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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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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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Dr. Christina Kellogg was the invited speaker in the Florida Atlantic University (FAU)–Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI) Marine Science Seminar Series

Dr. Christina Kellogg was the invited speaker in the Florida Atlantic University (FAU)–Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI) Marine Science Seminar Series

Dr. Christina Kellogg (SPCMSC Research Microbiologist) gave an invited seminar at Florida Atlantic University on her research into mesophotic and deep...

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Researchers with SPCMSC and Montclair State University Explore the Impacts of Human Development on Coastal Evolution

Researchers with SPCMSC and Montclair State University Explore the Impacts of Human Development on Coastal Evolution

SPCMSC researchers Jennifer Miselis and Daniel Ciarletta and Montclair State University collaborators publish an investigation of historical and...

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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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New tools to manage invasive species that threaten Palmyra Atoll’s coral reefs

New tools to manage invasive species that threaten Palmyra Atoll’s coral reefs

HONOLULU — Scientists found new methods that may help control an invasive anemone species threatening valuable coral reefs in the Central Pacific...

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How USGS Engages Stakeholders to Guide Water-Data Delivery

How USGS Engages Stakeholders to Guide Water-Data Delivery

USGS provides critical earth science to a broad cross-section of the U.S., from the individual to state and federal resource managers to congressional...

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