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Marine biologists recently conducted a 3-week expedition studying sea otters as part of a joint U.S.-Canadian project to investigate the ecological...

List of recent USGS publications and data releases based on coastal and marine research.

The USGS Dive Safety Board received the U.S. Department of the Interior's Safety and Occupational Health Excellence Award in the Group category at a...

USGS scientist Virginia Burkett was awarded the 2011 National Wildlife Federation's (NWF) National Conservation Achievement Award for Science at the...

The March 11, 2011 Japan earthquake was one of the five most powerful earthquakes recorded in the world since instrumental detection and record...

Boating north through Whitewater Bay in Florida's Everglades National Park, USGS scientists noticed a thin plume of smoke rising midway along Cape...

A new study challenges the established principle that water quality in bays and estuaries is driven primarily by human-caused changes in the...

The rapid spread of lionfishes along the U.S. eastern seaboard, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean is the first documented case of a nonnative marine fish...