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A recent study shows that restoring tidal exchange in impounded coastal wetlands can enhance their elevation resilience and climate change mitigation...

Rising sea levels, increasingly frequent and severe flooding, and coastal erosion are just a few of the climate-fueled threats to coastal...

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Earthquakes can trigger gravity-driven debris flows, known as mass wasting events. When these occur underwater, debris surges downslope in a sediment...

Meg Palmsten (SPCMSC) co-authored a recently published manuscript titled, “A machine learning approach to predicting equilibrium wavelength.”

SPCMSC Research Microbiologist Christina Kellogg and Research Marine Biologist James Evans are participating in a collaborative experiment with...

A team of USGS researchers and partners in Puerto Rico studying corals in 2017 wasn’t intending to gain unique insight into the interaction between...

Coastal marshes are important habitats that serve as buffer zones between the land and the sea. However, many are at severe risk from increasing...

The St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center’s Estuarine and MaRsh Geology (EMRG) group published a new USGS geonarrative on the extensive...

USGS Research Geologist Dr. Curt Storlazzi was honored by the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force with a Scientific Achievement Award, presented by Department...