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Announcement: Subduction Zone Science Workshop - January 10–11, 2023

Announcement: Subduction Zone Science Workshop - January 10–11, 2023

The U.S. Geological Survey invites you to a Subduction Zone Science workshop in Seattle at the University of Washington from January 10-11, 2023.

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Crowd-Sourcing Coastal Change Data Along Cliffs, Bluffs

Crowd-Sourcing Coastal Change Data Along Cliffs, Bluffs

Most remote-sensing techniques rely on imagery taken at a specific time and place. What if researchers could crowd-source this data from volunteers...

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How Watershed Processes Under Climate Change Will Shape Coastlines

How Watershed Processes Under Climate Change Will Shape Coastlines

The future of many coasts is tied to the delivery of land-based sediment. The natural supply of sediment to coasts from adjacent rivers and watersheds...

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USGS Coral Reef Science Featured in White House Report

USGS Coral Reef Science Featured in White House Report

A new report from the White House offers federal recommendations for supporting nature-based solutions to fight climate change, citing USGS coral reef...

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Passive Sampling to Detect Groundwater Contaminants at Coral Reefs

Passive Sampling to Detect Groundwater Contaminants at Coral Reefs

Most coral reefs around the world are declining due to a myriad of external stressors, including climate change impacts such as rising sea-surface...

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Mapping the Entire Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault System

Mapping the Entire Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault System

A recently completed series of data publications led by the U.S. Geological Survey represents the first time the fault has been mapped using...

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Landscape Response to Climate Change - A Commentary

Landscape Response to Climate Change - A Commentary

A new commentary by USGS scientists and collaborators looks at the current state of science that measures landscape responses to modern climate change...

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USGS forecasts Tropical Storm Nicole could significantly impact southeastern beaches

USGS forecasts Tropical Storm Nicole could significantly impact southeastern beaches

A new U.S. Geological Survey coastal change forecast predicts sandy beaches and dunes in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina are likely to see...

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World Tsunami Awareness Day November 5, 2022

World Tsunami Awareness Day November 5, 2022

A new infographic summarizes great Alaska earthquakes and their related history for generating dangerous Pacific tsunamis.

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Teaching Software to Track Coastal Change

Teaching Software to Track Coastal Change

Classifying imagery based on identifiable pixels—labeling pixels of a certain color “water” and others as “land”, for example—is known as image...

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A Decade of Evolution

A Decade of Evolution

Ten years have passed since Hurricane Sandy ravaged the eastern seaboard, damaging 200,000 homes, cutting power to 8 million residents and causing...

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