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A selection of coastal and ocean videos and photographs from across the USGS.

Two boats sit in a lake with snow capped mountains in the background
Unveiling Earthquake History at Skilak Lake, Alaska
a group of people launch yellow boat from boat ramp
Unveiling Earthquake History at Skilak Lake, Alaska
landscape of boat sitting in lake with forest and mountains in the background
Unveiling Earthquake History at Skilak Lake, Alaska
two scientists in red dry suits prep buoys for deployment while out on yellow floats on lake
Unveiling Earthquake History at Skilak Lake, Alaska
Small research boat and inflatable boat with person in it on a lake with snowcapped mountains in the background.
Unveiling Earthquake History at Skilak Lake, Alaska
Scientists installing a wind and rain gauge in American Samoa
Scientists installing a wind and rain gauge on Ofu, American Samoa
Image of an oil drilling platform offshore of Huntington Beach, California, with the sun setting behind it
Oil drilling platform offshore of Huntington Beach, California
A researcher drives a personal watercraft carrying scientific equipment on a calm sunny day with an island in the background
In transit to survey the shallows of Wallops Island, Virginia
Underwater image of artificial reef structures developed by University of Miami researchers
Underwater image of artificial reef structures developed by University of Miami researchers
deploying obs
Scientists micro ocean-bottom seismometers near Weepecket Islands, off the coast of Massachusetts.
Aerial image of surfers at sunset in Santa Cruz
Science of Surfing
Salt marsh in coastal Massachusetts (Cape Cod).
Salt marsh in coastal Massachusetts (Cape Cod)
Underwater image of Valonia fastigiata algae growing on a reef at Ofu
Underwater image of Valonia fastigiata algae growing on a reef at Ofu
Top: trail along a vegetated beach on a sunny day. Bottom: mangrove tree in the foreground partly obscures a long low bridge.
Two views of Long Beach at Big Pine Key, Florida
Bleaching Elkhorn coral in Buck Island Reef National Monument
Bleaching Elkhorn coral in Buck Island Reef National Monument
A squat lobster and small Black belly rosefish huddle near a den on a small ledge in Baltimore Canyon.
Squat lobster and rosefish
Cover image for sediment core lab video, showing core-lab walk-in refrigerator
USGS Sediment Core Laboratory
 Many species of invertebrates living together on a steep submarine canyon wall
Assemblage of invertebrates living on a steep submarine canyon wall
ocean, beach, and blue sky with clouds
Puerto Rico beach
A red crab trying to crack open a seep mussel, while another awaits the outcome with interest
Red crabs on seep mussels
picture of the shoreline where a river is meeting the ocean on a blue sky day
Shoreline in Wellfleet
A venus flytrap anemone on the lip of a small ridge, with numerous other small animals
Venus flytrap anemone
Photo of RV Williams at sunrise tied up to a dock with researchers aboard
RV William photo 3.jpg

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