations and Groundtruthing (Cal DIG) I, volume 3 — Benthic habitat characterization offshore Morro Bay, California

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Comprehensive inventory of habitat assessment and evaluation datasets to support Deepwater Horizon mesophotic and deep benthic communities