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The USGS strives to put coastal change data and information at the fingertips of users such as planners and emergency managers. The explicit goal is to enable users to integrate and apply USGS data and tools to address their specific needs. Online resources such as the Coastal Change Hazards (CCH) portal are designed with applied use of data in mind.

At Fire Island, estuarine, wetland, coastal, and oceanic processes interact, affecting natural and human communities. The CMHRP has been conducting scientific investigations at Fire Island in order to protect coastal infrastructure.

Schematic showing how sediment on the seafloor moves in response to a force created by the combined action of tides, ocean waves, and wind-driven currents.

Wave runup at Madeira Beach, Florida, during Tropical Storm Colin

USGS research oceanographers Jenna Brown and Joe Long installed this video camera atop the Shoreline Island Resort hotel in Madeira Beach, Florida. Starting in February 2017, the camera has recorded video for 17 minutes every hour during daylight hours.

A high resolution digital video camera is installed atop a waterfront hotel at Madeira Beach, Florida, overlooking the Gulf of Mexico coast.

Lush thicket of staghorn coral in the Dry Tortugas National Park

Kathryn Smith of the USGS St.

USGS scientists Lauren Toth and Jen Flannery of the St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center discuss how they study corals to better understand past climate change. The Center participates in the St. Petersburg Science Festival each year. 

Jennifer Flannery at the USGS exhibitor booth at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) in Long Beach, California, from October 13–15, 2016

The Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) held a conference in Long Beach, California, from October 13–15, 2016. Presenters at the conference in the USGS-sponsored session titled, “Clocks in the Rocks, Coral, and Wood: Dating Techniques That Keep Ti

Six USGS scientists presented their research at the 6th International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals in September, 2016. This all-female force hailed from USGS centers in West Virginia, California, and Florida. Left to right: Jill Bourque, Cheryl Morrison, Nancy Prouty, Katharine Coykendall, Amanda Demopoulos, Christina Kellogg.

Participants at the September 2016 Argus Workshop at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Field Research Facility in Duck, North Carolina. Labels provide names of four participants from USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program (Long, Plant, Brown, Harrison) and two participants from Oregon State University (Holman, Stanley).

Polar bear lounging on Alaska’s north coast.

Aerial photograph looking west along Dauphin Island, Alabama, taken in September 2016.

Aerial photograph of Breton Island, Sept. 7, 2016. The USGS Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program studies changes to coastal landscapes such as barrier islands.

Screenshot of Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecast Viewer on June 4, 2016, two days before Tropical Storm Colin was expected to hit Florida’s Gulf of Mexico coast.

• USGS scientists collecting sediment vibracores in Grand Bay estuary from a boat in May 2016.

A 14-cm upland peat auger sediment core of a brown peat above fine tan silty sand was collected from the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in May, 2016.

A 21-cm marsh peat auger sediment core containing a brown peat above a clayey silty gray sediment layer was collected in the field in the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in May, 2016.

USGS scientists aboard a boat measure an estuarine sediment push core collected in an acrylic barrel.